Anya M. Waite

I am a Canadian oceanographer who studied Music, English Literature, and Forest Ecology at Dalhousie en route to my PhD at UBC in 1992. This was interspersed with lengthy travel periods in Europe and North Africa, and a longish stay in South America, particularly Bolivia. I spent several years as Post-doctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, ran a confocal microscopy facility in New Zealand, and then 17 years as a professor of Environmental Engineering in Australia. My first major leadership role was as Head / Professor of Biological Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute, and I arrived to take leadership of the Ocean Frontier Institute in Halifax in 2018.