Steven J. Cooke

Principal Investigator

Dr. Cooke is a Canada Research Professor (formerly Canada Research Chair) in the Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science at Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario), in the field of fish ecology and conservation physiology. Cooke is also founding Director of the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation.  He is an Adjunct Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Waterloo and an Affiliate Research Scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Background

Professional Activities

Secretary of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
Robin Welcomme Fellow of Inland Fisheries at Michigan State University (2019-2020)
T.D. Walter Bean Visiting Fellow in the Environment at the University of Waterloo (2018-2019)
Editorial board member for the journal FACETS
Editorial board member for the journal Environmental Reviews
Canadian Centre Representative for the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence
Past President of the International Section of the American Fisheries Society
Ambassador and Board Member for #Keepemwet Fishing
Chair of the Science Advisor Committee for Ocean Tracking Network Canada
Chair of the Sea Lamprey Research Board of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Editor in Chief for Conservation Physiology (Oxford University Press)
Past President of the Canadian Aquatic Resources Section of the American Fisheries Society
Member of the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (representing AFS)
Member of the World Council of Fisheries Societies (representing Canada)
Handling Editor for Environmental Biology of Fishes and Journal of Animal Biotelemetry
Editorial Board for Fisheries Research and Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo
Research Associate in the Department of Forest Sciences and Conservation at the University of British Columbia
Affiliate Scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey
Special Graduate Faculty at the University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign

Lab Publications (1269)

  • Haddaway, N.R., M. Grainger, M. Sciberras, I. Kelling and S.J. Cooke.  2024.  The status of academic research on salmon farming: a scoping review protocol.  agriRxiv  https://doi.org/10.31220/agriRxiv.2024.00285

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    Nguyen, V.M., K.J. Fiorella, L. Castello, M.K. Badhon, C. Beaudoin, J. Coffin-Schmitt, S.J Cooke, A.T Fisk, E. Nyboer, D.M. O’Keefe, E.D. Rice, R. Stedman, N. Venker and A. Macneil.  In Press.  Provisioning fisheries: A framework for recognizing the fuzzy boundary around commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries.  Fisheries.  00:000-000.

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    Piczak, M. L., Lennox, R. J., Vollset, K. W., Preiszner, B., Eros, T., Bulte, G., Keevil, M., Richardson, J. and Cooke, S. J.  In Press. On the underappreciated role of scavengers in freshwater ecosystems. BioScience. 00:000-000.

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    Reid, C.H., Davis, R., Gilmour, K.M., Klassen, C.N., Crossman, J.A., & Cooke, S.J. In Press. Contrasting the effects of immobilisation and anaesthesia on the stress physiology and behaviour of juvenile lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A: 000:000-000.

  • Velazquez, D.C., and S.J. Cooke.  2024.  Lac Kingsmere and Lac Mulvihill Largemouth Bass Removal Project.  2024 Report.  Prepared for the National Capital Commission by Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

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