Hannah Kobluk

Education

• BSc, Geography, University of Victoria
• MRM, Simon Fraser University
  

Biography

Hannah is a coastal ecologist who was raised on the prairies, a third generation settler Canadian, and a proud female scientist. She has always been an outdoor enthusiast and is motivated by her love for the ecosystems and people of the coast. She completed her Master’s at SFU in partnership with the Heiltsuk Nation and was inspired to continue pursuing collaborative research that supports Indigenous resource governance. She is passionate about co-produced, community based research that upholds diverse knowledge forms as a path towards inclusive and innovative marine policy in the era of climate change. 

For her PhD, Hannah is a contributor to the Canada wide NSERC ResNet grant that is centered on promoting resilience in Canada’s working land and sea scapes. Hannah is working in partnership with Coastal First Nations to investigate how access to seafood will be impacted by climate change and the recovery of sea otters along the coast. She hopes to use field studies, ecological modeling and scenario planning, in addition to Indigenous knowledge and archaeological data, to examine historical and ongoing changes in fisheries and values dependent on them to inform future policy for resilient fisheries.