Recent activity and media coverage (updated May 4, 2012)

• Dr. Cooke attends an inland fisheries workshop at the Scottish Fisheries Research station in Pitlochry, Scotland (May 2012)
• Cooke Lab welcomes Dr. Jon Midwood as a Post Doctoral Fellow (May 2012)
• Jake Brownscombe travels to Culebra with Dr. Andy Danylchuk (U Mass Amherst) to setup telemetry array to track bonefish and permit in the Caribbean Sea (April 2012)
• Jason Thiem, Charles Hatry, Nick Burnett, Lauren Stoot and Keith Stamplecoskie conduct field studies at the St. Ours fishway on the Richelieu River in Quebec (April 2012)
• Lee Gutowsky, Phil Harrison and Eduardo Martins travel to Revelstoke, BC to download telemetry receivers in Kinbasket Reservoir (April 2012)
• Felicia St. Louis and Petra Szerkes collect data on the thermal biology of bonefish and checkered puffers in The Bahamas (April 2012)
• Dr. Cooke receives the Tri-Valley (Rideau, South Nation and Mississippi) Conservation Award (Apr 2012) - see news release
• Cooke travels to Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef to work with Dr. Tim Clark (Australian Institute of Marine Science) and Dr. Vanessa Messmer (JCU) on a project dealing with catch-and-release of reef fish in the face of climate change (Apr 2012)
• Dr. Cooke and colleagues publish article on bonefish catch-and-release in the BTT journal (Mar 2012)
• Carleton team (Dr. Todd Hayden, Bill Bowden and Samantha Wilson) assist with walleye surgery in Ohio and Michigan as part of GLFC project - see local news coverage (Mar 2012)
• COST action on Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes launches new website (Mar 2012)
• Cooke Lab research on air exposure and bass covered in the latest issue of In Fisherman Magazine (Mar 2012)
• Post-doc Nick Lapointe gives a talk for the Science Café series - see video (Mar 2012)
• Vivian Nguyen successfully defends her M.Sc.! Congrats Viv! (Mar 2012)
• In his capacity of President of the Canadian Aquatic Resources Section of the American Fisheries Society Cooke (along with VP Jack Imhof) sent a letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Prime Minister re proposed changes to the Fisheries Act (Mar 2012)
• Cooke Lab team members (Cooke, Hatry, Thiem, Martins, Harrison and Gutowksy) participate in NSERC HydroNet Annual Meeting at BC Hydro Headquarters in Burnaby, BC (Mar 2012)
• Cooke Lab starts new project on Watts Creek in the Ottawa Greenbelt with the National Capital Commission (Mar 2012)
• Dr. Cooke attends the Great Lakes Fishery Commission Sea Lamprey Research Board meeting in Ann Arbor, MI (Mar 2012)
• Jon Midwood (starting as Post Doc in Cooke Lab in May) travels to Denmark to work with Dr. Kim Aarestrup and Dr. Niels Jepsen from DTU on sea trout smolt physiology (Mar 2012)
• Dr. Cooke and Dr. Danylchuk (U Mass Amherst) travel to Culebra, Puerto Rico to plan field studies on bonefish and permit (Mar 2012)
• Fourteen Cooke Lab students attend the American Fisheries Society Ontario Chapter annual meeting at Viamede Resort on Stoney Lake, with oral presentations delivered by B. Bowden, L. Stoot, L. Gutowsky, and G. Raby. (Mar 2012)
• Five Cooke Lab members (Cooke, St. Louis, Brownscombe, Hatry and Thiem) travel to Cape Eluethera Institute in The Bahamas to conduct research on the physiological ecology and behaviour of coastal marine fish (Feb 2012)
• Cooke Lab members (Dr. Nick Lapointe, Asra Toobaie, Bill Bowden and Dr. Cooke) participate in the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System workshop in Rogers City, Michigan (Feb 2012)
• Jason Thiem delivers a presentation at the Quebec MNRF research and management workshop in Quebec City (Feb 2012)
• Vivian Nguyen, Sam Wilson, and Graham Raby deliver talks at a multi-stakeholder workshop at UBC to share research findings related to Fraser River Pacific Salmon (Feb 2012)
• Dr. Cooke quoted in Globe and Mail article on the need for study of sea lice impacts on wild Pacific salmon (Feb 2012).
• Dr. Cooke visits Dr. Oliver Love at the University of Windsor along with other researchers at the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research to deliver a seminar (Feb 2012)
• Alex Nagrodski successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis! (Jan 2012)
• Dr. Nick Lapointe delivers departmental seminar in biology on fish invasions in the Atlantic drainage basin (Jan 2012)
• Dr. Cooke and Dr. Blouin-Demers (U Ottawa) awarded $18,250 from OMNR Species at Risk Research Fund for Ontario to study turtle bycatch (Jan 2012)
• Cooke Lab welcomes Dr. John Dettmers from the Great lakes Fishery Commission for a visit at Carleton (Jan 2012)
• Dr. Cooke part of team including Dr. Fred Whoriskey (Dalhousie) and several researchers in Norway (Dr. Thorstad, Dr. Uglem) awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway to study Atlantic salmon catch-and-release science (Jan 2012)
• Jason Thiem travels to Portland, OR to deliver a presentation at a workshop on sturgeon biology (Jan 2012)
