CHAN'S Lab: Connecting Human and Natural Systems Lab

Diving Off the Hawkeye

Diving research near Bamfield with the BCCES research group

Stanley Park Intertidal

Intertidal Pisaster sea stars in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC

Bamfield Fieldwork

Martone goes native in the field - Bamfield, Vancouver Island, BC

BCCES Works the Bamfield Intertidal

Gerald and his leading ladies... erm, field helpers.

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New Blog Post: Triage Terror

Kai Chan and Sarah Klain have written a blog post entitled, Triage Terror: Are conservation scientists ready to let endangered species blink out? Think again.

PNCIMA Op-Eds

Ed and Kai have letters published in the Vancouver Sun about the federal government pulling out of the PNCIMA marine planning process.

Kai Awarded Fulbright

Kai was awarded the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the University of California – Santa Barbara for 2011-2, hosted by Steve Gaines and Ben Halpern (url)

Kai on Sabbatical at SFU

Kai began his sabbatical visit as Hakai Scholar at SFU with Anne Salomon, the Hakai Network, and the School for Resource & Environmental Management.

Caitlin Awarded NSERC URA

Caitlin Millar was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award for “Modeling wild living resources under multiple stressors”

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Integrating Cultural and Social into Ecosystem Services

Chan, K.M.A., Guerry, A., Klain, S., Balvanera, P., Satterfield, T., Basurto, X., Bostrom, A., Chuenpagdee, R., Gould, R., Halpern, B., Hannahs, N., Levine, J., Norton, B., Ruckelshaus, M., Russell, R., Tam, J., and Woodside, U. (accepted BioScience). Integrating ‘cultural’ and ‘social’ into ecosystem services: A framework for making decisions about what matters.

Perceptions of Climate Change in Costa Rica

Vignola, R., Klinsky, S., Tam, J., and McDaniels, T. (accepted Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change). Public perceptions of climate change in Costa Rica: Comparisons with North American and European Studies.

Important marine invasive species vector- Recreational Boats

Clarke Murray, C.; Pakhomov, E.A. and Therriault, T.W. (2011) Recreational boating: a large unregulated vector transporting marine invasive species.Diversity and Distributions. 17(6):1161-1172 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00798.x

Infaunal engineer established in the Northeast Pacific

Mach, M.E., C.D. Levings, P.S. McDonald, and K.M.A. Chan (2011) An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella troquata (polychaeta: maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts. Biological Invasions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-0096-6

Snail Behaviour in Response to Danger Cues

Mach M.E. and P.E. Bourdeau (2011) To flee or not to flee? Risk assessment by a marine snail in multiple cue environments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2011.08.018

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We envision a world where consideration of social and ecological risks and consequences is fundamental to decision-making.

Our mission is to provide rigorous cutting-edge applied and insight-driven research that informs real-world decision making, to enable the just treatment of current and future people and the natural world.

Chan's Lab
Aquatic Ecosystem Research Laboratories
4th Floor, 2202 Main Mall,
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z5, Canada

Our mission is captured in the diversity of research efforts conducted in our lab:

Our focus in the natural sciences (Biological infestations and invasions, Ecosystem-modeling, and Biodiversity) extends beyond the ecological questions to the relevance of this work to management and decision-making.

Our work in the social sciences (Applied environmental ethics, Socio-cultural value elicitation) explores the just treatment of current and future generations developing novel approaches and informing the relevance of our natural science work.

We are proudly based at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability (IRES) and the Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.