Collaborations archive

A turning point for the Future Oceans Lab

The ERC CLOCK project comes to an end, leaving us much closer to the fishing sectors and to implementing adaptation to climate change.

23/12/2022 - Year 2022 is closely coming to an end and as like to do, we take a look at our activities through the year and recall our major milestones. During this year our main achievement has been closing the ERC CLOCK project, which finished last November. We have been sharing the results in publications and press, […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team

Future Oceans Lab brings research results on fisheries adaptation to Galician fisherguilds

Our team presents ERC-CLOCK project results along 8 Galician fishing communities and Fisheries Federation

11/07/2022 - Over the last months, as the final stage of the CLimate adaptation to shifting stOCKS (CLOCK) project, the Future Oceans Lab has been presenting the results on the Galician case study in eight collaborating fishers’ guilds all over the Galician territory and the Federation of Galician fishers’ guilds in Ames. Diego Salgueiro Otero and Francesca […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, Media, Research, Results, Workshop

Future Oceans Lab takes part of Bitácoras

Diego Salgueiro-Otero contributes to Bitácoras sharing his insights about climate change adaptation

27/04/2022 - Bitácoras aims to show the achievements of Grupos de Acción Local do sector Pesqueiro (GALP) funding projects that enable the sustainable development of the coast locally and from a participatory approach during the last years . Future Oceans Lab was invited to participate in a roundtable of the workshop GALP Seo de Fisterra Ría de […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Workshop

FOL publishes a new study on large-scale fisheries

As part of her PhD, FOL member Iratxe leads a new publication within the CLOCK project

09/07/2021 - A new FOL and BC3 study seeks to explore preferences for adaptive capacities in an industrial fishery SES through network theory. The network of communication among stakeholders in the Basque tropical tuna freezer purse seine fishery in the eastern Atlantic Ocean connects many actor types. Cluster analysis, descriptive statistics, and exponential random graph models show […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results

The Future Oceans Lab meets two new ERC Starting grantees.

Expanding network for future collaborations

25/06/2021 - Over the last few weeks, members of the Future Oceans Lab were joined by two colleagues starting their own research lab with the ERC starting grant, who presented the research lines of their respective working groups. Wednesday seminars, which have become a weekly tradition in FOL, give the lab the opportunity to learn, interact and […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research, Team

Increasing diversity in environmental and natural resource economics

Smit V Caballero, new mentee at AERE Scholars program

10/06/2021 - Smit V. Caballero has been accepted as a mentee in the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Scholars Program. This new mentoring program aims to engage a diverse group of early career environmental and natural resource economists in AERE while providing invaluable career guidance, skill development, and networking opportunities. It represents an ambitious effort to increase diversity in […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Smit V. Caballero, Training

FOL publishes a scientific dissemination book for children

The book explains tuna freezer purse seine fishing and integrates the concepts of global warming and sustainability

23/04/2021 - FOL member Iratxe has co-authored with Amelia Benito del Valle, professor at the University of the Basque Country, a new book on freezer purse seine fishing for children. The objective of the book is to illustrate tropical tuna freezer purse seine fishing and integrate the concepts of global warming and sustainability for dissemination purposes. The […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Dissemination, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Julia Ameneiro, Outreach

FOL participates in an online transfer event

Kaleido Logistics shared experiences on technology and knowledge transfer with research groups from the University of Vigo

15/04/2021 - Kaleido Logistics and the Centro de Investigación Mariña of UVIGO (CIM-UVIGO) organised an online event where they shared experiences about technology and knowledge transfer. The goal was to promote a bridge between research groups form the University of Vigo and private industries from the marine and maritime sectors (e.g. transport, food, fisheries, aquaculture). After official […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach

Guatemala hosts a virtual IPCC lead author meeting

Elena participated in the last IPCC event of this assessment cycle

18/03/2021 - Guatemala was ready to receive a couple of hundred experts on climate change impacts and adaptation for the 4th lead author meeting of the IPCC. Given the current health situation affecting everywhere in the planet, and as many other scientific events, the meeting location migrated to be held online. The virtual Lead Author Meeting (LAM) […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research

