Victoria Arbour joined the Royal BC Museum in 2018 as the Curator of Palaeontology following an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum, and a postdoctoral appointment at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University. Victoria is a vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist and is the leading expert on the palaeobiology of the armoured dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs.

Ken Marr has been Botany Curator with the Royal BC Museum since 2001. His PhD is from the University of British Columbia, where he also did post-doctoral studies before heading to China for two-and-a-half years to study ethnobotany at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (Chinese Academy of Sciences), specifically crop domestication of several Cucurbits. He taught plant taxonomy courses at the Universities of Wyoming and Montana for one year prior to beginning at the Royal BC Museum.

Claudia Copley has been a collection manager at the Royal BC Museum since 2004. She is responsible for maintaining the entomology collection, which includes insects, arachnids, and myriapods, a collection with more than half a million specimens.

Claudia’s graduate degree was focused on the spider fauna of the ancient forests in the Carmanah Valley, but her interests include everything entomological.

Gavin Hanke joined the Royal BC Museum in 2004 after working at the Manitoba Museum and teaching in universities. Much of Gavin’s published work is based on his PhD which focused on fossil fishes (acanthodians and early shark-like fishes) from the Lower Devonian of northwestern Canada. He has described and named 10 new fossil fish species, and has another six new species descriptions still to publish.