Ph.D. candidate Jake Brownscombe is in Culebra, Puerto Rico, for the month of December with colleagues from Dr. Andy Danylchuk’s lab. They are downloading data from an acoustic telemetry array designed to track both broad and fine-scale movements of bonefish, … Read More

The Cooke Lab celebrated the end of another fantastic year with a festive party this past weekend. Many thanks to the students who organized and hosted! The gift exchange theme this year fully embraced the “re-gift” conceptand continued the tradition … Read More

Each summer, Chinook salmon on the east coast of Vancouver Island swim upstream into the Puntledge River to spawn. Salmon have to overcome natural barriers such as waterfalls on their journey, but increasingly hydropower developments are

causing migration challenges. For … Read More

Congratulations to Felicia St-Louis on successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis at Carleton University today! Felicia’s thesis focused on the ecology of stress in the tropicalcoastal marine fish, the checkered pufferfish (Sphoeroides

testudineus).

Dr. Thiem and Dr. Cooke after Jason’s defense

Congratulations are in order for Jason Thiem, who successfully defended his Ph.D. on November 5th, 2013.

Jason left his native Australia four years ago to pursue a Ph.D. degree with Dr. … Read More

A new paper, representing a large collaboration of aquatic scientists (Environmental Reviews), outlines the management and protection needed to support freshwater ecosystems and fisheries in our changing world.

Below, key principles are described using fishes as an example, … Read More

On October 30th, Post-doctoral fellow Jon Midwood and M.Sc. candidate Cassia Belanger attended the biannual Stream Monitoring and Research Team Eastern Region (SMARTER) workshop. These meetings bring together local and provincial stakeholders and managers to discuss new stream … Read More

Dr. Cooke participated in the EU COST Action meeting on the Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes held in Faro, Portugal (October 28 to 30, 2013). He provided an overview presentation

On the drive home from another inspiring Ontario Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, the authors of this paper began an enthusiastic conversation about the endless uses of smart phones, both for social interactions and networking as well … Read More

Dr. Cooke travels to Japan as part of NSERC delegation to discuss potential research synergies related to sustainable water use with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (Oct 2013)