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 their work focuses on how nutritional quality intersects with food web structure, and how that can impact higher trophic levels.
Carol Meirelles
Dr. Meirelles is a conservation biologist focusing on manatee and dolphin spatial ecology, behaviour, extinction risk assessment, and conservation planning. She was actively involved in the elaboration and monitoring of conservation plans in Brazil and is a member of the IUCN Sirenia Specialist Group. Read More
Gideon Mordecai
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
Research Area
Pacific salmon, viruses, viral ecology, conservation biology, genomics, molecular epidemiology
Maria Lourdes 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
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
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
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
Juan José Alava
Juan José Alava
Honorary Research Associate and Principal Investigator, Ocean Pollution Research Unit (OPRU)
Email: j.alava@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-291-0019
Dr. Juan José Alava is a marine ecotoxicologist, and expert on ocean pollution, marine mammal and seabird ecotoxicology, global environmental changes, marine biodiversity, and ecology. He is part of the scientists representing Latin American (Ecuadorian)-Canadian minorities in academia and research in Canada. He is an avid soccer goalkeeper and baseball catcher and likes going hiking, whale watching, and birdwatching.
Lucas Brotz
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Dr Russ Jones
Russ Jones
Honorary Research Associate
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