Juan José Alava

Burnaby, British Columbia

PhD, Adjunct Professor

Education

Juan Jose Alava is an Ecuadorian biologist and his research interests are broad and include the following fields of expertise: environmental toxicology; food web-bioaccumulation modelling of pollutants and eco-toxicology; seabirds and marine mammals; conservation biology, tropical biodiversity and ecology. He is a collaborating scientist of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands and the science director of the Ecuadorian Foundation for the Study of Marine Mammals. Alava was also a research associate with the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Ocean. He was selected as a member of the Academy of Sciences of Ecuador in 2014