Research archive
FOL welcomes Guille to the team
Guillermo Martin joins FOL to work on FAO-IHH project
01/07/2019 - Guillermo Martin joined FOL as a project researcher last June to work on the FAO project “Illuminating Hidden Harvests” (IHH-Spain). His significant experience in large dataset management and statistical and programming skills, fisheries policies and a holistic approach to fisheries sciences applied to a wide range of fisheries and ecological research topics will contribute very […]
CATEGORIES: IHH, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: IHH, Research, Team
The end of the Human Exclusion Experiment
The PERCEBES experiment, aiming to understand the effects of barnacle harvesting, is coming to an end next week
28/06/2019 - As part of her PhD and in line with CLOCK , Alba aims to find suitable adaptation options for the barnacle fishery to compensate the impacts of climate change. As part of her project, and under the umbrella of PERCEBES, Alba has participated for the last 2 years in an experiment set to understand the […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, 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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research
We are hiring: open calls for a PhD student and a Postdoc to join FOL
FOL offers two positions to work on adaptation to climate change in fisheries
07/06/2019 - We have two vacancies now available to join the Future Oceans La in the ERC project CLOCK – Climate Adaptation to Shifting Stocks. This highly multidisciplinary project addresses Adaptation to Climate Change in Marine systems from an ecological, social and an economic perspective. If you want to join an active team of researchers committed to […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, 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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research
Opportunity: Are you passionate about fisheries economics and climate change?
We open a 2-year post-doc possition to work on bioeconomic fishery modelling and climate change
23/05/2019 - Future Oceans Lab offers a postdoctoral position for a researcher with a strong background in theoretical modelling and fisheries bio-economic analyses. The successful candidate will join our lab led by Elena Ojea in the University of Vigo, Spain, and will work in close collaboration with the Sustainable Fisheries Group and the Environmental Market Solutions Lab […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
Diego Salgueiro visits the James Cook University to develop the second chapter of his PhD research
Diego is conducting a research stay at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University)
16/05/2019 - Diego Salgueiro, PhD student of Future Oceans Lab, is studying the adaptation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) to climate change, applying a socio-ecological perspective with a network approach to better understand how the individual and collective attributes can enable or constrain the adaptation and transformation of fisheries under different climate change scenarios. This motivation drove him […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
New PhD Position on Adaptation to Climate Change in Marine Systems
FOL seeking PhD students for developing a PhD at University of Vigo in collaboration with Hokkaido University (Japan)
07/05/2019 - The Future Oceans Lab is excited to publish a new position for a PhD student with a background in marine ecosystems and/or policy. This is a fellowship to start a PhD project in our lab at the University of Vigo, collaborating with Hokkaido University (Japan). Full job details can be found in EURAXESS. The successful […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
Galician Small-Scale Fisheries system completely covered
Diego Salgueiro Otero complete the sampling for the Galician case study
25/04/2019 - Diego Salgueiro, PhD candidate of Future Oceans Lab, is studying the adaptation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in Galician to climate change. It is within this context that Diego investigates on how social-ecological relationships can be understood under different climate change scenarios. For this, FOL has conducted surveys on the Galician SSF system during the last […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
Teaching dissections and marine species identification at the University of Vigo
PHD CANDIDATE ALBA AGUIÓN WAS TEACHING IN THE LAB SESSIONS OF A ZOOLOGY COURSE FOR SECOND-YEAR MARINE SCIENCES STUDENTS
11/04/2019 - Since the end of February, FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión has assisted in the laboratory sessions of a Marine Zoology course to second-year Marine Sciences students at the University of Vigo. The course is coordinated by the professors Francisco Ramil and Elsa Vázquez and it counts with lectures and laboratory sessions. Alba has been assisting Francisco Ramil, Elsa Vázquez […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
FOL welcomes Alex to the team
Dr. Tidd joins the ERC-CLOCK project to work on fisheries adaptaion to climate chnage
05/04/2019 - After a competitive selection process for the postdoctoral position on econometrics social-ecological science, Alexander Tidd has succeeded and has joined the CLOCK project and FOL team this March 2019. Alex has over 18 years experience in quantitative fisheries research, where he has developed bio-economic models to find optimal management regulations in fisheries and worked on […]
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Seminars
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
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Research
FOL is back to the World Maritime Week
The Eurofishing Congress organizes a session on tuna freezer ships at Bilbao Exhibition Centre
20/02/2019 - Iratxe Rubio attended last week the International Eurofishing Congress in Bilbao, which included a thematic session on tuna freezer ships. The session took place on the 12th February 2019, in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, and was hosted within the World Maritime Week, where the naval, fisheries, energy and port sectors are gathered together for a […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Research
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Research
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
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea, IPCC, 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
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team
Flying to Durban for the first IPCC Lead Author Meeting
Elena Ojea goes to South Africa on Friday for a week to intercat with other authors and reviewers
18/01/2019 - The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is launching a work agenda for the next assessment report, with the first Lead Author Meeting taking place in South Africa next week. Elena Ojea is leaving on friday to attend the event, where she will be contributing to the Working Group II, Oceans Chapter. The lead authors […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Workshop
Future Oceans Lab: Second year!
