(December 2, 2015) William Cheung, CORU Leader, has published a paper titled “Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century under long-term environmental change and management scenarios” in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. Read the abstract and download the paper. Read More >
(November 26, 2015) From November 20 to December 11, leaders from more than 195 countries will meet in Paris to discuss the future of the planet. But will oceans be on the agenda? COP21, the “Conference of Parties”, is the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change. It is being hyped as the most important climate event since […] Read More >
(November 25, 2015) Gabriel Reygondeau, CORU Fellow, has co-authored a paper entitled “Reliability of spatial and temporal patterns of C. finmarchicus inferred from the CPR survey” in the Journal of Marine Systems. Read more. Read More >
(November 23, 2015) CORU post-doctoral Fellow Gabriel Reygondeau has co-authored a paper entitled “Reliability of spatial and temporal patterns of C. finmarchicus inferred from the CPR survey” in the Journal of Marine Systems. Read more Read More >
(November 20, 2015) The fourth Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) IMBIZO (a Zulu word meaning ‘meeting or gathering’) workshop took place at the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia and Geofisica (OGS) in Trieste, Italy, from October 26 to 30th, 2015. The meeting gathered scientists and researchers from all over the world to discuss how we integrate knowledge […] Read More >
(November 19, 2015) Water spills from the edge of a giant, melting iceberg on the cover of the November 2015 issue of Science. The special issue focused on the effects of climate change on our ocean systems, and highlighted research by Dr. William Cheung, an Associate Professor with the Changing Ocean Research Unit at the University of British […] Read More >
(November 12, 2015) Vicky Lam, Fisheries Economist and CORU Senior Research Fellow (UBC), was invited by the Fraser Basin Council to give a presentation on the impacts of climate change on fisheries on the coast of northwest British Columbia, Canada. She attended the one day workshop titled “Warming Oceans and Rising Tides: Coastal Adaptation in Northwest BC”, in […] Read More >
(November 10, 2015) “Boom or Bust: The Future of Fish in the South China Sea” has been published by William Cheung, CORU Leader, and Rashid Sumaila, Research Director of the OceanCanada Partnership (UBC), for the OceanAsia project. Read more. Read More >
(November 3, 2015) William Cheung, CORU Leader, and Gabriel Reygondeau, CORU Fellow (UBC), are co-authors of a chapter on The Southern Ocean, published in the Ocean and Climate Platform’s Scientific Notes. The Ocean and Climate Platform is an alliance of NGOs and research institutes, with support from UNESCO. Read more. Read More >
(October 30, 2015) Yoshitaka Ota (CORU Research Associate) moderated a seminar titled “Who owns the ocean? Equity and conservation in the global ocean commons” on October 23, 2015, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC. A presentation was given by Dr. Marjo Vierros who is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced […] Read More >