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Loren McClenachan
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Latest papers
The timing and magnitude of historical exploitation in the ocean.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026 · first author
Environmental history: When oyster reefs disappeared from memory.
Current biology : CB · 2026 · first author
'The fish that stop': drivers of historical decline for Pacific cod and implications for modern management in an era of rapidly changing climate.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $93,616
Social impacts of lost access for traditional First Nations food-based herring fisheries in the Salish Sea
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $4,000,000
Solid Carbon: The Ocean’s Rock-solid Sociotechnical Climate Solution
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $62,999
Judaism, Literature, and Faith in the Age of Climate Crisis: Nature and Climate Imagery in Modern Diasporic Jewish Literature
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
7 publications.
The timing and magnitude of historical exploitation in the ocean.
McClenachan L, Colby J
Environmental history: When oyster reefs disappeared from memory.
McClenachan L
'The fish that stop': drivers of historical decline for Pacific cod and implications for modern management in an era of rapidly changing climate.
McClenachan L, Anderson B, Addison J, Barbeaux S, Moore K, Muir K, Reedy K, Spies I, West CF
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases.
Del Valle E, Hayes P, Martínez-Candelas I, Brown P, McClenachan L
Ecological legacy of Indigenous dispossession: disruption of ancestral sea gardens by commercial clam fisheries in British Columbia, 1882-1985.
Hayes P, Augustine S, Hatch M, McClenachan L
Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild.
Jacquet J, Franks B, Godfrey-Smith P, Sanchez-Suarez W, Abrams P, Ainley D, Alava Saltos JJ, Andrews K, Bach MF, Bergstrom CT, Birch J, Bradshaw K, Bray D, Broad K, Brooks CM, Brotz L, Brown C, Browning H, Burghardt GM, Butler M, Callender C, Chadwin R, Cramer K, Cronin M, Darimont C, Delon N, Derrick S, Dutkiewicz J, Elmore B, Eshel G, Feeley K, Ferrero K, Froese R, Greenburg P, Gruen L, Hayek M, Haywood K, Heath C, Hessler K, Horowitz A, Jacewicz NL, Jackson J, Jamieson D, Johnson A, Khen A, King BJ, Knight A, Kovaka K, Kysar DA, Lara E, Lazarus O, Longo SB, Loy L, Malerbi G, Marceau JF, Marino L, Mather C, Mather JA, McCauley D, McClenachan L, McDermid S, Mikota SK, Mintzer VJ, Monk JD, Montgomery S, Morris V, Nakatani J, Palomares D, Paris C, Pauly D, Pedrazzani ASP, Reiss D, Roberts S, Roddy A, Rozwadowski HM, Safina C, Sala E, Scales H, Schlottmann CP, Schneider M, Schnell AK, Sebo J, Sellars L, Singer P, Smuts BB, Sneddon LU, Sommers T, Staaf D, Stilt KA, Suman D, Supran G, Tao A, Thresher AC, van Neste A, Verkuijl C, Webb C, Willette MM, Woods M, Wyman KM, York R
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World.
Finnegan S, Harnik PG, Lockwood R, Lotze HK, McClenachan L, Kahanamoku SS
Social impacts of lost access for traditional First Nations food-based herring fisheries in the Salish Sea
Principal investigators: McClenachan, Loren
Solid Carbon: The Ocean’s Rock-solid Sociotechnical Climate Solution
Principal investigators: Moran, Kate
Judaism, Literature, and Faith in the Age of Climate Crisis: Nature and Climate Imagery in Modern Diasporic Jewish Literature
Principal investigators: Hermant, Jacob
Keywords: Judaism; Yiddish; climate; climate change; climate crisis; environmental humanities; literary theory; speculative futures; national literatures; Jewish theology; Jewish philosophy
Ocean History and Sustainability
Principal investigators: McClenachan, Loren
Ocean History and Sustainability
Principal investigators: McClenachan, Loren
Keywords: historical ecology; environmental history; marine conservation; fisheries; resource management
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Daniel Pauly and Loren McClenachan: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Pauly and Chris Darimont: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Pauly and Peter Abrams: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Pauly and Kristin Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Loren McClenachan and Chris Darimont: 1 shared paper
- Loren McClenachan and Jason Colby: 1 shared paper
- Loren McClenachan and Peter Abrams: 1 shared paper
- Loren McClenachan and Kristin Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Chris Darimont and Peter Abrams: 1 shared paper
- Chris Darimont and Kristin Andrews: 1 shared paper
- School of Environmental Studies
- Geography
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- History
- Philosophy
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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