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Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Using environmental DNA to map biodiversity across Canada’s three oceans

Using environmental DNA to map biodiversity across Canada’s three oceans

The ability to detect the distribution of not only widespread, but also rare and endangered, species using eDNA allows researchers to identify critical habitats and biodiverse areas requiring protection.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Arctic, Atlantic, biodiversity conservation, Brian Hunt, Canada, Climate change, Conservation, eDNA, fisheries management, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Loïc Jacquemot, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program

These awards are one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America. The suite of awards will support the research activities of tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, and those of Master’s and doctoral students.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Awards, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, coastal environment, eDNA, Faculty, honours, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, urban environment, wastewater, watersheds

Why what happens on the land is critical to the health of our oceans

Why what happens on the land is critical to the health of our oceans

What is the significance of these myriad small streams to the surrounding ocean, so important to people’s livelihoods, culture, and well-being in British Columbia?

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network, extreme weather, land-ocean system, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, pollution, Washington

Deniz Coskuner (MSc OCF) wins Best ECOP poster at PICES 2024

Deniz Coskuner (MSc OCF) wins Best ECOP poster at PICES 2024

Her poster was entitled “Temporal dynamics of nearshore zooplankton communities in the Strait of Georgia: Implications for ecosystem health”

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Awards, British Columbia, honours, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Strait of Georgia, zoo plankton, zooplankton

Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award

Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award

The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.

Posted in 2024, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Awards, Biodiversity, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, eDNA, environmental DNA, Faculty, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, zooplankton, Zooscan

Environmental DNA in nearshore ecosystems in urban & non-urban environments

Environmental DNA in nearshore ecosystems in urban & non-urban environments

Student profile: Grace Melchers, MSc student in the Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, girls in science, Grace Melchers, International Day of Women and Girls In Science, IOF students, kelp, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Women in Science

PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

Several IOF members presented at the symposium, with Research Associate Dr. Anna McLaskey, winning the best oral presentation in the Biological Oceanography Committee section.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews | Tagged with Anna McLaskey, Brian Hunt, CORU, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Loïc Jacquemot, Marine Zooplankton and Micronekton Laboratory, MMRU, OPRU, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, PICES, szymon surma

Dr. Brian Hunt receives NSERC Discovery Grant to research the impacts of urbanization on the coastal ocean

Dr. Brian Hunt receives NSERC Discovery Grant to research the impacts of urbanization on the coastal ocean

Dr. Brian Hunt will receive an NSERC Discovery Grant for work on the impacts of urbanization on coastal oceans, specifically regarding ocean cities.

Posted in 2023, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Biodiversity, Brian Hunt, Coastline, Discovery Grants, ecosystems, Faculty, food webs, Herring, NSERC, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, pollution, salmon, urbanization, wastewater

Jellyfish size might influence their nutritional value, UBC study finds

Jellyfish size might influence their nutritional value, UBC study finds

Researchers confirmed what was already known: jellyfish eat bigger prey as they grow, which means they also occupy a higher position in the food web as they grow. They also found that some of the concentrations of ‘healthy fats,’ increase as jellyfish grow. These changes might be influenced by their diet, and as they feed on bigger prey with higher levels of fatty acids, the jellyfish accumulate more of these fatty acids.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, jellyfish, Marine ecosystems, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Climate change may mean more jellyfish in our oceans

Climate change may mean more jellyfish in our oceans

On World Jellyfish Day, as climate change kills off competition, jellyfish numbers may rise. UBC researcher Jessica Schaub is working on increasing what we know about these marine creatures and their future.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Climate change, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

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