Diego Salgueiro archive

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 […]

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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

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

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

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

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

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, […]

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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 […]

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Adaptation of Fishing Communities to Climate-Driven Shifts in Target Species

Our new perspective suggest what policy regulations will be needed for a sustainable and equitable response to climate change impacts in marine systems

24/06/2020 - This month’s issue of One Earth features a perspective article written by Diego Salgueiro Otero and Elena Ojea, from FOL, in collaboration with Sarah Lester from SFU. In this article, we present the advances of the ERC project CLOCK, where we are exploring the responses that fishing communities undertake when facing climate change impacts in […]

CATEGORIES: Clock, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research, Results

The importance of gender in small-scale fisheries

Elena Ojea and Diego Salgueiro evaluate the gender component within IHH project in Spain case study

12/06/2020 - The Illuminating Hidden Harvest (IHH) project focuses on the contributions of Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) to the four dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, environmental and governance) at global and local scales. Moreover, it includes a gender analysis in all these components since gender is crosscutting theme in small-scale fisheries. The main idea is to […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, IHH, Research

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

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

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

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 […]

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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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

FOL will be at the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress

PhD candidates Diego and Alba will present their ongoing work at the conference held this October in Chiang Mai (Thailand)

26/07/2018 - The World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (WSFC) placed this year 2018 at Chinag Mai (Thailand) from October 22nd to 26th, is an annual forum to discuss about the implementation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) guidelines to achieve sustainable development goals. This year, the congress will be focus on efforts that help to enhance our understanding about transformation in fisheries […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, PhD, Projects, Research

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

Future Oceans Lab at the INTEMARES stakeholder participation phase

FOL researcher Diego at the stakeholder's workshop on Marine Protected Areas

25/05/2018 - LIFE+IP+INTEMARES, as a follow up step of LIFE+INDEMARES, is considered the biggest project of marine conservation in Europe. LIFE IP INTEMARES drive its work towards an integrative, innovative and participative management of Natura 2000 marine network in Spain. Its objective is to reach a strong marine network of nature protection areas stated on Natura 2000 and […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Research, Workshop

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

Future Oceans Around assessing Ocean Health Index

Students of IES Val Miñor re-design the Ocean Health Index for an Independent Assessment at Ría de Vigo

27/03/2018 - Once more, FOA shares knowledge with the 2º Bach students at IES Val Miñor. This time, we worked on the application of Ocean Health Index (OHI) as an independent assessment for Ría de Vigo region. The OHI is a complex indicator that analyses the relations among oceans and societies. The index attempts to reveal how healthy […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach

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

2018 FOA curriculum focuses on identifying planetary boundaries at a regional scale

Students of IES Val Miñor analysed the planetary boundaries and discussed about the utility of the framework

14/02/2018 - Future Oceans Around starts the new year 2018 with a planetary perspective. This week, Future Oceans Lab lead the fourth session of Future Oceans Around at IES Val Miñor to talk about the Planetary Boundaries Framework. This framework aims the description of social-ecological processes that main drives the transforming status of the planet. This framework […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach

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

FOL begins collaboration with ALIADAS network in Ría de Vigo

FOL learns about the local social-ecological reality and helps with the training program

19/12/2017 - FOL began to work on the project ALIADAS of the CANDIEIRA network, dedicated to the support of women in the fisheries sector. This is the second initiative we collaborate on since we started working together this summer on project EMBARCA, dedicated to creating incentives for women entrepreneurs in marine tourism. Similarly to EMBARCA, ALIADAS is a local […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach, Workshop

Future Oceans Around assesses the ecosystem services in Val Miñor region

Students of IES Val Miñor valued the ecosystem services of their region

23/11/2017 - This morning we shared a brief session with the students of IES Val Miñor evaluating Ecosystem Services and discuss about the impacts on the society, as part of our on going Future Oceans Around Programme. During this meeting, the ecosystem services session involved elements of role-play based on topics drawn from current, real-life issues. So, students created their […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach, Research

EMBARCA project walks its first step in Arcade

The fishing tourism project created on Candieira, completed its first workshop last week in Arcade

02/11/2017 - FOL got part last week in EMBARCA project, which aims to disseminate the knowledge, culture and practices that shellfish gathers hold from their daily life. Not only framing the value of the marine resources or the beauty of shellfish gathers activity and surroundings, EMBARCA will also show woman role in these communities and its importance, […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach, Workshop

Future Oceans Around 2.0: The second-year-outreach program at the high school

We celebrate the first session of our dissemination program at IES Val Miñor for this new academic year

27/10/2017 - Fully charged of energy after the long summer holidays, FOL is ready to share, learn, work and play with the new group of Earth and Environment science students of IES Val Miñor about research questions, scientific problems and decision-making processes in real cases. Future Oceans Around 2.0 has started yesterday, 26th October 2017, and will […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Outreach, Workshop

Getting started in Candieira Project

FOL joins Candieira Project to make the most of its work in Social-Ecological Systems

24/08/2017 - Candieira project arose from the continuous challenges for women in marine and fishing sector in Galician territory. The project aims to build a network for supporting and promoting women in the marine sector in the coastal areas of Galicia. Last month, Candieira was launched in the coastal municipalities of GALP engaging different stakeholders linked to […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research

Adaptation of small-scale fisheries to climate change, new PhD project in Campus do Mar

Diego´s research proposal has been incorporated to the PhD program

02/08/2017 - Diego Salgueiro Otero, PhD candidate in Future Oceans Lab recently presented his research proposal on the adaptation processes of artisanal fishing in order to be accepted in Campus doMar Doctoral Program. He aims to analyze this activity as one Social-Ecological Systems (SES) with potential resilient capacity (and important Social-Ecological niche) to face climate change. This […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Projects, Seminars

Future Oceans Lab learning about complex systems in Stockholm

Diego Salgueiro is just back from a 2-week stay at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

28/06/2017 - The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), established in 2007, holds a vision of a world where Social-Ecological Systems are understood, governed and managed, to enhance human well-being and the capacity to deal with complexity and change, for the sustainable co-evolution of human civilizations and the biosphere, with special emphasis on resilience. Last month, thanks to the […]

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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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