research 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
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
EfD’s annual meeting
A network of environmental economists meet to contribute to sustainable development in the Global South
26/11/2020 - Smit Vasquez Caballero attended the Environment for Development Initiative 14th annual virtual meeting, November 16-20, 2020. The Environment for Development (EfD) is a global network of economists and natural resources scientists providing empirical and theoretical evidence promoting sustainable environmental policy. The conference was organised around sessions related to agriculture and climate change, behavioural and experimental […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Smit V. Caballero
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Smit V. Caballero
Marian Scheffler will conduct an internship for two months at FOL
Marian will be working with Juan and Elena on socio-ecological vulnerability assessments
23/10/2020 - We are looking forward to welcoming Marian Scheffler at FOL for a 2-month research stay. Marian joins us from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, where he is studying his Masters’ in Environmental Geography and Management. During his stay he will be collaborating with Juan Bueno and Elena Ojea within FutureMARES project on climate vulnerability assessments […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team, Training
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research, Team, Training
When Nature-based Solutions are vulnerable to climate change
FOL is coordinating international vulnerability assessments in FutureMARES, a new project that just took off
02/10/2020 - Nature-based solutions are actions that enhance and support ecosystems to provide adaptation and mitigation benefits to human well being and biodiversity (IUCN standards), for example restoring marine habitats like posidonia meadows or oyster beds, conserving habitats and species with marine protected areas, or sustainable harvesting of fish and mariculture. It is well known that these […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Future Oceans Lab, FutureMARES, Juan Bueno, Research
The first and special edition of ICYMARE conference
Xochitl was participating at this year’s ICYMARE 2020 as a session host
28/08/2020 - Xochitl together with the Ph.D. student Michael Kriegl is hosting Session 9: “Understanding social-ecological systems: Towards sustainable management of marine resources” at this year’s ICYMARE on the 26th and 27th of August. The main goal of the conference is to give room to young marine researchers to present their work and to generate a network of young […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
Learning good practices in scientific communication
Xochitl attended a Seminar on scientific writing
10/07/2020 - This week, the Ph.D. student Xochitl Elias from the Do*Mar doctoral program and member of the FOL, took part in the Seminar on Scientific Writing imparted by Prof. Dr. Henrique Queiroga from Universidade de Aveiro. The seminar was imparted virtually and covered a broad range of topics including philosophical currents on how to conduct science, […]
CATEGORIES: Research, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
CATEGORIES: Research, Training, Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay
“Mediterranean MPAs facing Climate Change” a first MPA-ENGAGE webinar series
Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta presented how to assess climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
05/06/2020 - Last week, from the 25th to the 29th of May, Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta hosted 3 on-line lectures about the development of a Social-Ecological Vulnerability Assessment in Marine Protected Areas. The lectures were organised within the framework of the MPA-Engage project and the Vulnerability Assessment lectures represented a section of a three weeks webinar […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, MPA-Engage, Research
Job Opportunity: postdoctoral position on climate vulnerability assessments
FOL OF CIM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIGO OFFERS A TEMPORARY POSITION TO MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE TASKS OF A H2020 PROJECT
07/05/2020 - The Future Oceans Lab, member of the Marine Research Centre (CIM-UVIGO) offers a postdoctoral position for a researcher with a strong interest in working on adaptation to climate change in the oceans and willing to contribute to cutting edge research questions. Full job details can be found in the EURAXESS and in this PDF file. […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Job Offer, Research
FOL welcomes Francesca to the team; more women in the climate vulnerability research
Francesca joins FOL to work on the MPA-Engage project
05/03/2020 - After a competitive selection process for the position as Project researcher on the MPA Engage project, Francesca Barazzetta has succeeded and has joined the Future Ocean Lab team this March 2020. Francesca has successfully completed her Master in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen. She conducted her master thesis in collaboration with FOL, during […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Francesca Barazzetta, Future Oceans Lab, MPA-Engage, 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
Launching MPA-ENGAGE to face Climate Change in the Mediterranean
