Ph.D. candidate Jake Brownscombe travelled to Helsinki, Finland on April 22nd to attend a North Atlantic Recreational Fisheries Workshop and provide a Canadian perspective on recreational fisheries dynamics and issues.
Canada has numerous and diverse fisheries with great social and … Read More
Naomi Pleizier (M.Sc. candidate) recently returned from enjoying the Mangroves as Fish Habitat Symposium of the AFS Western Division meeting in sunny Mazatlán, Mexico. She presented her results of the effects of cortisol on the personality of checkered pufferfish to … Read More
Shannon Bower (graduate student) and Dr. Cooke recently returned from a 2 week trip to India. Along with Dr. Andy Danylchuk and other team members from the Mahseer Trust and Baobab Educational Adventures, and with financial support from the Fisheries … Read More
Dr. Cooke’s NSERC Discovery Grant on the “Ecology of stress in wild fish in a changing world” was successful and his Canada
Last week Maxime Veilleux, Tyler Peat, Andrew Rous, Vivian Nguyen, and Steve Cooke attended the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System (GLATOS) meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The meeting focused on the application of acoustic telemetry … Read More
Dr. Jon Midwood and Dr. Alex Wilson left for Silkeborg, Denmark this past weekend to continue an ongoing collaborative project with the Danish Institute of Aquatic Research. Previous projects have focused on the effects of stress and outmigration timing of … Read More
Dr. Cooke was welcomed and entertained by the Biology Graduate Student Society (impressive job by their team!). To engage the diverse audience, Cooke described the interface of physiology, behaviour and conservation through two case studies on bycatch. While on campus, … Read More
Dr. Cooke and Shannon Bower (Ph.D. Candidate) are co-organizing two workshops in India scheduled at the end of March and early April, 2014. Shannon will be studying Mahseer fisheries in India as part of her Ph.D. thesis. Please see the … Read More
On Thursday February 6th, several Cooke Lab members took part in a salmon workshop in Vancouver, which is hosted each year by collaborator Scott Hinch and his lab at UBC.
The annual meeting is a chance for students and post-docs … Read More
Dr. Cooke is an invited speaker in a focused session on the Ocean Tracking Network at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago. His talk is titled “Multidisciplinary Tracking Studies to Inform Fisheries Management -Lessons … Read More
