Lauren Eckert

Position
Contact
Credentials
MSc (UVic)
Publications:
Presentations:
- Explorer session co-lead/presenter/organizer, National Geographic 2021 Explorer’s Festival Explorer Takeover Session, Conservation "In A Good Way": equitably bridging knowledge types towards a better world with Dr. Andrea Reid and Dr. Losang Rabgey
- Invited Speaker, Women Who Blaze Trails Festival, “Diving Back in Time: Interweaving Knowledge Types to Improve Marine Conservation” (February 2021
- Invited Speaker, University of Victoria Dean’s Lunchtime Lecture Series, “Of Conflict and Coexistence: understanding human-wildlife relationships in a complex world”(June 2020)
- Invited Speaker, Coastal Insights, “Episode 2 – Living in Harmony with Wildlife” Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Online (May 2020) *video accessible via hyperlink
- Joint Presentation with Andrea Reid, “Applying a Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Improve Research and Fisheries Management in the Anthropocene”, 1st Joint The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society Conference, Reno, NV (September 2019)
- Invited Speaker, Floating Ideas Lecture, “Towards Indigenous Marine Management: A case study of Yelloweye rockfish on the Central Coast of BC, Canada” Shaw Centre Aquarium, Victoria, BC (December 2018)
Awards:
- Canada Vanier Scholar
- Raincoast Conservation Fellow
- National Geographic Explorer/Grantee
- Presidential Research Award Recipient (University of Victoria)
- Royal Canadian Geographic Society Scholarship Recipient