We went to the Kick off Meeting of the new Interreg-MED project at ICM-CSIC in Barcelona
17/01/2020 - In January 14 and 15th, Elena Ojea and Julia Ameneiro traveled to the Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) in Barcelona to attend the Kick-Off-Meeting of the project “MPA Engage: Engaging Mediterranean key players in Ecosystem Approach to manage Marine Protected Areas to face Climate” funded by the Interreg MED program with a budget of […]
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Julia Ameneiro, MPA-Engage, Research
CATEGORIES: Elena Ojea, Julia Ameneiro, MPA-Engage, Research
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
Effects of climate change and fishing on cod growth performance
Raquel Ruiz presented her master thesis research at IEO within COV seminars programm
15/11/2019 - Our Lab team member Raquel Ruiz gave a talk last Friday at IEO-Vigo. She presented the work she carried out during her master thesis in collaboration with Fran Saborido (IIM-CSIC) and Rosario Domínguez (IEO-Vigo). The main goal of this research was to disentangling the effect of climate change and fishing on cod growth performance. To […]
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research
CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Future Oceans Lab, MSc Thesis, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Research
FOL attends the ICES Annual Science Conference 2019
Iratxe presents her research on large-scale fisheries as social-ecological systems facing climate change
18/09/2019 - Last week, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) organized its Annual Science Conference, which was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. ICES is an intergovernmental marine science organization, a network of scientists who advance and share scientific knowledge of marine ecosystems and their services in order to generate advice for meeting conservation, management, […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio
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
New job offer for one research assistant on Adaptation to Climate Change in Marine Systems.
UVIGO Marine Research Centre (CIM-UVIGO) of the University of Vigo offers a temporary position to support the research line on Sustainable exploitation of marine resources.
17/04/2019 - UVIGO Marine Research Centre (CIM-UVIGO) offers a temporary position to support the research line on Sustainable exploitation of marine resources. Applications are welcome to cover the Research Assistant position at the Future Oceans Lab (FOL) research group, led by Dr. Elena Ojea. We are looking for a researchers with background on adaptation to climate change in […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Job Offer
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Job Offer
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
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
Alba´s 4-month research stay at the University of California comes to its end
FOL PhD candidate has been working since September at Bren School in Santa Barbara under the supervision of the professor Christopher Costello
19/12/2018 - As part of her PhD, Alba Aguión is constructing a spatial bioeconomic model for the stalked barnacle fishery in Galicia (NW Spain). After her visit to the University of Oviedo to work with Antonella Rivera at the end of August, Alba moved to Santa Barbara to start a research stay at the Bren School of Environmental Science […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Percebes, PhD, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Percebes, PhD, Research
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
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
Human Exclusion Experiment: new setting up of cages
ALBA´S PHD EXPERIMENT AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF STALKED BARNACLE HARVESTING ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE STANDS
21/06/2018 - Stalked barnacles are the most important intertidal economical resource in the rocky shores of Galicia. In line with CLOCK objectives, FOL member Alba Aguión is keen to find during her PhD adaptation options for the barnacle fishery to compensate the impacts of climate change, such as changes in the rotational harvest cycles currently conducted. In order to […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, 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
CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, Research
Learning about bioeconomic models at the University of Oviedo
Alba Aguión has been working with Antonella Rivera and Katja Geiger on a spatial model for the barnacle fishery
17/04/2018 - Bioeconomic models are powerful tools to integrate the ecological and economical components of a fishery and to determine appropriate levels of stock and catch. As part of her PhD and in line with the objectives of CLOCK, Alba Aguión will develop a spatial bioeconomic model for the Stalked Barnacle fishery in Galicia. The model will integrate […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Collaborations, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research, Training
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
FOL meets PERCEBES research fellows in Portugal
Elena and Alba attented the meeting scheduled for January 29th and 30th at the University of Aveiro
