climate change archive
Artisanal fisheries expert, Eréndira Aceves-Bueno is visiting us
29/06/2023 - Dr. Erendira Aceves-Bueno, assistant professor at School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at University of Washington joins FOL during four weeks visit. During her stay, we develop a collaborative agenda for ongoing a future projects on climate adaptation and marine resources management. We have the opportunity to host Erendira in our group and share with her […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Seminars
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Seminars
Adaptation of coastal fisheries to climate change in the climate change hotspot Shikoku, Japan
Xochitl Elías is conducting her fieldwork for her case study in Shikoku
17/02/2023 - Japanese coasts are warming up at a faster rate than 90 % of coasts worldwide, making them a climate change hotspot. As a result, for example, the kelp forests at the western coast of Shikoku are experiencing a widespread decline due to a combination of warming waters and the resulting expansion of tropical herbivorous fish […]
CATEGORIES: Research
CATEGORIES: Research
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Research, Results
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach
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
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Outreach, Research, Results
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research, Seminars
Back in Santa Barbara
Alba Aguion is conducting a second research stay at UCSB to work on her bioeconomic model
18/10/2019 - As part of her PhD, Alba Aguión is constructing a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia (NW Spain). Last year, she visited the University of Oviedo to work with Antonella Rivera and conducted a 4-month research stay at the University of Santa Barbara California under the supervision of Chris Costello to […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, 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
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, IPCC, Outreach, Research
Diego Salgueiro finds novel social-ecological insights for climate change adaptation during his stay in the James Cook University
Diego Salgueiro, PhD candidate of Future Oceans Lab, come back after his 3-month research stay in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
14/08/2019 - Diego Salgueiro started in April a research stay of three months in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies of Townsville (Australia), thanks to the financial support of Xunta de Galicia. He was supervised by Michele Barnes, a world-known expert in network science and interdisciplinarity who helped him to better understand the meaning […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research, Results
Scientific outreach: Ant insights to promote a more sustainable organization of fishers
FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión will deliver a dissemination activity at the MUNCYT science museum (A Coruna, Spain) on tuesday
08/07/2019 - All species of ants – about 14,000 – live in colonies. They form complex socities of thousands of individuals where survival depends on their ability to organize. FOL PhD student Alba Aguión has worked with ant colonies during her master at the Elva Robinson´s lab (University of York, UK). Now, focused on the study of […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, PhD
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, PhD
The end of the Human Exclusion Experiment
The PERCEBES experiment, aiming to understand the effects of barnacle harvesting, is coming to an end next week
28/06/2019 - As part of her PhD and in line with CLOCK , Alba aims to find suitable adaptation options for the barnacle fishery to compensate the impacts of climate change. As part of her project, and under the umbrella of PERCEBES, Alba has participated for the last 2 years in an experiment set to understand the […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Research
Diego Salgueiro visits the James Cook University to develop the second chapter of his PhD research
Diego is conducting a research stay at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University)
16/05/2019 - Diego Salgueiro, PhD student of Future Oceans Lab, is studying the adaptation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) to climate change, applying a socio-ecological perspective with a network approach to better understand how the individual and collective attributes can enable or constrain the adaptation and transformation of fisheries under different climate change scenarios. This motivation drove him […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Research
Galician Small-Scale Fisheries system completely covered
Diego Salgueiro Otero complete the sampling for the Galician case study
25/04/2019 - Diego Salgueiro, PhD candidate of Future Oceans Lab, is studying the adaptation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in Galician to climate change. It is within this context that Diego investigates on how social-ecological relationships can be understood under different climate change scenarios. For this, FOL has conducted surveys on the Galician SSF system during the last […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
Ocean science outreach in Barcelona to commemorate the World Water Day
FOL member Alba Aguión has conducted different scientific activities for kids and adults this week at Vil-la Uránia civic center
21/03/2019 - The World Water Day, designated by the United Nations on March 22nd, is the day used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. As a way to inspire people to learn more about water-related issues, FOL member Alba Aguión has organized an ocean science outreach event last week in Barcelona. Activities have taken […]
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Outreach, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Outreach, Workshop
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Seminars
FOL visits CEIP Santa María do Castro at Spanish “11 de Febrero” initiative
FOL was invited to talk about its research on climate change and fisheries
