Picture and highlight of paper co-authored by Dr. Cooke featured on cover of Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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JAKE BROWNSCOMBE’S RESEARCH ON LINKS BETWEEN FIGHT INTENSITY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS IN LARGEMOUTH BASS HIGHLIGHTED ON WIRED2FISH.COM
Research by Cooke Lab PhD student Jake Brownscombe was recently featured on Wired2Fish.com. Jake’s research used accelerometer technology to analyze the effects of fight intensity on physiological stress and relax impairment of largemouth bass.
Findings from this project have … Read More
Cooke Lab members participate in the Carleton Science Student Success Centre’s Science Lab Tour Week.
Cooke lab students Robert Lennox, Daniel Struthers, Naomi Pleizier and Taylor Ward recently presented their research and experiences to undergraduate students during the “Science Lab Tour Week“. The aim of the presentations was to introduce undergraduate students to … Read More
COOKE LAB MEMBERS HELP ORGANIZE CONFERENCE THAT HOSTS 350 FISHERIES RESEARCHERS FROM ACROSS CANADA
The 68th annual Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research (CCFFR) was held at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa, ON from January 8th-11th.
This year, Dr. Cooke and Cooke Lab members helped to organize the conference that … Read More
Dr. Cooke invited speaker at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Dr. Cooke was an invited speaker at the recent “Conservation Physiology” symposium at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in West Palm Beach, FL. The symposium ended with a lively round table on the “successes” in conservation physiology to … Read More
Lab alumni Nich Burnett’s research profiled in UBC Branchlines Magazine
UBC Branchline Magazine has profiled some of the research conducted by M.Sc. graduate student Nicholas Burnett. The project is a collaboration between BC Hydro, local First Nations communities, the University of British Columbia, and Carleton University. To access the story, … Read More
Happy Holidays from the Cooke Lab!
Class presentations on the physiology of Pacific salmon in New Denver, BC
On December 11, Melissa Dick visited Lucerne Elementary Secondary School in New Denver, BC, to do presentations on the physiology of Pacific salmon. She worked with the grade 7/8 and 9/10 classes to dissect two adult salmon spawners. They identified … Read More
Ph.D. student Graham Raby attends WKMEDS II meeting in Copenhagen
The week before his recent (and successful) Ph.D. defense, Graham Raby represented the Cooke Lab at a meeting at ICES headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting (Nov. 24-28, 2014) was titled “Workshop on Methods for Estimating Discard Survival II”. The … Read More
Cooke lab awarded a grant from Environment Canada to develop online science-based information portal
Cooke lab was awarded a grant from Environment Canada to develop an online portal for the dissemination of science-based information on best practices for catch-and-release. We look forward to working with our partners (Muskies Canada, Trout Unlimited Canada, ON BASS, … Read More