Brian Hunt
International Year of the Salmon Expedition helps IOF researchers map North Pacific food webs
You are what you eat. Without healthy food webs, salmon will not get the nutrition they need.
Researchers deploy a new tool to study Chinook salmon fat content on the Fraser River
The Distell fat meter is a handheld device with a sensor that, when pressed against a salmon, measures microwave reflectance and uses the relationship between water and lipid content to determine lipid content of the muscle below.
Shedding light on mysterious jellyfish diets
Experimental study with the Vancouver aquarium provides fresh insights into jellyfish feeding biology
Salmon from freshwater to the ocean: there and back again
Knowledge integration across salmon life histories
These bodies of water are right next to each other, but oceans apart
Areas of Britich Columbia’s coastal ocean that are next-door neighbours look very different under the surface and may experience environmental stressors differently
Partnership between UBC researchers, marine stewards and K’ómoks First Nation spawns new microplastics findings
Microplastic exposure increases in larger herring
What heatwaves mean for the coastal ocean in BC
In this webinar, we brought together leading experts in climatology, oceanography, aquatic ecology, and fisheries from UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries to share their knowledge about heatwaves and their impacts on biodiversity and dependent human communities.
The North Pacific Marine Salmon Diet Database
An open-access database to make available salmon diet information
Overlooked Sea Louse May Be a Big Problem for Salmon
Most scientific research has focused on one species of sea louse—failing to account for the other, far more common, species.
@UBCpelagics lab members back on the high seas for IYS 2020
Pelagic Ecosystem Lab members Jacob Lerner and Natalie Mahara participate on the 2020 winter survey in the Gulf of Alaska. the second International Year of the Salmon research expedition to study the winter ecology of Pacific salmon