05/03/2019 - The Spanish “11 de Febrero” initiative has been created to commemorate the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” in order to encourage girls to follow a scientific career. With this initiative in mind, FOL was invited by CEIP Santa María do Castro to talk about its current research on fisheries adaptation to climate […]
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro, Research
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro, 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
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Dissemination, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team
Future Oceans Lab at Muncyt for the Climate Change Weekend
FOL was invited by the Science Museum in Coruña to talk to students about fisheries and climate change
12/11/2018 - During the weekend of 26 to 28 October, the Museum of Science (MUNCYT) of Coruña (Galicia) organized the so-called “Climate Change Weekend”, an educational science conference focused on climate change. During these days, students and a general audience visited the museum and attended the different exhibitions, conferences and workshops. These activities are designed to foster public […]
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Elena Fontán, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Workshop
Future Oceans Lab invited to share its scientific knowledge on board of INTERMARES
Diego Salgueiro Otero, talks in the INTERMARES about Climate change, impacts and adaptations of fisheries around the world
08/11/2018 - The INTERMARES ship keeps its goal of teaching along the coastal countries about the importance and consequences of sustainable fishing. The cooperative mission of this vessel reached many countries around world before arriving Vigo last week, and it will keeping travelling along Spanish and African coast until the end of the year. In every port […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Workshop
Future Oceans Lab attends the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in Thailand
Diego Salgueiro Otero presents his research outcomes on Small-Scale Fisheries Adaptation to Climate Change in Chiang Mai
31/10/2018 - The 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (3WSFC), an international event that aims for transdisciplinarity, transformation and the future of small-scale fisheries was placed in Chiang Mai (Thailand) during October 22nd-26th. As five main pillars of this worldwide meeting, five different themes where developed each day (Science, Communities, Policy, Field and Actions) by several communicating sessions (plenary, science […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Results, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Results, Workshop
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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team, Workshop
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
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Elena Ojea, MSc Thesis, Research
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
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
Future Oceans Lab in the nub of “We learn, We teach”
FOL takes part of ALIADAS project second stage
01/08/2018 - FOL member, Diego Salgueiro, attended the second connecting-meeting of ALIADAS project. This project is born as a branch of Candieira initiative and has already shown its first results. One of its examples was placed on Ria de Vigo-A Guarda GALP (local action group for fishers), where shellfish gatherers, NGO members and researchers met at ECIMAT in […]
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research
“Climate risk and the future of international climate policy”
FOLab attends one more year the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on Climate Change
06/07/2018 - The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is organizing this year the 9th edition of the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on climate change: “Climate risk and the future of international climate policy “. This-three day course is being held in Bilbao from the 4th to the […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio
Seminar on marine shifting stocks at the University of Vigo
This thrusday FOL member Alba Aguión will be presenting at the Café con Sal seminars organized by ECIMAT
22/05/2018 - This Thursday, May 24th, at 11 am, FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión will be presenting a collaborative work we are doing at the lab on shifting stocks at the University of Vigo. The talk will take place as part of the Café con sal seminar series organized by ECIMAT. Alba’s seminar entitled “Implications of the observed […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Projects, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research
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
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Seminars, Team, Training, Workshop
FOL back in Copenhagen for a Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Fisheries Management
EDF workshop on climate change and distributional shifts hosted by ICES
07/09/2017 - Future Oceans Lab joined a collaborative workshop on climate change impacts and fisheries management which was held in Copenhagen on the 30th and 31st of August 2017. This event was organized by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and hosted by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) at its headquarters. EDF is a […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Projects, Research, Workshop
Elena Fontán’s Master Thesis: a new resilience index
Elena succesfully presented her Master Thesis with honours
28/07/2017 - Last Friday, Elena Fontán Alende, member of Future Oceans Lab defend her Master Thesis about European industrial fisheries and resilience, entitled: “Climate Change Adaptation in industrial fishing: social-ecological analysis of impacts and adaptation”. She is enrolled in the intercollegiate Oceanography master at the University of Vigo, where she is spetializing in Ocean & Climate. The […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Projects, Research, Results, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Projects, Research, Results, Team