• Dr. Cooke delivers an invited talk at the University of Washington in Seattle as part of the Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries (Jan 2012)
• The Cooke Lab welcomes five new graduate students on January 3rd 2012 – Shireen Maarschalk (B.Sc. at McMaster), Felicia St. Louis (B.Sc. at Carleton), Jacqueline Chapman (B.Sc. at Manitoba), Asra Toobaie (M.Sc. at Concordia), and Jake Brownscombe (M.Sc. at Trent).  Keep your eye on the “people” page to see updates on their projects! (Jan 2012)
• Dr. Cooke visits the Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg (Jan 2012)
• Research by Alison Colotelo covered in Danish magazine article on catch-and-release of northern pike (Dec 2011)
• Jason Thiem flies to Toronto to deliver a talk on sturgeon fishway passage to Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Northern Ontario District group (Nov 2011)
• Dr. Cooke interviewed by Canadian Geographic regarding the sockeye salmon crisis in BC (Dec 2011) - LINK
• Dr. Cooke interviewed for Faculty of Science newsletter (Nov 2011) - LINK
• Dr. Cooke to speak at University of Washington as part of the Bevan Series on Frontiers in Fisheries Science - LINK
• Dr. Cooke attends the board of directors meeting and scientific advisory committee meeting for Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University (Nov 2010)
• Dr. Cooke, Jake Brownscombe (Ph.D. student) and colleagues (Danylchuk, Murchie, Philipp, Schultz) are attending the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Symposium in Dania Beach, FL at the IGFA headquarters (Nov 2011) – LINK
• Paper in BioScience by Cooke, Murchie and Danylchuk on awareness and ecolabeling initiatives for inland fisheries covered by media (Nov 2011) – LINK
• Congratulations to Marika Gale at UBC for successfully defending her thesis on sockeye capture and release fisheries (Oct 2011)
• Vivian Nguyen and Dr. Cooke deliver a presentation to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Wildlife Federation in Ottawa, ON (Oct 2011)
• Mark Taylor (Ph.D. candidate) publishes BC Hydro report on fish behaviour in the Columbia River (Oct 2011)
• Graham Raby, Dr. Cooke, and Dr. Tim Clark (Australian Institute of Marine Science) use heart rate biologgers to study the metabolic consequences of capture stress on coho salmon at DFOs Cultus Lake Laboratory in BC (Oct 2011)
• Samantha Wilson and Dr. Erika Eliason (UBC) work at Cultus Lake Laboratory to calibrate accelerometer transmitters as part of NSERC OTN Canada project (Oct 2011)
• Vivian Nguyen delivers a 1-hour talk on her M.Sc. research to Fisheries and Oceans Canada resource managers at the lower Fraser Fisheries Area office on Annacis Island, Delta, BC (Sept 2011)
• Dr. Cooke participates in the European Science Foundation COST Action on the conservation physiology of marine fishes in Porto, Portugal (Sept 2011)
• Jason Thiem and Charles Hatry participate in research trip to the Conte Lab in Massachusetts to collect swimming performance data on lake sturgeon in an NSERC HydroNET-funded collaboration with Dr. Alex Haro and Dr. Ted Castro-Santos (Sept 2011)
• Dr. Cooke assumes the presidency of the Canadian Aquatic Resources Section of the American Fisheries Society for a two year term (Sept 2011)
• Vivian Nguyen delivers a 45-min talk on her M.Sc. research to Totem Fly Fishers Club in Vancouver (Sept 2011)
• Cooke Lab members Dr. Eduardo Martins, Samantha Wilson, Graham Raby, Alex Nagrodski, Mark Taylor, Sarah Larocque, Vivian Nguyen and Lee Gutowsky deliver oral presentations at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA (Sept 2011)
• Samantha Wilson receives the AFS Skinner Award in recognition of her contributions to fisheries science during her undergrad studies (Sept 2011)
• Cooke Lab collaborator, friend and mentor Dr. Scott Hinch receives the American Fisheries Society Educator of the Year Award in Seattle (Sept 2011)
• Sean Landsman and Sarah Larocque successfully defend their M.Sc. thesis projects!  Landsman is now a research biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Larocque is a biologist with our UBC/Carleton NSERC salmon research team (Aug 2011)
• An excerpt of Jude Isabella's upcoming book is featured in The Tyee and includes description of research by Sam Wilson, Graham Raby, and collaborators from UBC (click here)
• Dr. Cooke served as expert for the UN FAO consultation on the technical guidelines for recreational fisheries in Berlin (co-authored by Dr. Brett Johnson, Dr. Robert Arlinghaus) (Aug 2011)
• Dr. Cooke delivers presentation on inland bycatch at the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual Meeting in Bournemouth, UK (July 2011)
• Jason Thiem and Charles Hatry attended the National Conference on Engineering and Ecohydrology for Fish Passage at UMass, Amherst.  The conference was highlighted by a field trip to the S.O. Conte anadromous fish laboratory (June 2011)
• Dr. Cooke delivers an invited presentation on physiological aspects of bycatch reduction at the Society for Experimental Biology in the Conservation Physiology session in Glasgow, Scotland (July 2011)
