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
Skye Augustine
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
William Cheung, FRSC
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 in the 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 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
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
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
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
Julian Olden
Julian Olden
Professor
Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Freshwater Ecosystem Sustainability (Jointly appointed with Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences)
Dr. Olden is currently accepting graduate students through the .Faculty of Forest and Conservation Sciences.
Dr. Olden is a freshwater ecologist whose research focuses on a wide range of topics, including fish and fisheries, dams, land-use conversion, climate change, invasive species, and biodiversity conservation. Broadly motivated by a future in which people recognize and respect the diverse values provided by functioning freshwater ecosystems, Julian seeks to integrate science-based approaches into on-the-ground management and conservation decisions.
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.