Evgeny Pakhomov

Professor Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Research Unit Marine Zooplankton and Micronekton Laboratory

Contact Information

Email: e.pakhomov@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: (604) 827-5564
Website: Biography

Research Interests

Dr. Pakhomov is a biological oceanographer focusing on species ecology ranging from zooplankton to fish, incorporating ecosystem structure, physical-biological and biochemical coupling. More recently he has dabbled in stable isotope ecology as well as the variability and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change.

Publications

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Associate Professor Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Canada Research Chair Tier II, Indigenous Fisheries Science Director and Co-Principal Investigator Centre for Indigenous Fisheries

Contact Information

Email: cif@oceans.ubc.ca
Website: Centre for Indigenous Fisheries

Biography

Dr. Andrea Reid is a citizen of the Nisg̱a’a Nation and an associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. She is also a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Fisheries Science (Tier 2) and the Director and co-Principal Investigator with the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries – a collective committed to collaborative, just science that aims to engage in and restore healthy relations between fish, people, and place. Youth are also integral to this work and Reid collaboratively leads land-based learning programs at home, as well as across waters through her freshwater-focused not-for-profit and charitable organization, Riparia. She lives in Nisg̱a’a territory, but grew up outside of these homelands, on Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island). Her PhD from Carleton University (2020) received the Governor General’s Gold Medal, and she is recognized as a National Geographic Explorer, Fellow International of The Explorers Club, and Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Research Interests/Keywords

Indigenous fisheries; fisheries science; Indigenous rights; community-based research; Indigenous knowledge systems; fish ecology; freshwater systems; Indigenous research methodologies; land-based learning

Degrees

BSc – McGill University
MSc – McGill University
PhD – Carleton University

Teaching

• FISH 506I: Governance and Relationality in Indigenous Fisheries
• FISH 506P: Pathways to Indigenous Community-Based Research
• Nisg̱a’a Youth Science Camps
• Riparia Youth Paddling Trips

Selected Publications

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Contact Information

Email: r.sumaila@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: (604) 822-0224
Website: rashidsumaila.com, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, OceanCanada Partnership, Solving FCB

Social Media:

Personal Twitter: @DrRashidSumaila
FERU Twitter: @FisheryEconomic
Ocean Canada Twitter: @OceanCanada
Solving FCB Bluesky: @solvingfcb.org

Biography

Rashid Sumaila is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. His research focuses on bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, marine protected areas, illegal fishing, climate change, marine plastic pollution, and oil spills. Sumaila has experience working in fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and the West African region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. Dr. Sumaila received his Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Bergen and his B.Sc. (Quantity Surveying) from the Ahmadu Bello University. Sumaila is widely published and cited. He won the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. His interest in the environment started early in life when his grandfather used to say people should “walk as if the ground feels pain” – this is sophisticated environmentalism! His specific interest in ocean and fisheries was picked in Norway. Sumaila enjoys exploring novel ideas and mentoring future thinkers. He loves waking up each day thinking of how best to contribute to ensuring that we bequeath a healthy ocean to our children and grandchildren so they too can have the option to do the same.

Research Interests

Sumaila’s research involve: (i) applying game theory to fisheries, to, for example, identify whether or not developing countries should give access to their fisheries resources to foreign fleets; (ii) rethinking the nature of the discount rates applied to natural resource projects, and formulating a highly original alternative (“intergeneration discount rates”); (iii) understanding the nature, amounts and effects of government subsidies on global fisheries; (iv) documenting the employment in fisheries and competing uses of living marine resources; and, (v) estimating the multiple benefits that would be obtained globally by rebuilding fish stocks and setting up marine reserves, including the concept of the ‘High Seas’ as a large marine reserve or a ‘fish bank’ for the world.

