Elena Ojea archive

Marine protected area networks can be robust to climate change

New published results suggest this when MPAs are strategically designed

12/03/2020 - One of the big questions in marine protection and fisheries is whether Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are going to be effective under the impacts of climate change. Protected areas can be designed for fisheries management, such that spillover effects of protection in adjacent areas can benefit fisheries. The scientific literature knows from years back that […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Results

FOL welcomes Francesca to the team; more women in the climate vulnerability research

Francesca joins FOL to work on the MPA-Engage project

05/03/2020 - After a competitive selection process for the position as Project researcher on the MPA Engage project, Francesca Barazzetta has succeeded and has joined the Future Ocean Lab team this March 2020. Francesca has successfully completed her Master in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen. She conducted her master thesis in collaboration with FOL, during […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research

FOL publishes a new study on tropical tuna fisheries and climate change

As part of her PhD, FOL member Iratxe leads a new publication within the CLOCK project

21/02/2020 - Marine ecosystems have already been impacted by climate change. It is generally accepted that these impacts affect the productivity, fish distribution, habitat and marine diversity. However, it is hardly known how fisheries respond to these changes. In order to understand how fisheries are responding to ocean warming, researchers from the Future Oceans Lab at CIM–University […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results

On the way to the next draft for the IPCC report

Elena Ojea attends the third Lead Author Meeting in Faro, Portugal

20/02/2020 - The IPCC is preparing the sixth Assessment Report on impacts and adaptation of climate change, and lead authors are now at the equator of the process. The report will be ready in 2021, and meanwhile, long hours of meetings, discussions and drafts are taking place in the authors teams. The key events to advance in […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research, Workshop

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Alba Aguion and Elena Ojea are conducting outreach events to increase the visibility of women in science

14/02/2020 - February 11th is the day chosen by the United Nations to recognize the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology. During this week, Elena and Alba have lead outreach events across Galicia (NW Spain) to share their research with the general public. Alba visited different secondary schools in Coruña, Santiago and […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach

Launching MPA-ENGAGE to face Climate Change in the Mediterranean

We went to the Kick off Meeting of the new Interreg-MED project at ICM-CSIC in Barcelona

17/01/2020 - In January 14 and 15th, Elena Ojea and Julia Ameneiro traveled to the Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) in Barcelona to attend the Kick-Off-Meeting of the project «MPA Engage: Engaging Mediterranean key players in Ecosystem Approach to manage Marine Protected Areas to face Climate» funded by the Interreg MED program with a budget of […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Julia Ameneiro, MPA-Engage, Research

Talking about the future of the oceans sustainability at the COP25

We spend 2 days in Madrid to present a new report on climate change economic impacts

10/12/2019 - The Future Oceans Lab has traveled to Madrid to attend for the first time the Conference of the Parties of Climate Change (COP25) and participate on a series of parallel events in the Blue Pavilion. During two weeks, country representatives, scientists, students, NGOs, journalists and other participants join efforts to put climate change at the […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Results

Attending FAO’s Sustainable Fisheries Symposium in Rome

Learning from the diverse views of global experts on fisheries sustainability

22/11/2019 - Diego Salgueiro-Otero, Juliano Palacios and Elena Ojea are in Rome this week attending the FAO’s International Sustainable Fisheries Symposium to learn what are the best pathways to strengthen global fisheries sustainability and improving its outcomes. The symposium puts together scientists, practitioners, NGO representatives and policy makers from all around the world. Each keynote presentation provides […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research

Food from the ocean has the potential to sustainable increase to meet future demand

Elena Ojea contributed to the first High Level Panel blue paper realeased this Tuesday

20/11/2019 - The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy has launched the first blue paper «Food from the Sea» from its series of commissioned scientific reports at the FAO’s International Sustainable Fisheries Symposium this week in Rome, where Elena Ojea is a contributing author. The report provides science-based projections of how far the ocean can […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Results

Ready to start the Interreg MPA-Engage project in the Mediterranean Sea

FOL will coordinate vulnerability assessments to adapt MPAs to climate change

08/11/2019 - MPA-Engage is one of the recently approved projects by the Interreg MED programme, in which researchers from 15 institutions of 8 different countries will work together to enhance the role of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to adapt to climate change. Climate change represents a seriously threat for the marine ecosystems and its dependent livelihoods around […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Projects, Research

Sign up for reviewing the first order draft of the IPCC sixth assessment report

The first version of the new report is open for revisions until december 13th

25/10/2019 - After the intense work during the summer months, Elena Ojea and her colleague Lead Authors have put together the first draft of the Ocean and Coastal Systems chapter for the IPCC 6th Assessment report. Elena joined the IPCC activities in January with the first author meeting in South Africa, and continued working to produce an […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research

Mitigation and adaptation strategies to tackle Climate Change

Elena Ojea participated at the round table about the climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

08/10/2019 - Last Friday, at the end of Workshop «Catedra Naturgy«, IPCC author Íñigo Losada from IH Cantabria (Spain) gave a speech at University of Vigo about the new report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (SROCC) that the IPCC just launched last week. UVigo proffessor Xavier Labandeira, autor of the sixth assessment report […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, IPCC, Outreach, Research

Progress after the second IPCC Lead Author Meeting in Nepal

We are back from Kathmandu to work on the first Assessment Report open draft

04/09/2019 - The IPCC report writing process greatly advances thanks to the in person meetings of Lead Authors (LAM). These events allow for the close collaboration of researchers from different disciplines, guarantee synergies and coherence across the report and help coordinate the major tasks that such an assessment requires. Elena is back from a week in Kathmandu […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, IPCC, Research

