Charles Stock (Nereus Principal Investigator, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Kelly Kearney (Nereus Alumni, Princeton), Yoshitaka Ota (Nereus Director, Policy, UBC) and William Cheung (Nereus Director, Science, UBC) participated in the ICES/PICES Workshop on Modelling Effects of Climate Change on Fish and Fisheries organized by NOAA in Seattle, from August 10 to 12.
by Mathieu Colléter, Nereus Fellow
I had the great opportunity of spending the last three weeks in France to attend two conferences: the 12th French fisheries scientists’ symposium in Montpellier, and “Our Common Future under Climate Change” scientific conference in Paris (CFCC). This was an insightful experience, and since this is my debut performance in the universe of blogging, I would like to share this by highlighting some of the main aspects of the presentations delivered in the beautiful city of Paris.
A pair of articles has been published in ScienceNordic, the “English-language source for science news from the Nordic countries”, on the Nereus report Predicting Future Oceans – Climate Change, Oceans & Fisheries and Nereus Co-director William Cheung’s paper “Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios” published in Science.
William Cheung, Co-Director of the Nereus Program and Principle Investigator, attended the Third Author Meeting of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from July 27 to 31, in Beijing, China. William is a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPBES assessment on Policy Support Tools and Methodology for Scenario Analysis and Modelling of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
William Cheung, Co-Director of the Nereus Program and Principle Investigator, and Rashid Sumaila, Director of the UBC Fisheries Economics Research Unit, have been published in Marine Ecology Progress Series on “Economic incentives and overfishing: a bioeconomic vulnerability index”.
William Cheung and Yoshitaka Ota, Co-Directors of the Nereus Program, recently attended the Our Common Future under Climate Change conference in Paris to present findings from the program on the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and fisheries. The conference, held from July 7 to 10, saw nearly 2000 participants from 100 countries come together to discuss all aspects of scientific knowledge on climate change.
This past week, the Nereus Program released a report on the future of the world’s oceans and William Cheung, Co-Director, also published a paper in Science on future oceans under different CO2 emissions scenerios. The following is a list of some of the local and international media coverage.
R. Caddell, W.Cheung, Y.Ota and R. Sumaila will present papers on fisheries under climate change
On June 26, William Cheung and Yoshitaka Ota presented their work on ocean fisheries, climate change and indigenous fisheries at Dr Shinichi Ito Lab (atmosphere and ocean research institute) at…
Fish will have to find new habitats or perish if global warming is left unchecked Climate change is forcing fish out of their current habitats and into cooler waters and…
