Miguel Correia
Dr. Correia has studied several aspects of European seahorse biology, ecology and conservation. He has worked closely with stakeholders to implement mitigation tools for seahorse conservation and was actively involved in the creation of new marine protected areas (MPAs). He also acts as Focal Point for Europe in the IUCN Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group. Read More
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Sarah Foster
Dr. Foster is a conservation scientist dedicated to finding pragmatic solutions for the many problems facing the oceans and the animals that call them home – solutions that work for both fish and the people that depend on them. She is the Program Lead for Project Seahorse. Read More
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Anna McLaskey
Dr. McLaskey is a zooplankton ecologist and biological oceanographer who researches the lower trophic levels of marine food webs—from phytoplankton, through zooplankton, to fish. Much of my work focuses on how nutritional quality intersects with food web structure, and how that can impact higher trophic levels. Read More
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Zooplankton, Salmon, Climate change, Marine ecosystems, Food webs, Nutrition, Fatty acids
Gideon Mordecai
Gideon Mordecai
Research Associate
Email: g.mordecai@oceans.ubc.ca or gidmord@gmail.com
Office phone: 604-827-5137
Dr. Mordecai’s research explores the diversity of viruses which infect Pacific salmon, and applies genetic sequencing to study their transmission dynamics. He is part of a collaboration with Dr Kristi Miller (Fisheries & Oceans Canada) and the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Salmon Health Program, which researches the combined impacts of disease and environmental stress. Read More
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Pacific salmon, viruses, viral ecology, conservation biology, genomics, molecular epidemiology
Maria Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares
Maria Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares
Senior Scientist and Project Manager
Email: m.palomares@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-0218
Dr. Palomares has been the Sea Around Us‘ Project Manager since June 2017. Her research focus has been on the application of well-known theories in fish and fisheries biology as tools to test hypotheses and/or generate knowledge from ‘big data’ repositories. Read More
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Gabriel Reygondeau
Dr. Reygondeau is an ecologist and biological oceanographer by training, who specializes in the use of large-scale interdisciplinary data and the development and application of numerical computation methods to addresses key challenges in developing a theoretical and empirical understanding of the effects of anthropogenic stressors on marine diversity, ecosystem functioning and services. Read More
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biodiversity, macro-ecology, marine ecology, oceanography, biogeography, conservation, climate change, fisheries, explorative statistics, statistical modeling
Louise Teh
Dr. Louise Teh’s research focuses on how interactions between humans and marine ecosystems impact fisheries sustainability. She has a particular interest is in small-scale fisheries of developing countries, and has been involved in marine conservation projects on valuing marine turtle conservation, marine protected area management, and climate change adaptation. Read More
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Lydia Teh
Dr Lydia Teh’s research examines the social, economic, and ecological dynamics of marine fisheries, with a special focus on small-scale fisheries. Her inter-disciplinary research cuts across fields from human ecology to biodiversity conservation, and has taken her to work with fishing communities in Sabah, Malaysia and Fiji…. Read More
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Colette Wabnitz
Dr. Wabnitz is a marine scientist interested in understanding the functioning of ecosystems, how these may respond to human pressures and natural forcing, and the design – together with government, industry, NGOs and local communities – of appropriate measures for the sustainable use of their resources and the long term conservation of their services. Read More
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Juan José Alava
Dr. Juan José Alava is a marine eco-toxicologist/environmental toxicologist and conservation biologist and his current research envisions the assessment of the pollution footprint and hazard risk of plastics and microplastic in the global oceans and food-web bioaccumulation modelling of microplastics in marine and coastal food webs. He also conducts food-web modelling of pollutants’ bioaccumulation… Read More
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