Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé was reappointed as a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology (Tier II). Dr. Auger-Méthé also received Discovery Grant funding, and an additional Northern Research Supplements award, for her project: Understanding the effects of anthropogenic pressures on animals and overcoming roadblocks to conservation: a statistical toolbox.
Dr. Auger-Méthé is an associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and UBC’s Department of Statistics, whose research is broadly focused on developing and applying statistical tools to infer behavioural and population processes from empirical data. Most of her work is interdisciplinary in nature and at the intersection between ecology, statistics, and marine sciences. While she is mostly interested in marine and polar species (e.g., narwhals and polar bears), the methods she develops are usually applicable to a wide range of species and ecosystems.
Dr. Auger-Méthé was recently awarded UBC’s Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research, which recognizes demonstrated excellence in pure or applied scientific research by a young faculty member.
Dr. William Cheung
Dr. William Cheung received Discovery Grant for “Fish and fisheries under marine extremes and compound events: responses, resilience and solution options.”
Dr. Cheung is a Professor and Director of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, the University of British Columbia. He studies the nexus of food-climate-biodiversity in the ocean. He is the Principal Investigator of the Changing Ocean Research Unit at UBC. He serves as Director for a 6-year SSHRC Partnership “Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus”. He is an international leader in developing and using scenarios and models to explore solution options and pathways to desirable and sustainable ocean futures. His work addresses policy-relevant research questions and cuts across multiple disciplines, from oceanography to ecology, economics and social sciences. His research ranges from local to global scales. He recently received a Doctor Honoris Causa – France’s highest education honor – from the Institute Agro-Rennes. He has received multiple international and national awards and recognitions, including the Prix d’Excellence Award of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, the E. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, and was named as the top 20 world’s most influential climate scientists by Reuters.
Dr. David Rosen, Assistant Professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries’ Marine Mammal Energetics And Nutrition (MMEAN) Lab received Discovery Grant funding for his “Physiological impacts of climate change on marine mammals” project.
Dr. Rosen’s primary research is on aspects of the bioenergetics (energy requirements and expenditures) of marine mammals. He uses this approach to understand the root causes of population changes by investigating the interactions between the physiology of individual animals and biotic and abiotic environmental changes. The work directly contributes to the conservation and management of marine resources.
Government of Canada announcement
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