Group By
Core Faculty
Marie Auger-Méthé
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Statistical Ecology)
Email: m.auger-methe@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-1658
Dr. Auger-Méthé’s work is interdisciplinary in nature and at the intersection between ecology, statistics, and marine sciences. Her recent focus has been on developing and applying statistical models to understand the movement and space use of marine species. Read More
Research Area
Ecology, movement, statistics, Arctic, marine mammals, seabirds
Dr. Skye Augustine is a hul’q’umi’num’ scholar and marine ecologist from Stz’uminus First Nation and is a Principal Investigator and faculty member with the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. Read More
Research Area
IIndigenous governance, knowledge systems, stewardship, food systems, conservation, coastal ecosystems, intertidal and nearshore ecosystems
William Cheung, FRSC
Director and Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change)
Email: w.cheung@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-827-3756
Dr. William Cheung is Professor and Director of UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. His work addresses policy-relevant research questions, cut across multiple disciplines, from oceanography to ecology, economics and social sciences, and range from local to global scales Read More
Research Area
Nexus of food-climate-biodiversity in the ocean, pathways to sustainable ocean futures
Dr Christensen is a professor specialising in ecosystem modelling - in particular data-driven ecosystem model construction. He is known for his work as a leader and developer of Ecopath, an open source ecosystem modelling software system widely used for ecosystem based management and increasingly for environmental impact assessment Read More
Dr. Donner is a climate scientist whose work lies at the intersection of climate science, marine science, and climate policy. He was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report and served as a co-chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body, which advises the federal government on pathways to net-zero emissions, until resigning in December 2025. Read More
Research Area
climate science; marine heat waves; coral reefs; sea-level rise; El Nino; equatorial Pacific; Small Island Developing States; climate change adaptation; kelp systems; numerical modelling
Christopher Harley
Professor, Zoology and IOF
Interim Director, IOF
Email: c.harley@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-827-3431
Dr. Harley studies patterns and processes in intertidal and nearshore ecosystems. He and his students are interested in how the environment (temperature, salinity, ocean acidification) and interactions among species (predation, competition, facilitation) interact to determine community structure. Ongoing work incorporates tipping points associated with environmental extremes, such as heatwaves, and changes in community composition, including species introductions and biodiversity loss... Read More
Research Area
community ecology, marine invertebrates, algae, species interactions, climate change, global warming, ocean acidification, multiple stressors, environmental variability
Dr Hunt is an ecosystem oceanographer who researches the structure and function of pelagic marine ecosystems and their response to climate forcing and anthropogenic impacts. Read More
Dr. McAllister's research focuses on developing decision support tools for fisheries management including the development of data-intensive modeling approaches for fisheries stock assessment and management strategy evaluation. Teaching focuses on providing instruction and training in interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to fisheries policy analysis... Read More
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.
Daniel Pauly, FRSC
University Killam Professor
Email: d.pauly@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-1201
Dr. Daniel Pauly is an exceptional scholar whose work has fundamentally impacted the fields of fisheries science, and biodiversity research. His creation of extensive approaches, knowledge infrastructures, and tools, are used extensively by scientists and experts in fisheries and aquatic biodiversity around the world. Read More
Andrea Reid
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Indigenous Fisheries Science)
On leave July 25, 2025-2026
Email: cif@oceans.ubc.ca
Dr. Reid is a proud citizen and member of the sovereign Nisg̱a’a Nation, and she is the Principal Investigator of the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries. Her collaborative and collective research and teaching program focuses on culturally-significant fish and fisheries, such as Pacific salmon (‘hoon’ in Nisg̱a’a; Oncorhynchus spp.), centring Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and connecting... Read More
Research Area
Indigenous fisheries; fisheries science; Indigenous rights; community-based research; Indigenous knowledge systems; fish ecology; freshwater systems; Indigenous research methodologies; land-based learning
David Rosen
Associate Professor
IOF Graduate Advisor
Email: d.rosen@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-8184
Dr. Rosen's current research primarily investigates the bioenergetics (energy requirements and expenditures) of marine mammals. Its focus is to understand the root causes of population changes by investigating the interactions between the physiology of individual animals and biotic and abiotic environmental changes. Read More
Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
University Killam Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Email: r.sumaila@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-0224
Rashid Sumaila's 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. Read More
Research Area
ocean, fisheries, economics, bioeconomic modeling, subsidies, high seas, valuation, infinity fish, climate change, discounting
Curtis Suttle, FRSC CM OC
Distinguished University Professor