• Dr. Cooke, Dr. Murchie, Dr. Lapointe, Graham Raby, Jason Thiem and deliver oral presentations at the 1st International Conference on Fish Telemetry in Sapporo, Japan (see photo) (June 2011)
• Recent Ph.D. graduates Marie-Ange Gravel and Caleb Hasler convocate, congrats! - see photo (June 2011)
• Dr. Cooke provides comments in the Ottawa Citizen regarding fish kills on the Rideau Canal (June 2011)
• Recent lab graduate (Ph.D.) Caleb Hasler awarded an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship (June 2011)
• Recent lab graduate (M.Sc.) Sarah McConnachie awarded the Atlantic Veterinary College Graduate Award to support her Ph.D. studies in aquatic animal health at the University of Prince Edward Island (June 2011)
• Dr. Nick Lapointe awarded Ontario Post Doctoral Fellowship that will be held in the Cooke Lab (May 2011)
• Dr. Karen Murchie (Cooke Lab PDF and alumnus) joins the College of the Bahamas as an Assistant Professor (May 2011)
• Cooke Lab bonefish research recently featured in media outlets; click here and here (May 2011)
• Cooke Lab students Connie O'Connor, Katrina Cook, Sam Wilson, and Graham Raby each deliver talks at the 50th annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists (May 2011)
• Dr. Cooke delivers plenary lecture at the International Circle Hook Symposium in Miami, FL (May 2011) (click here)
• Caleb Hasler successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation – congrats C-note! Dr. Hasler now takes up a position as a biologist with Dillon Consulting (May 2011)
• The Cooke Lab welcomes two new M.Sc. students - Lauren Stoot (from Lakehead U) and Nich Cairns (from Brandon U) – Both will be working on turtle bycatch issues and are co-supervised by Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers.  Their project is funded by the Canadian Wildlife Federation and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (May 2011)
• Dr. Marie-Ange Gravel (recent graduate) starts contract position with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in Kemptville (May 2011)
• Melanie LeDain awarded NSERC USRA for summer research with Cooke Lab (April 2011)
• Sean Landsman leads a “fish walk” along the urban reach of the Rideau Canal (April 2011)
• Dr. Karen Murchie traveled to the Amazon basin to assist with telemetry project on Amazonian catfish (April 2011)
• Marie-Ange Gravel (now Dr. Gravel) and Katrina Cook defend their theses and celebrate! (April 2011)
• Dr. Karen Murchie and Sean Landsman participate in the acoustic tagging of 400 walleye in two tributaries of the Great Lakes (the Maumee River & the Tittabawassee River). The tagging efforts are part of a collaborative project with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, US Geological Society, and Carleton University, aimed at understanding walleye movement patterns based on age, size, and sex. For more information, click here. (April 2011)
• Sam Wilson awarded best biochemistry poster award at undergradate research day! (April 2011)
• Marie-Ange Gravel, Caleb Hasler and Katrina Cook deliver their exit seminars in the Department of Biology (April 2011)
• Cooke Lab members initiate an evaluation of a nature-like fish bypass near Spencerville Ontario in collaboration with the South Nation Conservation Authority (March 2011)
• Lee Gutowsky, Dr. Eduardo Martins, Phil Harrison, Jason Thiem, Charles Hatry and Dr. Steven Cooke attend the annual NSERC HydroNet meeting in Winnipeg (March 2011)
• Cooke Lab launches survey to understand angler perspectives on circle hooks (Mar 2011)
• Our lab's three applicants for NSERC scholarships are successful - Lee Gutowsky and Graham Raby both awarded 3-year PGS-Ds, and Sam Wilson awarded a CGS-M (March 2011).
• Graham Raby awarded a Travel Grant from the Fisheries Society of the British Isles to support his trip to Sapporo (Japan) for the 1st International Conference on Fish Telemetry (March 2011).
• PDF Dr. Eduardo Martins and collaborator Dr. Scott Hinch report to the Cohen Commission on the 2009 collapse of Fraser River sockeye - see media coverage.
• Dr. Cooke appointed as Chair of the Sea Lamprey Research Board of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
• Cooke lab students present papers and posters at the AFS Ontario Chapter Meeting in Orillia (March 2011).
• Dr. Karen Murchie is a guest lecturer for Algonquin College's 2nd year vet students (March 2011)
• Dr. Cooke, Dr. Danylchuk (UMASS Amherst) and Dr. Jordan (Microwave Telemetry Inc) deploy the first ever satellite tags on great barracuda (Feb 2011) - See photo for a release shot.
• Dr. Karen Murchie delivers presentation on bonefish ecology at the New England Aquarium (Feb 2011)
• Dr. Cooke along with Dr. Andy Danylchuk (U Mass Amherst) and Lance Jordan (Micro-Wave Telemetry Ltd) on expedition to The Bahamas to attach satellite tags to great barracuda (Feb 2011)
• Cooke Lab co-hosts NSERC stakeholder meeting at UBC – Graham Raby, Sam Wilson and Vivian Nguyen deliver presentations to DFO, First Nations and recreational fishers (Feb 2011)
