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

UBC Media Relations
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‘This is a wake-up call for the world’: UBC researchers at the forefront of championing for change

‘This is a wake-up call for the world’: UBC researchers at the forefront of championing for change

The Galápagos islands are under severe threat from ocean pollution, climate change, and illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing pressures

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Galápagos, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, pollution, Research

Darwin’s Eden awash in plastics

Darwin’s Eden awash in plastics

Penguin guano from the Galápagos is helping UBC researchers track microplastic pollution from around the globe

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Galápagos, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, penguins, Research, zooplankton

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

PROFILE: Investigating ocean pollution to “provide solutions, not just answers to questions”

“Anthropogenic stressors are reshaping our ocean – it’s not the same ocean we had 30 or 40 years ago. As academics we need to provide solutions, not just answers to questions.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Evgeny Pakhomov, Fieldwork, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution, Research

As penguins dive, their location data takes flight

As penguins dive, their location data takes flight

Data sent from penguins to space and back to UBC could help researchers determine why the species’ breeding population fluctuates so dramatically.

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Animal movement, Faculty, Fieldwork, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, penguins, Research, satellite data, SERG, tagging

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