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As a research company with more than 30 years experience in sustainable marine resource management, Archipelago offers a panel of top industry consultants that can help you find sustainable, real-world solutions to sensitive fisheries and environmental challenges.

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Shawn Stebbins
Shawn Stebbins is president and CEO of Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. Shawn’s background includes more than 30 years working with the commercial fishing industry in roles ranging from deck hand and plant worker to research technician and manager of fishery-monitoring programs. For the past 20 years, Shawn has specialized in the development and implementation of fishery monitoring and management data collection programs for commercial fisheries. In addition to roles with Archipelago, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the International Pacific Halibut Commission, Shawn has also been an active contributor to the groundfish advisory process within British Columbia.

Howard McElderry, M.Sc.
Howard McElderry is vice president, electronic monitoring, and a founding member of Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. Since earning his M. Sc. in marine biology in 1980, Howard has worked extensively in the field of commercial fisheries monitoring and analysis. He has played a key role in the development of at-sea and shore-based monitoring programs, and over the past decade, has led the development of technology-based approaches to fishery monitoring, or electronic monitoring (EM), that is being widely adopted in many industrialized fisheries around the globe.

Brian Emmett, M.Sc., R.P.Bio.
Brian Emmett is a founding member and senior partner of Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. With more than 35 years experience in coastal marine and fisheries biology, Brian has contributed extensively to the development of new and innovative survey, sampling, and monitoring methods for coastal marine resources. Brian’s commitment to sustainable principles and ideals is balanced by a practical, real-world approach to addressing complex marine resource planning and management challenges. Notable projects include a number of coastal resource planning initiatives, a stewardship guide for the British Columbia coast, and an assessment of progress towards sustainability and traceability in the BC seafood harvesting sector. Brian is also a founding member of the Green Shores Technical Team (www.greenshores.ca), a program that promotes sustainable use of coastal ecosystems through development planning and design that recognizes the ecological features and functions of coastal systems.

Dawn Mann
Dawn Mann is the divisional manager for electronic monitoring services at Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. With more than 17 years experience in the field of fisheries monitoring, Dawn's background includes a degree in resource management, and 15 years managing dockside monitoring programs within BC’s hook/line and trawl fisheries (including five years managing all aspects of data collection and analysis within Archipelago’s Information Services Division). With a specialization in project management and operations, Dawn currently oversees Archipelago’s Electronic Monitoring division, both domestically and internationally.

Scott Buchanan, B.Sc.
Scott Buchanan is the divisional manager of observer services at Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. With more than 18 years experience in fishery monitoring programs, and a B.Sc. (with honours) in marine biology from the University of British Columbia, Scott specializes in the implementation and management of large fishery monitoring and research survey programs. At Archipelago, Scott oversees the company’s observer and catch reporting programs throughout British Columbia.

Andrew Fedoruk
Andrew Fedoruk is the divisional manager for technical services at Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. Andrew’s background includes a degree in biology and more than 20 years managing field projects, including over 16 years experience with Archipelago fisheries monitoring programs (both dockside and at sea) within BC’s groundfish fisheries. With a specialization in data systems and program design, Andrew currently manages all aspects of Archipelago’s IT division and data management processes.

Pam Thuringer, M.Sc., R.P.Bio.
Pam Thuringer is a marine biologist for Archipelago’s Marine Environmental Services Group. She has 20 years of experience in marine sub-tidal and intertidal surveying and environmental assessment in coastal British Columbia. Pam is primarily involved in environmental and habitat assessment, biophysical inventories, and environmental monitoring. She is experienced in managing and conducting marine environmental assessments involving practical and environmentally sound approaches to habitat impact assessment and the resolution of mitigation and/or compensation issues related to nearshore and offshore developments. Habitat impact assessment projects she has been involved in include shoreline protection works, pipeline/cable installation, offshore wind farm and ferry terminal developments and smaller marine facility developments associated with docks, marinas, walkways and barge landing construction. Each project typically involves client and agency liaison, a marine baseline biophysical inventory, a habitat impact assessment, construction monitoring, and a post construction as-built assessment, with many of these projects requiring the design and implementation of a post construction environmental monitoring program.

Mary Morris, M.Sc., R.P.Bio.
Mary Morris is a senior coastal ecologist with Archipelago. She has worked extensively on the development and implementation of ShoreZone, a coastal biophysical inventory and mapping system. Recent work has included aerial and ground surveys of biological features on coastlines from the western Alaska Peninsula to Oregon, where she has been responsible for inventorying and classification of almost 100,000 kms of coast in the Pacific Northwest. Her work experience includes working with all types of coastal marine datasets, including multi-variant analysis coastal species assemblages, nearshore habitat classification and assessment of habitat compensation projects. Before joining Archipelago, Mary was a long-time resident of Queen Charlotte City, where she worked as a biological consultant, a freelance writer and reporter, a wilderness tour operator and was active in several planning processes during the establishment of Gwaii Haanas National Park.

Gina Lemieux, B.Sc., R.P.Bio
Gina Lemieux is a senior marine biologist for Archipelago’s Marine Environmental Services Group. Gina has more than fourteen years of experience working on coastal marine and offshore projects involving intertidal and subtidal biophysical surveys, environmental assessments (pursuant to the Canadian and British Columbian Environmental Assessment Acts), habitat compensation design, implementation and monitoring, regulatory agency liaison and permitting, benthic community sampling, marine mammal population surveys, water and sediment quality sampling, and literature review and data gap analysis. Gina is directly involved with the design, implementation and management of projects as well as providing supervision and mentoring of junior biologists. She is a certified WCB occupational diver with over 430 hours of logged biological research dives.