Research Unit

• Project Seahorse

Biography

Sara Lourie is officially registered at McGill University in Montreal but is a regular visitor to the Fisheries Centre at UBC where her supervisor Amanda Vincent is now based. Her current research interests include taxonomy, biogeography and understanding the phylogeographic history of marine species. For her PhD thesis she is assessing spatial genetic patterns within four species of seahorses in Southeast Asia and relating these to the geological history of the region and to current conservation planning.

Prior to starting her PhD she undertook field research on a wide variety of organisms ranging from cave swiftlets in Borneo, Soay sheep on St Kilda, grouse in Scotland, to squirrels and moss in Canada. She has been involved with Project Seahorse since 1996 and was the senior author on an identification guide to the world's seahorse species.