Eric Wickham
Research Area
fishing
Ḵii’iljuus Barbara Wilson
Ḵii’iljuus Barbara Wilson
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Haida Matriarch
Email: cif@oceans.ubc.ca
Research Area
Indigenous fisheries
Dr Gerald Singh
Gerald Singh
Affiliate Faculty Member
Associate professor, University of Victoria
Email: singhg@uvic.ca
Research Area
Dr Dirk Zeller
Dirk Zeller
Affiliate Faculty Member
Professor; Sea Around Us, University of Western Australia
Email: d.zeller@oceans.ubc.ca
Research Area
Dr Kai Chan
Kai Chan
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics. He strives to understand how social-ecological systems can be transformed to be both better and wilder.
Andrea Frommel
Andrea Frommel
Assistant Professor, UBC Land and Food Systems & Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture
Dr. Frommel’s research bridges climate change, fisheries and sustainable aquaculture, with a focus on environmental physiology of early life stages of commercial fish species.
Dr Philippe Le Billon
Philippe Le Billon
Professor, Department of Geography and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Philippe Le Billon is a Professor at the Department of Geography and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, who works at the nexus of environment, development, and security. Most of his work engage with resource governance and conflicts around natural resources. His current projects are on the blue economy, green transition, and environmental defenders.
Dr Charles Menzies
Charles Menzies
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor hagwil hayetsk’s (Charles Menzies) primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations’ issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has conducted field research in, and has produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada (including archaeological research); Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland. Hagwil hayetsk is a member of Gitxaała Nation on BC’s north coast and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska.
Dr Camilla Speller
Camilla Speller
Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology
Dr. Speller’s major research focus is Molecular Environmental Archaeology: the application of biomolecular techniques to questions of human-environment relationships in the past and present. Her current research emphasizes community-engaged partnerships with Indigenous communities, co-developing archaeological science approaches to advance questions of long-term fisheries, marine resource management, and the histories of human relationships with aquatic ecosystems.
Dr George Rose
Dr. Rose’s research focuses on the history, ecology and management of fisheries. Being a Newfoundlander, his main area of study has been the Northwest Atlantic cod stocks, their spatial ecology and historic productivity. He has a particular interest in survey methods, especially those involving acoustic technology.









