Vicente Regis
Vicente Regis
Program Specialist, Extracurricular and Extended Learning
Email: v.regis@oceans.ubc.ca
Responsible for overseeing the extracurricular activities offered by the Institute. Currently, these offerings include the Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) and micro-credential courses.
Eden Raines
Eden Raines
Graduate Program Coordinator, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: e.raines@oceans.ubc.ca
Taking care of all aspects of the Oceans and Fisheries graduate program.
Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith
Senior Finance Specialist, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: r.smith@oceans.ubc.ca
Accounting, budgeting and supporting the Finance Manager for a portfolio of various projects, services and departments within IOF and related entities.
Madeline Doig
Madeline Doig
HR & Operations Support Assistant, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: m.doig@oceans.ubc.ca
Can help you with HR, AERL access, keys, and other questions.
Syd Ascione
Syd provides support on wide variety of Project Seahorse’s research projects, primarily working with Dr. Sarah Foster. Her work focuses on the illegal wildlife trade of seahorses, bottom trawl fishing, and the biology and ecology of Syngnathoidei fishes.
Nicolas Bailly
Research Area
Regina Bestbier
Gina coordinates lab operations for Project Seahorse and supports research, communications, ethics, education, and administration across the team.
Emily Brown
Emily’s work is focused on land-sea connectivity, based in the Fraser River and the downstream ecosystems that it connects to. She is currently investigating the nutritional quality of intertidal biofilm in the Fraser River estuary for migratory shorebirds, which feed at the tidal flats in this region.
Duncan Burnside
Duncan Burnside
Web/Data Manager, Fisheries Economics Research Unit (FERU), Changing Oceans Research Unit (CORU), The OceanCanada Partnership & Solving-FCB Partnership
Email: d.burnside@oceans.ubc.ca
Ki Chung Cho
Ki is a research assistant providing support to Project Seahorse’s research projects, mainly focusing on the impacts of bottom trawl fisheries. He mainly works with Dr. Sarah Foster and is now collecting data on bottom trawlers and mapping the trawl effort across South Asia, South East Asia and China.