collaborations archive
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
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
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
Fishers, policy makers and NGOs talk about PERCEBES
As part of the project a stakeholder workshop took place last week in Asturias (N of Spain)
28/01/2020 - PERCEBES aims to provide ecological, genetical and socioeconomic information about the stalked barnacle fishery to promote a sustainable extraction of the resource across the South of Europe. As a way to promote an effective interaction between research and policy, the project organized a stakeholders meeting with fishers, administration officers, NGOs and researchers. The workshop took […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Results, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Results, Workshop
William Cheung visits FOL and gives a seminar in Vigo
William Cheung and Vicky Lam get to know CLOCK and Galician fisheries first hand
03/01/2020 - From December 2nd to 4th of 2019, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor William Cheung and Vicky Lam from the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, British Columbia (Canada). This was a wonderful opportunity for the FOL team to work directly with William and to discuss future collaborations with UBC, and for William and […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Research
International week of marine studies
FOL attends the event to stablish future collaborations
24/07/2019 - During the week from July 15 to 19, over 20 experts in marine research and university authorities from China and Cape Verde attended at “International Week on Marine Studies Multidisciplinary Approaches” organized by Campus do Mar together with the University of Vigo and funded by Erasmus+ programme. The objective of this event was to strengthen […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro, Research
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Julia Ameneiro, Research
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
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
Preparation of PERCEBES meeting in 2020 to engage stakeholders
Researchers from the University of Vigo and Oviedo met last friday to discuss the best way to present the findings of the project to fishers and policymakers
01/03/2019 - The ultimate goal of research projects related to fisheries management such as PERCEBES is to produce evidence that can be used by decision makers in policies. However, policy making is a complex task influenced by many factors and often the amount of scientific evidence when decisions are taken is scarce. As a way to promote […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Dissemination, Percebes, PhD, Research
Jorge García Molinos talks about marine biodiversity challenges under climate change in Vigo
Jorge visits us from Japan to give a Campus do Mar seminar on February 26th
13/02/2019 - In two weeks , Professor Jorge Garcia Molinos from the University of Hokkaido (Japan) will be presenting his work on climate change and marine biodiversity to the Campus do Mar community at the University of Vigo. Jorge’s seminar: “Reorganization of marine biodiversity under climate change: new challenges and opportunities”, will cover how climate change […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Research
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Research
FOL’s collaboration in a newly released report by EDF
EDF Europe has launched a report on impacts of warming oceans on North East Atlantic fisheries management and governance
08/02/2018 - After the collaborative workshop on climate change impacts and fisheries management held in Copenhagen last August 2017 which FOL member Iratxe Rubio attended, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) published last week a report entitled Climate-Related Impacts on Fisheries Management and Governance in the North East Atlantic. EDF is a non-profit organization that advocates using science, […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, Workshop