A Few Good Softballers
Despite two 5-run, mercy rule inducing bottom innings, the game somehow stayed close. Like the outlier in your data, the Reefs could not be willed away.
Increasing temperatures and salinity result in decreased ecosystem diversity, UBC study finds.
Ecosystems can be impacted and changed by a lot of different things, including human activities, stormwater runoff, contaminants, invasive species, and climate change
Chemical Induced Reef Degradation
Darin’ Taryn commented after the game, “with this loss, our record looks about as good as the FISH 500 trash fish that’s deteriorating in that ESB museum.” Chemistry Department Destroys IOF Going into their fifth game of the season and ranked dead last in the league, the Reefs faced their biggest rival yet, the Chemistry […]
IOF faculty members receive funding from Government of Canada
Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé’s Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology (Tier II) was renewed, and she, along with Dr. William Cheung and Dr. David Rosen received NSERC Discovery Grant funding.
Business as Usual
“It turns out a lot of the Cubs’ best players just weren’t at the first game but showed up for this one,” said Skipper Kristen Sora, “and unfortunately a bunch of our worst players also showed up.”
Basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction, study finds
Providing a basic income could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by $US163 trillion while acting to curb environmental degradation, UBC research has found.
Ecosystem Modelling with EwE – new textbook
This book will be used for future FISH 501 courses, and for the IOF ecosystem modelling micro certificate course.
New FCRR: Gill size and temperature as governing factors in fish growth: A generalization of von Bertalanffy’s growth formula (2nd edition)
Want to read Dr. Daniel Pauly’s PhD thesis? This FCRR contains the 1979 dissertation, but with minor typographical errors corrected and tables and figures reorganized for clarity.
Gideon Mordecai is named as an Action Canada Fellow
Action Canada selects emerging leaders from across Canada to become Fellows. They represent all sectors, including business, NGOs, science, government and academia. What they share in common is a commitment to Canada and a demonstrated engagement with public policy.