Allen Curry is a professor of Biology, Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, NB, Canada. He was a founding member (2001) then Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) from 2004-13 when he stepped down to become the Principal Investigator for the multi-million dollar Mactaquac Aquatic Ecosystem Study. He is a Fellow of the CRI, the NB Department of Natural Resources/Cloverleaf Foundation Professor of Recreational Fisheries Research, and Assistant Director-NB Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, reports, books, and book chapters in the fields of fish ecology, fisheries, freshwater/estuarine/reef ecology, ecohydrology, and various fields within hydrology from environmental flows to forest hydrology processes. He sustains a suite of research associates, post-doctoral researchers, technicians, and graduate and undergraduate students, and teaches courses on statistics for the environmental sciences and the impacts of humans on the coral reefs.