• Dr. Karen Murchie (post doc) attends Great Lakes Fisheries Commission acoustic telemetry coordination meeting in Traverse City, MI (Feb 2011)
• Dr. Cooke delivered departmental seminar at University of Western Ontario (Biology) on fitness physiology of fish (Feb 2011)
• Dr. Nick Lapointe (post doc) joins the DFO Great Lakes Lab as “acting” research scientist during maternity leave of Dr. Susan Doka (Jan 2011)
• Jason Thiem and Steven Cooke attend the Lake Sturgeon Passage Workshop in Romulus, Michigan (Jan 2011)
• Cooke Lab hosts Dr. John Dettmers from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission at Carleton for seminar on the science and management of fish in the Great Lakes (Jan 2011)
• Jason Thiem's sturgeon fish passage research featured in the Ottawa Citizen (Jan 2011)
• Sean Landsman and Steven Cooke deliver a joint presentation on catch-and-release science at Trent University and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Research Branch in Peterborough (Jan 2011)
• Graham Raby, Sarah Larocque and Steven Cooke deliver a joint presentation on inland bycatch at the National Wildlife Research Center of the Canadian Wildlife Service (Jan 2011)
• Juan Molina, a Ph.D. student from Argentina, has joined the Cooke Lab as a visitor for 6 months as part of the Emerging Leaders of Americas program (Jan 2011)
• DFO webpage summarizing recent bluefin tuna catch-and-release research that involved collaboration with the Cooke Lab (Jan 2011)
• Science paper by Kristi Miller (collaborator from Fisheries & Oceans Canada) et al. is released and receives widespread media attention (click here for the paper, story from The Globe and Mail that mentions Carleton U). (Jan 2011)
• Caleb Hasler and Lab alumnus Mike Donaldson planned and executed the student colloquium at CCFFR 2011 in Toronto (for a meeting summary, click here) (Jan 2011)
• Sarah Larocque is the featured researcher on the Queen's University Biological Station website (Jan 2011; click here)
• Connie O'Connor's recent paper on carryover effects generated media attention in Europe (not in english - link 1, link 2; Dec 2010)
• Graham Raby and lab alumnus Mike Donaldson summarize our Pacific salmon bycatch research in the December 2010 issue of the AFS Phyisology section newsletter (pdf, 2124 KB)
• Graham Raby completes his qualifying exam and is now enrolled in the Ph.D. program! (Dec 2010)
• 2nd Annual Cookie Award highlights - Alex Nagrodski wins the "Biggest Academic Crush" Cookie (photo) and Jason Thiem is named "The Face of Carleton" (photo)
• Dr. Cooke presents an overview of inland fisheries resources in Canada to the UN FAO workshop on inland fisheries held in Laos (Dec 2010)
• Jason Thiem (Ph.D. candidate) delivers the “Research Works Comes to Life” presentation at Carleton University in celebration of the kick-off of the Presidents Ph.D. Fellowship Program. (click here for video)
• Lee Gutowsky and Jason Thiem deliver presentations at the NSERC HydroNet workshop in Montreal (Nov 2010)
• Dr. Cooke appointment as adjunct professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo (Nov 2010)
• Dr. Cooke, Sarah Larocque, and Alex Nagrodski give presentations to the Brockville Stewardship Council on the lab's recent research activities (Nov 2010)
• Dr. Cooke appointed as "science editor" for the AFS journal Fisheries (Nov 2010)
• Cooke Lab Halloween party – Keith Stamplecoskie’s costume was a boat electrofisher (PHOTO)
• Call for paper submissions for special issue on "Endangered River Fish" in the journal Endangered Species Research - Dr. Cooke is responsible editor with guest editors Dr. Craig Paukert and Dr. Zeb Hogan
• Alex Nagrodski (M.Sc. student) and Dr. Karen Murchie (PDF) implanted 23 creek chub with micro radio transmitters to study behavioural consequences of cortisol elevation in wild fish (Nov 2010)
• Dr. Cooke attended the Ocean Tracking Network meetings at Dalhousie University (Nov 2010)
• Keith Stamplecoskie delivers presentation to Friends of Gatineau Park (Nov 2010)
• Vivian Nguyen (M.Sc. student) is visiting Dr. Murray Rudd at University of York in the UK with support of NSERC and the Michael Smith Fellowship (Oct 2010)
• UBC/Carleton Pacific Salmon research team covered on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet - See Mike Donaldson (UBC - Carleton Alum), Graham Raby, and Sam Wilson in action! (click here)
• Barracuda thesis by Amanda O'Toole featured in Ottawa Citizen
• Dr. Cooke to speak at Cornwall Library on October 27th
• Dr. Cooke provides commentary on a new catch-record-release format for fishing tournaments - see coverage on walleye fishing websites (Sept 2010)
• Marie-Ange Gravel receives the J. Frances Allen Award at the 2010 AFS Meeting in Pittsburgh! (Sept 2010)
• Graham Raby and the Carleton/UBC NSERC research team respond to the first ever First Nations beach seine fishery for sockeye to study incidentally-captured endangered interior Fraser River coho salmon (Sept 2010 - see photo)
  
