Prue Addison
Past Member
E-mail:prue.addison@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Prue is a marine conservation scientist who is passionate about improving the use of science in decision-making. Prue is currently based at the University of Oxford, where she works with multinational businesses, government agencies and NGOs bringing lessons from conservation science to help mainstream biodiversity in the private sector. Her work focuses on corporate biodiversity accountability in particular, helping businesses develop systems to measure, evaluate and report on their biodiversity performance. Prior to this Prue has worked in government, academic and private organisations in Australia and the United Kingdom. Her career began with a strong ecological focus, investigating the dynamics of rocky intertidal reef communities in Australia. Since then her research has evolved, and she now works as a conservation scientist facilitating the improved use of scientific approaches in biodiversity and ocean conservation.
Ana Helena Bevilacqua
Past Member
E-mail: anahelena.bevilacqua@gmail.com
Ana Bevilacqua did a Master’s degree focusing on the Brazilian Amazon, followed by a PhD in Human Ecology. Her work has focused on socio economic aspects of small-scale fisheries in Brazil. She worked for a government fisheries institute (FIPERJ) and is currently working at the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO) where she manages projects financed through legal obligations, such as fishery compensation payments.
Stephanie Brodie
Past Chair
E-mail: stephanie.brodie@noaa.gov
Stephanie is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Steph is an ecologist with a broad interest biogeography, fisheries, and animal ecophysiology. She has expertise in quantitative analyses and using diverse data sets to examine pelagic predator ecology and the roles that oceanographic processes play in species distributions. Steph is interested in applied research and understanding how climate change and variability is affecting living marine resources and dependent marine communities.
André Frainer
Past Member
E-mail: andre.frainer@uit.no
Norway
Shan Jiang
Member
E-mail: sjiang@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
Shan Jiang is a post-doctoral researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC) at the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai. He is a chemical oceanographer with a Master’s degree in ecology and PhD in biogeochemistry. During the past 10 years, Shan has studied the transport and transformation of nutrients and organic matter in several coastal/marine ecosystems (e.g. Rajang, Malaysia; Sanggou Bay, China; West Pacific Ocean). Shan’s current research interest focuses on the impacts of anthropogenic activities and climate change on nitrogen and carbon cycling in water and sediment environments.
Laura Kaikkonen
Past Co-chair
E-mail: laura.m.kaikkonen@helsinki.fi
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Her research deals with ecological risks of human activities on marine ecosystems, currently focusing on the impacts of seabed mining and fishing in the deep sea. In addition to studying the environmental impacts of different activities, she is also interested in how the risks are perceived by the public to inform governance of marine areas. After receiving her PhD in marine ecology from University of Helsinki, Finland, Laura worked in environmental policy at the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) and now contributes to the work of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)Past.
Vasiliki Lianou
Past Member
E-mail: vlianou@geol.uoa.gr
Greece
Jon Lopez
Member
E-mail: jlopez@iattc.org
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, United States
A quantitative fisheries scientist at the IATTC in La Jolla, California. Much of his current research focuses on investigating the impacts of anthropogenic activities and environmental variability on marine biodiversity and fishery resources, and developing and testing alternative mitigation, conservation and management measures that promote the sustainable use of ecosystems, including target and non-target species. He has contributed to a number of working groups of different tuna regional fisheries management organizations (t-RFMO), including the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, and is now focused in the eastern Pacific Ocean (IATTC). He is also a member of the joint t-RFMO FAD working group and the Seasonal Forecasting and Dynamic Ocean Management Task Team of CLIOTOP.
Priscila Lopes
Past Member
E-mail: pmaccord@gmail.com
Brazil
Kat Maltby
Member
E-mail: kmaltby@Gmri.org
Kat Maltby is a postdoc at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Maine, US. Her research focuses on understanding adaptation and resilience of fisheries and their associated fishing communities facing climate change and other key challenges. As an interdisciplinary scientist she has experience of using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to examine marine climate impacts, adaptation pathways and resilience strategies and attributes in a range of fisheries around the world. She is passionate about working with communities to co-develop solutions to complex ocean challenges. Before moving to the US, Kat obtained her PhD in fisheries science at the University of Exeter (UK) and then worked as a marine climate change scientist at the UK government’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
Twitter: @k_maltby
Sabine Mathesius
Past Member
E-mail:
Germany
Past Member
E-mail: flypper5@hotmail.com
Kelly is a research fellow at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her research focusses on the use of ecosystem modelling to investigate the functioning and management of marine ecosystems. Her research interests also include the influence of environmental variability and climate change on marine ecosystems, and the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of species and ecosystems to climate change.
Past Member
E-mail:graziapennino@yahoo.it
Spain
Carl Peters
Past Member
E-mail: carl.peters@dal.ca
Dr Carl Peters is the founder-CEO of Pathfinder Academy and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, where he investigates project management in an academic context. He was the Research Programs Manager at the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) in Halifax, Canada, where he managed various research programs and served as a point of contact for the institute’s early career researcher network. Originally from Bremen, Germany, Dr. Peters has expertise in marine geosciences and geochemistry and has worked at several marine research organizations in Australia, Germany, and Canada. He holds multiple project management certifications and completed his PhD in Sydney, Australia.
Samiya Selim
Past Chair
E-mail: samiya.selim@ulab.edu.bd
Samiya Selim is an Associate Professor and the Director of Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). She specialises in interdisciplinary areas of social-ecological systems – sustainability science, climate change adaptation and resilience, and the science-policy interface. In the past 10 years, Samiya worked on sustainability, climate change, conservation and fisheries in the UK and Bangladesh, including mobilizing hard-to-reach communities to get involved in environmental activities and to bring about sustainable behavioural change in daily life. Her current work focuses on ecosystem-based adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in coastal areas of Bangladesh facing increased salinity and erosion. Samiya recently published a book on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals relating to the environment in Bangladesh. She is also a member of the IMBeR Human Dimensions Working Group.
Rebecca Shellock
Co-chair
E-mail: rebeccashellock@hotmail.co.uk
Dr Rebecca Shellock is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at The Australian National University. Rebecca is a Marine Social Scientist and her research focuses on a range of topics including: (i) Ocean Literacy, (ii) knowledge exchange, (iii) gender in marine science, (iv) Marine Protected Areas and (v) socio-cultural values. Rebecca has a keen interest in how to improve the relationship between science, policy and practice and draws on her experience of working at the Science-Policy Interface. Prior to her Postdoc, Rebecca worked as a Marine Social Scientist for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK). Rebecca is also a member of the UK’s Ocean Literacy Working Group and the Royal Geographical Society Coastal and Marine Research Group. Twitter handle @marinebecca
Natasa Vaidianu
Past Member
E-mail:
IMECaN is hatched (above)
June 21, 2018 in Veli Lošinj in Croatia
From left to right: Vasiliki Lianou, Natasa Viadianu, Chris Cvitanovic, Steph Brodie, Jon Lopez, Maria, Sabine Mathesius, André Frainer