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Study on Catch-And-Release Revival Techniques featured in the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Bulletin
Fishing for answers: Can freshwater protected areas prevent the selective removal of the ‘best dads’ in largemouth bass?
Lake Opinicon at the Queen’s University Biological Station provides unique research opportunities due to its longstanding freshwater protected areas, where angling has been banned for over 70 years. These protected areas have allowed student researchers to explore the effects of … Read More
Cooke lab students attend EIFAAC conference in Norway
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
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