Degrees

BSc – Quantity Surveying
MSc – Economics
PhD – Economics

Awards

• 2025 King Charles III Coronation medal
• 2024 Named an “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Pretoria
• 2024 Named a “global champion of the oceans,” and called one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2023 (NewAfrican Magazine)
• 2023 Named a Fellow of the AAAS
• 2023 Named a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow
• 2023 Prince Albert I Grand Medal in the Science category
• 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (with Dr. Daniel Pauly
• 2022 Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for scientific work relating to environmental problems, from the Royal Society of Canada
• 2021 Won the Impact Award, Partnership Category, from SSHRC
• 2021 Named University Killam Professor, University of British Columbia
• 2020 Named Distinguished International Professor by the National University of Malaysia
• 2019 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
• 2019 Murray A. Newman Research Award
• 2019 Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics (Tier I)
• 2018 UBC’s President’s Award for Public Education through Media
• 2017 Volvo Environment Prize
• 2017 Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in Science
• 2016: Named as a Hokkaido University Ambassador (2016-2019)
• 2016: Won UBC’s Killam Faculty Research Prize for “outstanding research and scholarly contributions”
• 2013 Excellence in Public Outreach Award from the American Fisheries Society
• 2013: Received the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies International Roundtable Award
• 2012: Named Johan Hjort Chair by the Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER).
• 2009: Named Leopold Leadership Fellow
• 2008: Named Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation
• 2007: Named Senior Early Career Scholar by UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
• 2007: Project member of the Coasts Under Stress project, which won the 2007 Craigdarroch Award for Societal Contribution from the University of Victoria
• 2006: one of the authors of the “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment”, which won the Zayed International Prize for the Environment
• 2004: Named Dr. W.F. James Chair of Studies in the Pure and Applied Sciences by St. Francis Xavier University

Teaching

• Economic Foundations of Environmental Policies (Graduate, 2018-24, UBC);
• Resource Economics I (Graduate, 2016-24, UBC);
• Fisheries Conservation, Governance and Evaluation (Graduate, 2017-18, UBC);
• Fisheries Economics and Management (Graduate, 2011-2016, UBC);
• Fisheries Economics and Management (Graduate, 2008-2013, UBC);
• Topics in Integrated Sciences (Undergraduate, 2008-2009, UBC);
• Current Topics in Fisheries (Undergraduate, 2006, 2009-2011, UBC);
• Environmental Economics (Undergraduate, 2003-2008, UBC);
• Land and Forestry Economics (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Critical Issues in Fisheries (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Fisheries Economics (Graduate, 2002, UBC);
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Graduate, 1999-2001, University of Tromsø);
• Natural Resource Economics (Undergraduate, 1999-present, University of Namibia);
• Applied Game Theory (Graduate, 2000, UBC).

