Anya Waite

Dr. Anya Waite is a Canadian biological oceanographer working at the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University.Anya Waite is a biological oceanographer who is currently Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada), and the Chief Executive Officer of the Ocean Frontier Institute.

[1] She was previously Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute,[2] the Section Head of Polar Biological Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, and a professor of oceanography in the biology department at the University of Bremen.

[1] Throughout her time at the University of Western Australia, she was awarded the PCB Professional Development Scholarship.

[3] Dr. Anya Waite is the first woman[4] to co-chair the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).

[5] Dr. Waite is also featured on a digital poster[6] as part of the Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation Women in STEM initiative[7] that aim to make equity-deserving groups in STEM more visible, to promote careers for equity-deserving groups in STEM, to highlight issues of inequality, and to celebrate achievements and advocates.