FECPL Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Eduardo Martins has just returned from the Amazon after spending a few days visiting Lake Ayapua (located in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Piagaçu-Purus managed by Instituto Piagaçu). Eduardo will be participating in a … Read More
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Pufferfish personality – is it relevant in the wild?
Naomi Pleizier is back in the field at the Cape Eleuthera Institute, in the Bahamas, to follow up on her findings about personality and stress in checkered pufferfish (Sphoeroides testudineus). Checkered puffers are ubiquitous in mangrove ecosystems … Read More
STUDENT ATTENDS COASTAL ZONE CANADA CONFERENCE IN HALIFAX, NS
VOLUNTEERS GET WET SEINING FOR JUVENILE ESOCIDS
Last week Post Doc Dr. Jon Midwood led a group of volunteers from the FECPL lab and Ottawa community on a hunt for juvenile Muskellunge and Northern Pike in the Rideau River.
Ottawa can boast about its urban muskie population … Read More
FECPL ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTED IN LATEST ISSUE OF “IN-FISHERMAN” MAGAZINE
In their Aug/Sept 2014 issue, In-Fisherman magazine summarizes a paper published in Fisheries Research by Colotelo and Cooke (2011). The topic focused on fish handling factors and their effects on Northern Pike and Largemouth Bass.
… Read MoreDR. COOKE QUOTED IN OTTAWA CITIZEN ARTICLE
Dr. Steven Cooke was recently contacted for his professional opinion regarding pollution entering the Rideau Canal in the form of “love locks”. Click here to read the article.… Read More
ESOCID STUDY IN RIDEAU RIVER HIGHLIGHTED IN OTTAWA CITIZEN
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DR. COOKE HOLDS WORKSHOP ABOUT ANIMAL CARE
On Saturday June 14th, Steven Cooke and a few members of the FECPL lab (Jon Midwood, Graham Raby, Taylor Ward, and Maja Cvetkovic) spent the morning running a workshop at Dow’s Lake in Ottawa, ON.
The purpose of … Read More
OTTAWA CITIZEN TALKS TO DR. COOKE ABOUT LOCAL PROJECT
Dr. Cooke quoted in Ottawa Citizen article on collaborative project involving the restoration of Brewer Pond. Click here to read the article.… Read More
OCEAN TRACKING NETWORK SYMPOSIUM A SUCCESS
From June 2-5, the Ocean Tracking Network held its 4th annual symposium in Ottawa (outside of Halifax for the first time). The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a large, collaborative, interdisciplinary research network based at Dalhousie University that represents … Read More