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International Women in STEM Day at IOF: Science that Protects Oceans, Communities, and Futures

International Women in STEM Day at IOF: Science that Protects Oceans, Communities, and Futures

IOF is highlighting a few of the women across the Institute whose work shows what science looks like when it is built for impact.

Posted in 2026, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Amanda Vincent, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, CIF, Dianne Newell, faculty, Indigenous fisheries, International Day of Women and Girls In Science, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF students, kelp, Kelp forests, Research, Salome Buglass, Sara Cannon, women, Women in Science

IOF PhD student wins Raja Rosenbluth Award for Women in Biological Sciences

IOF PhD student wins Raja Rosenbluth Award for Women in Biological Sciences

Salomé Buglass is a marine scientist leading and supporting research on characterizing deep-water habitats, which led to an exciting discovery of a previously unknown deep-water kelp forest in the Galapagos Marine Reserve.

Posted in 2025, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with awards, Galápagos, honours, IOF students, kelp, Kelp forests

Hungry, hungry otters! Looking at captive sea otters to understand their wild counterparts

Hungry, hungry otters! Looking at captive sea otters to understand their wild counterparts

These furry marine mammals seem to have bottomless stomachs — what does that mean for the habitats and species around them?

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with David Rosen, IOF students, Kelp forests, Marine Mammal Research Unit, marine mammals, MMRU, Pacific Ocean, sea otters, sea urchins, tidal zones, Vancouver Aquarium

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