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.
Roshni Mangar
Roshni is a Researcher at the Sea Around Us, where she focuses on fisheries catch reconstruction in the Western Indian Ocean. Her work covers Mauritius (including the Chagos Archipelago), Madagascar, Comoros, Réunion, and Mayotte.
Bornarel, Virginie
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Emily Brown
I am interested in land-sea connections. My research focuses on the impacts of wildfires on coastal ocean biogeochemistry. Using the Fraser River and the Strait of Georgia as a model system, I work to identify impacts of runoff from burned forest areas on our coastal oceans. Read More
Delaney Hicks
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Dilan Sunthareswaran
I am interested in how urbanization impacts the land-sea connections, including the nature of organic matter inputs and health of coastal marine food webs.
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.
Mairin Deith
Dr. Mairin Deith is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, Canada, working with the US Army Corps of Engineers to assess the impacts of dam operations and hatchery practices on wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. She specializes in simulation modelling, decision analysis, data-limited statistical techniques, and creating software that connects decision makers with scientific tools.