Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD
Research Associate & Principal Investigator
marine eco-toxicology, ocean conservation and pollution, environmental toxicology and chemistry, food web bioaccumulation modeling of pollutants (Bioaccumulation Science), ocean pollution by plastics/microplastics, sea turtles and marine mammals’ eco-toxicology, marine ecology, conservation biology, tropical biodiversity, and ecology, fishery science and management, climate change science, the impact of climate change and acidification in marine organisms and fisheries, climate change adaptation strategies in fisheries, population dynamics and conservation of marine mammals, biology and conservation of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, field ornithology, aquatic microbiology, eco-toxicological risk assessment, environmental impact assessments and environmental policy, public health, tropical parasitology, and environmental/conservation medicine,
Marie Auger-Methe
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Statistical Ecology)
Statistical methods to study marine and polar animals, behaviour, population, polar bears, narwhals, penguins, fish, animal movement
Brian Hunt, PhD
Assistant Professor
UBC Hakai Professor in Oceanography
Plankton, oceanography, ecosystems, salmon, ocean ecology of salmon, food webs, British Columbia, forage fish, ocean observing, changing oceans, ocean science
Katie Marshall, PhD
Assistant Professor
Freeze tolerance, entomology, overwintering biology, spruce budworm, intertidal animals
Christopher Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Video games, digital media, critical race theory, queer theory, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Oceania, tourism, The Philippines, literature, Asian North America, American empire, multiculturalism, colonization, creative writing, fiction, speculative fiction, travel writing, travel, migration, diaspora
Dr. Maria Palomares
Senior Scientist and Manager
Fisheries science, fish biology, biodiversity information systems, Sea Around Us, FishBase, SeaLifeBase,
Rajeev Jaiman
Associate Professor
Fluid-Structure Interaction, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods,
Dr. Andrea Reid, PhD
Assistant Professor
Indigenous Fisheries, Indigenous Science, Aquatic Conservation, Freshwater Ecology, Freshwater Conservation, Land-based Learning,
Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau
Research Scientist
Biodiversity, ocean conservation, climate change, marine biogeography, marine macro-ecology, species distribution model, fisheries,