• Sarah McConnachie successfully defends her Master's thesis and becomes the 5th M.Sc. student to graduate from the Cooke Lab, congrats! (Sept 2010)
• Cooke Lab takes delivery of Daily Diaries from Swansea University kicking off a series of studies in collaboration with Dr. Rory Wilson and Adrian Gleiss. First tagging efforts will be directed towards studying boating impacts on basking behaviour of map turtles (with Dr. Gregory Bulte, Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers, and Jason Thiem) (Sept 2010)
• Cooke Lab hosts Dr. Lisiane Hahn from Neotropical Consulting in Brazil as a visiting scientist for a three week period (Sept 2010)
• Media coverage of barracuda research by M.Sc. graduate Amanda O'Toole (Sept. 2010)
• Katrina Cook assists with application of PSAT tags to bluefin tuna in a collaborative project with DFO and Dalhousie University (Dr. Mike Stokesbury) to evaluate post release mortality - see photo.
• Dr. Cooke leads undergraduate field course on Pacific salmon ecology and conservation in BC with students from 8 universities in Ontario (Aug 2010)
• Dr. Cooke provides comment on fish kills for recent “Nature News” article (Aug 2010) - http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100827/full/news.2010.437.html
• BC field work in full swing – Mike Donaldson (UBC) is tagging sockeye as part of an angling study, Graham Raby (CU) is tagging coho from First Nations beach seines, Vivian Nguyen (CU) is conducting human dimensions of Fraser River anglers, and Kendra Robinson (UBC) is doing laboratory studies on sockeye response to fishing stressors (Aug 2010)
• Dr. Cooke appears on CBC Ottawa re: state of fisheries in the Rideau Canal (Aug 2010)
• Vivian Nguyen awarded NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Travel Award to support her travel to the UK to study at the University of York (August 2010).
• Marie-Ange Gravel awarded "best student paper award" in the ecophysiology session at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting in Prague (August 2010).
• Keith Stamplecoskie and Amanda O'Toole work with Stantec to evaluate fish assemblage in the Rideau Canal, Parliament Hill in the background (July 2010; photo here).
• Cooke Lab students Connie O'Connor, Caleb Hasler, Sam Wilson, Katrina Cook, Sarah McConnachie, and Marie-Ange Gravel attend the International Congress on the Biology of Fishes in Barcelona (July 2010)
• Cooke Lab students Vivian Nguyen, Graham Raby, and Sarah Larocque attend the 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology in Edmonton (July 2010)
• Book edited by Cooke and Philipp receives positive review by Dr. Mike Allen (U Florida) in the journal "Fisheries"
• Cooke Lab students Connie O'Connor and Marie-Ange Gravel attend the Society for Experimental Biology Conference in Prague (June 2010)
• Sean Landsman and his work covered in recent article in Muskies Canada newsletter (June 2010)
• Keith Stamplecoski, M.Sc. (Guelph), joins the lab as a research biologist and lab manager (April 2010)
• Karen Murchie successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis and Amanda O'Toole successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congrats! (April 2010)
• Caleb Hasler awarded the Donald R. Wiles Prize for 1st year lab demonstrators and teaching assistants. (April 2010)
• Steven Cooke and Scott Hinch (UBC) hosting a DFO workshop in Vancouver on our NSERC research focused on freshwater bycatch (April 8, 2010)
• Charles Hatry and Robert Holt won second and third prize respectively for their posters at the Carleton Science Poster Day (April 7, 2010)
