Sustainable management of the high seas could recoup fish stock losses due to climate change
Closing the high seas to fishing could increase fish catches in coastal waters by 10%, compensating for expected losses due to climate change, finds a new Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program study.
IMBER ClimEco5 Summer School
CORU PhD Student Muhammed Oyinlola attended the ClimEco5 Summer School organized by the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research project (IMBER), titled ‘Towards more resilient oceans: Predicting and projecting future changes in the ocean and their impacts on human societies’. The summer school took place from August 10th to August 17th, in Natal, Brazil. Read […]
Sources of uncertainties in 21st century projections of potential ocean ecosystem stressors
The ocean has provided incredible services for us — taking up 28% of carbon emissions since preindustrial levels and absorbing 93% of the Earth’s excess heat since the 1970s — but because of this, it is undergoing changes. In order to manage ocean ecosystems and resources in the future, we must begin to understand what […]
International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC4)
The International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) took place from July 30th to August 3rd in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The congress brings together marine conservation professionals and students in order to “develop new and powerful tools to further marine conservation science and policy”. Under the theme of “Making Marine Science Matter”, this year’s conference dealt […]
International Atomic Energy Agency meeting on ocean acidification and the economic impact on fisheries and coastal society
CORU Leader William Cheung was as an invited expert at this meeting, held July 18 to 22 in Monaco.