Marie Auger-Méthé
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
William Cheung
William Cheung
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
Villy Christensen, FRSC
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
Simon Donner
Dr. Donner is a climate scientist whose work lies at the intersection of climate science, marine science, and policy. He was a lead author on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment and serves as a member of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body, which advises the federal government on pathways to net-zero emissions. 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
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
Brian Hunt
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
Murdoch McAllister
Murdoch McAllister
Associate Professor
On leave: September 2024-2025
Email: m.mcallister@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: 604-822-3693
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
Evgeny Pakhomov
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
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
Andrea Reid
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Indigenous Fisheries Science)
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