Cooke Lab research collaboration on bonefish movement with Cooke Lab alum Dr. Karen Murchie featured in Bahamian news outlets. Click here to read the story. … Read More
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COOKE LAB & FRIENDS CLEAN UP SHORELINE ALONG RIDEAU RIVER
On Wednesday, September 24th a group of FECPL members and friends volunteered with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup initiative to collect trash along a 2km section of the Rideau River. The event was highly productive with the group collecting 8 … Read More
Cooke lab students travel to Brazil for recreational fisheries project
This September, Cooke Lab students Robert Lennox and Jake Brownscombe collaborated with professor Domingos Garonne-Neto at UNESP in Registro, Sao Paolo, Brazil. The students worked with Dr. Garonne-Neto to study fat snook (Centropomus parallelus), a culturally important species … Read More
FECPL members attend World Recreational Fisheries Conference in Brazil
Early this September, Shannon Bower, Robert Lennox, Jake Brownscombe, and Steven Cooke attended the 7th World Recreational Fisheries Conference (WRFC), an international conference held every 3 years. The theme this year was “Change, transformation and adaptation … Read More
STUDENTS SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND THEIR M.SC. THESIS
Congratulations are due to numerous students in the Cooke lab!
Maxime Veilleux successfully defended her thesis focused on the spatial ecology of fish in the Toronto Harbour on Monday, September 8th. She is hot on the heels of three students … Read More
JON MIDWOOD RECEIVES AFS-OC MENTOR AWARD
Dr. Jon Midwood, a FECPL PostDoc at Carleton University, was recently honoured with the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Student Subsection of the Ontario Chapter of the American Fisheries Society . The award was presented to an unsuspecting Jon … Read More
FECPL MEMBERS PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH AT 2014 AFS IN QUEBEC CITY
A combination of 15 undergraduate, graduate students, and PostDocs attended the 2014 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting from August 17th-21st in Quebec City.
The lab members, including Dr. Steven Cooke, presented in a range of symposia, on telemetry studies … Read More
MUSKY SYMPOSIUM IN OTTAWA A GREAT SUCCESS
On August 14th and 15th, Carleton University hosted an International Muskellunge Symposium in conjunction with Muskies Canada Inc., and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF). The event was attended by over 80 people, … Read More
Rideau River project featured on CBC Ottawa Morning show
On Thursday August 14th, FECPL PostDoc Jon Midwood was featured on the CBC morning show in Ottawa. The news program was interested in hearing about the telemetry project in the Rideau River where 20 Muskellunge and 20 Northern Pike have … Read More
RESEARCH FEATURED ON SCIENCE WEBSITE
A new paper by Shiffman et al. (2014) focusing on trophy fishing for threatened species was recently featured in Science as a news item. Click here to read the article and here to read the abstract in Marine Policy.
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Cooke lab members attend the American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Honolulu!
November 22, 2024 4:37 pm
Several past and present Cooke lab members presented and enjoyed their time at the latest American Fisheries Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii (August, 2024). A great experience connecting with and learning with colleagues …. we are looking forward to the … Read More
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Our lab celebrates our most recent grad students for defending their MSc and PhD theses (Sept 2023).
September 17, 2023 4:25 am
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Lab members assembled at the inaugural SCAS meeting in Montreal in February of 2023.
February 27, 2023 11:01 pm
There were many team members (past and present) at the meeting. Dr. Cooke assumed the role of President of SCAS and will hold that position until the next SCAS meeting in February 2024 in Fredericton.
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PhD student Jessica Robichaud discusses her turtle research with CBC Radio
November 11, 2022 10:09 pm
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-193-fresh-air/clip/15946967-what-turtles-ontario-winters… Read More
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November 2, 2022 4:57 pm
The Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and the FECPL at Carleton University are developing a research agenda on tipping points and cumulative effects in marine, terrestrial and freshwater systems and associated socio-economic systems. This research agenda will identify current knowledge … Read More
