A sea of symbionts, viruses, and pathogens: a journey across scale
Speaker Dr. Andrian “Adi” Gajigan Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University Visiting Researcher, UP Marine Science Institute Abstract The ocean holds immense diversity, from charismatic megafauna to microscopic life. Microbes (e.g., plankton, […]
Scared Strong: Harnessing the Ecology of Fear to Improve Oyster Restoration
Speaker: Dr. Lee Smee Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of South Alabama Many prey species alter their morphology in response to predation risk, increasing survival but often at […]
Environmental and Microbiome Profiling of Aquaculture Farms in the Central region of Ghana
Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Adinortey Africa-UBC Oceans and Fisheries Visiting Fellow (Cohort 1) Fish production in Ghana comes mainly from marine catch, followed by inland catch, and aquaculture contributing the least. […]
Climate change, keystone predators, and the coastal marine biodiversity of British Columbia
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Harley Professor, IOF and Zoology Director, IOF pro tem The oceans are changing. Waters are warming and becoming more acidic, the distribution and abundance of species are […]
The Man with 12 Brains
The Chagos brain coral, Ctenella chagius, is ostensibly the world’s rarest coral. A once common denizen of the shallow reefs around the Chagos Archipelago, recent decades have seen populations of this […]
Unlocking the Blue Revolution: aquatic food systems as the next frontier for food, climate, and equity
Speaker: Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, Director General, WorldFish, CGIAR’s Senior Director of Aquatic Food Systems. Moderator: Dr. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC, University Killam Professor, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) & School of […]
Reimagining the Future of Oceans and Fisheries
The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) at The University of British Columbia is marking its 10th Anniversary in 2026. This milestone also commemorates over 70 years of groundbreaking […]
Secrets on our Doorstep: Vancouver and the Shadow on the World Cup
As Vancouver prepares to host 2026 World Cup games—a crowning feat for hometown FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani—a chilling local history haunts the celebration. While Montagliani scaled soccer’s elite ranks, […]
Impacts of bottom trawling on carbon cycling in the seafloor: a case study in the NW Mediterranean Sea
Speaker: Dr. Margot E. White, Assistant Professor, UBC EOAS Fisheries play a vital role in providing food to communities worldwide. However, demersal fisheries in particular, which operate along the seafloor, […]
Adaptive management, rightsholder involvement and whole-ecosystem experiments are key for sustainable freshwater recreational fisheries: examples from Germany
Speaker: Dr. Robert Arlinghaus Fisheries Professor Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Integrative Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) The complexity of […]
