Team archive
We are hiring: open call for a research assistant
FOL OFFERS one position TO WORK ON Sustainable Marine Resources Management.
02/06/2023 - The Future Oceans Lab, based on the Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM) of the University of Vigo (Spain) is seeking a research assistant to work with our multidisciplinary team in research projects regarding marine social-ecological systems’ sustainability. If you want to join an active team of researchers committed to science and the society, check out […]
CATEGORIES: Job Offer, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Job Offer, Research, Team
Mariana Barros joins FOL for a two-month research stay
MARIANA WILL BE WORKING ON HER PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES WITH FOL IN ACID project
18/04/2023 - We are really happy to host Mariana Barros Dunning in FOL for a 2-month research stay. Mariana joins us from Ghent University, Belgium, where she is studying her International Masters’ in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea). During her stay, she will learn about the climate impact assessment focus on how acidification could work as a key driver, […]
CATEGORIES: Juan Bueno, MSc Thesis, Research
CATEGORIES: Juan Bueno, MSc Thesis, Research
Oluwakemi an international student delighted to Join FOL for her Master’s thesis
Oluwakemi will work with Elena and Juan to research the impact of climate change on fisheries and small-scale fishers.
14/03/2023 - Oluwakemi Dada, a student of the Erasmus Mundus joint master program in Marine Environment Resources (MER) is joining the team to conduct her master’s thesis. She is a self-motivated researcher with excellent practical knowledge of Marine resource management, conservation, and sustainability. Her master’s thesis is focused on Climate risk, and during her research, she will […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Juan Bueno, MSc Thesis
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Juan Bueno, MSc Thesis
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
JULIA AMENEIRO CONDUCTED AN OUTREACH EVENT TO INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE
10/03/2023 - February 11th is the day chosen by the United Nations to recognize the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology as well as encourage girls to follow a scientific career. With this initiative in mind, Julia had visited the primary school A Lomba (Vilagarcía de Arousa) this week to talk about […]
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro
Sarah Elkin excited to be joining FOL for her master thesis
Sarah will be working with Elena and Xochitl on patron-client relationships of fishers and their climate change responses
03/03/2023 - Sarah Elkin has joined the Future Oceans Lab to conduct her master thesis within IMBRSea (International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources), with Xochitl and Elena. This thesis builds upon Xochitl’s PhD research and the data she collected in Autumn 2021 in Nayarit (Mexico). The research explores fishing networks within Nayarit, Mexico. She is […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
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
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
Small-scale fisheries adaptations in clime change hotspots
FOL MEMBER XOCHITL ÉDUA ELÍAS ILOSVAY LEAD A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AS PART OF HER PHD within CLOCK project
02/11/2022 - Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening the global sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) through its direct and indirect impacts on fish stocks and dependent livelihoods. However, despite the global importance of a sector that represents over 90% of the world’s capture fisheries and secures food and jobs for approximately 100 million people worldwide. Very few […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results, 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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Results, Team
Social-ecological networks are crucial for small-scale fisheries adaptation to climate change
Diego Salgueiro Otero leads an study that clarifies the adaptation pathway of fishers and identify the role of specific structures of social-ecological capital in their adaptive behavior
07/10/2022 - Despite dependent human communities on marine resources are in the frontline of the impacts, little is known about how adaptation works and what pathway leads towards sustainability. For that reason, Diego Salgueiro Otero, Michele Barnes and Elena Ojea decided to use and integrate the Adaptation Process, the Adaptive Capacity and the Continuum of Network Configuration Frameworks […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Results
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
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
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Workshop
Frida joins FOL for her internship within IMBRSea
She will work with Xochitl Elías and Juan Bueno on adaptation of small-scale fisheries to climate change
20/04/2022 - Frida Sánchez is join us from the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy to do her internship as part of her graduate studies in the International Master’s in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) During her bachelor’s degree in Mexico she studied the corallivore behaviour of the Crown-of-thorns starfish and its predation effect in the coral communities of […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, MSc Thesis, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, MSc Thesis, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
Fisheries contribution to a more sustainable future
FOL participated in the kick-off meeting of the of the new Future Fisheries project from the University of Bergen
