Awards

Award

Recipient

Year

Named University Killam Professor, University of British Columbia
Rashid Sumaila 2021
Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize Sarah Harper 2019
Appointed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics. Rashid Sumaila 2019
Winner of the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize Rashid Sumaila 2017
Peter Benchley Award Rashid Sumaila 2017
Killam Faculty Research Prize winner in the Applied Science, Science Senior Rashid Sumaila 2016
Excellence in Public Outreach Award, American Fisheries Society Rashid Sumaila 2013
National Geographic Ocean Restoration Advisory Council Member Rashid Sumaila 2010
JIFRS Yamamoto Prize – First prize Sebastian Villasante and Rashid Sumaila 2010
Top 10 most cited articles in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (from 2005-2010) by Elsevier Colin Clark, Gordon Munro and Rashid Sumaila 2010
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship Megan Bailey 2009
Social Science & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship Louise Teh 2009
University Graduate Fellowship Star Megan Bailey 2009
University Graduate Fellowship Star Louise Teh 2009
Leopold Leadership Fellowship Rashid Sumaila 2009
Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship Rashid Sumaila 2008
Craigdarroch Award for Societal Contribution
(Coasts Under Stress Project)
Rashid Sumaila 2007
University Faculty Associations of British Columbia
Distinguished Academics Award (Nominee)
Rashid Sumaila 2007
University of British Columbia Peter Wall Centre
Early Career Scholarship
Rashid Sumaila 2007
Cosmos International Graduate Travel Award Louise Teh 2007
Pacific Fishery Biologists Scholarship (no longer offered) Gaku Ishimura 2006
Pacific Fishery Biologists Scholarship (no longer offered) Yajie Liu 2006
Zayed International Prize
(The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Team)
Rashid Sumaila 2007
Pacific Fishery Biologists Scholarship (no longer offered) Megan Bailey 2007
Lifetime membership in NAAFE
(North American Association of Fisheries Economists
)
Rashid Sumaila 2005
Dr. W.F James Professor of Pure and Applied Sciences Rashid Sumaila 2004
“Advances in Fisheries Economics” Published in his honour Gordon Munro 2007