Google Scholar

• Sumaila, U. R., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Teh, L. S. L., Teh, L. C. L., Lam, V. W. Y., Sumaila, H., Cheung, W. W. L., Issifu, I., Hopewell, K., Cinner, J. E., Bennett, N. J., Folke, C., Gulati, S., & Polasky, S. (2024). Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow. In Cell Reports Sustainability (p. 100104). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100104
• Sumaila, U. R. (2024). Reflections on Breaking Down Silos in Fisheries Science. In Fisheries. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.11076
• Sumaila, U. R., Alam, L., Abdallah, P. R., Aheto, D., Akintola, S. L., Alger, J., Andreoli, V., Bailey, M., Barnes, C., Ben-Hasan, A., Brooks, C. M., Carvalho, A. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Dempsey, J., Halim, S. A., Hilmi, N., Ilori, M. O., Jacquet, J., … Pauly, D. (2024). WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement. In npj Ocean Sustainability (Vol. 3, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-024-00042-0
• Sumaila, U. R., Alam, L., Pradhoshini, K., Onifade, T. T., Karuaihe, S. T., Singh, P., Levin, L. A., & Flint, R. (2023). To engage in deep-sea mining or not to engage: what do full net cost analyses tell us? In npj Ocean Sustainability (Vol. 2, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00030-w
• Florko, K. R. N., Shuert, C. R., Cheung, W. W. L., Ferguson, S. H., Jonsen, I. D., Rosen, D. A. S., Sumaila, U. R., Tai, T. C., Yurkowski, D. J., & Auger-Méthé, M. (2023). Linking movement and dive data to prey distribution models: new insights in foraging behaviour and potential pitfalls of movement analyses. In Movement Ecology (Vol. 11, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00377-2 
• Sumaila, U. R., de Fontaubert, C., & Palomares, M. L. D. (2023). Editorial: How overfishing handicaps resilience of marine resources under climate change. In Frontiers in Marine Science (Vol. 10). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1250449
• Vogel, J. M., Longo, C., Spijkers, J., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Mason, J., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Cheung, W., Sumaila, U. R., Munro, G., Glaser, S., Bell, J., Tian, Y., Shackell, N. L., Selig, E. R., Le Billon, P., Watson, J. R., Hendrix, C., Pinsky, M. L., van Putten, I., … Fujita, R. (2023). Drivers of conflict and resilience in shifting transboundary fisheries. In Marine Policy (Vol. 155, p. 105740). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105740
• Sumaila UR. France’s short-haul flight ban to tackle carbon emissions. Nature. 2023 Jul;619(7968):34. https://10.1038/d41586-023-02133-3
• Schuhbauer, A., Favoretto, F., Wang, T., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Sala, E., Millage, K., Cabral, R., Sumaila, U. R., Lucrezi, S., Hsu, A., Tighsazzadeh, M. N., Cruz, M. P. de la, & Cisneros-Montemayor, A. (2023). Global economic impact of scuba dive tourism. Research Square Platform LLC. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2609621/v1
• Sumaila, U.R., Walsh, M., Hoareau, K. et al. (2021). Financing a sustainable ocean economy. Nature Communications 12, 3259. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23168-y.
• Helm RR, Clark N, Harden-Davies H, Amon D, Sumaila UR, et al. (2021). Protect high seas biodiversity. Science. Jun 4;372(6546):1048-1049. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj0581. PMID: 34083479.
• Skerritt, D. J., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Broadening the global debate on harmful fisheries subsidies through the use of subsidy intensity metrics. Marine Policy, 128, 104507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104507.
• Bendriem, N., Roman, R., & Sumaila, U. R. (2021). Enhancing land-based culture of coho salmon through genomic technologies: An economic analysis. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 25(1), 27-52.
• Sumaila, U. R., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Cheung, W. (2020). Climate change, shifting threat points, and the management of transboundary fish stocks. Ecology and Society, 25(4).
• Sumaila, U. R., & VanderZwaag, D. (2020). Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios. Ecology and Society, 25(4).
• Costello, C., Millage, K., Eisenbarth, S., Sumaila, U.R. et al. (2020). Ambitious subsidy reform by the WTO presents opportunities for ocean health restoration. Sustain Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00865-z
• Sumaila, U. R., & Tai, T. C. (2020). End Overfishing and Increase the Resilience of the Ocean to Climate Change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00523.
• Sumaila, U. R., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Cheung, W. (2020). Climate change, shifting threat points, and the management of transboundary fish stocks. Ecology and Society, 25(4).
• Sumaila, U. R., & VanderZwaag, D. (2020). Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios. Ecology and Society, 25(4).
• Sumaila, U. R., Zeller, D., Hood, L., Palomares, M. L. D., Li, Y., & Pauly, D. (2020). Illicit trade in marine fish catch and its effects on ecosystems and people worldwide. Science Advances, 6(9), eaaz3801.
• Cinner, Joshua E., Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Georgina G. Gurney, Nicholas AJ Graham, M. Aaron MacNeil, Andrew S. Hoey, Camilo Mora, U.R Sumaila and others (2020). Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world. Science 368, no. 6488 (2020): 307-311.
• Sumaila, U.R., Tai, T.C., Lam, V.W.Y., Cheung, W.W.L., Bailey, M., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Chen, O.L., Gulati, S.S. (2019). Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people. Science Advances, 5(2), eaau3855.
