Research archive
What makes a fisher diversify livelihoods under climate change?
Researchers of Future Oceans Lab identify a set of fisher’s adaptive capacity determinants that influence climate change transformation
30/09/2022 - In the coming years, climate change is expected to increase the degree and frequency of impacts on marine systems and related human communities. In many cases, adaptation is not enough and transformative actions are going to be needed. At individual level, transformative behavior can be understood as livelihood diversification, and the effect of this practice […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Results
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Workshop, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
FOL participated in the Fourth ICES PICES Early Career Scientist Conference
FOL members Xochitl Elías and Francesca Barazzetta presented their work on climate change vulnerability and adaptations of coastal social-ecological systems to climate change
27/07/2022 - The fourth ICES PICES ECS conference was held last 18th – 21st July 2022 in St. John’s, Canada and aimed at improving the involvement of young scientists in international scientific investigations, management, and stewardship of the marine environment, in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the North Pacific Marine Science […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Outreach, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Outreach, Research, 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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, Media, Research, Results, Workshop
Marine Protected Areas together for the future of the Mediterranean
Final combined event for MPA-Engage and MPA-Networks
13/06/2022 - From June 14 to 17 June, one hundred scientists and managers of 13 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and 18 European countries will meet in Spain to share the results of the two European Interreg Med projects: MPA NETWORKS and MPA Engage. The objective of this final event is to discuss the key results and recommendations […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
Congratulations Dr. Alba Aguion
Alba Aguion has successfully defended her PhD on May 5th at the University of Vigo
27/05/2022 - FOL member Alba Aguión has successfully defended her PhD on May 5th at the University of Vigo. Alba defended her work on the governance, management and ecology of small-scale benthic fisheries to the three members of her final evaluation committee: Dr. Xavier Basurto (University of Duke, USA), Dr. Nicolás Gutiérrez (FAO) and Dr. Cristina Pita […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Elena Ojea, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Elena Ojea, Percebes, PhD, Research
PERCEBES: Reproductive and connectivity dynamics of barnacles in Iberia
S. Román and M. Parrondo have led two publications that explore important biological aspects of the stalked barnacle, co-authored by FOL member Alba Aguión
01/04/2022 - The stalked barnacle is one of the most important small-scale resources in the rocky shores of Spain and Portugal. However, many biological processes remain unknown – as well as the linkages of these processes with environmental variables. Under the umbrella of the PERCEBES project, the researchers Salvador Román (Universidade de Vigo) and Marina Parrondo (Universidad […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Research
Diego Salgueiro-Otero, a new Doctor in Climate Change Adaptation
Successful PhD defense by FOL member last February, 2022
24/03/2022 - Diego Salgueiro Otero, PhD candidate from FOL has successfully defended his dissertation on February 23rd. The PhD work supervised by Dr. Elena Ojea was defended online and the committee of the event was constitute by Dr. Sara Miñarro Villanueva from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor from the […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, Workshop
Want to improve your Postdoctoral training?
XUNTA de Galicia launches its Postdoctoral fellowships
04/02/2022 - Within the call of Postdoctoral Fellowships of Xunta de Galicia, Future Oceans Lab is looking forward to read the letter of interest of potential candidates up to next Friday, February 11. Future Oceans Lab (FOL) takes part of Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM) of University of Vigo. FOL is working on climate vulnerability and solutions […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, New Fellowships, Research
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, New Fellowships, Research
Declining efficiency of small scale fisheries around the globe threatens food security
Alex Tidd leads a study on global reduction in efficiency of artisanal fisheries
17/12/2021 - Fisheries are a crucial part of the global food system, representing on average 15-20% of animal protein intake (in some countries over 50%) for 4.5 billion people. Historically, changes in the efficiency of fishing fleets drove massive increases in global fisheries catches. Too many boats with excessive harvesting power catching too few fish can lead […]
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Elena Ojea, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Elena Ojea, Research, Results
Adaptation of small scale fisheries to climate change in Nayarit, México
Xochitl Elías is conducting her fieldwork for her case study in Nayarit
06/10/2021 - Xochitl Elías, Ph.D. student at Future Oceans Lab, travelled last August to Mexico, to start the fieldwork for the second chapter of her thesis. For the next three months, she aims at investigating the adaptations of small-scale fishers to the past and ongoing effects of climate change in six locations along the coast of Nayarit. Within […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
Congratulations to Dr. Iratxe Rubio
Successful PhD defense by FOL member happened last September 24, 2021
01/10/2021 - PhD candidate Iratxe Rubio from FOL, defended her dissertation last Friday, September 24. The defense was held online with the following committee members: Dr. Amaia Albizua from the University of the Basque Country, Dr. Arantza Murillas from AZTI and Dr. Chris Free from the University of California. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Elena Ojea […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research
FOL participates in the International Conference for Young Marine Researchers 2021
Phd students of Future Oceans Lab take part of ICYMARE 2021
29/09/2021 - Xochitl, Diego and Alba attended this year’s ICYMARE as session hosts and presenters. The International Conference for yound marine researchers, organized by the Bremen Society for Natural Science took place from the 21st to the 24th of September. Xochitl, together with the Ph.D. student Michael Kriegl, were host of session 13 (Tropical marine ecosystems in […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
FOL attends the ICES Annual Conference 2021
Iratxe presents her research on adaptation of large-scale fisheries to climate change
16/09/2021 - FOL member Iratxe is attending the ICES Annual Science Conference that is being held online from 6 to 10 September. ICES is an intergovernmental marine science organization, a network of scientists who advance and share scientific knowledge of marine ecosystems and their services in order to generate advice for meeting conservation, management, and sustainability goals. ICES […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research
What can be changed in small-scale fisheries governance to foster key sustainability attributes?
