People
Yoshitaka Ota
Ph.D., Anthropology
Program Director (Policy)
Director of Nippon Foundation, Ocean Nexus Center
Professor of Practice (University of Washington)
Yoshitaka Ota is Director (Policy) of the NF-UBC Nereus Program. He is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington. His main research is anthropology of fishing, assessing current global outlook of indigenous fishing and coastal food security. He also works on ocean governance and policy, marine spatial planning and knowledge communication.
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William Cheung
Ph.D., Ecology
Program Director (Science)
Professor and Director of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (University of British Columbia)
William Cheung is Director (Science) of the NF-UBC Nereus Program and the Principal Investigator of the UBC Nereus Research group since 2014. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. His main research area is on assessing impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems and their goods and services, and studying ways to reconcile trade-offs in their management.
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