FOL team archive

A turning point for the Future Oceans Lab
The ERC CLOCK project comes to an end, leaving us much closer to the fishing sectors and to implementing adaptation to climate change.
23/12/2022 - Year 2022 is closely coming to an end and as like to do, we take a look at our activities through the year and recall our major milestones. During this year our main achievement has been closing the ERC CLOCK project, which finished last November. We have been sharing the results in publications and press, […]
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Collaborations, Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Research, Team

Future Oceans Lab gives research results to fishing communities in Mexico
PhD student Xochitl Elías presented the project results in six communities in Nayarit, Mexico
04/08/2022 - Xochitl returned to the fishing communities where she conducted her research the past August – November 2021 to present the results and conduct workshops with the local fishers and scientists in July 2022. The research was conducted under the CLimate adaptation to shifting stOCKS (CLOCK) project in cooperation with Javier Tovar-Ávila from the national fisheries institute […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Workshop, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Dissemination, Outreach, Research, Workshop, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay

FOL participated in the Fourth ICES PICES Early Career Scientist Conference
FOL members Xochitl Elías and Francesca Barazzetta presented their work on climate change vulnerability and adaptations of coastal social-ecological systems to climate change
27/07/2022 - The fourth ICES PICES ECS conference was held last 18th – 21st July 2022 in St. John’s, Canada and aimed at improving the involvement of young scientists in international scientific investigations, management, and stewardship of the marine environment, in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the North Pacific Marine Science […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Outreach, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Outreach, Research, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay

It’s time to say goodbye to our colleague Raquel
Raquel starts a PhD at Marine Institute in Canada
29/01/2021 - After one year and a half working on Future oceans Lab, the time to say goodbye to Raquel has come. She has been actively engaging in several projects during this time, working in the IPCC AR6 report, in the global initiative on mapping climate change adaptation (GAMI project) and other projects such as MPA-Engage. Raquel […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team

Promoting sustainability and the leadership role of women in science
FOL PhD Alba Aguión is one of the 75 women scientists selected to participate in the program Homeward Bound
04/10/2019 - Homeward Bound is a ground-breaking initiative focused on providing women with the tools they need to effectively network, lead and engage their communities in the fight against climate change. The project aims to create a network of 1,000 women scientists in 10 years who will work together to have a positive influence in the decision […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach

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

FOL welcomes Alex to the team
Dr. Tidd joins the ERC-CLOCK project to work on fisheries adaptaion to climate chnage
05/04/2019 - After a competitive selection process for the postdoctoral position on econometrics social-ecological science, Alexander Tidd has succeeded and has joined the CLOCK project and FOL team this March 2019. Alex has over 18 years experience in quantitative fisheries research, where he has developed bio-economic models to find optimal management regulations in fisheries and worked on […]
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Alex Tidd, Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Research, Team

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

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: Second year!
The team is realizing all the work done so far
09/01/2019 - As we begin 2019, it seems to be the right time to look back over the last year and take stock of all that happened at FOL, draw up a summary of the group achievements and face the new challenges that lie ahead. Last year has been big in outreach achievements for FOL, and we […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Percebes, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, Percebes, 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 […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Projects, Research, 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
CATEGORIES: Clock, Collaborations, Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, Outreach, PhD, Projects, Research, Team

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

Future Oceans Lab: Year One!
Elena Ojea launched our research group on climate change adaptation only one year ago
15/12/2017 - It’s time to celebrate a successful first year at FOL. Under Elena Ojea’s leadership we have developed new solutions to small- and large-scale fisheries management, and we have been awarded major research grants as we continued to expand our global and local reach in both the research community and the fisheries sector. This has been possible mainly thanks to the […]
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Team
CATEGORIES: Future Oceans Lab, Team

FOL welcomes Xiaozi to the team
Dr. Liu joins ERC-CLOCK project to work on bioeconomic modelling
13/09/2017 - Xiaozi Liu is joining FOL as a postdoctoral fellow during the next two years to work on the ERC-Starting Grant project CLOCK. Her broad experience in fisheries economics under a climate change perspective and game theory applied to fisheries transboundary problems will contribute very positively to reach the objectives of CLOCK. Xiaozi will be responsible […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Projects, Sissi Xiaozi Liu, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Projects, Sissi Xiaozi Liu, Team

Xiaozi Liu will join FOLab for the fisheries bioeconomic postdoc position in CLOCK
The researcher has a strong background on international fisheries management under climate change
11/07/2017 - After a competitive selection process for the postdoctoral position on bioeconomic modelling, Xiaozi Liu has succeded and will be joining the CLOCK project at FOL from September 2017. Xiaozi has been working on fisheries economics since 2008, and in her research, she tackled the management challenges arising from stock distributional shifts due to changes in climate […]
CATEGORIES: Projects, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Projects, Research, Team