Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is a marine research station established in 1972,located in Bamfield,Barkley Sound,British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria,the University of British Columbia,Simon Fraser University,the University of Alberta,and the University of Calgary. The Centre hosts numerous public education programs in marine related science. BC Field Trips organizes many instructional and educational programs for school-aged children at the Centre. The Centre also runs courses for university students during the summer and during the fall through their affiliated universities.
Elkhorn Slough is a 7-mile-long (11 km) tidal slough and estuary on Monterey Bay in Monterey County,California. It is California's second largest estuary and the United States' first estuarine sanctuary. The community of Moss Landing and the Moss Landing Power Plant are located at the mouth of the slough on the bay.
Les Kaufman is an evolutionary ecologist specializing in the biology and conservation of aquatic ecosystems. He has special expertise in coral reef biology,the evolution and ecology of tropical great lakes fishes,and ecosystem-based management of marine resources.
Angel Chua Alcala was a Filipino biologist who was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 2014. Alcala is known for his fieldwork to build sanctuaries and to promote biodiversity in the aquatic ecosystems of the Philippines. He was the Chairman of the Board of Advisers at the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management located in Silliman University. Alcala published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and books and his biological contributions to the environment and ecosystems have made him a renowned figure of natural sciences in the Philippines.
Nancy Nash Rabalais is an American marine ecologist. Born in Wichita Falls,Texas,she is the daughter of Kathryn Charlotte Preusch and Stephen Anthony Nash,a mechanical engineer,and the second of four children. She researches dead zones in the marine environment and is an expert in eutrophication and nutrient pollution.
In-Young Ahn is a South Korean scientist. She is known for being the first South Korean woman to visit Antarctica and the first Asian woman to become an Antarctic station leader. She is a benthic ecologist and is currently working as a principal research scientist for Korea Polar Research Institute.
James Allen Estes is an American ecologist and Distinguished Professor at University of California,Santa Cruz (UCSC),known for his studies of sea otters and kelp forest ecology. Born in Sacramento,California,he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1967,earned a master's degree in Biology from Washington State University in 1969,and a Ph.D. in biology and statistics from the University of Arizona in 1974. He worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey from 1974 to 2007 before joining the UCSC faculty. He is a wildlife ecologist known for his work on ecosystem effect of large predators on ecosystems. He co-edited the books The Community Ecology of Sea Otters (1988),Whales,Whaling,and Ocean Ecosystems (2007),and Trophic Cascades:Predators,Prey,and the Changing Dynamics of Nature (2010),and is the author of Serendipity:An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature (2016). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. Estes and his work are featured prominently in the 2018 documentary film The Serengeti Rules.
Nancy B. Grimm is an American ecosystem ecologist and professor at Arizona State University. Grimm's substantial contributions to the understanding of urban and arid ecosystem biogeochemistry are recognized in her numerous awards. Grimm is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union,Ecological Society of America,and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Christine Goodale is an ecosystem ecologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Goodale conducts research that studies the cycling of water,carbon,nitrogen and other nutrients through forest ecosystems.
Gretta T. Pecl is an Australian marine ecologist,Australian Research Council Future Fellow,and the Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) at the University of Tasmania. Her work focuses on species and ecosystem responses to climate change,as well as using socioecological approaches to adapt natural resource management for climate change. She is on the editorial board of Springer Nature's Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, and is a Subject Editor for Ecography.
Elena M. Bennett is an American ecosystem ecologist specializing in studying the interactions of ecosystem services on landscape. She is currently a Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Science at McGill University. She was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars,Artists,and Scientists in 2017. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and became a Guggenheim Fellow in the same year.
Thelma Finlayson was a Canadian entomologist. She was one of the first female scientists to work at a federal government's research branch and was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita upon her retirement in 1979.
Susan A. O'Neill is a Professor in Music Education and Equity Studies and Dean in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
Merav Ben-David is an Israeli-American ecologist,zoologist,and politician who is the Chair of the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Wyoming,losing to former Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis in the general election. She ran for State Representative from Wyoming's 46th district in 2022.
Fiorenza "Fio" Micheli is an Italian-American marine ecologist and conservation biologist.
Julia Kathleen Baum is a Canadian marine biologist. In 2017,she was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists,and Scientists. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in 2017 and an EWR Steacie Fellowship in 2018.
Christine Kreuder Johnson is an American epidemiologist and veterinary scientist who is Professor and Director of the EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics at the One Health Institute. She serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Ecosystem Health at the University of California,Davis. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Catherine Ellen Lovelock is an Australian marine ecologist,whose research focuses on coastal ecosystems. She is a professor in the School of Biological Science at the University of Queensland and 2020 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow.
Heather Evelyn Castleden is a Canadian geographer. Since 2021,she has been an Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria. She was previously the Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health,Environments,and Communities at Queen's University at Kingston.
Brenda Konar is a marine scientist,and professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