FOL participates in a report promoted by the Spanish Office for Climate Change-OECC

Members of FOL led “Chapter 5: Impacts of Climate Change on the Marine Environment”

02/02/2021 - Tomorrow, February 3, 2021, the report titled “Impacts and Risks from Climate Change in Spain” will be officially launched by the Spanish Office for Climate Change-OECC. The report is a bibliographic compendium of the current evidence on the impacts of climate change in the following Spanish domains: hydrological resources, terrestrial ecosystems, agriculture and livestock, the […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research

Scientists looking at the impact of COVID-19 on fishing activity

The ICES Working Group on social science has put together the social impacts in fishers, markets and practices

15/04/2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the fishing activity around the world. For that reason, during the first week of April, ICES Working Group on SOCIAL indicators (WGSOCIAL) started a discussion on the social impacts of COVID-19 on the fisheries of ICES member countries. Elena Ojea attended a virtual meeting of WGSOCIAL together with other twenty-four […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Research

FOL publishes a new study on tropical tuna fisheries and climate change

As part of her PhD, FOL member Iratxe leads a new publication within the CLOCK project

21/02/2020 - Marine ecosystems have already been impacted by climate change. It is generally accepted that these impacts affect the productivity, fish distribution, habitat and marine diversity. However, it is hardly known how fisheries respond to these changes. In order to understand how fisheries are responding to ocean warming, researchers from the Future Oceans Lab at CIM–University […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results

William Cheung visits FOL and gives a seminar in Vigo

William Cheung and Vicky Lam get to know CLOCK and Galician fisheries first hand

03/01/2020 - From December 2nd to 4th of 2019, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor William Cheung and Vicky Lam from the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, British Columbia (Canada). This was a wonderful opportunity for the FOL team to work directly with William and to discuss future collaborations with UBC, and for William and […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research

William Cheung talks about seafood sustainability

William visits us to give a seminar within Campus do Mar on December 3

28/11/2019 - Next Tuesday, December 3, Professor William Cheung from the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, British Columbia (Canada) will be presenting his work on climate change and sea food sustainability to the Campus do Mar community at the University of Vigo. William’s seminar: “Projecting future seafood sustainability under global change”, describes the basic framework of […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research, Seminars

Food from the ocean has the potential to sustainable increase to meet future demand

Elena Ojea contributed to the first High Level Panel blue paper realeased this Tuesday

20/11/2019 - The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy has launched the first blue paper “Food from the Sea” from its series of commissioned scientific reports at the FAO’s International Sustainable Fisheries Symposium this week in Rome, where Elena Ojea is a contributing author. The report provides science-based projections of how far the ocean can […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Results

Back in Santa Barbara

Alba Aguion is conducting a second research stay at UCSB to work on her bioeconomic model

18/10/2019 - As part of her PhD, Alba Aguión is constructing a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia (NW Spain). Last year, she visited the University of Oviedo to work with Antonella Rivera and conducted a 4-month research stay at the University of Santa Barbara California under the supervision of Chris Costello to […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research

FOL welcomes Juliano for his research stay

Juliano Palacios is a PhD candidate on fisheries management at UBC

26/09/2019 - Juliano Palacios Abrantes is a Ph.D. candidate based at the Changing Ocean Research Unit (CORU) of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is particularly interested in how climate change impacts fisheries management in Latin America and how to mitigate its socio-ecological implications. His thesis and current work explores how climate change is […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team, Training

Progress after the second IPCC Lead Author Meeting in Nepal

We are back from Kathmandu to work on the first Assessment Report open draft

04/09/2019 - The IPCC report writing process greatly advances thanks to the in person meetings of Lead Authors (LAM). These events allow for the close collaboration of researchers from different disciplines, guarantee synergies and coherence across the report and help coordinate the major tasks that such an assessment requires. Elena is back from a week in Kathmandu […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research

Visit to CIEMAR lab (University of Evora) in SW Portugal

PhD candidate Alba Aguión will be working with Teresa Cruz during the first week of September

