The Sea Around Us Principal Investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, is amongst the top 0.01% of the world’s scientists based on the impact of his publications.
Category: Notes on Current Events
A solution to our plastic problem

Plastic pollution in Malaysia. Image by epSos.de, Wikimedia Commons.
The Minderoo Foundation, one of the Sea Around Us partners, announced that it will allocate $300 million to its recently launched Sea The Future initiative, a project whose goal is to push for a global, market-driven intervention to reduce and stop the production of plastics.
Earth’s hot spots “are chunks of the future in the present”: Daniel Pauly

South in the Arctic Ocean. Image by NASA/Kathryn Hansen, Flickr.
Nature has its own way -sometimes subtle, sometimes brazen- to let us know that we are doing things wrong.
What fish should we eat?
Tricky question that is unlikely to be answered by a Sea Around Us researcher.
The Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean is growing!

Clockwise from top left: Matthew Ansell, MSc student; James Hehre, Associate & Programme Manager – Marine Futures Lab; Dirk Zeller, Director Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean; Jessica Meeuwig, Director Marine Futures Lab; Gabriel Vianna, Postdoctoral Fellow; Rachel White, Researcher; Hanna Jabour Christ, Associate & Communications and Data Manager – Marine Futures Lab; Lincoln Hood, Senior Researcher; Amy McAlpine MSc Student.
The Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean, founded in 2017 at the University of Western Australia and led by Dr. Dirk Zeller, is starting to grow.
A while back, former members of the Sea Around Us at UBC, Lincoln Hood and Rachel White, followed a tern flock and moved southwards to work with Dr. Zeller on establishing the Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean, and to initiate the newest round of updated and improved catch reconstruction database for all maritime countries around the Indian Ocean.