The team is realizing all the work done so far
09/01/2019 - As we begin 2019, it seems to be the right time to look back over the last year and take stock of all that happened at FOL, draw up a summary of the group achievements and face the new challenges that lie ahead. Last year has been big in outreach achievements for FOL, and we […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Percebes, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Percebes, Research, Team
Alba´s 4-month research stay at the University of California comes to its end
FOL PhD candidate has been working since September at Bren School in Santa Barbara under the supervision of the professor Christopher Costello
19/12/2018 - As part of her PhD, Alba Aguión is constructing a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia (NW Spain). After her visit to the University of Oviedo to work with Antonella Rivera at the end of August, Alba moved to Santa Barbara to start a research stay at the Bren School of Environmental Science […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Percebes, PhD, Research
FOL at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Elena Ojea and Iratxe Rubio worked together at BC3 to plan new steps in CLOCK
13/12/2018 - Last November, Elena Ojea visited the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), where FOL PhD student Iratxe is currently developing her work. The BC3 is a research center that produces multi and trans-disciplinary knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change, relevant to decision making towards sustainable development at international level. This year, 2018, […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, 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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research
Future Oceans Lab invited to share its scientific knowledge on board of INTERMARES
Diego Salgueiro Otero, talks in the INTERMARES about Climate change, impacts and adaptations of fisheries around the world
08/11/2018 - The INTERMARES ship keeps its goal of teaching along the coastal countries about the importance and consequences of sustainable fishing. The cooperative mission of this vessel reached many countries around world before arriving Vigo last week, and it will keeping travelling along Spanish and African coast until the end of the year. In every port […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Workshop
FOL awarded for Alba´s Pecha Kucha presentation at the International Small-Scale Fisheries Congress
Pecha kucha is an innovative format in which researchers present 20 slides, each for 20 seconds
02/11/2018 - Last week, FOL PhD candidates Diego Salgueiro and Alba Aguión have attented the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (3WSFC) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. During the gathering, researchers, ONGs, fishers and policy-makers have discussed the future challenges of Small-scale Fisheries with the aim to formulate action plans to facilitate the implementation of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines from […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research
New Postdoctoral Position on econometrics/quantitative social-ecological science in CLOCK
We open a 2-year post-doc to explore the governance and management conditions that drive fisheries resilience
31/10/2018 - The Future Oceans Lab is excited to publish a job offer for a postdoctoral researcher with a background on quantitative approaches to environmental social sciences and economics. This is a 2 year appointment full time to join our lab at the University of Vigo, Spain. Full job details can be found in EURAXESS. The postdoctoral […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, job offer, Research
Future Oceans Lab attends the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in Thailand
Diego Salgueiro Otero presents his research outcomes on Small-Scale Fisheries Adaptation to Climate Change in Chiang Mai
31/10/2018 - The 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (3WSFC), an international event that aims for transdisciplinarity, transformation and the future of small-scale fisheries was placed in Chiang Mai (Thailand) during October 22nd-26th. As five main pillars of this worldwide meeting, five different themes where developed each day (Science, Communities, Policy, Field and Actions) by several communicating sessions (plenary, science […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Results, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Results, Workshop
Diego’s PhD research enters the third year with a rich and diverse background
Adaptation to climate change in small-scale fisheries research, a second year with multiple outcomes
26/10/2018 - Diego Salgueiro, member of Future Oceans Lab starts his third year as PhD student leaving behind a completed second year full of challenges and advances in his research. During this time, Diego lead the second edition of Future Oceans Around, took part as a participant in the Candieira Project, joined the stakeholders meeting for INTEMARES […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team, Workshop