• Cooke, Tom Binder and Tony Goldberg awarded a pilot grant from the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission to develop surgical guidelines for fish in the Great Lakes (April 2010)
• Cooke and collaborators (Jeff Dawson, Steve Perry, Katie Gilmour, Gabriel Blouin-Demers, Mark Forbes and Tom Moon) awarded an NSERC RTI for the purchase of a 20-antenna PIT telemetry array for use in the lab and field (April 2010)
• Dr. Cooke appointed to the editorial board of “Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries” (March 2010)
• Charles Hatry is awarded an NSERC CGSM for his M.Sc. studies – congrats! (March 2010)
• Amanda O'Toole has contributed to the development of novel techniques for non-lethal detection of ciguatera biotoxins in barracuda in a collaborative project with NOAA (November 2009; click here)
• Twelve Cooke Lab students attended the AFS-OC meeting in Orillia. Sean Landsman (M.Sc. student) won the Crossman Award for best student presentation and Laura Chomyshyn (UG student) took home the B.A.S.S. Award for best poster presentation. (March 2010)
• Lab alumnus Mike Donaldson wins best student paper award and is runner up for best student poster award at the AFS BC-WA chapter meeting. (March 2010)
• Cooke Lab part of a new NSERC Strategic Network Grant.  NSERC's HydroNet is
  a national research network to promote sustainable hydropower and healthy
  aquatic ecosystems.  The five year project is led by Dr. Daniel Boisclair at
  U Montreal (click here).
• Cooke Lab and DFO partners work together in development of National Fish Passage Inventory and Database. [pdf, 643 KB]
• The Cooke Lab welcomes four new grad students: Jason Thiem from University of Canberra, Lee Gutowsky from Trent, and Vivian Nguyen and Alex Nagrodski from Carleton (Jan 2010)
• Connie O’Connor and Cody Dey deliver oral presentations at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Seattle (Jan 2010)
• Cooke Lab co-hosts (with the Hinch and Farrell Labs) a multi-stakeholder workshop at UBC to share research findings related to climate change and fisheries impacts on Pacific salmon in the Fraser River  (Jan 2010)
• Caleb Hasler represents the Cooke Lab at the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research in Winnipeg (Jan 2010)
• Dr. Cooke provides commentary on sockeye salmon judicial inquiry to the Canadian Press (click here)
• Collaborative work between the Cooke Lab (Dr. Cooke, Caleb Hasler, Charles Hatry), BC Hydro, Fisheries and Oceans and Esther Guimond highlighted by the Comox Echo (click here)
• Cooke Lab collaborator Dr. Scott Hinch interviewed by the Globe and Mail about the Fraser River Sockeye Fisheries Collapse (click here)
• Cooke Lab cleans up at the 139th Annual American Fisheries Society Meeting: Dr. Cooke earns the Distinguished Service Award; Karen Murchie earns the J. Francis Allen Award, the Skinner Memorial Award, and the Peter A. Larkin Award; Caleb Hasler earns the Skinner Memorial and the Peter A. Larkin Awards; Marie-Ange Gravel earns the Skinner Memorial Award; Alison Colotelo and Connie O'Connor earn Honourable mentions for the Skinner Memorial Award, and Alison also recieved travel money from the Equal Opportunities Section (for photos, see the December 2009 issue of Fisheries).
• Mike Donaldson and Graham Raby in the news in BC for salmon telemetry study (click here and here)
• Cooke Lab featured in Great Northern Outdoors (click here)
• The Cooke Lab launches a project to create an inventory of all fish passage facilities in Canada in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Dr. Tom Binder (Cooke Lab post doc) is coordinating the project and Charles Hatry (Env Sci UG Student) is populating the database (June 2009)
  