Email: suttle@science.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-8610
Dr Suttle is primarily focussed on viruses and their role in the environment. His current work examines viruses and their roles in the oceans, high Arctic, deep mines, aeolian dust, lakes, and migratory-bird ponds. Read More
Research Area
microbial diversity, marine microbiology, biological oceanography, marine viruses, virus diversity, zooplankton, phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, virioplankton
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. Read More
Dr. Amanda Vincent is driven by a determination to protect our oceans. As well as tackling research on pressing problems, Dr. Vincent also mobilizes conservation action to improve the status of marine species and habitats. Read More
Emeritus
Dr. Newell is a historian of technology and society who has spent her career examining the diffusion of knowledge in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. Appointed Professor Emerita in 2014. She is the Interim Director of the IOF’s Centre for Indigenous Fisheries. Read More
Research Area
Indigenous fisheries of BC, fishing and fish processing history, interdisciplinary research; small-scale fisheries, marine coastal fisheries; women & fisheries, industrial archaeology; Canadian Northwest Coast Indigenous fisheries case law; Pacific salmon canning industry. white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) fisheries
Tony Pitcher
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Pitcher’s research addressed the impacts of fishing on aquatic ecosystems, the development of quantitative, multi-criteria evaluation frameworks and rapid appraisal techniques for evidence-based assessment of fisheries, management instruments and management goals, and a predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behaviour impacts fisheries.
Dr Walters’ areas of research include the development of rapid techniques for teaching systems analysis and mathematical modeling to biologists and resource managers. His primary foci are fish population dynamics, fisheries assessment and sustainable management.
Honorary
Dr. Rose's research focuses on the history, ecology and management of fisheries. Being a Newfoundlander, his main area of study has been the Northwest Atlantic cod stocks, their spatial ecology and historic productivity. He has a particular interest in survey methods, especially those involving acoustic technology.
Jordan Rosenfeld
Aquatic Scientist, Applied Freshwater Research Unit, BC Ministry of Environment
Email: j.rosenfeld@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-827-5137
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Kai Chan
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics. He strives to understand how social-ecological systems can be transformed to be both better and wilder.
Andrea Frommel
Assistant Professor, UBC Land and Food Systems & Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture
Dr. Frommel's research bridges climate change, fisheries and sustainable aquaculture, with a focus on environmental physiology of early life stages of commercial fish species.
Philippe Le Billon
Professor, Department of Geography and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Philippe Le Billon is a Professor at the Department of Geography and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, who works at the nexus of environment, development, and security. Most of his work engage with resource governance and conflicts around natural resources. His current projects are on the blue economy, green transition, and environmental defenders.
Charles Menzies
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Professor hagwil hayetsk’s (Charles Menzies) primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations’ issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has conducted field research in, and has produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada (including archaeological research); Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland. Hagwil hayetsk is a member of Gitxaała Nation on BC’s north coast and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska.
Camilla Speller
Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology
Dr. Speller’s major research focus is Molecular Environmental Archaeology: the application of biomolecular techniques to questions of human-environment relationships in the past and present. Her current research emphasizes community-engaged partnerships with Indigenous communities, co-developing archaeological science approaches to advance questions of long-term fisheries, marine resource management, and the histories of human relationships with aquatic ecosystems.
Affiliate
Megan Bailey
Affiliate Faculty Member Associate Professor, Dalhousie University
Email: Megan.Bailey@dal.ca
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Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
Affiliate Faculty Member Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
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Claudia J. Hernández-Camacho
Affiliate Faculty Member Professor, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas-IPN: La Paz, Baja California Sur, MX
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Jessica Meeuwig
Professor, Marine Futures Lab, University of Western Australia
Email: jessica.meeuwig@uwa.edu.au
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Gabriel Reygondeau
Affiliate Faculty Member Associate Professor, University of Miami
Email: gabriel.reygondeau@gmail.com
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Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami specializing in marine biodiversity modelling, biogeography, and predictive ocean ecology. His research develops high resolution modelling frameworks to understand and forecast the distribution of marine species and biodiversity patterns across the global ocean. He leads AquaMaps 2.0, with a focus on translating large scale ecological data into actionable tools for science and management.