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, MSc Thesis, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Seminars
News about Iratxe´s PhD research on tropical tuna fisheries and climate change
FOL PhD student Iratxe Rubio's second advisory committee from DoMar programme
29/08/2018 - As part of Campus do Mar doctoral programme DoMar, FOL member Iratxe Rubio has conducted her second advisory boar meeting, with Dr. Alistair Hobday from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, Australia), Dr. Francisco Saborido Rey from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), and her supervisor Elena Ojea (University of Vigo). During the […]
CATEGORIES: PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: PhD, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, PhD, Projects, Research, Team
Second year of Alba´s PhD research on spatial management and climate change
FOL PhD Alba Aguión has just received the approval from her advisory committee from Campus do Mar doctoral programme
08/08/2018 - As part of Campus do Mar doctoral programme, students are assigned an advisory committee to monitor their progress and provide feedback and suggestions annually. After the approval of her PhD plan last summer, FOL member Alba Aguión has just conducted a second meeting with her advisory board; formed by Henrique Queiroga (University of Aveiro) and Eréndira Aceves (University of Duke) as […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
Future Oceans Lab in the nub of “We learn, We teach”
FOL takes part of ALIADAS project second stage
01/08/2018 - FOL member, Diego Salgueiro, attended the second connecting-meeting of ALIADAS project. This project is born as a branch of Candieira initiative and has already shown its first results. One of its examples was placed on Ria de Vigo-A Guarda GALP (local action group for fishers), where shellfish gatherers, NGO members and researchers met at ECIMAT in […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research
FOL will be at the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress
PhD candidates Diego and Alba will present their ongoing work at the conference held this October in Chiang Mai (Thailand)
26/07/2018 - The World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (WSFC) placed this year 2018 at Chinag Mai (Thailand) from October 22nd to 26th, is an annual forum to discuss about the implementation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) guidelines to achieve sustainable development goals. This year, the congress will be focus on efforts that help to enhance our understanding about transformation in fisheries […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research
Showing the vulnerability of Galician TURFs
Raquel Ruiz Díaz presents her internship work at the EMBRC-IMBRSea Symposium
04/07/2018 - Raquel Ruiz Díaz, student of the International Master in Marine Biological Resources IMBRSea presented last week the work developed for her professional practice at Future Oceans Lab. During 2 months, Raquel assessed the vulnerability of Galician goose barnacle fishery to climate impacts with the collaboration of Elena Ojea, Xiaozi Liu and Alba Aguión. The study […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Results, Team
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Results, Team
Spatial R course for Iratxe and Alba funded by Euromarine
Both FOL members take this week an advanced analysis R course at the University of Zaragoza (Spain)
28/06/2018 - While Iratxe studies the distributional shifts of tropical tuna fisheries in the Atlantic, Alba explores the role of spatial planning in the management of benthic fisheries. Both FOL members are interested in the understanding of how the fisheries of their case studies can compensate the expected impacts of climate change. To be able to answer […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
Human Exclusion Experiment: new setting up of cages
ALBA´S PHD EXPERIMENT AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF STALKED BARNACLE HARVESTING ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE STANDS
21/06/2018 - Stalked barnacles are the most important intertidal economical resource in the rocky shores of Galicia. In line with CLOCK objectives, FOL member Alba Aguión is keen to find during her PhD adaptation options for the barnacle fishery to compensate the impacts of climate change, such as changes in the rotational harvest cycles currently conducted. In order to […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research
Diego Salgueiro awarded the Xunta de Galicia PhD fellowship
FOL PhD student has been awarded with a three-years doctoral fellowship to keep his novel research moving on
14/06/2018 - FOL PhD student, Diego Salgueiro, was awarded by the Galician government for a three-year doctoral fellowship to develop his research on adaptation of small-scale fisheries. The Galician government offers annually around 100 PhD fellowships split in two modalities. Although one of these modalities is for ensuring the inclusion of all areas of knowledge, the other […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research
