Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
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Villy Christensen, PhD
Professor
- Ecosystem modeling
- global ocean
- IPBES
- Ecopath
- global warming
- greenhouse effect
- greenhouse gases
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Stephen Raverty
Veterinary Pathologist, Adjunct Professor
- Veterinary pathology
- marine mammal health
- infectious disease and anthropogenic impacts on whales
- dolphins
- porpoises
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Professor William Cheung
Canada Research Chair (Tier II, Ocean Sustainability and Global Change)
- 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
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Vicky Wing Yee Lam, PhD
Program Manager
- Fisheries economics
- climate change
- adaptation
- fisheries management
- global change
- vulnerability assessment
- spatial analysis
- sustainable development
- global warming
- greenhouse effect
- greenhouse gases
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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
- environmental/conservation medicine
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U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
- Fisheries economics
- marine biodiversity
- ocean conservation
- biological diversity
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Dr. David Rosen, PhD
Assistant Professor
- marine mammals
- animal physiology
- marine conservation
- animal welfare
- seals
- sea lions
- walrus
- behaviour
- ecology of marine mammals
- bioenergetics
- nutrition
- conservation physiology
- navigation
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Brian Hunt, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Plankton
- oceanography
- ecosystems
- salmon
- ocean ecology of salmon
- food webs
- British Columbia
- forage fish
- ocean observing
- changing oceans
- ocean science
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Dr. Maria Palomares
Senior Scientist and Manager
- Fisheries science
- fish biology
- biodiversity information systems
- Sea Around Us
- FishBase
- SeaLifeBase