Ray W. Hilborn

Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Contributions to marine biology, fishery science, conservation, and natural resource management. Applied mathematical and computer-aided tools to management and conservation of natural resources. Introduced adaptive management statistical decision theory for resources. Advisor to international fisheries agencies. Monograph (with Mangel), The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (1997), builds on earlier foundational work (with Walters), Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment (1992). Received Volvo Environmental Prize. Fellow Royal Society of Canada.