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 wide variety of Project Seahorse’s research projects, primarily working with Dr. Sarah Foster. Her work focuses on the illegal wildlife trade of seahorses, bottom trawl fishing, and the biology and ecology of Syngnathoidei fishes.
Nicolas Bailly
Research Area
Regina Bestbier
Gina coordinates lab operations for Project Seahorse and supports research, communications, ethics, education, and administration across the team.
Emily Brown
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
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
Kahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Kahsennarò:roks Maddy Deom
Program Assistant, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries