Nick Dulvy
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Frank Gobas
Director, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Resumé | Research
Dr. Gobas is an environmental chemist and toxicologist who is interested in the behaviour, effects, and associated ecological and human health risks of chemical pollutants in the environment. His research group has developed ecosystem-based models of the environmental fate of chemical pollutants; these models are used by management agencies to help develop regulatory policies on toxic chemicals. The research spans various taxonomic groups (e.g. marine and terrestrial mammals, fishes, birds) in a range of locations (e.g. the Arctic, east and west coasts of Canada) and various types of chemicals (e.g. phthalate esters, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, mercury).

Wolfgang Haider
Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Resumé | Research
Dr. Haider is interested in social-science survey methods, quantitative analysis, and modelling of trade-offs. He focuses on protected-areas management, outdoor recreation, sport fishing, resource-based tourism, land-use planning, and landscape-perception research.

Dana Lepofsky
Associate Professor, Archeology

Kenneth Lertzman
Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Resumé | Research
Dr. Lertzman is interested in forest ecosystem dynamics, conservation, and management. He and his students conduct research on forest dynamics at a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Most current research focuses on how natural disturbance regimes interact with physical aspects of the landscape and with management regimes to produce pattern and dynamics in forest stands and landscapes. Dr. Lertzman’s researchers work closely with government agencies, industries, and other non-governmental groups in applying their results to problems in forest conservation and management. He was a member of the Scientific Panel on Sustainable Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound.

Randall M. Peterman
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Resumé | Research
Dr. Peterman specializes in quantitative methods to improve fisheries management. His research includes effects of oceanographic conditions, climatic change, and interactions among species on survival and growth rates in fishes. His group explores how uncertainties affect conservation risks and appropriate management actions.

Evelyn Pinkerton
Associate Professor (half time), School of Resource & Environmental Management
Resumé | Research
Dr. Pinkerton is a maritime anthropologist specializing in common property theory, with attention to the role communities play in the management of adjacent renewable natural resources. She has played a key role in developing the theory and practice of power-sharing and stewardship through co-management agreements. Dr. Pinkerton has conducted field research in fishing communities in B.C., Nova Scotia, Washington State, and Alaska, including research on the impact of co-management arrangements on management agencies.

John Reynolds
Professor, Biological Sciences

Rick Routledge
Professor & Chair, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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Dr. Routledge’s research concentrates on the application of statistical methods to resource management and conservation biology. His recent focus has been on two aspects of Pacific salmon conservation (BC Central Coast sockeye salmon ecosystems and aquaculture impacts on sea lice and wild salmon) and fire ecology in the ponderosa pine grasslands of the South Okanagan valley, BC.

Anne Salomon
School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM)
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Carl Schwarz
Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Research
Dr. Schwarz’s work is motivated by real problems encountered by ecologists and health researchers. His current research involves estimating animal abundance, survival, movement, and related parameters using mark-recapture methods. He also works on designing and analyzing environmental impact studies.