A $2,250 scholarship has been endowed by Cecil B. Morrow in honour of his parents, Cecil and Kathleen Morrow (BA ’29).
The award is offered to a graduate student in Fisheries and is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
2024 Winner
Aleah Wong (PhD, OCF)
2023 Winner
Shabnam Shadloo (PhD, OCF)
2022 Winner
Isabella Morgante (PhD, OCF)
2021 Winner
Julia Fast (MSc, OCF)
2020 Winner
Karly McMullen (MSc, OCF)
Previous Winners
Katie Florko
Used the award to travel to the field site in Churchill, Manitoba to participate in collection of data from monitoring studies (telemetry and body condition) and subsistence harvest (fitness) of polar bears and ringed seals to gain insights on concurrent habitat use, condition, and fitness under variable sea ice regimes.
Patricia Angkiriwang
Used the award to travel to Tla’amin, B.C., to meet with coastal First Nations community to develop and visualize scenarios of how adaptation options may moderate climate change effects on marine B.C. fish stocks and how this could consequently affect the diet and nutritional health of the Tla’amin Nation, as well as other coastal B.C. First Nations and Indigenous communities who may be impacted by the consequences of our changing oceans.
Carie Hoover
Used the award to gather information on Hudson Bay ecosystems through meetings with field researchers and DFO experts, which will be used to build an ecosystem model using Ecopath with Ecosim. | Paper |
Pramod Ganapathiraju
Conducted research on unreported catches from subsistence and small scale fisheries in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. | Paper |
Robyn Forrest
Robyn Forrest used the award to do research at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Tasmania, Australia, comparing the predictions of two structurally different types of ecosystem model (EwE and Atlantis).| Paper |