Oceans @UBC unites researchers across departments at UBC to facilitate multidisciplinary research. Over 60 faculty members in eleven different departments collectively contribute to our understanding of the world’s oceans, their ecosystems, and how humans influence and interact with them.
Researchers
Susan Allen
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Allen lab’s background is in fluid mechanics including scaling, analytics, laboratory and numerical modeling with applications in coastal oceanography, mesoscale meteorology and biogeochemical-physical interactions in the ocean. Contributions include advances in the understanding of flow over and around topography, biological-physical interactions and, the study of atmosphere buoyancy driven flows in the mountains.
Raymond Andersen
Professor
Chemistry; Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The research interests of Dr. Andersen’s group center around the isolation and structure elucidation of novel organic metabolites produced by marine organisms. Current projects include the screening of marine invertebrates and bacteria for novel cytotoxic metabolites for new anticancer drugs, antibiotics as well as the analysis of defensive terpenoid and polyketide metabolite biosynthesis by dorid nudibranchs.
Phil Austin
Associate Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Austin lab works on a range of topics that fit under the heading “Cloud Physics”. Much of their research is aimed at better understanding the processes that determine the radiative properties of layer clouds. Austin is especially interested in the ways in which stratus and cirrus clouds form, persist, and dissipate; these clouds exert a controlling influence on the global climate.
Neil Balmforth
Professor
Mathematics
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The Balmforth lab’s research interests are in applied mathematics. Most problems are interesting, and many of them can be couched in a mathematical language that provides insight into them. More specifically, past projects have focused on astrophysics, chaos and dynamical systems, and fluid mechanics with particular application to geophysical fluids.
Allan Bertram
Professor
Chemistry
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The Bertram lab focuses on chemical and physical processes important in the atmosphere. Of special interest are atmospheric aerosol particles and the role they play in urban air pollution, climate change and atmospheric chemistry. Ultimately their goal is to better understand the role of human activity on the Earth’s atmosphere.
Colin Brauner
Professor
Zoology
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Brauner investigates environmental adaptations (mechanistic and evolutionary) to gas-exchange, acid-base balance and ion regulation in fish, by integrating responses from the molecular, cellular and organismal level. This information can be applied to issues of aquaculture, toxicology and water quality criteria development, as well as fisheries management.
Stephen Calvert
Professor Emeritus
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The long-term goal of the Calvert lab’s research is to understand the factors responsible for the wide compositional variability of marine sediments, the controls on organic matter burial and nutrient utilization in the ocean. This information is used to interpret past oceanographic and climatic changes from sediment core records.
Kai Chan
Professor
IRES; Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Themes within Chan’s lab include ecosystem services and biodiversity; the ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of invasions and infestations; and applied environmental ethics. Current research looks at social-ecological systems and how to improve the understanding and implementation of these systems in governance. Through analysis and modelling, the limitations, impacts, and risks to ecosystem services are explored.
Stephanie Chang
Professor
IRES; SCARP
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Chang’s work addresses questions related to community vulnerability and adaptability to natural disasters including roles of infrastructure systems (e.g., water, electric power, transportation) and environmental systems in disaster risk and resilience.
William Cheung
Professor and Director; Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Ocean Sustainability and Global Change
Institute for Oceans and Fisheries
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The Changing Ocean Research Unit studies the effects of global climate and ocean changes on marine ecosystems, biodiversity and fisheries social-ecological systems. Led by Dr. William Cheung, the Unit assesses the biophysical and socio-economic vulnerabilities and impacts of marine climate change, and identifies mitigation and adaptation options. Its vision is “Predicting the future ocean under climate change”. Mission is to improve understanding of the past, current and future responses of marine ecosystems and fisheries to global change; and explore and inform policy-relevant solutions at local and global scales to improve human well-being and the sustainable use of ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services. Its strategies are to integrate multidisciplinary datasets and information across scales and domains, and facilitate democratization of knowledge through innovative partnerships, capacity building and outreach initiatives; and to apply and develop scenarios and models to understand the dynamics of changing oceans and ecosystems.
Villy Christensen
Professor
Institute for Oceans and Fisheries
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Christensen specializes in ecosystem modelling—in particular, data-driven ecosystem model construction. Past work has described global ocean models, studied global fish biomass and biodiversity trends in relation to seafood demand, and outlined new habitat capacity models.
