Member of the Week

  • Timur Jack-Kadioglu Timur Jack-Kadioglu is a marine social scientist with experience working with and researching in tropical coastal communities in East Africa and Southeast Asia, and considers himself a hybrid researcher-practitioner. He ...read more
  • Henrique Kefalás Country: Brazil Henrique Kefalás is an oceanographer, with a Master Degree in Environmental Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. For the past decade, he has been focusing on small-scale fisheries...read more
  • Emi Koch Country: Peru Emi Koch is a marine social-ecologist, Fulbright Fellow, and National Geographic Explorer from San Diego, California. As a former professional surfer, Emi used her sponsorship with Billabong to start Bey...read more
  • Vanessa Eyng Country: Brazil Vanessa Eyng is a Journalist from Brazil, engaged in Amazon conservation projects since 2013. She has experience providing communication advisory to research institutions and NGOs. She has been working...read more
  • Kate Barclay Country: Australia Kate Barclay is Professor of Global Studies at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She started researching fisheries in the late 1990s in her doctoral project in development studies, looking ...read more
  • Julia Nakamura Country: Brazil/UK Julia is a lawyer qualified in Brazil, a PhD candidate with the University of Strathclyde's Centre for Environment Law and Governance (SCELG) and an international legal expert with the Development L...read more
  • Evangelos Tzanatos Country: Greece Evangelos Tzanatos is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, University of Patras. His PhD examined the structure, dynamics and management of small-scale fisheries in Greece. His field is...read more
  • Sílvia Gómez Country: Spain Dr. Sílvia Gómez works as a researcher and teacher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and has in the past worked at the ...read more
  • Eric Wade Country: Belize My name is Eric Wade and I am a current Ph.D. Candidate studying Human Dimensions of Fisheries Management at Oregon State University under the advice of Dr. Kelly Biedenweg. I am originally from the be...read more
  • Kim Olson Country: Canada Kim Olson is a geographer, living in St. John's, with experience in conservation, climate change and sustainable resource management. Her work has focused on public engagement, collaborative research/...read more
  • George Freduah Country: Australia Born in Ghana, George Freduah is an Adjunct Academic at the University of Sunshine Coast’s Sustainability Research Centre, Australia. After completing high school at Osei Kyeretwie Secondary Schoo...read more
  • Joshua Stoll Country: USA Joshua is an Assistant Professor of Marine Policy in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. His research focuses on questions about coastal community resilience, seafood distribution, o...read more
  • Jenia Mukherjee Country: India Jenia Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests span across environmental history, politi...read more
  • Brennan Lowery Country: Canada I am originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and moved to Newfoundland in 2015. With a research and professional background in indicators of sustainable communities, I hope to employ these tools in...read more
  • Miguel Gonzalez Country: Canada Miguel Gonzalez (PhD, York University) is an Assistant Professor in the International Development Studies program at York University, Toronto, Canada. In recent years Miguel has taught both in the unde...read more
  • Alice Joan G. Ferrer Country: Philippines Alice Joan G. Ferrer is a Professor in Economics and Scientist in the Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas. Among her research interests are fisheries social science,...read more
  • Ruby Napata Country: Philippines Ruby Napata is a University Research Associate at the Institute of Fisheries Policy and Development Studies, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas. She gra...read more
  • Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya Country: Nigeria Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University. She was born in Germany and raised in Lagos, South-West Nigeria. She holds a Second Class (Upper Di...read more
  • Yinji Li Country: Japan Yinji Li is a marine social scientist with Bachelor's in Economics from the Dalian Ocean University, China, and Master's in Fisheries Science/Ph.D. in Marine Science from the Tokyo University of Marine ...read more
  • Linda Behnken Country: USA Linda Behnken is the Executive Director of Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA). She has BA from Dartmouth College and a Masters in Environmental Science from Yale University. Linda has been a...read more