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Questions about whales, seals, sea lions, or other marine mammals? Dr. Andrew Trites is your ‘go-to’ guy.

Questions about whales, seals, sea lions, or other marine mammals? Dr. Andrew Trites is your ‘go-to’ guy.

Dr. Andrew Trites has won UBC’s President’s Award for Public Education through Media.

Posted in 2025, IOF Honours, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, awards, blue whale, grey whales, Guadalupe fur seals, humpback whales, killer whales, manatees, marine mammals, MMRU, science communications, sea lions, seals, whales

What could be impacting the food source of Southern Resident killer whales?

What could be impacting the food source of Southern Resident killer whales?

There are currently 74 Southern Resident killer whales, and this population is listed as endangered in both Canada and the U.S. The species relies on Pacific salmon (Chinook and coho) for food, however these salmon populations have been decreasing for decades.

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Carl Walters, IOF alumni, IOF students, killer whales, marine mammals, orca, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, pinnipeds, Research, salmon, sea lions, seals, walrus, whales

The cryptic lives of marine mammals: a century of marine mammal metabolisms

The cryptic lives of marine mammals: a century of marine mammal metabolisms

The metabolic rates of marine mammals who live their entire lives at sea or remain submerged for long periods of time are almost impossible to measure, creating large gaps in the data that scientists hope to fill with future technological innovations.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with cetaceans, David Rosen, dolphins, energetics, faculty, killer whales, marine mammals, metabolic rates, MMean Lab, MMRU, sea lions, sea otters, tuna, walrus, whales

Southern resident killer whales not getting enough to eat since 2018

Southern resident killer whales not getting enough to eat since 2018

The animals have been in an energy deficit, averaged across spring, summer and fall, for six of the last 40 years.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, Carl Walters, climate change, faculty, food security, IOF students, killer whales, Pacific, salmon, sea lions, Villy Christensen, whales

UBC students take on the Strait of Georgia

UBC students take on the Strait of Georgia

Students from IOF and other departments at UBC headed off on a whale-watching adventure.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews | Tagged with grey whales, IOF Student Society, IOF students, sea lions, whale-watching, whales

You can’t beat a healthy heart

You can’t beat a healthy heart

New research is shedding light on the hearts of healthy marine mammals, and how they compare to human hearts

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, MMean Lab, pinnipeds, Research, sea lions

Sea lions and walruses in managed care reveal how wild animals handle environmental disturbance

Sea lions and walruses in managed care reveal how wild animals handle environmental disturbance

Knowledge about resting metabolic rates or energy expenditures can lead to big, meaningful changes for the conservation of wild animals.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with David Rosen, faculty, marine mammals, MMean Lab, pinnipeds, Research, sea lions, Vancouver, walrus

What do differences in animal behaviour reveal about the decline of Steller sea lions in Alaska?

What do differences in animal behaviour reveal about the decline of Steller sea lions in Alaska?

More than 50 years of studying Steller sea lion behaviour has yielded one of the most complete life history descriptions for any species of marine mammal.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, faculty, Marine Mammal Research Unit, pinnipeds, Research, sea lions

STUDENT PROFILE: Ana Pozas

STUDENT PROFILE: Ana Pozas

Focusing her research on the diets of California sea lions, Pozas enjoys working with the ‘dogs of the sea’, proving that the “ocean is not such a scary place and that there’s so much to learn still.”

Posted in 2021, IOFNews | Tagged with David Rosen, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, marine mammals, MMean Lab, Pacific, sea lions

SPOTLIGHT: Marine Mammal Energetics and Nutrition Lab carries on with research despite COVID-19 setbacks

SPOTLIGHT: Marine Mammal Energetics and Nutrition Lab carries on with research despite COVID-19 setbacks

“It just means we have to be creative to keep research going,” said David Rosen, assistant professor and principal investigator

Posted in 2020, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with British Columbia, David Rosen, faculty, IOF students, marine mammals, MMean Lab, Research, sea lions, seals

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