Charles Addey
Past Member
E-mail: caddey@hawaii.edu
Charles is a doctoral student in the department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA. He is a chemical oceanographer, and his research interests are on BGC Argo floats, air-sea fluxes, carbon and oxygen biogeochemical cycles, and mechanisms controlling their variability in the open and coastal oceans. He is also a member of the Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) and the Organization of African Academic Doctors (OAAD).
Twitter: @charlesaddey1
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
Ignacio Gianelli
Past Member
E-mail: ignaciogianelli@gmail.com
Ignacio is a doctoral student at the EqualSea Lab at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is interested in marine social-ecological systems, fisheries management, the human dimension of fisheries, and the role of distal and proximate drivers in shaping human-oceans relationships. During his Ph.D., Ignacio will explore and foster transformative changes in marine social-ecological systems, particularly in small-scale fisheries. Using case studies in Uruguay and Spain, he will analyze how institutional factors and emergent processes from innovative sustainability initiatives in small-scale fisheries contribute to more sustainable trajectories for ocean-dependent communities. He aims to co-create transformative spaces in which to envision plural, possible and desirable futures for small-scale fisheries. His research involves epistemological agility, transdisciplinary networking, and the use of diverse tools to promote sustainability transformations in marine social-ecological systems.
Twitter: @IgnacioGianelli
Sara Garcia-Morales Hurtado
Past Member
E-mail:saragmhurtado@hotmail.com
Sara is a research fellow at the OCEANPLAN Project at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) at the University of Lisbon. She is a passionate biologist and marine ecologist trying to understand the variety of connections in marine social-ecological systems. Her current research explores how marine spatial plans can be adapted to climate change by understanding the complexity of the effects of climate change in biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human societies. Following an ecosystem-based management approach that focuses on ocean conservation and environmental justice, her work tries to improve adaptation capacity in such systems, guarantee more adequate planning responses and promote sustainable use of the ocean.
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.
Shenghui Li
Past Co-chair
E-mail: lishenghui1227@163.com
Dr Shenghui Li is currently a lecturer at the School of Management, Guangdong Ocean University, China. Her research interests are Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and global ocean governance, with a particular focus on transboundary issues and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Shenghui is a member of the MSP Research Network and tries to contribute to MSP education and research. She is passionate about MSP’s potential for coastal community resilience and regional marine governance under climate change. Prior to being a lecturer, Shenghui had interdisciplinary education and work experience between marine natural science and marine social science, including a joint PhD in Marine Affairs at Xiamen University, China and the University of Liverpool, UK, and a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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
Ariel Smith
Past OFI-IMECaN Liason
E-mail: ar366955@dal.ca
Ariel Smith is Project Coordinator at the Ocean Frontier Institute in Halifax, Canada
She has a Masters of Environmental Assessment (MEnv) and over 8-years’ experience in project development, leadership, and data collection, specifically focused on plastic pollution in the coastal and marine environment. Ariel has led over 10 research projects, facilitated partnership management, and published research, including microplastic results in Elsevier’s Marine Pollution Bulletin in 2022. Ariel is currently a board member at the Canadian Network for Ocean Education (CaNOE) and previously chaired a Microplastic Working Group from 2019 to 2023, consisting of Atlantic Canadian stakeholders across all sectors. Throughout her career, Ariel has worked to bridge the gap between research and action by working with coastal communities across Atlantic Canada to better understand our changing oceans.
Twitter: @arieljsmith
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