Announcements | Sep 4, 2025
Dr. William Cheung named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Update 11/17/25: Dr. William Cheung inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Read more at oceans.ubc.ca.
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News | Aug 21, 2025
Solving-FCB Co-PIs selected as authors for the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report
Drs. William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila, Solving-FCB Co-PIs, and members of the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), one of whom also holds a joint appointment at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), are the only UBC scholars selected as authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
Information | Aug 15, 2025
Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability
! A $6,550 prize has been made available through an endowment established by Dr. Rashid Sumaila upon being named the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate, for a Master’s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability.
Oloko, A., Dahmouni, I., Le Billon, P., Teh, L., Cheung, W., Sánchez-Jiménez, A., Issifu, I., & Sumaila, U. R. (2025). Gender dynamics, climate change threats and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Discover Sustainability, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-01227-4
Publications | Jun 4, 2025
Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever
Roberts, C. M., Dyer, E., Earle, S. A., Forrest, A., Hawkins, J. P., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Meeuwig, J. J., Pauly, D., Pimm, S. L., Rockström, J., Sumaila, U. R., & Lynas, M. (2025). Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01665-0