Colin Clark
Professor Emeritus
Mathematics
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Clark’s research is in behavioral ecology and the economics of natural resources, with emphasis on commercial fisheries management. Dynamic optimization and game theory arise prominently in these areas.
Sean Crowe
Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Immunology; Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The overarching goal of Crowe’s research is to improve our capacity to predict and respond to global change by creating new knowledge of the earth system. To achieve this, quantitative information on microbial processes derived from insights into biological information carriers (e.g. DNA, RNA, protein) are integrated into past, present and future models of global biogeochemical cycles.
Simon Donner
Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Geography
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Donner’s research provides insight into the causes and effects of human-induced climate change, the efficacy of policy and mitigation options, and the consequences for human welfare. Current areas of research include climate change and coral reefs; ocean warming and El Nino; climate change adaptation in the developing world; Canadian and international climate policy; public engagement on climate change.
Sarah Foster
Research Associate
Project Seahorse
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Foster’s research and conservation work span the areas of trade and bycatch – specifically the listing of marine species on The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), and the issue of small fish species in bycatch. Project themes include trade and policy, sustainable fisheries, and conservation education.
Roger Francois
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Froncois’ current research interests center on the application of geochemistry to problems of paleoceanography with particular emphasis on late Quaternary paleoceanography, radiochemical approaches, carbon, and nitrogen isotope geochemistry, and trace element proxies. One of the main objectives is to understand the potential impacts of climate change and human-induced disturbances on ecosystem dynamics, CO2 uptake capacity, and fish biomass.
Steven Hallam
Associate Professor
Microbiology
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The Hallam lab harnesses the power of environmental genomics to explore the microbial microcosms, describing microbial community structure and function across a wide range of ecosystems. Projects share a core set of interdisciplinary tools sourced from ecology, molecular biology, genetics and computer science. Microbial community members are viewed as constituents within the ecosystem providing nutritional, energetic or detoxification services.
Christopher Harley
Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Zoology
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Harley’s lab researches coastal marine ecology and the impacts of climate change which include themes such as ocean acidification, thermal stress and global warming, climate change and salinity stress, the ecology of invasive species, and long-term ecological stress. Harley’s interests lie in how climatic factors, such as temperature, CO2, and pH, and biological relationships, such as predation and facilitation, interact to create ecological patterns in time and space.
Michael Healey
Professor Emeritus
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Healey’s lab researches the ecology of Pacific salmon and they use these species to explore hypotheses about strategies for reproduction, energy allocation, and habitat choice. The variety of life history patterns displayed by Pacific salmon, and the fact that each species exists as many reproductively isolated populations, provides a rich opportunity to explore how related organisms solve ecological problems.
Scott Hinch
Professor
Forest and Conservation Sciences
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The Hinch lab studies salmonid ecology, behaviour and physiology, and provides management systems with information needed for the conservation and sustainable use of fish resources. Research topics include physiology of migrations; social science and information exchange with stakeholders; environmental impacts on migrations; land-use impacts and restoration; effects of capture and release; stress, disease and pathogens; physiology and behaviour of offspring; and hydropower, fish passage and olfaction.
William Hsieh
Professor Emeritus
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Hsieh works on machine learning methods and their applications to the environmental sciences, seasonal climate and extreme weather prediction and atmosphere-ocean climate dynamics. Areas of application include the El Niño-La Niña and the Arctic Oscillation, the quasi-biennial oscillation and the Madden-Julian oscillation. ML methods have been used to model vegetation indices, air quality forecasts, and estimation of snow depth.
Brian Hunt
Assistant Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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Hunt researches the structure and function of pelagic marine ecosystems and their response to climate forcing and anthropogenic impacts. Research focuses on the plankton that forms the base of all pelagic food webs and extends into the higher trophic levels through research into bottom-up and top-down forcing processes. Unifying concepts of lower trophic level dynamics can inform our understanding of the food web response to perturbation.
Vinay Kamat
Associate Professor
Anthropology
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Kamat has an interdisciplinary background including medical anthropology; ethnography; global health; outsourcing of clinical drug trials in India; childhood malaria in Tanzania; marine conservation in East Africa; dispossession; extractive industry; and political ecology. His work in Southeastern Tanzania examines the social impact of a large-scale marine conservation project (Marine Park) in the coastal region of Mtwara, following displacement and the enforcement of restrictions on fishing and extracting marine resources.