03/09/2019 - As part of the PERCEBES fieldwork started in July 2017 and finished this summer, barnacle samples have been collected monthly from different sites in Galicia. The rest of the regions taking part in the project have also sampled their areas with the aim to study the reproduction and recruitment patterns of the resource over time […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, IHH, Julia Ameneiro, Results

International week of marine studies

FOL attends the event to stablish future collaborations

24/07/2019 - During the week from July 15 to 19, over 20 experts in marine research and university authorities from China and Cape Verde attended at “International Week on Marine Studies Multidisciplinary Approaches” organized by Campus do Mar together with the University of Vigo and funded by Erasmus+ programme. The objective of this event was to strengthen […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro, Research

The Stockholm Resilience Centre, an international research institute to collaborate on network science in complex systems

FOL member Iratxe is visiting the Stockholm Resilience Centre for a research stay

14/06/2019 - Iratxe Rubio, PhD student from the Future Oceans Lab, has defined a tropical tuna large-scale fishery as a social-ecological system (SES) and seeks to investigate whether communication between stakeholders is linked to adaptive capacity in the system. In order to tackle this, Iratxe is visiting the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) for a 2-month research stay […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research

PERCEBES meeting at the University of Vigo

French, Portuguese and Spanish researchers specialised in genetics, ecology and socioeconomics gathered May 14th and 15th to discuss the final steps of the project

31/05/2019 - PERCEBES aims to provide ecological, genetical and socioeconomic information about stalked barnacles (Pollicipes pollicipes), in an attempt to promote a sustainable extraction of the resource across the South of Europe. The project started in 2017 and it will come to an end during the 2020, when a stakeholders meeting will be held in Asturias (coordinators […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research

Climate velocity expert Jorge Garcia Molinos visits FOL

The visit allows to set a collaboration agenda for future projects

13/03/2019 - Dr. Jorge García Molinos, assistant professor at the Arctic Research Center, University of Hokkaido (Japan) joined FOL during the last two weeks to develop a collaborative agenda for future projects combining climate impacts in the ocean with adaptation potential of marine resource dependent communities. We had the chance to invite Jorge to our group and […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Seminars

Jorge García Molinos talks about marine biodiversity challenges under climate change in Vigo

Jorge visits us from Japan to give a Campus do Mar seminar on February 26th

13/02/2019 - In two weeks , Professor Jorge Garcia Molinos from the University of Hokkaido (Japan) will be presenting his work on climate change and marine biodiversity to the Campus do Mar community at the University of Vigo. Jorge’s seminar: “Reorganization of marine biodiversity under climate change: new challenges and opportunities”, will cover how climate change […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Research

A week in Durban for the first IPCC LAM

The 6th Assessment Report starts and Lead Authors meet for the first time

31/01/2019 - Elena Ojea is back from Durban (South Africa) where she attended the first Lead Author Meeting (LAM) for the next IPCC Assessment Report (AR6). The week was intense but very exciting and Elena got to know the IPCC process first hand and started the work with the colleagues from the Working Group on Impacts and […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research

News from Santa Barbara

TWO FOL MEMBERS ARE VISITING THE EMLAB AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA (UCSB). THE VISIT IS BEING FULFILLING BOTH ACADEMICALLY AND CULTURALLY.

27/11/2018 - It has been two months since Sissi started her visit at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), following the footsteps of Alba, another FOL member. The purpose of her visit is to work with Professor Costello, the collaborator of FOL’s CLOCK project, and the director of UCSB’s Environmental Market Solution Lab [emlab]. The joint […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research

Assessing the adaptive capacity of Galician shellfisheries

Francesca Barazzetta defended her Master Thesis about Climate Change and shellfisheries

19/10/2018 - Francesca Barazzetta, student of the Master of Science (MSc) in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen, presented her thesis on the 23rd of August about “Fishers livelihoods and climate change: the adaptive capacity of shellfish gatherers”. Francesca developed her work in collaboration with the Future Ocean Lab under the supervision of Elena Ojea. During […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, MSc Thesis, Research

