News and Events

(July 28, 2016) CORU Leader William Cheung gave a lecture at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in Merida, Mexico, from July 25 to 26. Read More >

(July 15, 2016) One of the most significant – and increasingly bitter – international disputes of recent years has engaged legal claims over maritime territory in the South China Sea. Read More >

(July 8, 2016) Authored by CORU post-doctoral Fellow Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, CORU Leader William Cheung, and OceanCanada Director Rashid Sumail. Read More >

(July 6, 2016) by Muhammed Oyinlola, CORU Fellow, UBC Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species, is gradually becoming an important aspect of solving the challenge of global food security. The supply of seafood from fisheries is declining; fish stocks can only be increased if we reduce our fishing pressures, yet governments continue to subsidize the fishing industry for […] Read More >

(June 17, 2016) CORU post-doctoral Fellow Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor was interviewed in Spanish by Radio Canada International. He described the current issues affecting global oceans, including warming, acidification, polar ice melt, overfishing, and the destruction of marine habitats, and how those changes will affect fisheries and the people that depend on them. Read More Read More >

(June 15, 2016) More than 10% of the global population could face nutrition deficiencies in the coming decades due to fish catch declines, according to CORU Leader William Cheung. Read More >

(June 8, 2016) CORU post-doctoral Fellow Andres Cisneros-Montemayor (UBC) attended the Ocean Canada Partnership Meeting, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from May 24 to 27. Read More   Read More >

(May 31, 2016) In our current eco-friendly world, how can a porpoise be nearing extinction and most of the world not even know of its existence? Read More >

(May 30, 2016) CORU Leader William Cheung gave a plenary keynote presentation at the 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World. Read More >

(May 18, 2016) Yoshitaka Ota, CORU Research Associate, and Rashid Sumaila, OceanCanada Research Director and Nereus Program Honorary Research Associate, acted as panelists during a talk by Marjo Vierros, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and Liu Institute Visiting Fellow, given at the Liu Institute for Global Issues on […] Read More >