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Long-term studies quantify the prey requirements of pinnipeds, and help predict the effects of nutritional stress

Long-term studies quantify the prey requirements of pinnipeds, and help predict the effects of nutritional stress

Two new studies by Dr. David Rosen answer the question: “How much fish does a seal need?”

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with David Rosen, Faculty, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, MMean Lab, physiology, pinnipeds, Research, seals, Vancouver Aquarium

Food for seals and other Arctic predators is shrinking — literally

Food for seals and other Arctic predators is shrinking — literally

Unchecked climate change may leave some Arctic predators, such as seals and whales, surviving off of marine “junk food”.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Animal movement, Arctic, fish stocks, IOF students, Research, seals, SERG

PROFILE: Using mathematical ingenuity to solve ecological puzzles

PROFILE: Using mathematical ingenuity to solve ecological puzzles

“Ecology has a lot of difficult data to handle, and a big part of my research is developing new statistical methods to tackle these problems,” says Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Animal movement, Faculty, IOF students, Marie Auger-Methe, observation, polar bears, Research, satellite data, seals, SERG, tagging, whales

Guadalupe fur seals continue to recover as new colony discovered

Guadalupe fur seals continue to recover as new colony discovered

New colony of Guadalupe fur seals discovered on El Farallón de San Ignacio Island, Gulf of California

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Mexico, Pacific, seals

Harbour seals respond differently to pulses of out-migrating coho and Chinook salmon smolts

Harbour seals respond differently to pulses of out-migrating coho and Chinook salmon smolts

UBC researchers set out to determine who was eating juvenile salmon, and when and where it was occurring by capturing and tracking harbour seals that carried cell-phone-like devices that recorded everything and everywhere the seals went.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, salmon, seals

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

It’s a drag wearing a tag

It’s a drag wearing a tag

What impacts do tracking tags have on the behavior and swimming costs of marine mammals?

Posted in 2018, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with David Rosen, IOF Research Associates, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, sea lions, seals

Open Water Research Station contributes a decade of discoveries

Open Water Research Station contributes a decade of discoveries

This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the MMRU Open Water Research Station, a floating laboratory at the centre of a ground-breaking scientific collaboration that has significantly advanced understanding of how nutritionally stressed Steller sea lions forage in the wild.

Posted in 2017, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Andrew Trites, British Columbia, David Rosen, Faculty, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, sea lions, seals

Harbor seal dietary insights gained through new DNA technique

Harbor seal dietary insights gained through new DNA technique

A promising new technique called DNA metabarcoding, can be used to identify specific marker genes in seal droppings.

Posted in 2016, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, seals

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