07/04/2022 - Our research fellow, Francesca Barazzetta, and PhD student, Xochitl Édua Elias Ilosvay traveled to Bergen last March to take part at the kick-off meeting of the new four-year-long Future Fisheries project lead by the Theoretical Ecology Group from the University of Bergen. The project in funded by the Research Council of Norway, as a Collaborative […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, How can fisheries contribute more to a sustainable future?, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, How can fisheries contribute more to a sustainable future?, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
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
Assessing climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean MPAs”, a second MPA-ENGAGE webinar series
FRANCESCA BARAZZETTA AND JUAN BUENO PARDO PRESENTED HOW TO ASSESS CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY IN MEDITERRANEAN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
30/03/2022 - Last week, on the 24th and 25th of March, Francesca Barazzetta and Juan Bueno Pardo hosted a follow up to the first webinar series organized in the framework of the MPA-Engage project. The two webinars focused on the development and implementation Social-Ecological Vulnerability Assessment in Marine Protected Area focusing in the Mediterranean Sea. The two […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Seminars, Vulnerability Tool, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Seminars, Vulnerability Tool, Workshop
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
New webinar series of MPA-Engage project
Learning how to face climate change in Marine protected areas
15/03/2022 - MPA-ENGAGE consortia is announcing the second series of webinars to help stakeholders of MPAs to develop a climate change adaptation and mitigation action plan. Participants will learn 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 within […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Seminars, Training, Vulnerability Tool
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Juan Bueno, MPA-Engage, Seminars, Training, Vulnerability Tool
A milestone Year for FOL
In 2021 FOL PhD students made it to the end of their PhDs
31/12/2021 - At first sight, this one seems like another difficult year to balance. But with 2021 about to finish, it is a good time to look back and revise all that happened at FOL, and it was a lot! During this year, covid measures were still prevailing: people working from home, few in person meetings, and […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Team
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
FOL presents its scientific dissemination book “Goiz bat Tuni-Ontzin” in a literature congress
FOL attends the 1st Congress on Children's and Young People's Literature organized by the University of the Basque Country
27/10/2021 - Last week, from October 20 to 22, the 1st International Congress on Children’s and Young People’s Literature organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) was held online. A discussion forum was created on the combination of Children’s and Young People’s Literature and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Children’s and Young People’s Literature and […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Iratxe Rubio, Outreach
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Iratxe Rubio, Outreach
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
Participation in the World Fisheries Congress 2021
PhD student Alba Aguión presented in the World Fisheries Congress her spatial bioeconomic model for barnacles
24/09/2021 - The World Fisheries Congress is being held this week in Adelaide, Australia. The event started this Monday 20th September and will last until Friday 24th, and due to the ongoing impacts of covid-19 the conference is being delivered fully online. FOL PhD student Alba Aguión has participated in the congress with an oral presentation about […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Results
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Results
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
Increasing diversity in environmental and natural resource economics
Smit V Caballero, new mentee at AERE Scholars program
10/06/2021 - Smit V. Caballero has been accepted as a mentee in the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Scholars Program. This new mentoring program aims to engage a diverse group of early career environmental and natural resource economists in AERE while providing invaluable career guidance, skill development, and networking opportunities. It represents an ambitious effort to increase diversity in […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Smit V. Caballero, Training
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Smit V. Caballero, Training
MPA Engage Capitalization Event
Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change
04/06/2021 - Members of the MPA Engage Capitalisation Boards is organising the first MPA Engage Capitalisation event entitled “Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change“. The event will take place online on the 18th June 2021, 11.30-14.00 CET. The event aims to: Showcase the MPA Engage collective response to mitigate and adapt to Climate […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Workshop
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 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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Dissemination, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Julia Ameneiro, 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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Smit V. Caballero, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
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
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination
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