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FUTURE OCEANS AROUND</
Future Oceans Around (FOA) is born with the aim of awakening students interest in scientific knowledge and its results. Hot topics on multidisciplinary science that are used in environmental management and everyday decision-making are presented to a group of students. Every topic is plotted as a dynamic game where the students have to participate and apply the different concepts to their own region ad experience.
Future Oceans Around deals with different challenges that are currently debated in science, such as Planetary Boundaries, Ecosystem Services or Vulnerability to climate change. The group brings the ideas to the classroom to show students how scientists around the world tackle global and local environmental problems. The aim is also to illustrate the main concerns in the scientific community regarding sustainability of our planet at the different scales, and to be able to offer local solutions to these global threats.
Two editions were organised in IES Val Miñor, the high school close to our headquarters in the University of Vigo which embraced this successful and fruitful program of seminars. FOA events were held monthly during two consecutive academic years. If you want to know about the different sessions, you find results, pictures and the experiences in the Future Oceans Lab web news.
Future Oceans Around
Topics for the first edition
- Social-Ecological Systems
- Planetary boundaries
- Ecosystem services
- Marine reserves
- Ocean health index
- Vulnerability assessment
- Citizen science
- Resilience perspective
Research team: Future Oceans Lab
Future Oceans Lab is committed to science dissemination and outreach.
This section contains an overview of dissemination material that is being developed in ongoing projects in order to distribute its outputs to multiple audience. You will find several documents for dissemination purposes.
Flyer with the main results on adaptation of artisanal fisheries of Nayarit to climate change - pdf
Flyer with the main results on Adaptation of small scale fisheries in Galicia to face Climate Change - pdf
Dissemination article about climate change, the ocean and Val Miñor (Nigran-Spain) for Revista Estudios Miñoranos (in Galician) - pdf
Big world map to use as board in the game of "Shifting stocks". With this activity we want children learn about the redistribution of fish in the ocean due to climate change impacts - pdf
Elena Ojea collaborates in this UCC_Uvigo project to launch a story of some Uvigo female scientists to visibilize the important contribution of many women to science - pdf
Book on freezer purse seine fishing for children_Galician version - pdf
Book on freezer purse seine fishing for children_Basque version - pdf
Book on freezer purse seine fishing for children_Spanish version - pdf