Andrea is a fish biologist, diver, and conservationist. Her research blends many kinds of science to study stressed-out fish around the world: East Africa; Southeast Asia; Oceania; and the Pacific Northwest. She strives to engage Indigenous community members as active participants in the research process and is herself a member of the northern, coastal Nisga’a Nation. Andrea has been awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship and Royal Canadian Geographical Society Grant in support of her work on Pacific salmon bycatch.

Andrea just did an Explorer Classroom with National Geographic during Ocean Week

Andrea Reid

Cooke Lab Fish Biologist (Nisga’a Nation)

Reporting on

  • Reef to Aquarium
  • Sea to Spawning