• The Cooke Lab takes delivery of a 17ft electrofishing boat for research in eastern Ontario (June 2009)
  
• Dr. Cooke delivers the keynote address in the Conservation Physiology symposium at the Society for Experimental Biology conference in Scotland (June 2009)
• Dr. Cooke is part of a team conducting a "100 questions" exercise related to conservation science priorities in Canada (June 2009)
  
• Karen Murchie returns from a six month research trip to The Bahamas - Welcome back Karen! (June 2009)
  
• Sean Landsman launches his muskellunge catch-and-release study in eastern Ontario in collaboration with Muskies Canada, Muskies Inc, the Becker Foundation, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Read about his M.Sc. project on his blog! (June 2009)
  
• Cooke Lab students volunteer with children's fishing day on Dow's Lake on behalf of the Ontario Chapter of the AFS Student Subunit (July 2009)
• Phd Student Connie O'Connor has an article highlighting her research published in Fisheries
• Cooke Lab Awarded an NSERC Strategic Grant fro $587,000 to evaluate discard mortality and to develop strategies to facilitate recovery for multi-sector, multi-species Pacific salmon fisheries in the Lower Fraser River. (click here for more)
• Cooke Lab M.Sc. students are currently running their second annual mini-enrichment course at Carleton U. this week...YAY!!!!
• The Cooke Lab is pleased to welcome our next cohort of graduate students:
  Graham Raby, M.Sc. Candidate from Trent University; Sarah Laroque, M.Sc. Candidate from University of Guelph; Sean Landsman, M.Sc. Candidate from University of Illinois; Katrina Cook, M.Sc. Candidate from Trent University; Lee Gutowsky, Ph.D. Candidate from Trent University.
  
• Our first Ph.D. student (Kyle Hanson) successfully defends his dissertation.
  Way to go Kyle! Dr. Hanson is now a research scientist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
  
• Cooke Lab takes delivery of our fourth research vehicle - a 2009 Ford F-150 Crew Cab 4X4 - and purchases an electrofishing boat for research in eastern Ontario.
• Check out the April 17th Episode of As it Happens for a comment about research being completed by the Cooke Lab and the University of Illinois.
• Press Release for Cooke Lab paper on heritability of angling (click here)
• Dr. Tom Binder joined the Cooke Lab on April 1st as our first Post Doc! Tom successfully defended his Ph.D. at the University of Guelph in March on the sensory physiology and behaviour of lamprey.
  
• The Cooke Lab and Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers from the University of Ottawa have been awarded a grant from the World Wildlife Fund to study turtle bycatch reduction in the inland commercial fisheries of eastern Ontario
  
• Cooke Lab to host NSERC Strategic Workshop on development of a network of conservation professionals in Canada to address complex and pressing conservation problems in early April 2009.
  
• Dr. Cooke interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen about the Rideau Canal Muskie Radio Telemetry project (click here)
• Dr. Cooke was the invited speaker for the AFS East Carolina University Student Subunit 10th Anniversary Banquet in January 2009 - http://www.ecu.edu/org/afs/
• Pre-order your copy of Dr. Cooke's new book - "Centrarchid fishes: diversity, biology and Conservation".
• Cooke Lab Catch and Release research featured in new Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission outreach material
• Cooke Lab featured in FSBI newsletter (Summer 2008)
• Dr. Cooke is awarded tenure at Carleton University (December 2008)!!!
  
• Lab Alum Mike Donaldson is featured in an article in the Winter 2009 issue of Outdoor Canada magazine
• Amanda O'Toole, Chris Pullen and Steven Cooke spent two weeks in The Bahamas tagging bonefish and barracuda for collaborative projects funded by Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and Patagonia (December 2008)
  
• Dr. Cooke appointed as Core Member of the Sea Lamprey Research Board Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (2009-2011)
  
• Dr. Cooke and Ph.D. student Marie-Ange Gravel's recent paper in North American Journal of Fisheries Management is highlighted by In-Fisherman this month; click here for the article.
• Cooke Lab alum Tara Redpath (M.Sc. Aug 2008) has accepted a contract position with the water quality branch of the the City of Ottawa - CONGRATS!
  
• The Cooke lab is pleased to welcome three new M.Sc. students to our team (Mark, Amanda and Sarah) (Sept 2008)
• Dr. Cooke Appointed as Council Member for Fisheries Management Zone 18 for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Sept 2008)
• The Cooke lab has launched a new project in collaboration with the OMNR, DFO and the Ontario Commercial Fisheries Association to investigate bycatch issues in the inland fisheries of eastern Ontario. The work is led by Alison Colotelo, M.Sc. student in the Cooke Lab.
• he Cooke lab is active in BC tagging and tracking bull trout and mountain whitefish as part of a collaborative project with Golder Associates and BC Hydro. The work is led by Mark Taylor, M.Sc. student in the Cooke Lab.
• Dr. Cooke is interviewed by the Charlatan, click here for the article.
• Congratulations to Tara Redpath for successfully defending her M.Sc. with distinction!
• Cooke Lab members delivered seven oral presentations at the recent International Congress on the Biology of Fish in Portland, Oregon (July 2008)
  
