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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
