Katherine Came
Katherine Came
Communications Manager, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: k.came@oceans.ubc.ca
Vicente Regis
Vicente Regis
Program Specialist, Extracurricular and Extended Learning
Email: v.regis@oceans.ubc.ca
Eden Raines
Eden Raines
Graduate Program Officer / Administrative Assistant, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: e.raines@oceans.ubc.ca
Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith
Senior Finance Specialist, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: finance@oceans.ubc.ca
Syd Ascione
Nicolas Bailly
Research Area
Regina Bestbier
Gina coordinates operations, communications and outreach for Project Seahorse, while also providing research, ethics, education, and administrative support to all lab members. Gina joined Project Seahorse in 2007, after years of working on watershed management issues with a neighbouring research group: UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. Gina holds a BSc in Botany and Zoology and a MSc degree in Conservation and Environmental Biology, both from the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).
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.
Elaine Chu
At the Sea Around Us, Elaine is in charge of updating catch reconstructions, with a particular focus on automation and optimizing the ex-vessel fish price database, in close collaboration with the Fisheries Economics Research Unit. She is also a proficient coder and the go-to person when it comes to designing scientific graphs and figures.