Draft:Mary O'Connor

Mary O'Connor is a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and is currently the director of UBC’s Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC).

Education

 * Brown University, B.S. Aquatic Biology, 2000
 * University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D. Ecology, 2008
 * Post Doc at National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

Selected publications

 * Hooper, D. U., Adair, E. C., Cardinale, B. J., Byrnes, J. E .K., Hungate, B. A., Matulich, K. L., Gonzalez, A., Duffy, J. E., Gamfeldt, L., O’Connor, M. I. 2012. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change. Nature. 486 (7401): 105-108.

Awards and honours

 * Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, 2023.
 * Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2020
 * Steacie Prize for Research, 2019