FOL team is in Cambodia teaching on a Summer School

Team members develop one of the workshops on research capacity and resource management

10/10/2018 - Dockside is a cooperation project between European and Cambodian Universities to develop research capacity and joint collaborations. As part of the project, FOL members Diego Salgueiro and Elena Ojea are in Cambodia to conduct a one-week workshop on Resource management under climate change and biodiversity loss, with the help of Laura Movilla, from the University […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Workshop

Alba presents her work on bioeconomic models at the University of California

FOL PhD student Alba Aguión is currently conducting a research stay in UCSB

24/09/2018 - Bioeconomic models are powerful tools to integrate the ecological and economical components of a fishery and to determine appropriate levels of stock and catch. As part of her PhD project and in line with the objectives of CLOCK, Alba Aguión is working on a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia. After her visit to […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Seminars

Future Oceans Lab runs the widest social-ecological survey in Galician small-scale fisheries

FOL fieldwork team samples fishing communities and their territory this summer

22/08/2018 - During this summer, FOL carried out a social survey at the Galician small-scale fisheries (SSF) communities with the objective of understanding adaptation to climate change from a social-ecological approach. This goal, included in CLOCK project is also part of the doctoral research of Diego Salgueiro, FOL member. Last spring, a preliminary questionnaire designed by Elena […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, PhD, Projects, Research, Team

In Rome for the COFI side event on the new FAO Atlas of fishing effort

Elena Ojea participates in the Panel that discusses Global Fishing Footprint

17/07/2018 - The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) celebrated last week its 33rd session at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Delegates from most countries in the world participate in the COFI intergovernmental forum that discusses the main issues and problems in fisheries and aquaculture, with the aim of proposing recommendations to governments and regional fishing organizations, […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea

Learning about bioeconomic models at UCSB

PhD candidate Alba Aguión will conduct a 3 month stay at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in California

05/06/2018 - Bioeconomic models are powerful tools to integrate the ecological and economical components of a fishery and to determine appropriate levels of stock and catch. As part of her PhD project and in line with the objectives of CLOCK, Alba Aguión is constructing a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia. The model will […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, Projects, Research

Learning about bioeconomic models at the University of Oviedo

Alba Aguión has been working with Antonella Rivera and Katja Geiger on a spatial model for the barnacle fishery

17/04/2018 - Bioeconomic models are powerful tools to integrate the ecological and economical components of a fishery and to determine appropriate levels of stock and catch. As part of her PhD and in line with the objectives of CLOCK, Alba Aguión will develop a spatial bioeconomic model for the Stalked Barnacle fishery in Galicia. The model will integrate […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training

Elena Ojea will be Lead Author on the 6th IPCC Report

Elena joins the team of 15 world–renowned experts working on the Report's Oceans Chapter

09/04/2018 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) through the Spanish Office of Climate Change (OECC) has named Elena Ojea Lead Author in Working Group II Chapter 3 of the upcoming 6th IPCC Assessment Report. In this chapter, she will be working on synthesizing the best available science on the impacts of climate change on ocean […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Prizes

FOL collaborates with the regional government to study Galician small-scale fisheries

An agreement between the Galician Fisheries Administration and FOL has been signed to conduct marine research together

15/03/2018 - Small-scale fisheries in Galicia are managed at a regional level. The Consellería do Mar (Xunta de Galicia) is responsible of the shellfish and other artisanal fishing practices, aquaculture activities and the processing of marine products. As part of their work, they gather and analyse data of the different fisheries in Galicia aiming to ensure a sustainable […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research

FOL’s collaboration in a newly released report by EDF

EDF Europe has launched a report on impacts of warming oceans on North East Atlantic fisheries management and governance

08/02/2018 - After the collaborative workshop on climate change impacts and fisheries management held in Copenhagen last August 2017 which FOL member Iratxe Rubio attended, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) published last week a report entitled Climate-Related Impacts on Fisheries Management and Governance in the North East Atlantic. EDF is a non-profit organization that advocates using science, […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Workshop

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