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
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
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.
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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
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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.
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Dr. Cooke quoted in Ottawa Citizen article on collaborative project involving the restoration of Brewer Pond. Click here to read the article.… Read More
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
On Saturday, June 6th, Cooke lab students Taylor Ward, Jacqueline Chapman, Jessica Taylor, Melissa Dick, Tyler Peat and Jake Brownscombe had the awesome opportunity to act as local fish experts during a “BioBlitz” – a 24-hour period where … 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