As part of her PhD, Alba Aguión has led a study that aims to confront the lack of sustainability in the artisanal sector through adequate governance
24/08/2021 - The study of Gutiérrez et al. (2011) published in Nature, was fundamental in clarying what is needed to achieve social, economic and ecological sustainability in artisanal and industrial fisheries, by highlighting the cumulative effect of 19 key attributes (such as social cohesion, protected areas, self-enforcement, etc.) as the main drivers. The recent release of the […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research, Results
MPA-Engage: Final Vulnerability Assessments results for Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
APPLYING VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS TO IMPLEMENT CLIMATE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN MPAs
30/07/2021 - On April 22, Francesca Barazzetta, Elena Ojea, Smit Caballero and Juan Bueno Pardo presented to the managers of seven Mediterranean marine protected areas the methodology applied to calculate the final results for the Climate Vulnerability Assessment implemented in these areas within the framework of MPA-Engage project. The results focus on the MPAs socio-ecological and ecological, […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Research, Smit V. Caballero, Vulnerability Tool
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Research, Smit V. Caballero, Vulnerability Tool
Increasing knowledge on fisheries
Our colleagues, Diego Salgueiro-Otero and Iratxe Rubio attended the first LICCI Scientific Fisheries Seminar
16/07/2021 - Two weeks ago, the LICCI Fisheries Group presented its new series of fisheries seminars to highlight the work of its team and provided a new forum for discussing research findings in fisheries. For the first session, the event counted with the presentations of Dr André Carlo Colonese from the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Iratxe Rubio, Research, Seminars
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Iratxe Rubio, Research, Seminars
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
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research, Team
MPA Engage project organises its First capitalization conference
Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change
18/06/2021 - The MPA EngageMED project, funded under the Interred Med Programme, is organising its first capitalisation conference tomorrow. The meeting (entirely on-line) will represent an occasion to showcasing the MPA Engage collective response to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas. The involvement of local communities, socio-economic operators and managers of Marine […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research
FOL publishes a new study on skippers’ preferred responses to catch declines
As part of her PhD, FOL member Iratxe leads a new publication within the CLOCK project
19/05/2021 - A new FOL and BC3 study seeks to understand individual adaptation and transformation responses to catch declines in large-scale fisheries, using the case of the Spanish tropical tuna fishery. A sample of 22% of the Spanish freezer purse seine skippers operating in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans was surveyed. In the last 10 years, more […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Research
FOL participates in a new FutureMARES event
The scientific panel discussed the peculiarities and common aspects of the 40 case-studies participating in the project
30/04/2021 - Days 13th to 15th of April, FOL members Elena Ojea and Juan Bueno, participated in the first “Integration meeting” of the European project FutureMARES. The objective of this event was to get to know each case study of the project (known as “storylines”) in detail, analyzing their peculiarities and extracting common characteristics among them. Each storyline applies one […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research
Opportunity: Postdoctoral Position on Fisheries Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability in Chile
CEAZA in collaboration with FOL is seeking applications for a 2-year postdoc position within CLAP project
03/03/2021 - CEAZA is an interdisciplinary research Centre that promotes scientific and technological developments in earth and biological sciences, with a focus on the Central Chile region. CEAZA offers a postdoctoral position for a researcher with a strong interest in working in adaptation to climate change in the coastal communities in Chile, and willing to contribute to cutting […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research
FOL members lead an international event on Climate Risk Assessments
The event took place in the framework of FutureMARES, an European project on the use of Nature-Based-Solutions for mitigating the effects of Climate Change in marine environments
19/02/2021 - FOL members Elena Ojea and Juan Bueno organised and led the “Climate Risk Assessment scoping event” of FutureMARES, held online during the days of 17th and 18th February. This event was marked in red in the calendar of the European project as the starting point of activities related to the Work-Package 5. The main goal […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, 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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research
It’s time to say goodbye to our colleague Raquel
Raquel starts a PhD at Marine Institute in Canada
29/01/2021 - After one year and a half working on Future oceans Lab, the time to say goodbye to Raquel has come. She has been actively engaging in several projects during this time, working in the IPCC AR6 report, in the global initiative on mapping climate change adaptation (GAMI project) and other projects such as MPA-Engage. Raquel […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
FOL welcomes Lara Brodie for her research stay
Lara will conduct her Master thesis within IMBRSea program led by Smit and Elena
22/01/2021 - Lara Brodie joins the Future Oceans Lab for a Masters Dissertation. Lara will work with Smit and Elena and will be focused on assessing the impacts of climate change on food security vulnerability within a local scale coastal African context. Lara is from Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently completing her Master’s degree through […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, MSc Thesis, Research, Smit V. Caballero
