Research
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Latest papers
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science.
Annual review of marine science · 2025 · senior author
Centering relationships to place for more meaningful research and engagement.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024 · senior author
The history of Coast Salish "woolly dogs" revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023
Latest funding
- $5,500,000
NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $203,000
Applying marine historical ecology to quantify long-term change in coastal ecosystems
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $300,000
Operations and Maintenance Support - Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
12 publications.
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science.
Salomon AK, McKechnie I
Centering relationships to place for more meaningful research and engagement.
Beaty F, Domínguez-Sánchez PS, Nalven KB, Palacios-Abrantes J, Oken KL, Ban NC, Nickols KJ, Juanes F, Okey TA, Spalding AK, Nalini Morzaria-Luna H, Jenkins LD, Tulloch V, McKechnie I
The history of Coast Salish "woolly dogs" revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge.
Lin AT, Hammond-Kaarremaa L, Liu HL, Stantis C, McKechnie I, Pavel M, Pavel SSM, Wyss SSÁ, Sparrow DQ, Carr K, Aninta SG, Perri A, Hartt J, Bergström A, Carmagnini A, Charlton S, Dalén L, Feuerborn TR, France CAM, Gopalakrishnan S, Grimes V, Harris A, Kavich G, Sacks BN, Sinding MS, Skoglund P, Stanton DWG, Ostrander EA, Larson G, Armstrong CG, Frantz LAF, Hawkins MTR, Kistler L
Disrupting and diversifying the values, voices and governance principles that shape biodiversity science and management.
Salomon AK, Okamoto DK, Wilson ḴBJ, Tommy Happynook H, Wickaninnish, Mack WA, Allan Davidson SH, Guujaaw G, L Humchitt WWH, Happynook TM, Cox WC, Gillette HF, Christiansen NS, Dragon D, Kobluk HM, Lee LC, Tinker MT, Silver JJ, Armitage D, McKechnie I, MacNeil A, Hillis D, Muhl EK, Gregr EJ, Commander CJC, Augustine A
Humanity's diverse predatory niche and its ecological consequences.
Darimont CT, Cooke R, Bourbonnais ML, Bryan HM, Carlson SM, Estes JA, Galetti M, Levi T, MacLean JL, McKechnie I, Paquet PC, Worm B
Steller's sea cow uncertain history illustrates importance of ecological context when interpreting demographic histories from genomes.
Campos AA, Bullen CD, Gregr EJ, McKechnie I, Chan KMA
Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management.
Reeder-Myers L, Braje TJ, Hofman CA, Elliott Smith EA, Garland CJ, Grone M, Hadden CS, Hatch M, Hunt T, Kelley A, LeFebvre MJ, Lockman M, McKechnie I, McNiven IJ, Newsom B, Pluckhahn T, Sanchez G, Schwadron M, Smith KY, Smith T, Spiess A, Tayac G, Thompson VD, Vollman T, Weitzel EM, Rick TC
A palaeothermometer of ancient Indigenous fisheries reveals increases in mean temperature of the catch over five millennia.
Hillis D, Gustas R, Pauly D, Cheung WWL, Salomon AK, McKechnie I
Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene.
Slade E, McKechnie I, Salomon AK
Ancient dog diets on the Pacific Northwest Coast: zooarchaeological and stable isotope modelling evidence from Tseshaht territory and beyond.
Hillis D, McKechnie I, Guiry E, St Claire DE, Darimont CT
NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience
Principal investigators: Bennett, Elena EM
Keywords: complex systems; ecosystem modelling; ecosystem services; enviromental monitoring; global change; landscape ecology; natural resource management; resilience; sustainability science; translational science
Applying marine historical ecology to quantify long-term change in coastal ecosystems
Principal investigators: McKechnie, Iain
Keywords: biogeography; coastal archaeology; fisheries and wildlife management; historical ecology; Indigenous peoples; marine ecology; shifting baselines; stable isotope analysis; trophic cascades; zooarchaeology
Operations and Maintenance Support - Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Principal investigators: Anholt, Bradley
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Daniel Pauly and Boris Worm: 2 shared papers
- Daniel Pauly and Iain McKechnie: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Pauly and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Iain McKechnie and Francis Juanes: 1 shared paper
- Iain McKechnie and Aaron MacNeil: 1 shared paper
- Iain McKechnie and Boris Worm: 1 shared paper
- Iain McKechnie and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Iain McKechnie and Eric Guiry: 1 shared paper
- Aaron MacNeil and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Boris Worm and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Biology
- Anthropology
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- Environmental Archaeology
- Other
Co-authors at University of Victoria, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Aaron MacNeil
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Boris Worm
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Francis Juanes
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Derek Armitage
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Eric Guiry
Environmental Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Daniel Pauly
Department of Zoology at UBC
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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