Patrick Keeling
Professor
Botany
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The Keeling laboratory works is on the molecular evolution of protists (i.e. eukaryotes that are not animals, fungi, or plants), that comprise the clear majority of eukaryotic diversity. The main interests are to reconstruct ancient evolutionary relationships, to look at the diversity and ecology of heterotrophic eukaryotes, to examine how parasites evolve and infect their hosts, and how endosymbiosis affects both host and symbionts.
Bernard Laval
Professor
Civil Engineering
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Fluctuations in the quantity and quality of available water, due to climate change and other human influences, greatly affect Canadian life. As part of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group, Laval focuses on the description and understanding of the physical dynamics of water bodies with the aim of developing numerical models for the prediction of the impacts of climate change and human activities on lake circulation.
Gregory Lawrence
Professor
Civil Engineering
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Fluctuations in the quantity and quality of available water, due to climate change and other human influences, greatly affect Canadian life. As part of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics groups, Lawrence focuses on the description and understanding of the physical dynamics of water bodies with the aim of developing numerical models for the prediction of the impacts of climate change and human activities on lake circulation.
Brian Leander
Professor
Botany
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Our research concentrates on the discovery and characterization of marine organismal diversity and comparative studies of novel morphological systems in predatory eukaryotes (i.e., marine zoology & protistology). We are fundamentally interested in the diversity and evolution of organisms, particularly traits associated with feeding, locomotion and symbiotic interactions. By addressing specific hypotheses about trait evolution using comparative molecular methods, we study the innovations and transformations associated with broad patterns of organismal diversity (e.g., convergent evolution over vast phylogenetic distances). This exploratory approach is motivated by the thrill of discovery, the beautiful and the bizarre, and the yearning to build a more comprehensive framework for understanding the interrelationships of life on Earth. The marine lineages we work on tend to be drop-dead gorgeous and reflect spectacular morphological diversity, such as meiofaunal animals, euglenozoans, dinoflagellates, cercozoans & marine gregarine apicomplexans.
Jae-Hyeok Lee
Assistant Professor
Botany
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The Lee lab focuses on the molecular genetics of sexual development in green algae, focusing on gene regulatory networks and cell wall assembly. Further, the phylogenomics of developmental mechanisms for the evolution of land plants from their green algal ancestors and genetic engineering of algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production are researched.
Al Lewis
Professor Emeritus
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Dr. Lewis is interested in understanding the interactions between oceans and plankton, especially how initial dispersal and survival, water properties, food conditions and predator numbers influence zooplankton. Lewis is especially interested in the functional morphology of copepods. These characteristics, when combined with distribution patterns, provide information on the dynamics of copepod populations and their role in food webs.
Sandra Lindstrom
Adjunct Professor
Botany
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The north-east Pacific coast exhibits an extraordinarily diverse marine benthic seaweed flora. Molecular tools have allowed the Lindstrom lab to address questions of species limits and relationships and the biogeography of speciation in this environment. Novel findings allowed for certain species identifications, hypothesis on the existence of refugia within the glacial boundary, and to identify geographic boundaries’ role in speciation.
Maria Maldonado
Associate Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Research in the Maldonado lab is directed towards understanding trace metal acquisition, metabolism, and nutrition of marine bacteria and phytoplankton. Fundamental questions in microbial physiology, ecology, and evolution are addressed to better understand how trace metal distribution and speciation may control global primary productivity. Laboratory physiological and biochemical investigations are complemented with field research.
Patrick Martone
Professor
Botany
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The intertidal zone of wave-swept rocky shores is one of the most physically stressful habitats on Earth. The Martone lab is interested in intertidal seaweeds, which must survive these conditions wherever they settle and grow. Specific foci of research are the selective pressures driving diversity, convergent evolution, evolution of lignified cell walls, biomaterials and cell wall mechanics, algal physiology and climate change, and costs and benefits of epiphytism.
Ralph Matthews
Professor Emeritus
Sociology
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Matthews’ primary research interests focus on the relationship between social change and economic development at a community and regional level, and in assessing the ways in which public policy influences that relationship. He is examining the relationship between social capital, community resilience, and economic development in coastal British Columbia communities.
Murdoch McAllister
Associate Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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The McAllister lab is applying Bayesian methods to fisheries stock assessment and providing quantitative decision support to non-governmental organizations, corporate clients, intergovernmental organizations, and government agencies. Complex population dynamics and fisheries dynamics are being modeled. Statistical evaluation of model uncertainty in models fitted to data.
