Media Advisory
UBC experts are available to comment on various topics on June 8 World Oceans Day.
Pollution, climate change and sustainability
Dr. Juan Jose Alava (he she)
Research Associate, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries and Principal Investigator, Ocean Pollution Research Unit
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English, Spanish
- Marine microplastic and plastic pollution, ocean pollution, marine food web pollutants
Dr. William Cheung
Professor and Director, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English, Cantonese
- Climate change and ocean, warming seas, effects of climate change on fish
Dr. Andrea Frommel
Assistant Professor, Applied Animal Biology, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture at UBC
Email: [email protected]
Languages): German English
- Interaction between aquaculture and the environment
- Resilience of early stages of fish to climate change
- Impacts of climate change on commercial populations of wild fish
Dr Vicky Wing Yee Lam
Research Associate, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 604–822–1636
Language(s): English
- Understand the socio-economic impacts of global change on marine resources, fisheries and human well-being.
- Economics of fishing, climate change and effects on ocean life, adaptation of fish to climate change, fisheries management, sustainability
*Available June 6 and 7, and June 8 from 12 p.m.
Dr. Juliano Palacios-Abrantes
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Management of shared fish stocks in the face of climate change
Dr. U. Rashid Sumaila (he she)
Killam University Professor, Oceans and Fisheries Institute and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Such : 604-351-7406
E-mail: [email protected]
Interview language(s): English, Hausa, Norwegian
- Optimal consumption and use of plastic, thoughtful consumption, blue economy, sustainable fishing economy, ocean conservation
Economics of Fisheries and the Oceans
Dr. Muhammed A. Oyinlola (he she)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English
- Implications of climate change and ocean acidification on global seafood production from aquaculture
*Available from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on June 6 and 7
Dr. Maria Palomares (she she)
Senior Scientist and Manager of the Sea Around Us Research Unit, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English, French, Tagalog, Spanish
- Fisheries Science, Fish Biology, Sea Around Us, FishBase, SeaLifeBase
Dr Daniel Pauly (he she)
Professor, Institute of Oceans and Fisheries and Department of Zoology, and Principal Investigator, Sea Around Us
Email: [email protected]
Language(s): English, French, German, Spanish
- World fisheries, marine biology, fisheries management
*Not available June 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and June 9 from 1 p.m.
Engineering and Mining
Dr. John Steen
Associate Professor, Norman B Keevil School of Mining and Director, Bradshaw Research Initiative for Mining and Minerals
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 604–817–6692
Language(s): English
- Global demand for metals, including interest in seabed mining