Gerald Singh
Affiliate Faculty Member Associate professor, University of Victoria
Email: singhg@uvic.ca
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Dirk Zeller
Affiliate Faculty Member Professor; Sea Around Us, University of Western Australia
Email: d.zeller@oceans.ubc.ca
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Adjunct
Jacquline Alder
Adjunct Professor, FAO
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Nathan Bennett
Adjunct Professor
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Tom Carruthers
Adjunct Professor, Blue Matter Science Ltd.
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Ilyass Dahmouni
Adjunct Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit
Climate change issues and their impacts on the ocean and resource sustainability.
Robyn Forrest
Adjunct Professor; Fisheries & Oceans Canada
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Alyssa Gehman
Adjunct Professor, Hakai Institute
I am a marine disease ecologist at the Hakai Institute, an adjunct professor in the UBC Institute of Oceans and Fisheries and a member of the Biodiversity Research Centre. I am particularly interested in the interactions between infected hosts and their communities, as well as the impact of temperature on host-parasite interactions.
Martin Haulena
Adjunct Professor, Vancouver Aquarium
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Marine mammals, necroscopyDouglas E. Hay
Adjunct Professor, Pacific Biological Station (Scientist Emeritus)
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Margot Hessing-Lewis
Adjunct Professor, Hakai Institute
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ecological dynamics, changing coastal environments, seagrass, kelpColleen Kellogg
Adjunct Professor, Hakai Institute
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Josh Korman
Adjunct Professor; Ecometric Research
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Steve McAdam
Adjunct Professor; BC Ministry of Environment
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Fraser McDonald
Adjunct Professor
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Archeology, lithic analysis, Coast Salish peoples, stone toolsEric Parkinson
Adjunct Professor; BC Ministry of Environment
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Isobel Pearsall
Adjunct Professor; Strait of Georgia Data Centre
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R. Ian Perry
Adjunct Professor; Fisheries & Oceans Canada
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Stephen Raverty
Adjunct Professor, BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Animal Health Centre
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Laura Richards
Adjunct Professor; Fisheries & Oceans Canada (Scientist Emerita)
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fishing
Ḵii’iljuus Barbara Wilson
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Haida Matriarch
Email: cif@oceans.ubc.ca
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Indigenous fisheries
Senior Researchers
Dr. Lubna Alam is a dedicated interdisciplinary ocean and fisheries scientist working to advance ocean sustainability, fisheries resilience, seafood safety, and marine governance. Inspired by the belief that nature is not just a backdrop but a lifeline, her work is grounded in a commitment to protect the ocean and the communities who depend on it. Through her research, she promotes science-informed solutions that recognize both the value and vulnerability of marine ecosystems, calling for greater responsibility to listen, protect, and act for a more sustainable ocean future.
Dr. Correia has studied several aspects of European seahorse biology, ecology and conservation. He has worked closely with stakeholders to implement mitigation tools for seahorse conservation and was actively involved in the creation of new marine protected areas (MPAs). He also acts as Focal Point for Europe in the IUCN Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group. Read More
Dr. Foster is a conservation scientist dedicated to finding pragmatic solutions for the many problems facing the oceans and the animals that call them home – solutions that work for both fish and the people that depend on them. She is the Program Lead for Project Seahorse. Read More
Ibrahim Issifu
Research Associate; Fisheries Economics Research Unit
Email: i.issifu@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-649-6335
Ibrahim Issifu is a Senior Research Fellow in interdisciplinary oceans and fisheries economics at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research explores the intersections of climate change, sustainable blue food systems, AI in aquaculture, marine plastic pollution, fisheries conservation, and the blue economy. In addition to his academic work, he actively collaborates with policymakers and practitioners through high-level workshops, policy briefs, and international conferences that inform both national and global policy agendas. Dr. Issifu earned his PhD and master’s degrees from Nagoya University, Japan. He also holds a Master of Business Administration and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Ghana Read More
Research Area
Regenerative Blue Economy, Marine Plastic Pollution, Natural Resource Economics, Mangrove Ecology and Ecosystem Services, Blue Carbon and Nature-based Solutions, Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Resilience, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture, Marine Spatial Planning and Ocean Governance, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis, Food Security and Sustainable Blue Foods
Dr. Vicky Wing Yee Lam is a fisheries economist and Research Associate at the Sea Around Us, University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the economic impacts of climate change on global fisheries, with expertise in fisheries data reconstruction, spatial analysis, and sustainable marine conservation. Read More
Dr. McLaskey is a zooplankton ecologist and biological oceanographer who researches the lower trophic levels of marine food webs — from phytoplankton, through zooplankton, to fish. Much of their work focuses on how nutritional quality intersects with food web structure, and how that can impact higher trophic levels.
