Dr. Kai Ming Adam Chan
Dr. Kai Ming Adam Chan, Professor in UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability has been named a member of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada.
Dr. Chan is a leader in the field of ecosystem services, having contributed to core methodologies and insights linking human and natural systems. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges ecology, evolutionary biology, ethics and ecological economics. He is also a public scholar engaged in improving decision-making on complex environmental issues.
Founded in 2014, the Royal Society of Canada’s College is a handpicked selection of top mid-career scholars and artists in Canada. College Members have already received recognition in their fields for excellence and serve as ambassadors of their fields. The College has gender parity and linguistic and cultural diversity. Researchers in the humanities, scientists, artists and social scientists of the College strive to overcome disciplinary and academic boundaries in the common pursuit of knowledge. The College seeks to participate in our society at various levels, through engagement with government, through our communities and through our schools from K-12 and beyond.
“The College is a unique institution that is able to respond to the challenges of today through broad creativity and innovation, cutting cuts across the traditional divisions of sciences, social sciences, arts and the humanities as well as across the diverse linguistic and cultural map of Canadian institutions of higher learning and beyond. The incoming cohort reflects this vision of engaged knowledge for the social good,” said College President Cynthia Milton.