Charles Menzies
Professor
Anthropology
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Hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies), member of Gitxaała Nation, conducts research and teaching on the ethnography of Western Europe and Coastal British Columbia, natural resource-dependent communities and resource management policies, and the political economy of social struggle. His book, “People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m’oon” discusses an economy based on natural-resource extraction by examining fisheries and their central importance to the Gitxaalas’ cultural roots. He is also the Director of The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC https://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/
Dianne Newell
Professor Emeritus
History
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Newell’s research interests include Canadian social and economic history; science and technology in late industrial society; women in Cold War science fiction and 1970s radio documentaries; Aboriginal women in the industrial economy; and Pacific/Northwest Coast fisheries and anthropology.
Mary O’Connor
Associate Professor
Zoology
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The O’Conner lab studies how the abiotic environment influences marine ecological communities. In particular, they want to understand what drives variation in ecosystem structure and function to better understand the ecological impacts of climate change and habitat modification and to explore how conservation efforts can be most effective given natural environmental changes.
Kristin Orians
Associate Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, & Chemistry
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The Orians lab researches trace metals in seawater to understand biogeochemical cycles. Distributions of various elements and their isotopes, and the chemical speciation of these elements in the natural environment are investigated, providing clues as to the mechanisms that produce these patterns.
Evgeny Pakhomov
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Pakhomov Lab has a broad range of interests covering topics from species ecology, at the level from zooplankton to fish, to ecosystem structure as well as physical-biological and biochemical coupling. Recently, Pakhomov has developed interests in stable isotope ecology, in particular in techniques that use compound specific measurements to reconstruct trophic pathways in pelagic ecosystems.
Maria Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares
Senior Scientist
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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Maria Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares is a Senior Scientist with the Sea Around Us Project in charge of the Sea Around Us catch databases. She also handles issues related to FishBase, an information system for the world’s fishes and is the Project Coordinator for SeaLifeBase, an information system for the world’s marine organisms other than fish. She is interested in traditional ecological knowledge by fisher communities.
Laura Wegener Parfrey
Associate Professor
Botany
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The Parfrey lab studies communities of microbial eukaryotes with the goal of understanding their diversity and distribution across environments. They use high-throughput sequencing to characterize microbial communities within the phylogenetic framework of the eukaryotic tree of life. Currently, research focuses on eukaryotes in the human microbiome and microbial eukaryotic communities across environmental gradients.
Daniel Pauly
University Killam Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Zoology
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Dr. Pauly’s research interests include aquatic ecosystems, Ichthyology and Fisheries management. He is also devoted to studying, documenting and promoting policies to mitigate the impact of fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems. Pauly is also co-founder of FishBase.org, the online encyclopedia of more than 30,000 fish species, and he has helped develop the widely-used Ecopath modeling software.
Richard Pawlowicz
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Pawlowicz lab is interested in understanding how the oceans work. Heat goes in (and out), fresh water and different chemicals are added (and subtracted), and resulting changes in density create pressure gradients that drive currents – which are in turn modified by the tidal effects of the moon, the spin of the earth, and friction against solid boundaries. Pawlowicz uses a mix of complex fieldwork and careful mathematical analysis to address these questions.
Tony Pitcher
Professor Emeritus
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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Pitcher’s research addresses the impacts of fishing on aquatic ecosystems, the development of quantitative, multi-criteria evaluation frameworks and rapid appraisal techniques for evidence-based assessment of fisheries, management instruments and management goals, and a predictive understanding of how fish shoaling behavior impacts fisheries.
David Randall
Professor Emeritus
Zoology
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Randall researches the regulation of ammonia production and excretion in fish, as well as the aquatic toxicity of ammonia and hypoxia. Further, the relationship of hemoglobin structure to oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer and tissue oxygen levels are explored as well as cellular responses of fish to hypoxia, including the role of hypoxia inducing factor and erythropoietin in response to hypoxia.
Jeffrey Richards
Professor
Zoology
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The primary goal of the Richards lab’s research program is to understand the adaptive significance of the mechanisms coordinating cellular responses to stress. Specifically, they are interested in the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms that act to balance energy supply and demand during short- and long-term exposure to environmental stress and the signal transduction pathways responsible for coordinating acclimation.
