(August 19, 2016) 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 […] Read More >
(August 18, 2016) 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 […] Read More >
(August 11, 2016) 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 […] Read More >
(August 3, 2016) CORU Leader William Cheung was as an invited expert at this meeting, held July 18 to 22 in Monaco. Read More >
(July 30, 2016) CORU Research Associate Yoshitaka Ota acted as moderator for this International Symposium, held from July 19 to 20 in Tokyo, Japan Read More >
(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 >