Tom Hooper, M.Sc.

Since 2004, Tom Hooper has been the Manager of Finding Sanctuary, a project that is working with stakeholders to design a network of MPAs across 93,000km2 of sea in South West England. This project has led the way in the UK in an innovative, stakeholder-driven  approach to MPA planning that has been rolled out across three other regions in England to present a national network to Government in 2011. The project has developed a number of GIS and practical tools that have been used to assist with good stakeholder decision making. His primary interest and expertise is in network scale MPA planning and stakeholder decision making.

Tom Hooper has an MSc in Tropical Marine Ecology from the University of Newcastle and has worked on fisheries projects in Tanzania, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. He spent six years on the Indian Ocean Island of Rodrigues leading a programme of marine research and education that culminated in four MPAs being gazetted in 2007. He was awarded an MBE in 2004 for services to Marine Conservation and he is a trustee of the Marine Education Trust. Between 2007 and 2009, he built a partnership of MPA practitioners across Spain, France, UK and Portugal to form the MAIA project which is being led by the French MPA Agency.

Ian Perry, Ph.D.

Ian Perry is a senior research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, BC. His research expertise includes environmental influences on the distributions and recruitment of marine organisms; the structure and function of marine ecosystems; developing ecosystem-based approaches to marine resources management; the human dimensions of marine ecosystem changes; and scientific leadership of international and inter-governmental programs on marine ecosystems and global change.

Dr. Perry currently heads the Ecosystem Approaches Program at the Pacific Biological Station, and is one of two co-leads for the DFO Strait of Georgia Ecosystem Research Initiative. He was Chair of the recently completed international Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, whose goal was to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations. He is also a past Chief Scientist and Chair of the Science Board for the North Pacific Marine Science Organisation (PICES). He is an Adjunct Professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia, and has taught courses on fisheries oceanography at universities in Canada, Chile, and Portugal. He is a past Editor for the scientific journal Fisheries Oceanography, is presently an Associate Editor for the journal Ecology and Society, and is a member of the Editorial Boards for Fisheries Oceanography and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Roy Hyndman, Ph.D.

Roy Hyndman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Geoscience Centre of the Geological Survey of Canada, and a Professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria. Dr. Hyndman joined the Pacific Geoscience Centre after 10 years on the faculty of the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, and became a Director of the Centre.

Having published 200 scientific journal and volume articles, on a wide range of marine and land geoscience research, Dr. Hyndman has been involved in numerous international collaborative programs, participating in, and organizing, research cruises in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans.

His committee memberships include: NSERC Grant Selection Committees, review committees for several university departments, chair advisory board of the U.S. EarthScope program, chair of the Canadian Lithoprobe Scientific Committee, and chair of several international scientific ocean drilling (ODP) committees.

Dr. Hyndman is the former President of the Canadian Geophysical Union. He has been an associate editor of several scientific journals. He has supervised numerous graduate students and post doctoral research fellows.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an honorary member of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and a recipient of the J. Tuzo Wilson medal for contributions to geoscience in Canada.