Dissemination 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

Scientist meet Artists

FOL participates in the second edition of the initiative Scientist meet Artists to make our research closer to broader audience

01/12/2022 - Campus do Mar is leading the initiative “Scientist Meet Artist” to meet and establish a dialogue between two different disciplines: Science and Art. The main goal is to design and create enjoyable dissemination material to make accessible the knowledge about the oceans to the public, specially children. After creating a meeting point between twelve scientists […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay

Communicating Singular Science

CIM organizes Open Doors Event to present its main research lines to general public

26/10/2022 - As previous years, The Marine Research Centre (CIM) of University of Vigo organized dissemination event within framework of Communicating Singular Science programme. This year, two dissemination sessions were scheduled. The first one, “Meet CIM in the street” a science conference to general public hold in A Laxe shopping centre gathered researchers from CIM to present […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Results, Team

Future Oceans Lab gives research results to fishing communities in Mexico

PhD student Xochitl Elías presented the project results in six communities in Nayarit, Mexico

04/08/2022 - Xochitl returned to the fishing communities where she conducted her research the past August – November 2021 to present the results and conduct workshops with the local fishers and scientists in July 2022. The research was conducted under the CLimate adaptation to shifting stOCKS (CLOCK) project in cooperation with Javier Tovar-Ávila from the national fisheries institute […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Workshop, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay

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

Science on stage in Coruña

Alba participated in a popular outreach event where students and teachers share their scientific experiments with the general public

13/05/2021 - Every year at the beginning of May hundreds of students and teachers gather in the city of Coruña (NW Spain) to share scientific experiments with the general public. The festival is called “Día de la ciencia en la Calle” (Street science day) and for the last 24 years it has been hosted in one of […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Research

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

Inspiring our future scientists

Smit and Xochitl conducted an outreach event to share FOL research with young students at Divino Salvador School.

25/03/2021 - As part of our outreach effort of awakening young students’ interest in science, on Monday, March 15th, Xochitl Elías, and Smit V. Caballero visited two classes of 5th-grade students at a local elementary school, Divino Salvador. During the visit, Xochitl and Smit shared their experiences working at the Future Oceans Lab and how their scientific […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Smit V. Caballero, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay

Sustainable management of fisheries helps us to combat the impacts of climate change

Elena Ojea participated at scientific forum organised by MSC on fishing sustainability and its impact on climate change

25/02/2021 - Last Tuesday, February 23, Elena Ojea participated in the online Scientific Forum on sustainable fishing organised by Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) within the framework of Seas Forever Week initiative. During that event, she, together with Alejandro Anganuzzi, global coordinator of FAO Common Oceans Program, Jordi Rodón from department of Marine Resources of Government of Catalonia […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research

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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