Mr. Alex Rubekie Peter is an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of Dar es Salaam based in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He did his Bachelor degree in Aquatic Environmental Sciences and Conservation and Master of Science in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Dar es Salaam. At the institute, Mr. Peter teaches courses on Climate change and variability, Marine phytoplankton and primary production as well as Biostatistics for marine scientists. Before joining the current position, Mr. Peter was a registered Technical Fisheries Tutor at Fisheries Education and Training Agency conducting training both long and short courses on Fish processing, Fish Handling, Fish Quality Assurance, Fisheries Management, Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture and Environment, Safety at Sea, Environmental Education as well as Dynamics of Aqua-Environment and Aquaculture.

Mr. Peter is interested in conducting research in the area of Natural resources economics, indigenous knowledge in weather and climate forecasts for adaptation, coastal and marine ecology, climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment, climate change mitigation, natural resources governance as well as socio-economic and ecological systems of marine environment. He has also attended training on climate change modelling and ecological monitoring at the University of Dar es Salaam funded by the Association for Africa University in Ghana (AAU) and a Germany agency DAAD.  Mr. Peter is an expert of data management and analysis using various programing languages including R-programming, Python, STATA, SPSS. He is also an active member of the Western Indian Ocean Mangrove Network (WIOMN), Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), Western Indian Ocean Early Career Scientists Network (WIOECSN) and International Biometric Society – Tanzania (IBS-Tanzania).