• Sumaila, U. R., Ebrahim, N., Schuhbauer, A., Skerritt, D., Li, Y., Kim, H. et al. (2019). Updated estimates and analysis of global fisheries subsidies. Marine Policy, 109, 103695.
• Sumaila, U.R. (2019). A carding system as an approach to increasing the economic risk of engaging in IUU fishing? Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:34. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00034.
• Sumaila, U. R., Villasante, S., & Le Manach, F. (2019). Fisheries subsidies wreck ecosystems, don’t bring them back. Nature, 571, 36-36.
• Abbott, J.K., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Reducing marine plastic pollution: policy insights from economics. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. rez007, https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rez007.
• Steiner NS, Cheung WWL, Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Drost H, Hayashida H, Hoover C, Lam J, Sou T, Sumaila UR, Suprenand P, Tai T, VanderZwaag D. 2019. Impacts of the changing ocean-sea ice system on the key forage fish Arctic cod (Boreogadus Saida) and subsistence fisheries in the Western Canadian Arctic: evaluating linked climate, ecosystem and economic (CEE) models. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6:179.
• Sumaila UR, Cheung WWL. 2015. Boom or bust: the future of fish in the South China Sea. ADM Capital Foundation. Hong Kong: OceanAsia.
• Sumaila, U.R. (2018). Illicit Trade in the Marine Resources of West Africa. Ghana Journal of Economics, 6, 108-116.
• Sumaila, U.R. (2018). Comparative valuation of fisheries in Asian Large Marine Ecosystems with emphasis on the East China Sea and South China Sea LMEs. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.12.008.
• Sumaila, U. R. et al. (2017). Investments to reverse biodiversity loss are economically beneficial. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 748.
• Sumaila UR, Cheung WWL, Cury PM, Tai T. 2017. Climate change, marine ecosystems and global fisheries. In: Ninan KN, Inoue M, editors. Building a climate resilient economy and society: challenges and opportunities. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar.
• Sumaila, U.R., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Dyck, A., Huang, L., Cheung, W.W.L., Jacquet, J., Kleisner, K., Lam, V.W.Y., McCrea-Strub, A., Swartz, W., Watson, R., Zeller, D., and Pauly, D. (2012). Impact of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout on the Economics of U.S. Gulf fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69: 499-510.
• Sumaila, U.R. and Huang, L. (2012). Managing Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Policy, 36: 502–511.
• Collette, B.B., U.R. Sumaila and others (2011). High Value and Long Life—Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science, 333: 291-292.
• Pereira, H. M., Leadley, P.W., Sumaila, U.R., and others (2010). Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science, 330(6010): 1496-1501.
• Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W.W.L., Dyck, A., Gueye, K., Huang, L., Lam, V.W.Y., Pauly, D., Srinivasan, T., Swartz, W., Pauly, D., and Zeller, D. (2012). Benefits of rebuilding global marine fisheries outweigh costs. PLoS ONE 7(7), e40542, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040542.
• Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Seas, Oceans and Fisheries: A Challenge for Good Governance. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 101(2), 157-166.
• Swartz, W., Sumaila, U.R., and Watson, R. (2012). Global Ex-Vessel Fish Price Database revisited: a new approach for estimating ‘missing’ prices. Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9611-1.
• Srinivasan, T., Watson, R., Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Global Fisheries Losses at the Exclusive Economic Zone Level, 1950 to Present. Marine Policy, 36, 544-549.
• Halpern, B.S., Longo, C., Hardy, D., McLeod, K.L., Samhouri, J.F., Katona, S.K., Kleisner, K., Lester, S.E., O’Leary, J., Ranelletti, M., Rosenberg, A.A., Scarborough, C., Selig, E.R., Best, B.D., Brumbaugh, D.R., Chapin, F.S., Crowder, L.B., Daly, K.L., Doney, S.C., Elfes, C., Fogarty, M.J., Gaines, S.D., Jacobsen, K.I., Karrer, L.B., Leslie, H.M., Neeley, E., Pauly, D., Polasky, S., Ris, B., St. Martin, K., Stone, G.S., Sumaila, U.R., and Zeller, D. (2012). An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. Nature, 488: 615-620.
• Ishimura, G., Herrick, S. and Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Fishing games under climate variability: transboundary management of Pacific sardine in the California Current System. Environmental Economics and Policy, DOI: 10.1007/s10018-012-0048-0.
• Sumaila U.R., Cheung W.W.L., Lam, V.W.Y., Pauly, D., Herrick S (2011). Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries. Nature Climate Change, 1: 449-456.
• Lam, V.W.Y., Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A., Pauly, D., and Watson, R. (2011). Construction and first applications of a global cost of fishing database. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(9): 1996-2004.
• Sumaila, U.R., Khan, A., Dyck, A., Watson, R., Munro, G., Tyedmers, P., and Pauly, D. (2010). A bottom up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies. Journal of Bioeconomics, 12: 201–225.
• Sumaila, U.R. (2010). A cautionary note on individual transferable quotas. Ecology and Society, 15(3): 36.
• Dyck, A. and Sumaila, U.R. (2010) Economic impact of ocean fish populations in the global fishery. Journal of Bioeconomics, 12: 227–243.

