Md Azizul Bari
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.
Syd Ascione
Syd provides support on Project Seahorse’s research projects, primarily with data collection, management, and analysis, among other things. She mainly works with Dr. Sarah Foster on projects concerning the illegal wildlife trade and the unsustainable practice of bottom-trawl fishing.
Nicolas Bailly
Research Area
Regina Bestbier
Gina coordinates operations, communications and outreach for Project Seahorse, while also providing research, ethics, education, and administrative support to all lab members. Gina joined Project Seahorse in 2007, after years of working on watershed management issues with a neighbouring research group: UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. Gina holds a BSc in Botany and Zoology and a MSc degree in Conservation and Environmental Biology, both from the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).
Duncan Burnside
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
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.
Elaine Chu
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
Allison Cutting
Research Analyst, Women in Fisheries (Colette Wabnitz)
Email: a.cutting@oceans.ubc.ca
Kahsennaroroks Maddy Deom
Kahsennaroroks Maddy Deom
Program Assistant, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Brittany Derrick
At the Sea Around Us, Brittany leads the catch reconstruction team. She is in charge of executing and verifying the annual updates to the catch reconstruction data of all sectors in all Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) or EEZ-equivalent waters of the world (247), plus the catch of tuna and other large pelagic fishes in the High Seas. She also authors or co-authors papers documenting these reconstructions.