Dissemination archive

Protection of the Antarctic Peninsula before it is too late

As part of the project Homeward Bound, Alba Aguión is contributing to the protection of the Antarctic waters

11/02/2021 - Homeward Bound is a project that aims to promote sustainability and the leadership role of women in science. The project aims to create a network of 1,000 women scientists in 10 years who will work together to have a positive influence in the decision making for our planet. It started in 2016 and so far, […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination

Presenting MPA Engage activities in a capacity building event in Montenegro

Our approach to climate vulnerability assessments can help in the design of new protected areas in the Adriatic

03/12/2020 - Montenegro is currently planning the implementation of new marine protected areas in the Adriatic, and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism has organized a capacity building event where partners from different EU projects presented. As part of the team of the MPA Engage project, Elena briefly introduced the work developed by the Future Oceans […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research, Results, Vulnerability Tool

Knowing first hand Galician fisheries

FOL left the office for the field to learn about the social-ecological systems that we are working with

05/11/2020 - After spending a lot of time working remotely from home and doing shifts at the lab, at the end of October, new members of Future Oceans Lab joined Elena to visit the Cambados Fisher Guild, and learned first hand about small-scale fisheries (SSF) management. This cofradía is the oldest fisher guild in Spain, and is […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Research, Team

4Pictures4Mediterranean

Instagram photo contest to showcase the beauty and the fragility of Marine Protected Areas

09/10/2020 - The MPA Engage international project has launched the first edition of ‘4 Pictures 4 Mediterranean’, a photo competition hosted by Instagram that offers participants prestigious prizes and the opportunity to show their work in exhibitions focused on the impacts of climate change. All sea photographers are encouraged, from now till December 31st to participate. “We […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, MPA-Engage, Research

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Alba Aguion and Elena Ojea are conducting outreach events to increase the visibility of women in science

14/02/2020 - February 11th is the day chosen by the United Nations to recognize the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology. During this week, Elena and Alba have lead outreach events across Galicia (NW Spain) to share their research with the general public. Alba visited different secondary schools in Coruña, Santiago and […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach

Fishers, policy makers and NGOs talk about PERCEBES

As part of the project a stakeholder workshop took place last week in Asturias (N of Spain)

28/01/2020 - PERCEBES aims to provide ecological, genetical and socioeconomic information about the stalked barnacle fishery to promote a sustainable extraction of the resource across the South of Europe. As a way to promote an effective interaction between research and policy, the project organized a stakeholders meeting with fishers, administration officers, NGOs and researchers. The workshop took […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Results, Workshop

Talking about the future of the oceans sustainability at the COP25

We spend 2 days in Madrid to present a new report on climate change economic impacts

10/12/2019 - The Future Oceans Lab has traveled to Madrid to attend for the first time the Conference of the Parties of Climate Change (COP25) and participate on a series of parallel events in the Blue Pavilion. During two weeks, country representatives, scientists, students, NGOs, journalists and other participants join efforts to put climate change at the […]

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

Seminar on the Impacts of climate change on tropical tunas and adaptation

FOL member Iratxe gave a talk at the ECIMAT as part of the “Café con Sal” seminar series

27/11/2019 - Last Tuesday, November 26th, at 11 am, FOL member Iratxe Rubio presented part of her PhD results. The seminar took place during the Café con sal conference cycle organized by the ECIMAT and was titled «Impacts of climate change on tropical tunas, how can we adapt an international fishery?». Iratxe presented how views on adaptive capacity […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, 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

Effects of climate change and fishing on cod growth performance

Raquel Ruiz presented her master thesis research at IEO within COV seminars programm

15/11/2019 - Our Lab team member Raquel Ruiz gave a talk last Friday at IEO-Vigo. She presented the work she carried out during her master thesis in collaboration with Fran Saborido (IIM-CSIC) and Rosario Domínguez (IEO-Vigo). The main goal of this research was to disentangling the effect of climate change and fishing on cod growth performance. To […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research

Transformation, adaptation and mitigation for a 1.5 degree global warming

FOL attends one more year the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on Climate Change

18/07/2019 - The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have organized this year the 10th edition of the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on climate change: “Transformation, adaptation and mitigation for a 1.5 degree global warming”. This-three day course was held in Bilbao from the 8th to the 10th of July […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, IPCC, Iratxe Rubio, Training

Ocean science outreach in Barcelona to commemorate the World Water Day

FOL member Alba Aguión has conducted different scientific activities for kids and adults this week at Vil-la Uránia civic center

21/03/2019 - The World Water Day, designated by the United Nations on March 22nd, is the day used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. As a way to inspire people to learn more about water-related issues, FOL member Alba Aguión has organized an ocean science outreach event last week in Barcelona. Activities have taken […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Outreach, Workshop

FOL visits CEIP Santa María do Castro at Spanish “11 de Febrero” initiative

FOL was invited to talk about its research on climate change and fisheries

05/03/2019 - The Spanish “11 de Febrero” initiative has been created to commemorate the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” in order to encourage girls to follow a scientific career. With this initiative in mind, FOL was invited by CEIP Santa María do Castro to talk about its current research on fisheries adaptation to climate […]

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

Preparation of PERCEBES meeting in 2020 to engage stakeholders

Researchers from the University of Vigo and Oviedo met last friday to discuss the best way to present the findings of the project to fishers and policymakers

01/03/2019 - The ultimate goal of research projects related to fisheries management such as PERCEBES is to produce evidence that can be used by decision makers in policies. However, policy making is a complex task influenced by many factors and often the amount of scientific evidence when decisions are taken is scarce. As a way to promote […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Research

Future Oceans Lab visits the Association of deaf people in Vigo

Last week Elena Ojea and Diego Salgueiro talked about their current research on climate change adaptation in the AsOr-Vigo

25/01/2019 - Once more time Future Oceans gets out of the Lab to disseminate scientific knowledge about climate change adaptation. In this occasion, Elena Ojea and Diego Salgueiro reached the Asociación de personas sordas-AsOrVigo (Assotiation of deaf people) in Vigo to talk about their current research in climate change impacts on marine environment and small scale fisheries […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team

Future Oceans Lab at Muncyt for the Climate Change Weekend

FOL was invited by the Science Museum in Coruña to talk to students about fisheries and climate change

12/11/2018 - During the weekend of 26 to 28 October, the Museum of Science (MUNCYT) of Coruña (Galicia) organized the so-called «Climate Change Weekend», an educational science conference focused on climate change. During these days, students and a general audience visited the museum and attended the different exhibitions, conferences and workshops. These activities are designed to foster public […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Workshop

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