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Professor Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Department of Zoology Director Marine Mammal Research Unit

Contact Information

Email: a.trites@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: (604) 228-1880
Location: Rm. 246, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) Building, 2202 Main Mall, UBC
Website(s): Marine Mammal Research Unit; MMRU Personnel page; North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium

Social Media

Facebook: @ubcmarinemammal
Instagram: @ubcmarinemammal
Twitter: @ubcmarinemammal

Research Interests

Dr Trites oversees the Marine Mammal Research Unit and a research program that involves captive and field studies of seals, sea lions, whales and dolphins.

His research is primarily focussed on pinnipeds (Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, and harbor seals) and involves captive studies, field studies and simulation models that range from single species to whole ecosystems. His research spans the fields of ecology, nutrition, physiology, and animal behaviour—and is designed to further the conservation of marine mammals. It is also designed to further the conservation and understanding of marine mammals, and resolve conflicts between people and marine mammals. The research program includes researchers, students, technicians, and support staff. The training of students, and the collaboration between researchers specializing in other disciplines (such as nutrition, ecology, physiology and oceanography) is central to the success of his research program.

• biology of marine mammals
• population dynamics
• bioenergetics
• fisheries
• data analysis

Google Scholar

Teaching

• Fish 506 – Critical Issues in Fisheries
• Mar. Sci. 455 – Biology of Marine Mammals
• Scie 300 – Communicating Science
• Biol 140 – Laboratory Investigations in Life Science
• Biol 180 – Thinking Like a Life Scientist

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Dr. Andrew Trites has won UBC’s President’s Award for Public Education through Media.

Faculty members receive King Charles III Commemoration Medals

Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Dr. Andrew Trites received King Charles III Commemoration Medals.

The long road to recovery: consequences of harassment of Guadalupe fur seals pups

Breeding activity at the second breeding site in the San Benito archipelago inspired hope for the species' recovery, but researchers were shocked by the disturbing behaviour they observed from immature males, which may jeopardize this progress.

Drawing maps of Greater Caribbean manatee habitats in South America; a huge step forward in conservation and rehabilitation

The West Indian manatees that inhabit South America is classified as "Endangered" by the IUCN due to threats like habitat loss, boat collisions, and climate change. Their survival depends on active conservation efforts to protect their habitats and reduce human impacts.

Killer whales breathe just once between dives, study confirms

A new study has confirmed a long-held assumption: that orcas take just one breath between dives.