Dr. Cooke discusses video footage from Brewer Pond fish connectivity study collected by Carleton Undergrad Millen Tsegaye with CBC Ottawa (covered by radio, TV and web)… Read More
Dr. Cooke participates in workshop on the National Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan in Ottawa organized by the Canadian Wildlife Federation. The session is led by Cooke Lab alum Dr. Nick Lapointe with many note takers from the Cooke Lab. Cooke … Read More
Dr. Cooke featured as one of the 100 influential science communicators in Canada by Science Borealis along with Chris Hatfield, Robert Bateman, Kirsty Duncan, Tom Spears, and Cooke Lab PDF alumnus Dr. Natalie Sopinka.
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Cooke Lab hosted the InFish group for a 2-day workshop at Queen’s Biology Station with participants from Canada, UK, and the USA. The team considered how the Sustainable Development Goals are relevant to inland fisheries and bright spots in hydropower … Read More
Cooke Lab hosted Dr. David Philipp and Julie Claussen from the Univ of Illinois and Fisheries Conservation Foundation. Dave spoke on his long-term research on nesting bass and angling while Julie spoke on Mahseer telemetry research in Bhutan… Read More
As part of Science Literacy Week, members of the Cooke lab teamed up with the Beaverbrook Library in Ottawa to educate 25 school children about fish migration and how telemetry science can be used to study migration. Following a short … Read More
Dr. Cooke attends the IUCN World Conservation Congress ( the world’s largest and most inclusive environmental decision-making forum) in Hawaii to participate in several sessions related to inland fish and fisheries.… Read More
Dr. Cooke and lab manager Jessica Taylor attend the first ever Environmental Evidence meeting in Stockholm. While there, they also met with the MISTRA EviEM team at the Stockholm Environment Institute and represented the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and … Read More
Cooke Lab collaboration with OTN and Montana MacLean at Dalhousie yield media attention in the Vancouver Sun
“A new international study is raising serious questions about a lucrative catch-and-release sport fishery for threatened white sturgeon in the lower Fraser River.… Read More
Dr. Cooke interviewed by Chronicle of Higher Education about Zika virus and the rigour of rapid peer review.
“Quicker also doesn’t mean “easier” peer review, said Steven J. Cooke, a professor of environmental science and biology at Carleton University … Read More
Our lab celebrates our most recent grad students for defending their MSc and PhD theses (Sept 2023).
September 17, 2023 4:25 am
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
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
Dr. Cooke to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
September 19, 2022 4:23 pm
Dr. Cooke to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada at the Celebration of Excellence and Engagement in Calgary in November 2022. https://carleton.ca/biology/2022/dr-steve-cooke-elected-to-the-royal-society-of-canada/… Read More