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, MSc Thesis, Research, Smit V. Caballero
Jané Salazar rejoins FOL to conduct her Master Thesis
Jane will work on adaptation of fisheries to shifting stocks
21/01/2021 - Jané Salazar, student of the International Master’s in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) who conducted her professional practice with FOL last summer, is rejoining the team to conduct her Master Thesis with Drs Elena Ojea and Alex Tidd. She will be expanding on her professional practice – impacts and adaptations of fisheries to shifting stocks – to understand how […]
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Research
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Research
A year of lonely remote working with a warm team
More than ever, this year we faced big ups and downs at home and with our work
24/12/2020 - This is a difficult year to balance and we are happy we made it through. We are really looking forward to experience nature, friends and in person relationships in 2021, experiences we missed so much this year. As for everybody, 2020 has been a challenging year to keep up with research, but we were still […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Alex Tidd, Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Iratxe Rubio, Juan Bueno, Julia Ameneiro, MPA-Engage, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research, Results, Smit V. Caballero, Team, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Alex Tidd, Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Iratxe Rubio, Juan Bueno, Julia Ameneiro, MPA-Engage, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research, Results, Smit V. Caballero, Team, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
A successful internship ends
Marian finishes his work on vulnerability assessments within FutureMARES
21/12/2020 - After conducting a 10-week internship at the FOL it’s time to say goodbye to Marian Scheffler from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany. During his stay he collaborated with Juan Bueno and Elena Ojea within the FutureMARES project on climate vulnerability assessments in marine systems to identify the most vulnerable marine ecosystem services and dependent livelihoods. On Wednesday 17th December, he […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, New Fellowships, Research, Training
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, New Fellowships, Research, Training
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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research, Results, Vulnerability Tool
First Iberian conference on climate change adaptation took place virtually
A broad array of adaptation perspectives were put in common last week during the ADAPTES conference
24/11/2020 - Future Oceans Lab PhD student Diego Salgueiro Otero has attended Adaptes: I Iberian Conference on Climate Change Adaptation. The conference, framed in the European project LIFE SHARA, has illustrated and discussed the effect of climate change and adaptation on the Iberian peninsula through 10 thematic sessions focused on: Cities, Agricultural sector, Water, Coastal areas, Health, […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research
Adaptation of fishing communities can benefit from integration of social-ecological systems thinking
NEW PUBLICATION FROM DIEGO SALGUEIRO OTERO IN MARINE POLICY
10/11/2020 - In order to understand “what we know, don’t know and need to know” in climate change adaptation in coupled human-natural systems, Diego Salgueiro Otero and Elena Ojea describe and compare different research disciplines that have been used to assess how small-scale fisheries worldwide face climate change. Climate change is a prominent sign of the human-driven […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Research, Team
Marian Scheffler will conduct an internship for two months at FOL
Marian will be working with Juan and Elena on socio-ecological vulnerability assessments
23/10/2020 - We are looking forward to welcoming Marian Scheffler at FOL for a 2-month research stay. Marian joins us from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, where he is studying his Masters’ in Environmental Geography and Management. During his stay he will be collaborating with Juan Bueno and Elena Ojea within FutureMARES project on climate vulnerability assessments […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team, Training
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team, Training
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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, MPA-Engage, Research
When Nature-based Solutions are vulnerable to climate change
FOL is coordinating international vulnerability assessments in FutureMARES, a new project that just took off
02/10/2020 - Nature-based solutions are actions that enhance and support ecosystems to provide adaptation and mitigation benefits to human well being and biodiversity (IUCN standards), for example restoring marine habitats like posidonia meadows or oyster beds, conserving habitats and species with marine protected areas, or sustainable harvesting of fish and mariculture. It is well known that these […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research
FOL welcomes Juan to the team
DR. BUENO-PARDO JOINS FOL IN THE CONTEXT OF FutureMARES PROJECT TO DEVELOP SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
24/09/2020 - Dr Juan Bueno Pardo is joining FOL in September to work at the FutureMARES project. The overall goal is helping to provide socially and economically viable actions, strategies and Nature Based Solutions for Climate Change adaptation and mitigation from marine ecosystems. Together with Elena Ojea, Juan will be leading Work Package 5, integrating ecological and […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team
New study in Nature finds that sustainably managing the oceans can significantly increase global seafood production
Elena Ojea contributes to this new research article led by UCSB
19/08/2020 - New research from UCSB and global collaborators finds that sustainably managing the ocean can significantly increase seafood.
