
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity

Dr. Maria Palomares
Senior Scientist and Manager
Fisheries science, fish biology, biodiversity information systems, Sea Around Us, FishBase, SeaLifeBase,

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,

Kai Chan, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services, ecosystem-based management, biodiversity conservation, sustainability science, social-ecological systems, environmental assessment, environmental policy, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Diane Srivastava
Professor
Dept. of Zoology
Biodiversity Research Centre
ecology, freshwater, tropics, food webs, predator-prey interactions, data synthesis, Canadian ecology and evolution research community

Tara Moreau, PhD
Sessional Instructor
Associate Director, Sustainability and Community Programs
Sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, urban agriculture, community-based research, biodiversity, integrated pest management, best management practices, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, resilience, food policy, non-profit organizations, social enterprise, biological diversity, sustainable development, crop farming, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Wayne Maddison, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity
Arachnology, spiders, biodiversity, biological diversity

William Cheung
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change)
Director, Changing Ocean Research Unit
Director of Science of Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program
Global change, climate change, oceans, fisheries, biodiversity, marine and coastal, ecosystems, conservation, adaptation, impact assessment, fisheries management, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Dr. Tara Martin, PhD
Professor
Decision science, biodiversity, climate change, climate models, conservation, ecological monitoring, ecology, land-use change, landscape ecology, landscape planning, modelling, structured decision-making, climate adaptation, endangered species

Douglas Justice
Associate Director
botany, taxonomy, dendrology, trees, garden plants, cherry trees, maple trees, rhododendrons,

Dr. Sean Michaletz, BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Forest fires, climate change, global warming, tree mortality, forest disturbance, plant ecology, plant-environment interactions, tree physiology, photosynthesis, fire management, forest monitoring, carbon cycle, productivity, global change, macro-ecology,

Karen Needham
Lecturer and Curator, Spencer Entomological Collection
Aquatic insects, biological diversity

Prof. Terry Sunderland, Dip. Hort. Kew, MSc, PhD
Professor, Tropical Forestry
Tropical forests, livelihoods, food security, biodiversity, landscape management, ecosystem services, rights-based approaches, conservation,

Katie Marshall, PhD
Assistant Professor
Freeze tolerance, entomology, overwintering biology, spruce budworm, intertidal animals
Douglas Altshuler
Assistant Professor
Animal flight, biomechanics, motor control, vision, hummingbirds, biological diversity
Michelle Tseng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Insects, freshwater ecology, plant-animal interactions, biological diversity
Patricia Schulte, PhD
Professor
Aquaculture, effects of environmental change on fish, evolution, adaptation, genomics in fisheries, biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Colin J. Brauner
Associate Professor
Gas exchange, ion regulation and acid-base balance in fish, biological diversity

Brian Leander, PhD
Professor
Marine biology, invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, protistology, phylogenetics, zoology,