Dr. Meirelles is a conservation biologist focusing on manatee and dolphin spatial ecology, behaviour, extinction risk assessment, and conservation planning. She was actively involved in the elaboration and monitoring of conservation plans in Brazil and is a member of the IUCN Sirenia Specialist Group. Read More
Dr. Mordecai’s research explores the diversity of viruses which infect Pacific salmon, and applies genetic sequencing to study their transmission dynamics. He is part of a collaboration with Dr Kristi Miller (Fisheries & Oceans Canada) and the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Salmon Health Program, which researches the combined impacts of disease and environmental stress. Read More
Research Area
Pacific salmon, viruses, viral ecology, conservation biology, genomics, molecular epidemiology
Maria Lourdes 'Deng' Palomares
Senior Scientist and Project Manager
Email: m.palomares@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-0218
Dr. Palomares has been the Sea Around Us Project Manager since June 2017. Her research focus has been on the application of well-known theories in fish and fisheries biology as tools to test hypotheses and/or generate knowledge from ‘big data’ repositories. Read More
Oriana Smy is a social scientist with a Master of Arts Degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia, where she specialized in marine plastic pollution and "ghost gear" in Baja California Sur, Mexico. She is skilled in qualitative and quantitative methods, community-based research, project management, environmental policy, and ethnographic mapping. Oriana is leading the development of a marine monitoring metadata tool, “MONITR: Marine Observation Network Inventory TRacker,” with the Coastal Habitats Learning and Knowledge Hub, a collaborative project with the Hakai Institute and WWF-Canada. She is also working with Dr. Rashid Sumaila and Dr. Margot Hessing-Lewis, facilitating a Coastwide Pyropia group via the International Bioeconomy Macroalgae Center.
Dr. Louise Teh's research focuses on how interactions between humans and marine ecosystems impact fisheries sustainability. She has a particular interest is in small-scale fisheries of developing countries, and has been involved in marine conservation projects on valuing marine turtle conservation, marine protected area management, and climate change adaptation. Read More
Dr Lydia Teh’s research examines the social, economic, and ecological dynamics of marine fisheries, with a special focus on small-scale fisheries. Her inter-disciplinary research cuts across fields from human ecology to biodiversity conservation, and has taken her to work with fishing communities in Sabah, Malaysia and Fiji.... Read More
Dr. Wabnitz is a marine scientist interested in understanding the functioning of ecosystems, how these may respond to human pressures and natural forcing, and the design - together with government, industry, NGOs and local communities - of appropriate measures for the sustainable use of their resources and the long term conservation of their services. Read More
Honorary Senior Researchers
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Russ Jones
Honorary Research Associate
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Michael Melnychuk
Honorary Research Associate; Quantitative Modeling Group [University of Washington]
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Sara Cannon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: s.cannon@oceans.ubc.ca
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Alexander Duncan
Postdoctoral Fellow; Centre for Indigenous FisheriesEmail: a.duncan@oceans.ubc.ca
Lauren Eckert
Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: l.eckert@oceans.ubc.ca
Dr. Lauren Eckert is a Conservation Scientist, storyteller, and postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries. Her work centers equitable approaches to conservation and research, and bridges social and ecological systems, marine and terrestrial systems, and Indigenous knowledge and Western science.
