Member of the Week

  • Andrew Frederick Johnson Country: USA Andrew Frederick Johnson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA. Andrew works as part of the Gulf o...read more
  • Andy Bystrom Country: Costa Rica Like most kids growing-up in the United States, Andy Bystrom never imagined a career in small-scale fishery research and development, but a decision to pursue a masters degree in natural resource m...read more
  • Kungwan Juntarashote Country: Thailand Kungwan Juntarashote is an Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Juntarashote holds a B.Sc. (Fisheries), M.Sc. (Development Economics), and ...read more
  • Lisa K. Soares Country: The United Kingdom and the Caribbean Lisa K Soares is currently a third year PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom and also a Visiting Researcher w...read more
  • Gabriela Sabau Country: Canada Gabriela Sabau was born in Romania and emigrated to Canada in 2002. She holds a BA and a PhD in Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania. Before coming to Canada, Gabriela w...read more
  • Alyne Delaney Country: Denmark Alyne Delaney is the Head of Research at Innovative Fisheries Management at Aalborg University, Denmark. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) where she...read more
  • Shehu Akintola Country: Nigeria I am presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University, having joined the academic board in 2002. I hold a B. Agric Tech (FUT, Akure), a MSc. (LASU), a MBA (LAUTE...read more
  • William Cheung Country: Canada Dr. William Cheung is an Associate Professor and the Director (Science) of the Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC. Cheung earned his PhD in Resourc...read more
  • Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger Country: Brazil Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Society at the Centre for Environmental Studies (NEPAM), University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, a M.Sc. in Conservation (University Colleg...read more
  • Dirk Steenbergen Country: Australia Dirk Steenbergen is a postdoctoral research fellow at Charles Darwin University, working in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods. His research focuses around community-based ma...read more
  • Tanya King Country: Australia Tanya King is a maritime anthropologist working with small-scale fishers in Australia. She was introduced to the industry through the offshore southern shark fishery (which supplies the "flake" for ...read more
  • Katia Frangoudes Country: France Katia Frangoudes is a senior researcher of political sciences. She obtained her PhD at the University of Paris in 1992. Since then she participated in many research programs related to fisheries and aq...read more
  • María José Espinosa Romero Country: Mexico María José Espinosa Romero has been collaborating with diverse civil society organizations and governments for the implementation of sustainable fisheries and marine conservation initiatives since 19...read more
  • Rodolphe Devillers Country: Canada Rodolphe Devillers is Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada. Rodolphe leads the Marine Geomatics Research Lab, an interdisciplinary group exploring research questi...read more
  • Manuel Muntoni Manuel Muntoni is a postdoctoral researcher, who has been working with TBTI since 2016. His research is mainly focused on marine ecology, with a particular reference to fish ecology, as well as conservation and coastal m...read more
  • Derek Johnson Country: Canada Derek is an Associate Professor of socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Manitoba and a Research Associate of the Center for Maritime Research at the University of Amsterdam. He has interdi...read more
  • Alicia Said Country: Malta I am a post-doctoral fellow with the Too Big To Ignore Global Partnership for Fisheries Research, and my research interests include resource governance, socio-economic and socio-ecological resilience, a...read more
  • Joeri Scholtens Country: The Netherlands Joeri Scholtens is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and affiliated with the Center for Maritime Research. His research interests converge around conflicts ove...read more
  • Marja Bekendam-de Boer Marja Bekendam-de Boer, together with her husband runs an inland fisheries enterprise in the centre of the Netherlands. They fish during the summer months in freshwater and their main target species is eel. Since 2003 M...read more
  • Mirella de Oliveira Leis Mirella de Oliveira Leis is a Research Assistant with Too Big To Ignore (TBTI) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She has started her career as an Oceanographer at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in B...read more