Dr. Marina Silva-Opps (formerly Marina Silva)

*. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

Current Position: Associate Professor

Degrees Held: B.Sc. 1989 Université de Montréal

Ph.D 1996 Université de Montréal

Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish and Italian

Other Degrees, Certificates, Training:

• Training in Climate Change Scenarios from Environment Canada

• Scientific Proof-reading in English, Spanish and French

• Scientific Literat

Other Professional Experiences:

• Graduate Faculty, Faculty of Science, University of Prince Edward Island

• Graduate Faculty, Faculty of Arts (Nov 2009 – Nov2014 ), University of Prince Edward Island

2. COMPUTER SKILLS AND SOFTWARE USED

• Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowePoint) & Corel

• Sigmaplot

• SAS, SPSS, Minitab

• ArcView GIS

• Basic R Project for Statistical Computing

3. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING WORK

• Silva, M. and S.B. Opps. 2007. Environmental Impact Assessment of the Norway Wind Park, Prince Edward Island (prepared for Ventus Energy Inc.).

- Conduct site assessment prior to technical scoping with the concerned government agencies that will identify the EIA requirements.

- Conduct the initial site assessment to identify the EIA requirements prior to submission of the technical and financial proposal to clients.

- Act as Environmental Consultant to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and prepare the corresponding environmental reports to consider the project impacts and appropriate mitigating measures formulating the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) and Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMoP). Among the tasks are the following.

• Silva, M. and S.B. Opps. 2007. Environmental Impact Assessment of Phase I of the West Cape Wind Park, Prince Edward Island (prepared for Ventus Energy Inc.).

- Conduct site assessment prior to technical scoping with the concerned government agencies that will identify the EIA requirements.

- Conduct the initial site assessment to identify the EIA requirements prior to submission of the technical and financial proposal to clients.

- Act as Environmental Consultant to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and prepare the corresponding environmental reports to consider the project impacts and appropriate mitigating measures formulating the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) and Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMoP). Among the tasks are the following.

4. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCES

a) Website Editorial and Development Work

• Ecology: A Canadian Textbook Freedman et al. 2009 – Development of Self-study web resources for students – June 2010

b) Journal Editor (since 2011)

• ISRN Ecology

c) Journal Referee (since 2001)

$ Acta Theriologica

$ Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment

$ Biological Conservation

$ Canadian Journal of Botany

$ Canadian Journal of Zoology

$ Conservation Ecology

$ Ecography

$ Ecology

$ Ecology Letters

$ Global Ecology & Biogeography

$ Journal of Biogeography

$ Journal of Mammalogy

$ Mammalia

$ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B

d) Grants Referee (since 2001)

• Chair of the NSERC Earth Sciences and Ecology Scholarship and Fellowship Selection Committee (2008-2009)

• Member of the NSERC Earth Sciences and Ecology Scholarship and Fellowship Selection Committee (2006-2008)

• Member of the Programme Fonds de l'Avant-Garde et des Initiatives Nouvelles de la FCI - Petites Universités (Competition 2006).

• Member of the Programme Établissement de Nouveaux Chercheurs - Fonds de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies du Québec (2003-2005 and 2007-2009)

• Member of the Programme Fonds des Leaders de la Fondation Canadienne pour L=Innovation (FCI/CFI) - Fonds de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies du Québec (Competition, October 2005)

e) Examiner of Thesis (external to UPEI)

$ Chin, K. 2005. Within peatland spatial structuring and the influence of the matrix on between peatland movement of the dragonfly, Leucorrhinia hudsonica, in western Newfoundland. MSc Thesis, Department of Biology, Acadia University.

f) Examiner of Tenure or Promotion (external to UPEI)

$ Dr. Graham Forbes, New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick

g) Consulting Work

$ Atlantic Conservation Data Center (ACCDC) - Conservation Status of Mammals on Prince Edward Island

5. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Graduate courses taught from 2002 to present

- Advanced Topics in Ecology & Environmental Sciences

- Seminar in Biology

- Island Biogeography and Conservation of Insular Systems

• Graduate courses guest lecture given since 2002

- Research Methods and Design for Island Studies

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