Meaghan Efford
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow; Pelagic Ecosystems Lab, IOF Extended Learning
Email: m.efford@oceans.ubc.ca
Meaghan is an archaeologist and historical ecologist. Her postdoctoral research focuses on on developing three stackable micMeaghan is an archaeologist and historical ecologist. Her postdoctoral research focuses on on developing three stackable micro-credential courses on the Sustainable Blue Economy (SBE) with the SOI Foundation.
Annie Gold-Innes
Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Fisheries Economics Research Unit & UBC Dept. of Mathematics
Email: a.innesgold@oceans.ubc.ca
Annie is conducting interdisciplinary research between IOF and the Department of Mathematics, using mathematical modeling, economics, and biology to inform fisheries management.
Dr. Lerner is a biological oceanographer interested in the trophic ecology of pelagic food webs. Specifically, his research centres on the marine life history of Pacific salmon, carry-over effects of marine foraging on their reproductive success, and the relationship between this and the structure of pelagic ecosystems.
Muhammed Oyinlola
Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Changing Oceans Research Unit
Email: m.oyinlola@oceans.ubc.ca
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Juliano Palacios Abrantes
Postdoctoral Fellow; Changing Oceans Research Unit
Email: j.palacios@oceans.ubc.ca
Juliano Palacios Abrantes' work looks at how climate change is shifting the distribution of marine species generating uncertain feedbacks on marine ecosystems and dependent fishing communities. Specifically, he looks at how such shifts affect shared stocks (e.g., stocks that are... Read More
Anna Schuhbauer
Postdoctoral Fellow; Fisheries Economics Research Unit
Email: a.schuhbauer@oceans.ubc.ca
Dr. Schuhbauer has been part of the Fisheries Economic Research Unit since 2012. Her expertise in the field of fisheries spans from transdisciplinary research approaches, such as working with small-scale fisheries at a local scale, to developing high-level theoretical research frameworks at the global scale. Her work predominantly focuses on socio-economics and social-ecology, addressing both practical and theoretical aspects of fisheries.
Kristen's (she/her) PhD research topic encompasses multi-stressor impacts on the Canadian Beaufort Sea marine ecosystem at various biological scales. Specifically, she will develop and apply food web models and associated indices using the platform Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) to understand system dynamics. The food web models will investigate possible changes in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem structure and function under changing environmental and human... Read More
Dr. Troina investigates the trophic and spatial ecology of marine top predators. She has been applying natural chemical tracers to learn about the foraging ecology and habitat use by marine mammals, how sympatric cetacean species compete for available resources, and how human-induced changes can affect the structure and dynamics of marine pelagic ecosystems. Read More
Administrative Staff
Jennifer Douglas
Manager, Administration & Operations , Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: jennifer.douglas@ubc.ca
Advancing department goals and initiatives, supporting the students, faculty, and staff who shape the university’s vibrant academic community. Human Resources; IT; and General Operations
Ariel supports all aspects of the HR cycle for Faculty, Research Associates, PDFs, staff, and students.
Manage the Institute’s financial operations, planning, analysis, reporting and resource allocation. Provide strategic financial guidance to leadership. Support faculty and researchers with grant and contract administration. Collaborate across academic and administrative units to support informed decision making and the efficient use of resources. Lead process improvements and strengthen financial controls.
Katherine Came
Communications Manager, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: k.came@oceans.ubc.ca
She takes care of all things related to the Oceans and Fisheries graduate program (MSc and PhD). Graduate Program; Student Funding Support; Appointments & changes for Graduate Research Assistants, Student awards, graduate student studies
Julia Adelsheim
Senior Program Assistant, Extracurricular and Extended Learning, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Rebecca Smith
Senior Finance Specialist, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Email: r.smith@oceans.ubc.ca
Research Staff
Md Azizul Bari is a Research Assistant at the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia. He specializes in fisheries subsidies, ocean sustainability, and climate vulnerability, with a strong background in Environment and development.
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Gina coordinates lab operations for Project Seahorse and supports research, communications, ethics, education, and administration across the team.
