Seminars archive

First series of webinars within MPA-Engage project start next week

The goal of these webinars series is to learn how to face climate change in Marine Protected Areas

13/05/2020 - MPA-ENGAGE consortia is announcing a series of webinars to help stakeholders of MPAs to develop a climate change adaptation and mitigation action plan. Participants will be trained on how to track climate change impacts in MPAs, assess their ecological and socio-economic vulnerability and engage local communities in participatory actions. These webinar series are carried out […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Seminars

William Cheung talks about seafood sustainability

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

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

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research, Seminars

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

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

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

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

Ixai Salvo presents his work next week at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar

His talk will be the 8th talk in the series and it will cover methodologies to measure quality in fisheries governence

19/06/2018 - Next Wednesday, June 27, at 1pm, Ixai Salvo from CETMAR will be presenting his work on measuring the quality of fisheries governance though stakeholder perceptions 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 “Measuring good fisheries governance: What do stakeholders […]

CATEGORIES: Seminars

Dr. Ben Halpern presents at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series next month

Ben will be visiting FOL and UVigo for the CLOCK Advisory Board Meeting

21/03/2018 - Next month, on Wednesday April 4 at 1pm, Dr. Ben Halpern from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will be presenting his perspective on ‘Identifying, measuring, and mapping limits in ocean ecosystems’ at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). His talk will also be the keynote speech of the DOMAR PhD Student Welcome Day, the […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, PhD, Projects, Seminars

Iria García Lorenzo presents at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series next week

THE FOURTH TALK OF THE SERIES WILL ANALYZE FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATIONS AS DISTINCTIVE SOCIAL ECONOMY ENTITIES

27/02/2018 - Next Wednesday, March 7, at 1pm, Iria García Lorenzo will be presenting her work on Galician fishermen’s associations at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). IFS is the new seminar series at the University of Vigo presented by Campus do Mar and ECOBAS. Iria’s seminar entitled «Participation in Fishermen’s Associations. Study applied to the small-scale fisheries of Galicia» will examine the […]

CATEGORIES: Seminars

Presenting our work on commercial fish shifting stocks

Elena Ojea at the University of Santiago de Compostela (IDEGA) for a scientific seminar

06/02/2018 - Almost 10 years ago, in June 2008, Elena Ojea was finalizing her PhD thesis at the Galician Institute for Development (IDEGA-USC), writing the last lines of her dissertation work. Directed by Professor Maria L. Loureiro, Elena found how societal preferences towards recovering marine species, including depleted stocks, was motivated by altruistic attitudes, and once species […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Outreach, Projects, Seminars

Xiaozi Liu, Ph.D. presents at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series next week

The third talk of the series will cover factors affecting fishers´ decisionmaking

01/02/2018 - Next Wednesday, February 7, at 1pm, Xiaozi (Sissi) Liu will be presenting her work on small-scale fishers’ responses to changes in market price at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). IFS is the new seminar series at the University of Vigo presented by Campus do Mar and ECOBAS. Xiaozi’s seminar entitled “The Supply Response of Small-Scale Fishers in a License-Controlled Mixed Fishery” […]

CATEGORIES: Seminars, Sissi Xiaozi Liu

Mikko Heino, Ph.D. presents at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series this week

The second talk of the new seminar series will cover how to reconcile stakeholder conflicts in Norwegian fisheries

11/12/2017 - This Wednesday, December 13, 1pm, Visiting Professor Mikko Heino from the University of Bergen and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) will be presenting his work on reconciling stakeholder conflicts at the Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar Series (IFS). IFS is the new seminar series at the University of Vigo presented by Campus do Mar […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Seminars, Sissi Xiaozi Liu

Reaching out to the Game Theory Community

"A good model in game [and economic ] theory is like a good fable, which is only loosely connected to reality but something significant remains."

15/11/2017 - Lisbon, less than 500 km south of Vigo, appears to be a hot spot for game theorists. During November 9-11, 2017, FOL’s postdoctoral researcher, Xiaozi, attended the 9th edition of the Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications . The Lisbon Meetings, hosted by UECE at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, are an […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Seminars, Sissi Xiaozi Liu, Workshop

The Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminar program starts this week

Eduardo Sánchez opens the series on November 16th talking about stock assessment methods

13/11/2017 - On November 16th, at 14:30, Eduardo Sánchez from the University of Alicante (Spain) will present the results of his Master thesis, directed by José Mª da Rocha, professor at the University of Vigo. Eduardo holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Fisheries Management and will be the first speaker in the new series of seminars between […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars

A new Series of Fisheries Seminars at the University of Vigo

The INterdisciplinary Fisheries Seminars is a new open forum for discussing research findings in fisheries

10/11/2017 - This Interdisciplinary Fisheries Seminars programme will allow different research groups working on fisheries to have a fruitful exchange in order to learn from others how common question are being solved from diverse perspectives such as economics, ecology and management. All students and researchers interested in the field are welcomed, both from the University and abroad, […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Seminars, Team

We present our work in CIRED-Paris

The research centre on environment and development focuses on climate change

16/10/2017 - Last week Elena Ojea gave a seminar at the Centre International de Reserche sur l’Environment at Dévelopment (CIRED) in Paris (France). CIRED is a world class research center where multi-disciplinar researchers work in climate change and energy research, with special focus in policy. The center holds a weekly seminar program where they open presentations to […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Seminars

