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

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Office: 604-UBC-NEWS [604-822-6397]

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It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants

It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants

Researchers from around the world are urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics and categorize them as persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) pollutants.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release, Research | Tagged with IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution, toxins, United Nations (UN)

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New WORKING PAPER: Ecological Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution, Microplastics’ Foodweb Bioaccumulation Modelling and Global Ocean Footprint: Insights into the Problems, the Management Implications and Coastal Communities Inequities

The Nippon Foundation-Ocean Litter Project (2019-2023)

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, Research | Tagged with food webs, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, ocean, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Publications

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Tips for reducing your plastic use

Here are some clever tips on how to reduce your plastic use.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews | Tagged with International Plastic Free Day, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, plastic

May 25 is International Plastic Free Day!

May 25 is International Plastic Free Day!

Plastic is everywhere. It’s in our oceans, coastal areas, and buried deep in the soil. It’s in our food and our water, and wreaks havoc on the natural world around us.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with International Plastic Free Day, IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, Microplastics, OPRU, plastic

5 things you can do to help BC’s marine ecosystems

5 things you can do to help BC’s marine ecosystems

In the face of declining fish stocks like sockeye salmon, marine heatwaves and massive coastal die-offs, it can sometimes feel as though protecting our ocean ecosystems is a hopeless task. But there are things we can do.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Biodiversity, carbon footprint, Christopher Harley, Climate change, ecosystems, Marine ecosystems, Microplastics, plastic, seafood, William Cheung

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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

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

Drs. Juan Jose Alava and Rashid Sumaila are urging consumers to make the connection between what they buy on Black Friday and what eventually ends up harming our ecosystems—and our health.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, IOFSS, News Release | Tagged with Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution, Rashid Sumaila

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, Research | Tagged with Evgeny Pakhomov, Fieldwork, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, penguins, plastic, pollution

Modelling provides insight into the risks microplastics pose to marine life

Modelling provides insight into the risks microplastics pose to marine life

“We learned that the water and sediments are polluted with microplastics. The global ocean is basically a dump. We need to change our behaviours, our preferences and our consumption.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF Research Associates, Juan Jose Alava, OPRU, plastic, pollution

Women in Science 2020 – Vanessa Fladmark

Women in Science 2020 – Vanessa Fladmark

The only thing stopping you is you: once you get out of your own way an entire universe of possibilities opens up.

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with fish, IOF students, Marine ecosystems, Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, plastic, salmon, Women, Women in Science

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