Meet the Captain and
Expedition Lead
About Captain Allen
R. Allen Curry, PhD - Allen is a research scientist, professor, and natural historian of Canada’s rivers and lakes, coastal zones, and oceans. He has spent a lifetime on the water from his childhood in the Muskoka Lakes region of central Canada to the last 30 years on the waters of Maritime Canada. He has published >150 peer-reviewed articles about water ranging from science to management and including books on the fishes of Canada. Allen has trained countless young people, developed and delivered a wide variety of training programmes in the field and classroom, and has been engaged in water challenges for Indigenous communities, governments, industry, and non-government agencies across Canada and beyond. He has studied and traveled in many of Canada’s most remote wilderness regions plus expeditions in the Caribbean and Patagonia.
Want to learn more about Allen?
His home base - rallencurry.com
As a Fellow of the Canadian Rivers Institute
As Professor Curry, UNB
More About the Expedition
The Expedition is the final, formal adventure for Allen at the Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick. It is an institute-funded initiative that closes the circle on his long research and teaching career in the aquatic sciences. World-class research and science highlighted Allen’s academic career, yet many of the most informative discoveries and advances emerged from meeting local experts and Elders who knew their waters best. Building on that theme, the Expedition is a connecting-the-dots project that travels to meet people on their home waters to listen and learn, discuss the science and Allen’s wide-ranging water experiences, and then connect these conversations, weaving them into a collective, water reconciliation message for everyone.