• The Fisheries Society of the British Isles names Dr. Cooke their 2008 recipient of the FSBI Medal- "an award given to younger scientists who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries science to recognize their achievements." See FSBI newsletter highlighting the Cooke Lab.
• Karen Murchie is the runner up for the prestigious J. Frances Allen Scholarship from the American Fisheries Society.
• Dr. Cooke will be presenting a public talk as part of the Science Café series on April 16th on the "science of recreational fishing". He will also be appearing on CBC Radio on the Ottawa Morning Show on April 16th (sound clip). HERE IS THE LINK TO THE EVENT - http://www.carleton.ca/duc/newsroom/archive/2008/april11_2.html
• Caleb Hasler, Marie-Ange Gravel, and Mike Donaldson have all been awarded prestigious NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS fellowships for their Ph.D. studies
• Claire Yick, Emily Forbert, Rana Sunder, Cody Dey, and Vivian Nguyen were awarded NSERC Summer fellowships - congratulations!
• At the 2008 Carleton Undergraduate Poster Day, Cooke Lab students cleaned up! Vivian Nguyen, Michelle Caputo, and Amanda O'Toole were runners up for the Environmental Science Best Poster Award. Amanda also won the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority Award for the best poster based on a "watershed" issue. Rana Sunder won the Pearson book prize for the best poster in ecology and Evolution. Yayyyy!
  
• The Cooke Lab and Golder Associates are partnering to study blue listed bull trout in the upper Columbia River for BC Hydro. Field research will begin in September 2008.
• Dr. Cooke is a finalist for a 2008 Capital Educators' Award (http://www.ocri.ca/edugala/finalists.asp)
  
• New edited book by Dr. Cooke and Dr. Philipp to be published in 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell [cover]
• December 2008- Speed is the Name of the Game. Mike Donaldson and AFS President Mary Fabrizio write about a new format for presentations at AFS Ottawa. [PDF]
• Check out the webpage for AFS Ottawa- Fisheries in Flux
• November 2007- Cooke Lab takes delivery of custom research vessel (see photo)
• November 2007- Dr. Cooke hosts over 60 of Canada's most prominent hydropower reserachers, government officials, and industry representatives. See News Release from Carleton U. / DFO workshop on Hydropower (link; photos)
• Three members of the Cooke Lab (Caleb Hasler, Mike Donaldson, and Kyle Hanson) and one recent graduate (Andrew Gingerich) recently published a student angle piece in "Fisheries". The essay outlines benefits and challenges to doing fisheries related graduate studies at non-domestic institutions. [PDF]
• The Cooke Lab has a feature article in the new online fishing magazine called "This is Fly" (http://www.thisisfly.com/). The article is called "The Science of Handling and Releasing Bonefish" and was written by Steven Cooke, Andy Danylchuk (biology adjunct) and Aaron Adams (research director of Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited). The article starts on page 33.
  
• Dr. Cooke is giving a plenary talk at a Tagging Symposium being held in New Zealand in February 2008
• The Cooke Lab is assisting in the planning of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting to be held in Ottawa 2008
• August 2007 - Dr. Cooke interviewed by CBC Radio- Ottawa (click here for sound clip)
• August 2007 - Dr. Cooke awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation (see announcement) (see photo of Dr. Iwama presenting Dr. Cooke with the award)
• August 2007 - Cooke Lab awarded funds for a NSERC strategic workshop on hydropower
• August 2007 - Cooke Lab research covered by the Fort Frances Times (click here for news article)
• Connie O'Connor awarded the OFAH Sportfish Research Grant for 2007 (media coverage)
• January 2007 - Cooke Lab awarded funds to study bonefish from Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited.
• Cooke Lab research featured on Babe Winkelman Outdoors
• First Cooke Lab graduate (Christine Pelletier) recieved High Honours for her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and is profiled in Carleton Now, June 2006
• The Cooke Lab has been awared $113K from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. See Carleton University Press Release, April 2006
• Biology professor looks to reduce fish mortality rates through research, Research Focus - Carleton Now, February 2006
• Sportingfishing, MPAs, and The Debate Over Management, MPA News (Vol. 6  No.10), May 2005
• The Science of Circle Hooks, In-Fisherman, February 2005
• The Case of the Missing Fish (or click here), Globe and Mail, November 6th, 2004
• Recreational Anglers May Be Contributing to Decline in World Fish Stocks, UBC Media Release, September 1st, 2004
• What do fish do 24/7?, Fisheries, September 2004
• Building a Better Hook, BC Outdoors - Sport Fishing, December 9, 2003
• Catch 'em, Put 'em Back, Catch 'era Again, Illinois Periodicals Online, July 2002
• Emerging Issues in Catch-and-Release Angling, Illinois Natural History Survey Reports, Summer 2002