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Dr. Dirk Zeller (E-mail)
B.Sc. (Hons, James Cook University, Australia), PhD (James Cook University, Australia) |
Dr Dirk Zeller is Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Sea Around Us project (www.seaaroundus.org) at the Fisheries Centre, UBC. Dirk leads a catch data reconstruction team and associated projects that deal with Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing by deriving more accurate estimates of total catches by countries. He has contributed such data to stock assessment collaborations with the Fisheries Centre Quantitative Modeling Group for Hawaiian bottom fish assessments, and illustrated that ICES (EU) catch data for the Baltic Sea substantially underreport total catches. Dirk also investigates coral reef fisheries (e.g., Coral Triangle Initiative) and global marine pollution modelling, engages in ocean governance and fisheries policy research (e.g., FishEU international policy working group), and collaborates with the Fisheries Economics Research Unit on issues in resource economics, and with the UBC Faculty of Law on issues related to international maritime boundary law and the UN Law of the Sea Convention. As Project Manager he also directs day-to-day research activities and management issues of the Project, and actively engages in and directs strategic research and funding decisions in close coordination with the Project Principle Investigator, Prof. Daniel Pauly.
Dirk has published widely, both in the primary literature (Nature, Science, Marine Policy, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Environmental Health Perspectives etc.) and in dedicated research reports. He collaborates with scientists in Australia, Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean and Pacific. He represents the Sea Around Us Project at conferences and workshops throughout the world.
Dirk has a background in tropical marine biology and fisheries ecology from James Cook University, Australia, and has professional interests in marine reserves, coral reef ecology, and the use of bio-telemetry and advanced tagging technology in quantitative ecology and fisheries research. He worked extensively in experimental field ecology, applied animal behaviour, and the interactions between species, their distribution and habitats. Over the last 25+ years, he also conducted research on corals, sea turtles and cephalopods. Dirk held a junior faculty position at James Cook University, coordinating and teaching several courses in fisheries science, marine biology and zoology.
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Contact:
Fisheries Centre
The University of British Columbia
329-2202 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada
Ph: 1-604-822-1950