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CORU’s William Cheung wins UBC Alumni Achievement Award

CORU’s William Cheung wins UBC Alumni Achievement Award

July 22, 2024

Originally posted at oceans.ubc.ca. Congratulations to Changing Oceans Research Unit leader Dr. William Cheung who has been awarded the UBC Alumni Achievements Award for Research and Innovation. This award, presented by alumniUBC, recognizes the important professional and community contributions that UBC alumni are making to the world and society, and celebrate and honour alumni who […]

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Increasing temperatures and salinity result in decreased ecosystem diversity, UBC study finds.

Increasing temperatures and salinity result in decreased ecosystem diversity, UBC study finds.

June 21, 2024

Ecosystems can be impacted and changed by a lot of different things, including human activities, stormwater runoff, contaminants, invasive species, and climate change

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IOF faculty members receive funding from Government of Canada

IOF faculty members receive funding from Government of Canada

June 14, 2024

Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé’s Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology (Tier II) was renewed, and she, along with Dr. William Cheung and Dr. David Rosen received NSERC Discovery Grant funding.

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Dr. William Cheung awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degree by Institut Agro

Dr. William Cheung awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degree by Institut Agro

January 19, 2024

Dr. Cheung will receive this award on Friday, January 26, 2024, at which time he will also present an Open Lecture on the theme: “The future of fish and fisheries under climate change.”

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PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

PICES Symposium brought together science from all around the world

December 13, 2023

Several IOF members presented at the symposium, with Research Associate Dr. Anna McLaskey, winning the best oral presentation in the Biological Oceanography Committee section.

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Low-income countries could lose 30% of nutrients like protein and omega-3 from seafood due to climate change

Low-income countries could lose 30% of nutrients like protein and omega-3 from seafood due to climate change

October 30, 2023

This could be reduced to a roughly 10% decline if the world were to meet the Paris Agreement targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius – which recent reports have shown we’re not on track to achieve.

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Climate change will have an adverse impact on trophic amplification in marine food webs

Climate change will have an adverse impact on trophic amplification in marine food webs

September 14, 2023

Climate-driven changes in ocean environmental conditions — ocean warming, deoxygenation and acidification — are projected to affect the physiological functions of marine organisms, their geographic distributions, biological life cycles and total biomass.

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Fish buffered from recent marine heatwaves, showing there’s still time to act on climate change

Fish buffered from recent marine heatwaves, showing there’s still time to act on climate change

August 30, 2023

Fish were surprisingly resilient to marine heatwaves before 2019, highlighting the need to keep seas from warming further, according to new research.

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IOF professors head to United Nations Ocean Conference

June 24, 2022

Dr. William Cheung & Dr. Rashid Sumaila are off to Portugal for the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), being held June 27 to July 1. Will participate in special side event: Fisheries Management as Climate Action, on June 26.

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World Oceans Week 2022 – Dr. Nicola Smith

June 7, 2022

Dr. Nicola Smith is bringing together knowledge creators from diverse groups across Canada to uncover the true scale of greenhouse gas emissions created by Canada’s ocean industries, and ways to best offset these emissions.

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