FERU’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila Appointed to Canada’s New Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing
The Government of Canada has appointed Dr. Rashid Sumaila to a new Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing.
FERU Paper: Impacts of ocean deoxygenation
As ocean warming and nutrient runoff accelerate deoxygenation, marine ecosystems face shifting baselines that threaten long-term fishery yields. A new paper paper led by former FERU PhD Student Hongsik Kim, and co-authored by FERU Postdocs Louise Teh, Ilyass Dahmouni, Lubna Alam, Ibrahim Issifu, and FERU director Rashid Sumaila, investigates these dynamics by evaluating the projected […]
Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban
Sumaila, U. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Burnside, D. (2026). Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban. Frontiers of Biogeography, 19. https://doi.org/10.21425/fob.19.183549 Climate change isn’t just warming ocean waters, it’s actively redrawing the map of marine life. As ocean temperatures rise, fish stocks are migrating towards cooler waters, […]
FERU Welcomes Oriana Smy
Oriana Smy is a social scientist with a Master of Arts Degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in marine plastic pollution and “ghost gear” in Baja California Sur, Mexico. She is skilled in qualitative and quantitative methods, community-based research, project management, environmental policy, and ethnographic mapping. Oriana is […]
The Nature Conservancy Appoints Dr. Rashid Sumaila to Global Board of Directors
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has officially welcomed FERU’s Dr. Rashid Sumaila to its Global Board of Directors.
FERU Welcomes Dr. Annie Innes-Gold
FERU is pleased to welcome postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Annie Innes-Gold.