Brian Royce MacKenzie

Brian MacKenzie

Professor

DTU AQUA
National Institute of Aquatic Resources

Section for Oceans and Arctic

Technical University of Denmark

Henrik Dams Allé

Building 201, room 156

2800 Kgs. Lyngby

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News from DTU

2023
Credit: EMBL/Kinga Lubowiecka
15 FEB

Bringing together all sciences and countries to restore marine nature

A new major project on marine biodiversity spans national borders and scientific disciplines. DTU is one of 31 European research partners to form the science based effort to understand and help the ocean over the next 4 years – BIOcean5D has been kicked off.

2022
Af GRID Arendal
22 NOV

A regime shift in an Arctic marine ecosystem likely to become permanent

Findings of unexpected large numbers of fin and humpback whales in the previously ice infested waters of East Greenland now indicate a tipping point in the marine ecosystem from one regime to another that may be irreversible.

Færøerne Kick-off tur DTU Aqua North Atlantic Marine Research collaboration
11 MAR

​ North Atlantic Marine Research Projects kick-off in Torshavn

BlueOcean, led by DTU Aqua, is one of four projects receiving funding from The Marine Research Programme of the North Atlantic Ocean and involving DTU Aqua. Beginning of March, researchers came to Tórshavn from Greenland, The Fareo Islands and Denmark to kick off the new marine co-research projects.

Ecosystems
2020
Udstilling af forskellige fiskearter. Foto: Helle Sørensen.
18 FEB

European fish stocks on the move

Many European fish populations are on the move due to warming oceans and increasing numbers shows new international study

Food, fish and agriculture
2019
Jumping bluefin tuna from DTU Aquas 2018 tagging project. Photo: Brian MacKenzie, DTU Aqua
28 AUG

This year’s tuna tagging project under way in the Skagerrak

Once again, DTU researchers are tagging bluefin tuna to find out why the huge fish have returned to Denmark as summer visitors. Thirty-two tuna have been tagged in four days.

Food, fish and agriculture
2018
Photo: Brian MacKenzie
13 JUN

Baltic Sea a model for the consequences of climate change

The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s most affected and most intensely studied marine areas and can therefore be used as an example of what’s in store elsewhere in the world.

Climate change Marine research
Spatial mismatch in global conversation prioritization
21 MAR

Global mismatch in marine conservation protection

A new Ocean Life paper demonstrates a global mismatch in the protection of multiple marine biodiversity components and ecosystem services.

2017
Under water
28 NOV

Global patterns in marine predatory fish

Why do we find primarily large pelagic predators such as tunas and billfish in the tropics, while in boreal and temperate regions large demersal species of gadoids and flatfish dominate?

Bluefin tuna. Photo: Rickard Waje.
20 JUN

Migration secrets of bluefin tuna to be studied in Scandinavian waters

The world’s most coveted fish is back in Danish and Swedish waters. New project will tag tuna to find out why they have come back

Fisheries and fish stocks
2016
Photo: The University of British Columbia
14 OCT

Elite Canadian university and DTU enter partnership

DTU has just signed an agreement with the University of British Columbia in Canada to expand their cooperation within research and education

Food, fish and agriculture
Thermal traits of fish eggs indicate vulnerability of different species and stocks to climate change
03 SEP

Thermal traits of fish eggs indicate vulnerability of different species and stocks to climate change – new paper.

We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate and compare responses of development time, cumulative degree-days and survival of fish eggs from 32 populations of 17 species in the North Atlantic to different temperatures in order to determine potential consequences of global warming for these species. We demonstrate that present day temperatures...

Bluefin tuna illustration
21 APR

Nature News Feature quotes Ocean Life tuna research

Ocean Life research on climate impacts on fish distributions has been quoted in the latest issue of Nature in a "News Feature" article about Greenland's future.  

2014
 Photo credit: Greenland Fisheries License Control Authority.
13 MAY

Bluefin Tuna Caught Hunting For Mackerel In East Greenland Waters

Warmer temperatures, and prey species which are also moving north, can be reasons why bluefin tuna were found in the Denmark Strait east of Greenland, according to a DTU Aqua investigation which has described how climate change is affecting migration behaviour and distribution of bluefin tuna.