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Research
“Mediterranean MPAs facing Climate Change” a second MPA-ENGAGE training
Francesca Barazzetta travelled to Sardinia for a second training with Mediterranean MPAs on Vulnerability Assessment
13/08/2020 - On the last week of July, from the 27th to the 30th, Francesca Barazzetta travelled to Sardinia, (Italy), to join the rest of the MPA-Engage team to provide a second training on the Vulnerability Assessment to some of the MPAs involved in the project. The meeting hosted by the MPA of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo […]
CATEGORIES: Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research, Training, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research, Training, Workshop
Learning good practices in scientific communication
Xochitl attended a Seminar on scientific writing
10/07/2020 - This week, the Ph.D. student Xochitl Elias from the Do*Mar doctoral program and member of the FOL, took part in the Seminar on Scientific Writing imparted by Prof. Dr. Henrique Queiroga from Universidade de Aveiro. The seminar was imparted virtually and covered a broad range of topics including philosophical currents on how to conduct science, […]
CATEGORIES: Research, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Research, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
Working on impacts and adaptation of fisheries to shifting stocks
Jané will present her professional practice experience at IMBRSea online Symposium
30/06/2020 - Jané Salazar, student of the International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) will be presenting her work and experience with FOL in the annual IMBRSea symposium. During the last two months, Jané was working on a novel database on evidence of shifting stocks for marine commercial species due to climate change with FOL PhD students […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
Adaptation of Fishing Communities to Climate-Driven Shifts in Target Species
Our new perspective suggest what policy regulations will be needed for a sustainable and equitable response to climate change impacts in marine systems
24/06/2020 - This month’s issue of One Earth features a perspective article written by Diego Salgueiro Otero and Elena Ojea, from FOL, in collaboration with Sarah Lester from SFU. In this article, we present the advances of the ERC project CLOCK, where we are exploring the responses that fishing communities undertake when facing climate change impacts in […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research, Results
The importance of gender in small-scale fisheries
Elena Ojea and Diego Salgueiro evaluate the gender component within IHH project in Spain case study
12/06/2020 - The Illuminating Hidden Harvest (IHH) project focuses on the contributions of Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) to the four dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, environmental and governance) at global and local scales. Moreover, it includes a gender analysis in all these components since gender is crosscutting theme in small-scale fisheries. The main idea is to […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, IHH, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, IHH, Research
“Mediterranean MPAs facing Climate Change” a first MPA-ENGAGE webinar series
Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta presented how to assess climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
05/06/2020 - Last week, from the 25th to the 29th of May, Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta hosted 3 on-line lectures about the development of a Social-Ecological Vulnerability Assessment in Marine Protected Areas. The lectures were organised within the framework of the MPA-Engage project and the Vulnerability Assessment lectures represented a section of a three weeks webinar […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Research
Job Opportunity: postdoctoral position on climate vulnerability assessments
FOL OF CIM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIGO OFFERS A TEMPORARY POSITION TO MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE TASKS OF A H2020 PROJECT
07/05/2020 - The Future Oceans Lab, member of the Marine Research Centre (CIM-UVIGO) offers a postdoctoral position for a researcher with a strong interest in working on adaptation to climate change in the oceans and willing to contribute to cutting edge research questions. Full job details can be found in the EURAXESS and in this PDF file. […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
Valuating nature-based solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation
FOL leads climate vulnerability assessments tasks in new H2020 research project
30/04/2020 - In a few months, FOL will start working on the FutureMARES project, which stands for “Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity”, funded by the H2020 porgamme with a budget of €8M. The main goal of FutureMARES is to provide socially and economically viable actions, strategies and nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate adaptation […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Research