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
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.
Allison Cutting
Allison Cutting
Research Analyst, Women in Fisheries (Colette Wabnitz)
Email: a.cutting@oceans.ubc.ca
Kahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Kahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Program Assistant, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: m.deom@oceans.ubc.ca
Peggy Homan
Peggy Homan
Administrative Coordinator, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: p.homan@oceans.ubc.ca
Camins Martinez, Elsa
Elsa is a Research Assistant with Project Seahorse working with Miguel Correia. She is conducting Red List assessments for syngnathid species and providing valuable support to the community science iSeahorse project. She is also part of the IUCN Seahorse, Pipefish & Seadragon Specialist Group.