30/01/2018 - As part of the PERCEBES project, the larval connectivity patterns of the Stalked Barnacle in Europe are being studied. Since population connectivity is a key feature when it comes to spatial management, larval models will provide precious information for Alba´s research on the optimal management design for this resource in Galicia. These connectivity models are […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Results, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Results, Workshop
University of Oviedo visit as part of the PERCEBES project
FOL PhD student Alba Aguión meets Oviedo researchers from PERCEBES to develop a lab protocol together
10/11/2017 - Elena Ojea and PhD student Alba Aguión are part of the european project PERCEBES, which aims to explore the spatial management of the Stalked Barnacle fishery in Europe. To do so, PERCEBES aims to understand the connectivity patterns of the barnacle populations across the Atlantic coast of Europe, with modellers from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Team, Workshop
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Team, Workshop
Future Oceans Lab participation in ICES ASC 2017
Diego and Alba attented the conference in Florida to present their ongoing work about climate change adaptation in fisheries
03/10/2017 - Future Oceans Lab has taken part in the ICES Annual Science Conference 2017 held at Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA) last week. This year the congress consisted in 19 theme sessions that comprise oral and poster presentations from researchers from all over the world. PhD students Diego Salguiero and Alba Aguión attented the event to present […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Conferences, Diego Salgueiro, Research, Results
YOUMARES 8 Conference for young marine researchers in Kiel, Germany
FOL member Iratxe Rubio gives a talk in the YOUMARES 8 Conference
19/09/2017 - Last week the YOUMARES 8 Conference for young marine researchers took place at Kiel University, in Germany. YOUMARES is an interdisciplinary scientific conference for Bachelor, Master, and PhD students, that gathers a wide range of topics related to the marine environment. The bottom-up organization by young researchers is one of the most characteristic aspects of […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Iratxe Rubio, Projects, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Iratxe Rubio, Projects, Research, Results
Presenting Iratxe´s research on adaptation to Climate Change in industrial fisheries
Iratxe Rubio has been recently approved by the Advisory Committee of the Campus do Mar
18/08/2017 - As part of Campus Do Mar doctoral program, students are assigned an Advisory Committee to monitor their progress and provide feedback and suggestions once a year during their doctoral studies. Last July, FOL PhD candidate Iratxe Rubio had her first meeting with the committee, where she presented a general overview of her thesis, focused on […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Future Oceans Lab, Iratxe Rubio, PhD, Projects, Research
Euromarine Network grant awarded to Iratxe Rubio for her PhD training
Iratxe will visit the ICES headquarters in August
09/08/2017 - Euromarine is a European marine science network launched in 2014 which represents the merger of the scientific communities of three former European Networks of Excellence (EUR-OCEANS, Marine Genomics Europe and MarBEF). Its primary goals are to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, […]
CATEGORIES: New Fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars
CATEGORIES: New Fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars
Human Exclusion Experiment set up and running!
Alba´s PhD experiment aims to understand the effects of Stalked Barnacle harvesting on the productivity of the stands
01/08/2017 - Stalked Barnacles are crustaceans that inhabit the intertidal levels of exposed rocky shores and that form dense aggregations. During 2016 in Galicia (Spain) Stalked Barnacles reached a mean first sale price of 25 €/kg and a total mean value of 9 and a half million euros (source: www.pescadegalicia.gal); demonstrating a strong market demand for this resource […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Future Oceans Lab, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Research
Introducing Alba´s research in Climate Change and spatial management
The proposal of FOL PhD Alba Aguión has been approved by the Advisory Committee of the University of Vigo
25/07/2017 - As part of the Campus Do Mar doctoral programme, students are assigned an Advisory Committee to monitor their progress and provide feedback and suggestions. FOL PhD candidate Alba Aguión had her first meeting with the committee on June 30th. As a first year student, Alba presented a general overview of her thesis, focused on the implications […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Results
CATEGORIES: Clock, Percebes, PhD, Projects, Results
Eréndira Aceves-Bueno spends four weeks visiting us
FOL team has the chance to learn about TURF design and bio-economic modeling with Ere
19/07/2017 - Erendira Aceves-Bueno holds a PhD from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (University of California, Santa Barbara). During her PhD dissertation, she developed spatial bio-economic models to analyze the role of spillover and fishermen cooperation in the design of Territorial Use of Rights in Fisheries (TURFs). Eréndira is very interested in Galician fisheries and […]
CATEGORIES: Projects, Seminars, Team
CATEGORIES: Projects, Seminars, Team
Climate Change in an Era of Uncertainty
