
Daniel Pauly, PhD
University Killam Professor
Global fisheries, marine biology, fisheries management

Villy Christensen, PhD
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Global Ocean Modeling
Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

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

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

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,

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

Vicky Wing Yee Lam, PhD
Program Manager / Research Associate
Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program
Fisheries economics, climate change, adaptation, fisheries management, global change, vulnerability assessment, spatial analysis, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Evgeny Pakhomov, PhD
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Professor, Dept. of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences
Biological oceanography, polar ecology, coastal ecosystems, pelagic food webs, ocean science

Eric Taylor
Professor; Curator, UBC Fish Museum
Possible threats to native fish, native BC fish biodiversity, fish biology and conservation, evolution, biological diversity

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,

Andrew Trites
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Marine Mammal Research Unit
Professor, Dept. of Zoology
Marine mammals, seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, fisheries competition, population biology, ecology, marine life

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

Dr. Sarah Foster, PhD
Research Associate and Program Manager
wildlife trade, illegal wildlife trade, seahorses, fisheries, conservation, policy, oceans, trawling, fish, marine protected areas, community science, seafood, sustainable seafood,
Stephen Raverty
Veterinary Pathologist
Adjunct Professor
Veterinary pathology, marine mammal health, infectious disease and anthropogenic impacts on whales, dolphins, porpoises
Patricia Schulte, PhD
Professor
Aquaculture, effects of environmental change on fish, evolution, adaptation, genomics in fisheries, biological diversity, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

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

Christopher Harley
Professor
marine biology, marine ecology, climate change, ocean acidification, marine invertebrates