02/3/17

Haikus on Canadian Ocean Issues (2017)

The BIOL 420 2017 students developed an overview of Canada’s attitudes and activities with respect to marine conservation (or not). Each student distilled their key findings/thinking into a Haiku which they presented to the rest of the class, and then they tweeted about them. See our creative students’ Canadian Ocean Issues Haikus here, and their tweets here.

Follow @projectseahorse on Twitter for more.

[Haikus are a form of poetry of Japanese origin that uses a format of three lines with 5,7,5 syllables.]

01/13/16

Next offering in January 2017

BIOL420 is an interdisciplinary conservation course that takes a solutions-oriented approach to marine issues, drawing from natural sciences, social sciences, business, law, and communication.

If you are a UBC student you can enrol in BIOL 420 here.
(Prerequisite: Fourth year standing).

More information on the course here.

01/12/16

2015 Students’ critical evaluations of marine conservation & management interventions

A critical evaluation of an intervention in marine conservation and management. The hope was to find success stories in conservation (truly making a difference in their outcomes and impacts rather than just sounding good) but negative results are also valuable.

The blogs by the 2015 students are here

10/6/15

2015 student blogs on current issues

The students explored current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability and wrote blogs to contribute to current debate.

They touched on a wide array of topics – ranging from bycatch to the Deep Water Horizon Spill.

Click here to read their perspectives…

10/6/15

Haikus on Canadian Ocean Issues (2015)

The BIOL 420 2015 students developed an overview of Canada’s attitudes and activities with respect to marine conservation (or not). Each student distilled their key findings/thinking into a Haiku which they presented to the rest of the class, and then they tweeted about them. See their Canadian Ocean Issues Haikus here and follow @projectseahorse on twitter to see their tweets as well (or view them here).

[Haikus are a form of poetry of Japanese origin that uses a format of three lines with 5,7,5 syllables.]

06/2/15

Next offering in Sept 2015

BIOL420 is an interdisciplinary conservation course that takes a solutions-oriented approach to marine issues, drawing from natural sciences, social sciences, business, law, and communication.

This will be our third year offering the course – it was very well received the last two years. If you are a UBC student you can enrol in BIOL 420 here.
(Prerequisite: Fourth year standing).

More information on the course here.

12/11/14

2014 Students’ blogs critically evaluating interventions in marine conservation and management

Critical evaluation of an intervention in marine conservation and management. The hope was to find success stories in conservation (truly making a difference in their outcomes and impacts rather than just sounding good) but negative results are also valuable.

The blogs by the 2014 students are here

11/7/14

2014 Student blogs on current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability

The students explored current issues in Ocean Conservation and Sustainability and wrote blogs to contribute to current debate.

They touched on a wide array of topics – ranging from supertanks in Kitimat to sharks eating lionfish!

Click here to read their perspectives…

11/7/14

Haikus on Canadian Ocean Issues

The 2014 students developed an overview of Canada’s attitudes and activities with respect to marine conservation (or not). Each student distilled their key findings/thinking into a Haiku. Haikus are a form of poetry of Japanese origin that uses a format of three lines with 5,7,5 syllables.

See the BIOL 420 2014 Haikus.

11/3/14

Latest plan for Antarctic marine protected areas fails

The latest effort to establish new marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Antarctic has ended in failure as reports emerge that diplomatic tensions over the conflict in the Ukraine may have helped scuttle plans. The two new MPAs would have protected 2.5 million square kilometres of pristine Antarctic waters.

In the days leading up to the decision we asked The University of British Columbia’s fourth year, Ocean Conservation and Sustainability class to put together their thoughts on the biological, economic and social, policy and implementation issues surrounding these new MPAs.

The students found a surprising lack of information. In principle, students thought that MPA establishment is sorely needed in the Antarctic. They were surprised to find that aside from documentation of Antarctic biodiversity, there was almost no analysis on the economic costs and benefits of Antarctic MPA establishment. Likewise, there was a dearth of information on how the MPAs would be implemented and the policy implications.

Read their thoughts, here:
Biological: https://blogs.ubc.ca/hannahfiegenbaum/2014/10/31/time-to-protect-the-penguins-will-ccamlr-create-the-largest-protected-marine-area-in-the-world/
Economic and Social: https://blogs.ubc.ca/thenewsynudibranch/2014/10/29/ccamlr-3-good-reasons-for-implementing-mpas/
Policy: https://blogs.ubc.ca/waterywonders/2014/10/30/ccamlr-we-save-the-oceans-with-poli-seas-before-we-krill-them-all/
Implementation: https://blogs.ubc.ca/liria/2014/10/30/the-ross-sea-mpa-overcoming-the-difficulty-of-implementation/