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
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
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
Research Analyst, Women in Fisheries (Colette Wabnitz)
Email: a.cutting@oceans.ubc.caKahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Program Assistant, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: m.deom@oceans.ubc.ca
Peggy Homan
Administrative Coordinator, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Email: p.homan@oceans.ubc.ca
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.
Jana McPherson
Project Manager - National Wildlife Trade, Project Seahorse
Email: j.mcpherson@oceans.ubc.ca
Martin Paulo Nevado
Database Software Engineer, Sea Around Us
Manages the Sea Around Us database, which means updating the Sea Around Us website. Also responsible for extracting catch data for CMSY assessments.
Miel is a Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining the Sea Around Us website and system infrastructure. He also helps with database management, data integration and taxon distribution.
Valentina Ruiz Leotaud
Communications Officer, Sea Around Us Program
Email: v.ruizleotaud@oceans.ubc.ca
Taryn is a Research Assistant in the Marine Mammal Research Unit. Her research focuses on analyzing seasonal and decadal trends in killer whale populations in BC.
Students
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Natasha Buckiewicz
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Brian Hunt
Email: n.buckiewicz@oceans.ubc.ca
As part of the Urban Oceans project, Natasha's PhD research focuses on the impacts of urbanization on phytoplankton dynamics in the Salish Sea. The aim is to understand how freshwater and material flows from the urban environment impact primary producers and their fatty acid profiles, with implications on essential nutrients available to higher trophic levels including culturally and economically important fish. Read More
Yixuan is investigating the bottom trawl fishery and its management in China, hoping to use her interdisciplinary research to advance marine conservation and fishery management.
Research Area
Outcomes of Indigenous fishing methods for fish health and fisheries sustainability in a changing world
Research Unit
Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Santiago De la Puente Jeri
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisors: Villy Christensen
Email: s.delapuente@oceans.ubc.ca
I am a Peruvian researcher that has been studying the ecological and human dimensions of the Humboldt Current, with emphasis on fisheries economics and governance.
Thesis Topic
Can integrated ecological-economic models help operationalize ecosystem-based fisheries management?Kahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Student
Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisor: Andrea Reid
Email: m.deom@oceans.ubc.ca
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Joana Dutilh De Capitani
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Amanda Vincent
Email: j.decapitani@oceans.ubc.ca
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Ema Fatima
Student
Program: PhD, IOF
Supervisors: Rashid Sumaila & Tara Martin
Email: e.fatima@oceans.ubc.ca
I am a PhD student at the Institute of Ocean and Fisheries of University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. I come from India, a nation with over 7500 Km coastline that inhabits around 170 million people threatened with an increasing risk to shifting climate, sea-level rise, and natural disasters. Of these, approximately 4 million constitute of marine fisher population, dependent on ocean resources while 60% of them are subsistence fishers.
Marta Flotats Aviles
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Amanda Vincent
Email: m.flotats@oceans.ubc.ca
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Thesis Topic
Crabs and Community: Relational Visions of Á,ĆEX (Dungeness Crab, Metacarcinus magister) Stewardship in Tsawout First Nation’s QEN,T Indigenous Protected and Conserved AreaCarolina Lang Abarzúa
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Murdoch McAllister
Email: c.lang@oceans.ubc.ca
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Vicky is an IOF MSc student currently working on modelling seasonal growth patterns in length-weight relationships. She previously worked as a research assistant for Sea Around Us, where she worked on global marine and freshwater reconstructions of fisheries catch.
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Julia has a strong interest in climate science and coastal ecosystems. Her research focuses on assessing the vulnerability of British Columbia’s kelp habitat to climatic hazards, thereby enhancing the public understanding of how restoring kelp can address critical issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and food security.
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My research, in partnership with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, focuses on employing emerging, non-invasive methods (environmental DNA, or eDNA) to study marine biodiversity and community interactions in urban and non-urban nearshore ecosystems, with a focus on Pacific salmon.
