CURRENT MEMBERS
Jonathan Moore
Position: Associate Professor, Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management
Research Interests: Ecology and conservation of aquatic ecosystems
Kyle Chezik
Position: PhD. Candidate (Biology)
Project Description: Understanding agents of stability in dendritic networks during periods of disturbance and developing tools to exploit these inherent properties to better manage freshwater stream resources
Kara Pitman
Position: PhD Candidate (Biology)
Project Description: Investigation of the interconnectivity of Pacific salmon, climate and vegetation.
Sam Wilson
Position: PhD Student (Biology)
Research Project: What makes a climate change winner?
Will Atlas
Position: PhD. Candidate (Biology)
Project Description: Landscape drivers of salmonid biodiversity and their implications for fisheries resilience.
Ciara Sharpe
Position: MSc. Student (Biology)
Project Description: Linking habitat to fish utilization of the Skeena River Estuary
Colin Bailey
Position: MSc. Student (Biology)
Project Description: Quantifying and describing an energy transfer from pink salmon to steelhead
Paul Weidman
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow (REM)
Research Interests: Global change biology; aquatic ecology; cumulative and interactive effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems; trophic interactions among benthic and pelagic bacteria, algae, invertebrates, and fish; plankton ecology; ecological stoichiometry; biogeochemistry; ecosystem modeling
Michael Arbeider
Position: MSc. Student (Biology)
Research Project: Food web ecology of juvenile salmon in the Skeena estuary
Luke Andersson
Position: Lab Manager
Research Interests: Coastal ecology and the effects of predator-prey interactions on cross-boundary salmon nutrient transfer
Kirsten Bradford
Position: Lab Technician
Research Project: Examining variations in energy availability in Skeena sockeye salmon
Karl Seitz
Position: MSc. Student (Biology)
Research Project: Examining life history strategies employed by coho salmon in the Koeye River estuary and isoscape mapping to create a foundation for future estuarine food web investigations
Elissa Sweeney-Bergen
Position: MSc. Student (Biology)
Research Interests: Investigation of genetic and environmental variables that contribute to increased vulnerability of species or populations
