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Email: k.came_at_oceans.ubc.ca
Office: 604-827-4325

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Pelagic Ecosystems Lab

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River

A Chinook with a short migration to Harrison Lake may offer half the calories to a resident killer whale as a similarly sized Chinook headed to the headwaters of the Fraser River.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, fish, fish stocks, fisheries management, IOF students, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

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Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings

What they found helps illuminate the study of microplastics in the ocean, an area of pollution research that is garnering lots of attention due to the many unknowns about how these particles damage the health of organisms that ingest them.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Aboriginal fisheries, Brian Hunt, British Columbia, Coastline, Faculty, Herring, Indigenous fisheries, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, plastic, pollution, zooplankton

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets

We think of jellyfish as not being picky eaters, but in this case, it seemed that they didn’t like feeding on a single diet.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, jellyfish, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, Vancouver Aquarium

Kyra St. Pierre wins Banting Fellowship

Kyra St. Pierre wins Banting Fellowship

The fellowship, for postdoctoral fellows, is to develop recipients’ leadership potential and is granted based on the applicant’s research excellence, the quality of their proposed research, and the match between the applicant and the strategic priorities of their academic institute.

Posted in 2021, IOF Honours, IOFNews, Research | Tagged with Arctic, Awards, Climate change, Freshwater, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine ecosystems, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, pollution

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Jacqueline Maud

2021 World Ocean Day – Dr. Jacqueline Maud

Marine protected areas aim to preserve ecosystem health in the oceans from the top down; Maud’s research looks at the ecosystem more from the bottom-up, and thinks that MPAs can “be tricky.”

Posted in World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with food webs, Hakai Coastal Initiative, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Jacqueline Maud, Marine protected areas, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Women in Science, World Ocean Day, zooplankton

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

2021 World Ocean Week – June 7-11

We asked ocean researchers from the IOF to envision how the target of protecting at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030 might be achieved.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research, World Ocean Day 2021 | Tagged with Blue economy, bottom trawling, Conservation, CORU, FERU, fisheries economics, food webs, Gabriel Reygondeau, Hakai Coastal Initiative, human dimensions, international trade, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF Research Associates, Jacqueline Maud, Louise Teh, Marine protected areas, Overfishing, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, Sustainability, Vicky Lam, Women in Science, World Ocean Day, zooplankton

IOF researchers use salmon scales to track sockeye in the high seas

IOF researchers use salmon scales to track sockeye in the high seas

Knowing where different salmon stocks forage will be essential for identifying the unique environmental threats they will face as oceans become more inhospitable due to climate change and other cumulative impacts.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Animal movement, Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, salmon, Species distribution

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

STUDENT PROFILE: Natalie Benoit

Benoit’s field research is based in the Strait of Georgia and Johnstone Strait, where she collects samples of environmental DNA – eDNA is microscopic pieces of genetic material left behind when the fish travel through water – from Pacific salmon.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews | Tagged with Fieldwork, Hakai Institute, IOF students, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon

Salmon diet database gives researchers a new “window into the lives of salmon”

Salmon diet database gives researchers a new “window into the lives of salmon”

The database fill gaps in scientists’ understanding of the late marine phase of the salmon life cycle

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, Evgeny Pakhomov, Faculty, food webs, IOF students, Pacific, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, salmon, Species distribution

You are what you eat is as important for BC’s fish as it is for people – UBC study

You are what you eat is as important for BC’s fish as it is for people – UBC study

By determining the availability of high-quality prey for these commercially important groups of fish we can improve estimates of herring and salmon productivity

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with Brian Hunt, British Columbia, David Costalago, Faculty, food webs, Herring, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plankton, salmon

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