I am very interested in all things fish, but while I am here, my research will be focused on forage fish and their nutritional profiles within BC waters. In addition, I want to work on filling in data gaps for the forage fish in the region. Apart of school, I grew up in a little beach town in Costa Rica, and did my undergrad in San Diego, CA. Getting to experience different coasts along the pacific and all their beautiful critters my favorite part of studying marine science!Read More
Max Miner
Student
Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisors: Brian Hunt & Camilla Speller
Email: m.miner@oceans.ubc.ca
My work at IOF uses environmental DNA (eDNA) and ancient DNA (aDNA) methodologies to examine harmful algal bloom dynamics along the Pacific Northwest coast. For my thesis, I will be using DNA extracted from nearshore marine sediment core samples to reconstruct past HAB events at a clam garden site in the traditional territory of the Gitga’at Nation.
Barry Momodou
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisors: Rashid Sumaila & Philippe Le Billon
Email: momodou.barry@ubc.ca
Doctoral researcher examining food security and sustainability in small-scale fisheries in The Gambia.
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Isabelle Morgante
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: William Cheung
Email: i.morgante@oceans.ubc.ca
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Benia Nowak
Student
PhD, OCF
Supervisors: Andrew Trites, Kit Kovacs & Christian Lydersen
Email: b.nowak@oceans.ubc.ca
I am interested in the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence the movement patterns and foraging behaviours of large marine predators.
Greig Oldford
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Villy Christensen
Email: g.oldford@oceans.ubc.ca
Greig is an environmental scientist and ecosystem modeler. Greig has skill sets in ecosystem science, data science, geographic information systems, and computer programming.
Research Area
ecosystems, models, fisheries, Salish Sea, end-to-end, Ecopath, NEMO
Haley Oleynik
Student
Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisor: Murdoch McAllister
Email: h.oleynik@oceans.ubc.ca
My interest in fisheries science began in my undergraduate degree where my thesis research focused on how environmental change and management have influenced the social structure and dynamics of the Lobster fishing industry in Maine.
Research Interests
Gender and Fisheries, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Climate Change Adaptations, and Fisheries sustainability.Research Area
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My research focuses on the habitat connectivity of the Threatened Marbled Murrelet, integrating movement ecology, diet, and habitat use to better understand the links between marine and terrestrial ecosystems.Samara Polwatta
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Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Amanda Vincent
Email: s.polwatta@oceans.ubc.ca
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Alejandro Rubio
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Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Murdoch McAllister
Email: alerubio@oceans.ubc.caMarine Biologist and Master of Science in Fisheries at the University of Concepcion. Currently a PhD student at IOF. He has been working on crabs and squat lobster stock assessment in Chile for more than ten years.
I am an oceanographer with a special interest in jellyfish ecology. I am also passionate about Indigenous representation in science and related outreach.
Shabnam Shadloo
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: Marie Auger-Méthé
Email: s.shadloo@oceans.ubc.ca
Alex (Alejandro) Schmill
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Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisors: William Cheung & Margot Hessing-Lewis
Email: a.schmill@oceans.ubc.ca
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Ambre Soszynski
Student
Program: PhD, OCF
Supervisor: William Cheung
Email: a.soszynski@oceans.ubc.ca
Her research aims at understanding the functioning of ecosystems and their response to anthropogenic pressures in a changing world. The use of marine ecosystem models (Ecopath with Ecosim, OSMOSE) allows to study the marine environments from the individual to ecosystem levels and to forecast the future of biodiversity under fishing and climate change scenarios.
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ecological modelling; impact assessment; biodiversity; fisheries; climate change; marine ecosystem; marine governance; Ecopath with Ecosim and Ecospace; OSMOSE
ʔéx kʷ n̓ & pusu’l (hello), my name is Kasey Stirling and I am Nlaka’pamux, Mi’kmaq, and Acadienne. I am a status member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band in Merritt, BC. I am from Williams Lake, the traditional territory of the T’exelcemc Nation (Williams Lake First Nation, Secwepemc Peoples). Throughout my life, I have walked between both worlds: Western and academic science, and Indigenous traditional knowledge.
Guilherme Suzano Coqueiro
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Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisor: Amanda Vincent
Email: g.suzano@oceans.ubc.ca
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Colton Van Der Minne
Student
Program: MSc, OCF
Supervisor: Andrea Reid
Email: c.vanderminne@oceans.ubc.ca
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