FOLab goes to BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School
13/07/2017 - The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has organized this year the 8th edition of the BC3-UPV/EHU Summer School on climate change: “Climate Change in an Era of Uncertainty”. This-three day course was held in Donostia-San Sebastian from the 5th to the 7th of July. […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, Team
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, 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
FOL participates in a workshop about co-management in small scale fisheries in Baiona (Spain)
Future Oceans Lab attended to the workshop organized by WWF and Oceano Azul last thursday
26/06/2017 - When it comes to harvesting Stalked Barnacles, La Anunciada de Baiona is one of the main fisher guilds in Galicia, counting with 50 on foot fishers and more than 30 boats dedicated to the resource. As in the other galician fisher guilds, barnacle harvesting is carried out as a co-management system between fishers and fishing […]
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Percebes, Projects, Research, Team
FOL going to ICES Annual Science Conference 2017
Alba and Diego will go to Florida this September to present their work
20/06/2017 - The International Council for the Exploration of the SEA (ICES) will hold its Annual Science Conference (ASC) in Florida. ICES event will take place from 18-21 September in the Broward County Convention Center where all the conference-goers, including scientist, policy makers, organization representatives, and students deal with the latest in marine science and research. The […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Projects, Results, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Projects, Results, Team
New book on the economics and management of sustainable oceans
Edward Elgar just released the new Handbook where FOL participates
14/06/2017 - The Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans is a new book edited by Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Lisa E. Svensson and Anil Markandya and has just been released last week. The book covers oceans sustainability from the manager perspective, by looking into more detail ho we should measure ecosystem services benefits, how to […]
CATEGORIES: Outreach, Research, Results
CATEGORIES: Outreach, Research, Results
FOL learns about modelling the ocean
PhD student Alba Aguión will take an ocean observation and modelling course next week in Campus Do*MAR
09/06/2017 - Climate Change has the potential to alter the current connectivity patterns of marine stocks. In the case of sessile resources, by changing their larval dispersal. In the near future this could be the case of Stalked Barnacles, a coastal resource whose managament is studying the FOL member Alba Aguión in her thesis. Since larval connectivity is largely dependent on oceanographic […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Percebes, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team
CATEGORIES: Clock, Percebes, Projects, Research, Seminars, Team
Euromarine Network grant awarded to Diego Salgueiro for his PhD training
Diego will visit the Stockholm Resilience Center in June
05/06/2017 - Euromarine is a European marine science network launched in 2014 which represents the merger of the scientific communities of three former European Networks of Excellence (EUR-OCEANS, Marine Genomics Europe and MarBEF). Its primary goals are to support the identification and initial development of important emerging scientific topics or issues and associated methodologies in marine sciences, […]
CATEGORIES: New Fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars
CATEGORIES: New Fellowships, Projects, Research, Seminars
KLIMAGUNE Workshop 2017 on climate change and public engagement
Irtaxe attends the KLIMAGUNE Workshop in Bilbao
02/06/2017 - The Klimagune Workshop 2017, held on May 31st in Bilbao, was organized by the Basque Centre of Climate Change (BC3) as part of its initiatives of sharing and spreading knowledge on climate change. This seventh edition of Klimagune was a meeting forum that gathered different profiles related to climate change, including scientists, managers at different […]
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, Team
CATEGORIES: Conferences, Research, Seminars, Team
Seminar at ECIMAT to talk about shifting stocks
Eena Ojea presented in the "Café con Sal" program
29/05/2017 - Last Thursday June 1st at 11am, Elena Ojea has been presenting the research project CLOCK at ECIMAT. As part of the series of seminars “Café con Sal“. Elena took the chance to give an introduction to her on going work on climate change and spatial management. As climate change is impacting the Oceans, resource management needs to adapt […]
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Projects, Research
CATEGORIES: Clock, Conferences, Projects, Research
Diego’s Master thesis available in the Ocean Health Index
Diego's work assessed artisanal fishing opportunities in Ría de Vigo
18/05/2017 - Some months ago, Diego Salgueiro Otero, PhD student and member of Future Oceans Lab team has published his Master Thesis: Ocean Health Index+: Independent Assessment on Artisanal fishing opportunities in Ría de Vigo (Galicia, Spain). The Ocean Health Index is an international project created in University of California Santa Barbara that assesses how healthy the ocean is at global and […]
CATEGORIES: Research, Team
CATEGORIES: Research, Team