ecosystems

COP21: Where have all the fish gone? How climate change is displacing marine species.

December 3, 2015 | Policy Forum, Climate Change, Oceanography

Climate change could affect temperatures all over the world, but what may not be immediately apparent is that climate change will affect ocean temperatures. If CO2 emission rates do not change, the average sea surface temperature is expected to increase by 2 to 3.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. This may not seem like much, but it would impact oceans in many ways, making them quite different from how they are today.

Ask an Expert: Will oceans be adequately discussed at COP21?

November 26, 2015 | Policy Forum, Climate Change, Law and Governance

From November 20 to December 11, leaders from more than 195 countries will meet in Paris to discuss the future of the planet. But will oceans be on the agenda?

COP21, the “Conference of Parties”, is the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change. It is being hyped as the most important climate event since COP15 in Copenhagen, which produced the Copenhagen Accord — a political agreement that was deemed by many to be unsuccessful. Here Yoshitaka Ota, Nereus Director (Policy), and William Cheung, Nereus Director (Science), discuss whether these negotiations will be successful, what’s at stake for the future of the world’s oceans, and what else can be done to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Gabriel Reygondeau published on spatial and temporal patterns of C. finmarchicus plankton

November 23, 2015 | Publication Highlights, Ecology and Biodiversity, Oceanography

Gabriel Reygondeau, Nereus Fellow (UBC), has co-authored a paper entitled “Reliability of spatial and temporal patterns of C. finmarchicus inferred from the CPR survey” in the Journal of Marine Systems.

Fish alter migration patterns as global waters warm

November 19, 2015 | Latest News

Water spills from the edge of a giant, melting iceberg on the cover of the November 2015 issue of Science.

The special issue focused on the effects of climate change on our ocean systems, and highlighted research by Dr. William Cheung, an Associate Professor with the Changing Ocean Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, and Director (Science) of the Nereus Program. The journal used a map Dr. Cheung and his team created that describes the effects of changing water temperatures on fish species migration.

Nereus in the News – Friday, November 13

November 13, 2015 | Latest News

New media coverage from Science, BBC News, South China Morning Post, International Business Times, Undercurrent News and more.

Are we adapting to climate change, or resigning to it?

November 4, 2015 | Policy Forum, Climate Change, Fisheries

by Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor

In A Sand County Almanac, the landmark book on wilderness, ecology, and conservation, we are offered a short anecdote regarding a changing environment:

“I had a bird dog named Gus. When Gus couldn’t find pheasants he worked up an enthusiasm for Sora rails and meadowlarks. This whipped-up zeal for unsatisfactory substitutes masked his failure to find the real thing. It assuaged his inner frustration.” – Aldo Leopold (1949).

William Cheung and Gabriel Reygondeau publish chapter on The Southern Ocean in the Ocean and Climate Platform’s Scientific Notes

November 3, 2015 | Publication Highlights, Climate Change, Ecology and Biodiversity

William Cheung, Director of the Nereus Program (Science), and Gabriel Reygondeau, Nereus Fellow (UBC), are co-authors of a chapter on The Southern Ocean, published in the Ocean and Climate Platform’s Scientific Notes. The Ocean and Climate Platform is an alliance of NGOs and research institutes, with support from UNESCO.

Nereus members published on the Ecopath with Ecosim modeling approach

October 3, 2015 | Publication Highlights, Fisheries, Ecology and Biodiversity

“Global overview of the applications of the Ecopath with Ecosim modeling approach using the EcoBase models repository” has been published in Ecological Modelling by Mathieu Colléter, Nereus Fellow (UBC), Audrey Valls, 2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (UBC), and Daniel Pauly, Chair of the Nereus Steering Committee and a member of the Advisory Board.

Daniel Dunn on oceanic fronts and seamount productivity in Fish and Fisheries

September 28, 2015 | Publication Highlights, Oceanography

Daniel Dunn, Nereus Senior Research Fellow in the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab at Duke University, has published a paper on how environmental conditions and oceanic fronts promote seamount, underwater mountain, productivity. “A perspective on the importance of oceanic fronts in promoting aggregation of visitors to seamounts” (PDF) was published in Fish and Fisheries.

Audrey Valls published on Keystone species: Toward an operational concept for marine biodiversity conservation

September 22, 2015 | Publication Highlights, Ecology and Biodiversity

Audrey Valls, 2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (UBC), has published a paper titled “Keystone species: toward an operational concept for marine biodiversity conservation” (PDF) in Ecological Monographs.

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COP21: Where have all the fish gone? How climate change is displacing marine species.

Ask an Expert: Will oceans be adequately discussed at COP21?

Gabriel Reygondeau published on spatial and temporal patterns of C. finmarchicus plankton

Fish alter migration patterns as global waters warm

Nereus in the News – Friday, November 13

Are we adapting to climate change, or resigning to it?

William Cheung and Gabriel Reygondeau publish chapter on The Southern Ocean in the Ocean and Climate Platform’s Scientific Notes

Nereus members published on the Ecopath with Ecosim modeling approach

Daniel Dunn on oceanic fronts and seamount productivity in Fish and Fisheries

Audrey Valls published on Keystone species: Toward an operational concept for marine biodiversity conservation

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