José Luis Santiago, PhD presents at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series next week
THE SEVENTH TALK OF THE SERIES WILL COVER HIS LATEST PAPER ON THE socioeconomic impacts of catch limitations
12/06/2018 - Next Wednesday, June 20, at 1pm, José Luis Santiago will be presenting his latest published paper in the journal Fisheries Research at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). IFS is the seminar series at the University of Vigo presented by Campus do Mar and ECOBAS. In his seminar entitled “An applied method for assessing socioeconomic impacts of European fisheries quota-based […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, Projects, Research
Future Oceans Lab at the INTEMARES stakeholder participation phase
FOL researcher Diego at the stakeholder's workshop on Marine Protected Areas
25/05/2018 - LIFE+IP+INTEMARES, as a follow up step of LIFE+INDEMARES, is considered the biggest project of marine conservation in Europe. LIFE IP INTEMARES drive its work towards an integrative, innovative and participative management of Natura 2000 marine network in Spain. Its objective is to reach a strong marine network of nature protection areas stated on Natura 2000 and […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Research, Workshop
Seminar on marine shifting stocks at the University of Vigo
This thrusday FOL member Alba Aguión will be presenting at the Café con Sal seminars organized by ECIMAT
22/05/2018 - This Thursday, May 24th, at 11 am, FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión will be presenting a collaborative work we are doing at the lab on shifting stocks at the University of Vigo. The talk will take place as part of the Café con sal seminar series organized by ECIMAT. Alba’s seminar entitled “Implications of the observed […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Projects, Research
Our new publication on impacts and adaptation in coastal Bangladesh is now out
The paper analyses the changes in livelihoods for fishers vulnerable to environmental impacts
14/05/2018 - A new paper in collaboration with the DECCMA project on Deltas and livelihoods in the face of climate change is now out in Science of the Total Environment. Elena Ojea has collaborated with Mostafa Hossain from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Jose A. Fernandes from Azti (Basque Country), and Munir Ahmed (TARA, Bangladesh) in this new study […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Research, Results
Alexandre Alonso Fernández and Jaime Otero Villar present at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series next week
THE SIXTH TALK OF THE SERIES WILL COVER THE LATEST PROJECTS AT THE TECHNICAL UNIT OF ARTISANAL FISHERIES (UTPB, IIM-CSIC)
02/05/2018 - Next Tuesday, May 8, at 1pm, Alexandre Alonso Fernández and Jaime Otero Villar will be presenting the latest results of their collaboration with the regional government (Xunta de Galicia) at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). IFS is the seminar series at the University of Vigo presented by Campus do Mar and ECOBAS. Alexandre and Jaime’s seminar entitled “The details […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
FOL in the PERCEBES meeting at the Roscoff Marine Station
Alba Aguión has travelled to Britanny to meet PERCEBES research fellows
25/04/2018 - As part of the project PERCEBES, 5 European universities are collaborating to understand the implications of spatial management for the barnacle fishery in SW Europe. These universities are: Oviedo and Vigo (Spain), Aveiro and Évora (Portugal) and Sorbonne (France). In July 2017 the different regions started a 2-year experiment to understand the effects of harvesting on the […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Research, Workshop
Ecosystem services and adaptation to climate change in Africa
New publication in colaboration with BC3
19/04/2018 - Ecosystem services obtained from nature are fundamental for human well-being. It is well known that ecosystem services flows and values are affected by climate change, but less evidence exists on the contribution of ecosystem services to adaptation. This interlinks between adaptation to climate change and the value of ecosystem services has been explored in a […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: 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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research
Teaching a Marine Sciences Course at the University of Vigo
PhD candidate Alba Aguión will be teaching in the lab sessions of a Marine Zoology course
01/03/2018 - In the following weeks FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión will be joining the team teaching the Marine Zoology class to second-year Marine Sciences students at the University of Vigo. The course is coordinated by the professors Francisco Ramil and Elsa Vázquez and it counts with lectures and laboratory sessions. Alba will assist Francisco Ramil and the postdoc […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, PhD, Research