Levings, Colin D.

Colin Levings was born in 1942 in Victoria.

He went to high school in North Surrey and as a youth spent a lot of time fishing in the lower Fraser River. Colin began his career in marine science in 1962 as sea-going technician in Alaska working for the International Pacific Halibut Commission.

He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at UBC and his Ph.D. at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Colin retired as a research scientist from Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 2006 but keeps working as a reviewer, advisor, writer, and mentor: see his website for lists of publications, presentations, and photo galleries. As well as conducting many estuary studies in British Columbia, Colin worked on marine fish ecology projects in the Strait of Georgia and elsewhere on the Coast. Recently he has been researching Edward Flanders Ricketts’ (author of Between Pacific Tides) studies in British Columbia. His recent book on salmonids in estuaries — Ecology of Salmonids in Estuaries Around the World: Adaptations, Habitats, and Conservation (UBC Press 2016) — was reviewed in The Ormsby Review no. 113 (April 4, 2017).

Dr. Ed Bousfield named two species of amphipod for Dr. Colin Levings.