Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Deng Palomares sitting at the Biodiversity Research Centre

Sea Around Us project manager joins Sustainability, Predictability and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems program committee

Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Deng Palomares sitting at the Biodiversity Research Centre

Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Deng Palomares. Photo by Paul Joseph.

The Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, has been invited to become a member of the international steering committee for the “Sustainability, Predictability and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems” (SUPREME) program, which is led by the United States of America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (UNDOS).

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Whiting atop a jellyfish. Whiting is among the demersal fish found in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.

Groundfish barely feel the impact of marine heatwaves – showing there’s still time to act on climate change

Whiting atop a jellyfish. Whiting is among the demersal fish found in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.

Whiting is among the demersal fish found in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Photo by Borut Furlan, taken from the website of our sister project FishBase.

Fish that live on or near the seafloor -known as demersal or groundfish- barely feel the impact of marine heatwaves, according to new research that highlights the need to keep seas from warming further.

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FISHGLOB April 6, 2023 (3)

Fish biodiversity facing global change – Video

On April 6, 2023,  members of the FISHGLOB Consortium offered a conference at the University of British Columbia’s Michael Smith Labs Theatre to present some of the findings of three years of work on issues related to marine species assemblages’ homogenization/differentiation through time, consequences on fish stocks shared across countries, and fishery management.

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