John Richardson
Professor
Forest and Conservation Sciences
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The Richardson lab is interested in the ecological processes that limit populations and contribute to the assembly of communities, and how land use impacts those processes. They use experimental manipulations of small streams and riparian areas and have manipulated inputs, species composition, abiotic factors, physical structure, etc., to test how these processes contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Terre Satterfield
Professor
Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability
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Satterfield’s work concerns sustainable development in the context of debates about cultural meanings, environmental values, perceived risk, environmental, and ecosystem health. Her contribution to the publication “Ocean Grabbing” which refers to acts of dispossession or appropriation of marine resources or spaces, presents a framework to evaluate conservation or development initiatives for ocean grabbing.
Christian Schoof
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Schoof’s work focuses on the flow and dynamic behaviour of large ice sheets and mountain glaciers, motivated in large part by their role in the global climate system. He has a particular interest in abrupt switches or ‘bifurcations’ in the behaviour of ice sheets, which can herald irreversible changes in land ice cover.
Patricia Schulte
Professor
Zoology
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The Schulte lab is interested in studying the physiological adaptations that allow animals to live in particular environments. They take advantage of intraspecific variation in fish to study the evolution of the mechanisms that allow animals to respond to a changing environment. Specific research projects focus on thermal adaptation in killifish, conservation genomics of Atlantic salmon, and the evolution of exercise performance in three-spine stickleback
Robert Shadwick
Professor
Zoology
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The Shadwick lab research program focuses on integrative biomechanics addressing the general question of how organisms deal with physical challenges at the level of systems and structures. They study the biomechanics of locomotor systems in fishes, as well as the biomechanical basis of swimming, feeding, breathing, and diving in whales.
Rashid Sumaila
University Killam Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; School of public Policy and Global Affairs
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Sumaila specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries. Sumaila has worked in fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and the West African region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea.
Curtis Suttle
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Botany; Microbiology and Immunology; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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The Suttle lab explores the diversity, function, and impact of viruses and microorganisms on mortality, community structure and nutrient and energy cycling in aquatic systems. Methods range from isolation and characterization of novel isolates to metagenomic analysis of whole systems.
Eric Taylor
Professor
Zoology
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The Taylor lab researches patterns of genetic variation within and between natural populations, the processes that promote and organize such variation, and their relevance to the origins and conservation of biodiversity. In particular, they are interested in population structure and the processes that influence population structure, speciation and hybridization, and the implications of these processes for conservation.
Philippe Tortell
Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Botany
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The Tortell Lab has broad interests in marine biogeochemical cycles. Current work focuses on the biological, chemical and physical factors regulating oceanic primary productivity and the concentration of climate-active gases. His group has developed new measurement techniques based on sea-going mass spectrometry, optical measurements and tracer-based rate incubation experiments.
Andrew Trites
Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Zoology
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Trites’ research is primarily focused on pinnipeds (Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, and harbor seals) and involves captive studies, field studies and simulation models that range from single species to whole ecosystems. The research program is designed to further the conservation and understanding of marine mammals, and resolve conflicts between people and marine mammals.
Amanda Vincent
Professor
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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The Vincent Lab mobilizes conservation action to improve the status of marine species and habitats. She is actively involved in biological and social research, empowering local communities, establishing marine protected areas, managing small-scale fisheries, restructuring international trade, promoting integrated policy, and advancing environmental understanding.
Carl Walters
Professor Emeritus
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Zoology
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Walters’ areas of research include the development of rapid techniques for teaching systems analysis and mathematical modeling to biologists and resource managers. His primary foci are fish population dynamics, fisheries assessment and sustainable management. He has undertaken extensive fisheries advisory work for public agencies and industrial groups.
Stephanie Waterman
Assistant Professor
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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The Waterman lab is interested in process studies related to ocean dynamics. In particular, scale interactions and interrelationships between various components of the oceanic circulation at different time and length scales, governed by different physics are considered. Further, they investigate the implications of these interactions for large-scale circulation and the ocean’s role in the climate system.
Christopher Wood
Adjunct Professor
Zoology
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While the primary focus of the Wood group is on physiology and aquatic toxicology, research examines the interactions of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks with their environment at all levels from the molecular to the biogeochemical to the ecological. They are particularly interested in the sub-lethal effects of natural factors and anthropogenic pollutants on organismal function, and the strategies by which animals adapt to extreme environments.
Barbara Zeigler
Professor Emeritus
Art History, Visual Art & Theory
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Zeigler’s artistic practice is structured around an extended inquiry into ever-shifting relations between ecosystems and human, cultural structures. She has a particular interest in the language used to represent British Columbia’s fish populations and marine ecosystems.