Shannon Bower and Robert Lennox of Carleton U’s Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory traveled to Lillehammer, Norway for the EIFAAC International Symposium on Recreational Fisheries . The symposium was attended by over 180 recreational fisheries professionals from 22 countries … Read More
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New Science publication co-authored by Dr. Cooke receives media attention
The recently published paper in the journal Science, co-authored by Dr. Cooke, has been covered by a number of media outlets. Check them out!
Dr. Steven Cooke co-authors new paper on aquatic animal tracking published in Science
A new paper, published in Science, details the explosion in aquatic animal tracking research over the past 30 years and its impact on discoveries about the movements, migrations, interactions and survival of both common and elusive aquatic species.
The review … Read More
Cooke Lab members present research at IAGLR Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research
Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Liset Cruz Font, and PhD student, Andrew Rous, each delivered talks on their research tracking fish in the Toronto Harbour as part of a session they co-chaired entitled “Acoustic Telemetry: Using Big Data to Answer … Read More
Illuminating the effects of light pollution on bass behaviour
At the Queens University Biological Station, Cooke Lab students spent almost the entire month of May studying the parental care behaviour and energetics of nest-guarding smallmouth bass. For one project, tri-axial accelerometer loggers were affixed to the back of … Read More
Cooke Lab student Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer participates in the CSEE Annual Meeting
The Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting brings together ecologists and evolutionary biologists from across Canada and part of the United States. The conference featured a broad scope of research and study organisms, with studies on anything from … Read More
Cooke Lab delivers OUFPB field course on fish ecology at Queen’s Biology Station
Students from universities across Ontario joined Prof. Cooke, Dr. Connie O’Connor (McMaster) and Cooke lab members for a two week field course at Queen’s University Biological Station on Lake Opinicon. The course was run through the Ontario Universities Program in … Read More
Cooke Lab research by Chris Pullen featured on CBC
Cooke lab students participate in Science Poster Day at Carleton University
Undergrad thesis students in the Cooke Lab presented their posters as part of the capstone Science Poster Day at Carleton. Sofia Jain and Kathryn Dufour both won awards for their posters although all of the posters prepared by Cooke Lab … Read More
Jake Brownscombe Participates in the 2015 Belize River Lodge Tagging Challenge
The Belize River LodgeBonefish and Tarpon Trust (BTT) Tagging Challenge is an annual event in Belize, where anglers, guides, and scientists fish for bonefish, permit, and Atlantic tarpon for research purposes. Combining fishing and conservation, participants collect genetic samples … Read More