Andrea Reid

On leave July 25, 2025-2026 Assistant Professor Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Canada Research Chair Tier II, Indigenous Fisheries Science Principal Investigator Centre for Indigenous Fisheries Research Unit Centre for Indigenous Fisheries

Awards

Contact Information

Email: cif@oceans.ubc.ca
Website: Centre for Indigenous Fisheries

Degrees:
B.Sc., McGill University
M.Sc., McGill University
Ph.D., Carleton University

Biography

Dr. Andrea Reid is a citizen of the Nisga’a Nation and an Assistant Professor with the University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. She has launched and is leading the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, working to build an inclusive hub for the study and protection of culturally significant fish and fisheries. Her research program adopts highly interdisciplinary and applied approaches to improving our understanding of the complex interrelationships between fish, people and place. Reid’s PhD in Biology (Governor General’s Gold Medal; Carleton University, 2020) centred on multiple stressor effects on Pacific salmon, using tools and insights from Indigenous and Western sciences in tandem. Reid is a cofounder of Riparia, a Canadian charity that connects diverse young women with science on the water to grow the next generation of water protectors. She is also a National Geographic Explorer and a Fellow of The Explorers Club.

Research Interests

Dr. Andrea Reid is an Indigenous fisheries scientist who employs community-based approaches and Indigenous research methodologies in her study of culturally significant fish and fisheries. Her freshwater and coastal research creates space for fishers, knowledge keepers, youth, and other community members to be full partners in the research process. Together, they investigate: (i) leading threats to aquatic ecosystems and their interactive effects for fish, people and place; (ii) consequences of fisheries-related stressors for fish and methods to ameliorate survival; (iii) Two-Eyed Seeing approaches to assessing aquatic ecosystem and fish health and evaluating associated changes through time and space; and (iv) Indigenous understandings and methodologies for effectively stewarding fish and waterways.

Teaching

• FISH 506I Co-creating Aquatic Science
• HGSE320A Indigenous Fisheries Science
• SCIE 113 – First-Year Seminar in Science
• Nisg̱a’a Youth Science Camps
• Riparia Youth Paddling Trips

Publications

Centre for Indigenous Fisheries – publications list
Google Scholar

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