Adapting Mediterranean MPAs to the challenges of Climate Change

Marine Protected Areas need to keep up with their objectives

21/06/2019 - The Mediterranean is an enclosed sea highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change inn their waters. Water temperatures have risen close to 2ºC on the last decades, and warming is projected to continue to increase drastically. Warming takes place in surface and deeper waters and species composition is already changing due to invasive species, […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Ojea, Projects, Results, Workshop

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

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

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

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

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

Contribution to the Spanish Marine Strategy 2020

FOL goes to Madrid to participate in a stakeholder workshop on marine economic impacts

22/11/2018 - The Spanish Marine Strategy is under development to achieve the second cycle objectives for year 2020. Following an European directive, the government is developing a series of projects to improve and further develop the efforts made by Spain in 2012, and achieve a good environmental status for 2020. This second cycle includes an assessment of […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, 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

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

FOL team is in Cambodia teaching on a Summer School

Team members develop one of the workshops on research capacity and resource management

10/10/2018 - Dockside is a cooperation project between European and Cambodian Universities to develop research capacity and joint collaborations. As part of the project, FOL members Diego Salgueiro and Elena Ojea are in Cambodia to conduct a one-week workshop on Resource management under climate change and biodiversity loss, with the help of Laura Movilla, from the University […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Workshop

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

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

In Rome for the COFI side event on the new FAO Atlas of fishing effort

Elena Ojea participates in the Panel that discusses Global Fishing Footprint

17/07/2018 - The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) celebrated last week its 33rd session at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Delegates from most countries in the world participate in the COFI intergovernmental forum that discusses the main issues and problems in fisheries and aquaculture, with the aim of proposing recommendations to governments and regional fishing organizations, […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea

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

FOL presenting at the 4th climate change and fisheries international symposium

Results of the clock project have been presented at ECWOO

07/06/2018 - Washington DC is living this week an international appointment for scientists working on climate change in the oceans. Future Oceans Lab is attending the 4th international symposium of ICES/PICES and presenting the first results of the Clock project. Iratxe Rubio is presenting her PhD work on shifts in distribution in tropical tuna fisheries in the […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Iratxe Rubio, Outreach, Projects, Results

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

Elena Ojea will be Lead Author on the 6th IPCC Report

Elena joins the team of 15 world–renowned experts working on the Report's Oceans Chapter

09/04/2018 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) through the Spanish Office of Climate Change (OECC) has named Elena Ojea Lead Author in Working Group II Chapter 3 of the upcoming 6th IPCC Assessment Report. In this chapter, she will be working on synthesizing the best available science on the impacts of climate change on ocean […]

CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Prizes

Francesca Barazzetta joins FOL for master’s thesis research

Together with Diego and Elena she will be working on local climate change adaptation strategies

02/04/2018 - We are looking forward to welcoming Francesca Barazzetta at FOL! Francesca joins us from the University of Copenhagen where she is studying her Master’s in Climate Change Science. At FOL she will be completing her thesis research on small-scale fisheries climate adaptation strategies with Diego and Elena. Francesca will analyze the past and present adaptation […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Team

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

Future Oceans Lab on air

Future Oceans Lab was interviewed by radio program Efervesciencia

14/03/2018 - Marine systems, temperature patterns, oceanic currents, climate change, fish distribution, social dependence, socio-economic implications, resilience and adaptation are some words that can perfectly define the research at Future Oceans Lab. Last weekend, Future Oceans Lab was interviewed by the Galician radio programme Efervesciencia. During this relaxed talk, FOL got closer to the audience to bring novel […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Team

Students in Future Oceans Around simulate decision-making process

Students of high school VAL MIÑOR designed a Marine Reserve with fishing Interest

04/01/2018 - The last session of Future Oceans Around in 2017 was dedicated to the understanding of the interactions between the social and environmental dimensions a social-ecological systems. This session proposed a decision-making process as an example of a common ground for stakeholders to agree on their different objectives for resource management. The case study proposed to […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Team, Workshop

New publication on co-production of marine ecosystem services

Elena and colleagues analyze five small-scale fisheries in Galicia and Northern Portugal

02/01/2018 - We are starting off the New Year right at FOL with the publication of an analysis of co-production of marine ecosystem services (ES) in the International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. The publication, lead by Luis Outeiro from the University of Santiago (USC) is a result of the ICES working group on marine ecosystem […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Research, Results

FOL in CETMAR for climate change outreach events

this week we contribute to SAF-21 Workshop and to Galician Climathon

27/10/2017 - Future Oceans lab participated this week in two events held for advancing on solutions for climate change in fisheries. Elena Ojea gave an overview on the challenges of fisheries governance, in a one-day session that also involved Juan Carlos Surís (UVigo), Antonio García Allut (University of Coruña), Françoise Bretton (UAB) and Jose Luís Satiago (CETMAR). This […]

CATEGORIES: Conferences, Elena Fontán, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Workshop

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

Prof. Steve Gaines in Vigo for CLOCK first advisory meeting

UCSB Professor gets to know first hand Galician fisheries and CLOCK project progress

10/10/2017 - Last week we spend some days with Professor Steve Gaines and Peggy Lubchenco, who were visiting us from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Gaines is the dean of the Bren School for Environmental Management at UCSB, and we are honored to have him in the ERC project CLOCK board of advisors. With decades of expertise […]

CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Team, Workshop

Five days in Chile diving in Global Marine Protected Areas

The international marine protected areas congress IMPAC4 ends with important news on conservation

08/09/2017 - e Today is the closure of the International Marine Protected Area Congress in La Serena, Chile. Five days of discussions on marine conservation and management where participants from around the world, including NGOs, managers of protected areas, governments and scientist shared their experience in marine protection. The congress has also been the platform for exciting […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Projects, Workshop

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

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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