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Drivers of Success and Performance in Fisheries Moving Towards MSC Certification

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Jennifer Rasal is a Senior Data Science Officer, Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) With growing concerns about global overfishing, market-based eco-certification programs like the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) can incentivise adoption of sustainable practices. The MSC is an international non-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) which sets a Fisheries Standard for environmentally sustainable fishing. Fishing fleets are […]

Allard’s Centre for Law and the Environment Presents: Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This talk by Godwin Dzah focuses on his pioneering book which analyzes and reimagines the concept of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western legal perspective. Built upon the intersection of law, politics, and history in the context of Africa, its peoples and their experiences, customary law and other legal cosmologies, this ground-breaking study […]

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Change Makers Screening and Panel Discussion

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

THIS EVENT IS IN PERSON ONLY. Featuring marine activist Ted Danson and award-winning marine scientists Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila, Change Makers gets to the heart of the issue of […]

Climate Action Week at UBC Library

Woodward Library 2198 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +2 more

Join UBC Library for BC Climate Action Week from November 2 to 8. Participating library branches will be hosting climate action related events, activities and exhibits. Events happening all week […]

Conservation in Action: A 25-Year Journey to Protect Manatees in South America

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Carol Meirelles Research Associate, Marine Mammal Research Unit (MMRU) Dr. Meirelles will share insights from her 25-year commitment to manatee conservation biology, highlighting both grassroots initiatives and large-scale […]

Vessel movement analysis to investigate forced labor at sea

Online/Virtual Event

Speaker: Dr. Rocío Joo, Senior data scientist on the research and innovation team, Global Fishing Watch Forced labor and other human rights abuses in the fishing industry are a widespread […]

Event Series The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

Online/Virtual Event

How can you use law to fight for nature’s rights and transform humanity’s relationships with other beings and the planet? Find out by participating in this 2-day, innovative, interactive, intensive, online learning experience as courageous “Warrior Lawyers,” Indigenous legal knowledge holders and other inspiring leaders share their stories of advancing “Green Rights” through (or sometimes despite) law. You will learn […]

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Event Series The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

The 2024 Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy

Online/Virtual Event

How can you use law to fight for nature’s rights and transform humanity’s relationships with other beings and the planet? Find out by participating in this 2-day, innovative, interactive, intensive, online learning experience as courageous “Warrior Lawyers,” Indigenous legal knowledge holders and other inspiring leaders share their stories of advancing “Green Rights” through (or sometimes despite) law. You will learn […]

Free

Fish communication in a noisy and ever-changing underwater world

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Kieran Cox, Liber Ero and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University The diversity of biotic and abiotic sounds that fill marine ecosystems has become polluted by anthropogenic noise in recent decades. Yet, there is still uncertainty surrounding how different acoustic stimuli influence non-mammalian taxa and how changing ocean conditions may exacerbate the […]

IOF Seminar Series: Graduate Student Presentations

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speakers will include: Ruth Arnold (MSc, OCF): Baseline population assessments for three key seahorse species in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Deniz Coskuner (MSc, OCF): Temporal and spatial dynamics of nearshore […]