We receive a special visit from UBC

Prof. Rashid Sumaila is in Vigo giving a class in DO*Mar PhD program

29/09/2017 - This week we had the great pleasure to host a discussion session with Professor Rashid Sumaila from the University of British Columbia (Canada). Prof. Sumaila has great expertise in fisheries economics, with many relevant contributions to climate change socio-economic impacts and policies as well as the effects of economic incentives in fisheries around the globe. […]

CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Seminars, Team, Training, Workshop

Euromarine Network grant awarded to Iratxe Rubio for her PhD training

Iratxe will visit the ICES headquarters in August

09/08/2017 - Euromarine is a European marine science network launched in 2014 which represents the merger of the scientific communities of three former European Networks of Excellence (EUR-OCEANS, Marine Genomics Europe and MarBEF). Its primary goals are to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, […]

CATEGORIES: New fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars

Adaptation of small-scale fisheries to climate change, new PhD project in Campus do Mar

Diego´s research proposal has been incorporated to the PhD program

02/08/2017 - Diego Salgueiro Otero, PhD candidate in Future Oceans Lab recently presented his research proposal on the adaptation processes of artisanal fishing in order to be accepted in Campus doMar Doctoral Program. He aims to analyze this activity as one Social-Ecological Systems (SES) with potential resilient capacity (and important Social-Ecological niche) to face climate change. This […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Seminars

Eréndira Aceves Seminar this Tuesday

The visiting researcher from UCSB will give a seminar at 11am in Campus do Mar

31/07/2017 - Our visiting researcher Eréndira Aceves Bueno will give a seminar tomorrow in campus do Mar on her recent PhD work. Ere has recently defended her PhD research in marine spatial management of benthic resources, with applications in Chilean TURFs. She wil be presenting her work tomorrow August 1st in Edificio Miralles, University of Vigo at […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Seminars

Eréndira Aceves-Bueno spends four weeks visiting us

FOL team has the chance to learn about TURF design and bio-economic modeling with Ere

19/07/2017 - Erendira Aceves-Bueno holds a PhD from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (University of California, Santa Barbara). During her PhD dissertation, she developed spatial bio-economic models to analyze the role of spillover and fishermen cooperation in the design of Territorial Use of Rights in Fisheries (TURFs). Eréndira is very interested in Galician fisheries and […]

CATEGORIES: Projects, Seminars, Team

Climate Change in an Era of Uncertainty

FOLab goes to BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School

13/07/2017 - The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has organized this year the 8th edition of the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on climate change: «Climate Change in an Era of Uncertainty». This-three day course was held in Donostia-San Sebastian from the 5th to the 7th of July. […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, Team

FOLab gives a talk at the Fishing Accelerator

this week we meet the people behind the start up project in Vigo

05/07/2017 - The lab is establishing its first connections with the fishing sector, as we are really interested in knowing what are the initiatives going on in the fisheries industry, as well as getting to know their main concerns relative to fishing and climate change. Some fishing companies and producer organizations are involved in a new project […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Outreach, Projects, Research, Results, Seminars

Future Oceans Lab learning about complex systems in Stockholm

Diego Salgueiro is just back from a 2-week stay at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

28/06/2017 - The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), established in 2007, holds a vision of a world where Social-Ecological Systems are understood, governed and managed, to enhance human well-being and the capacity to deal with complexity and change, for the sustainable co-evolution of human civilizations and the biosphere, with special emphasis on resilience. Last month, thanks to the […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Seminars

FOL learns about modelling the ocean

PhD student Alba Aguión will take an ocean observation and modelling course next week in Campus Do*MAR

09/06/2017 - Climate Change has the potential to alter the current connectivity patterns of marine stocks. In the case of sessile resources, by changing their larval dispersal. In the near future this could be the case of Stalked Barnacles, a coastal resource whose managament is studying the FOL member Alba Aguión in her thesis. Since larval connectivity is largely dependent on oceanographic […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Percebes, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team

Euromarine Network grant awarded to Diego Salgueiro for his PhD training

Diego will visit the Stockholm Resilience Center in June

05/06/2017 - Euromarine is a European marine science network launched in 2014 which represents the merger of the scientific communities of three former European Networks of Excellence (EUR-OCEANS, Marine Genomics Europe and MarBEF). Its primary goals are to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, […]

CATEGORIES: New fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars

KLIMAGUNE Workshop 2017 on climate change and public engagement

Irtaxe attends the KLIMAGUNE Workshop in Bilbao

02/06/2017 - The Klimagune Workshop 2017, held on May 31st in Bilbao, was organized by the Basque Centre of Climate Change (BC3) as part of its initiatives of sharing and spreading knowledge on climate change. This seventh edition of Klimagune was a meeting forum that gathered different profiles related to climate change, including scientists, managers at different […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, Team

Global Fishing Watch Research Workshop

We go to Madrid to explore GFW research potential in the EU

15/05/2017 - Global Fishing Watch is a new initiative to put together real time satellite data from global vessels navigating the oceans. As part of their research program, a series of workshops have been held in London, Rome and Spain this week with invited researchers and policy makers. Future Oceans Lab participated last Tuesday in Madrid in […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Seminars

WWF workshop for MPA management

FOL attends a stakeholder workshop for improving fisheries management in a MPA

25/03/2017 - The Illas Atlánticas National Park was established in Galicia in 2002. Since then, managers have been developing a regulatory regime for fisheries that hasn’t been agreed yet. WWF has been working for some time in the area, with the aim of achieving sustainable fishing and consensus between the parties, putting together different stakeholders that are […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Projects, Seminars

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