On 20 February 2020, Ms. Fayte Sicnawa wholeheartedly shared her MSc special problem with her colleagues a day before her last day as Research Assistant of Q-quatics. Fayte’s SP entitled “Wildlife Utilization of Indigenous People of Kalinga Province, Philippines” was aimed at: Accounting how wildlife are used in culture and traditions of the…
Dr. Armi Torres (Post Doc) participated in the Philippine Aquatic Red List Committee’s (PARLC) Freshwater Bony Fishes Subcommittee planning-workshop and initial assessment of some freshwater bony fishes held at the Isabela State University, Echague Campus on 10-13 February 2020. She presented about the IUCN priority freshwater species that occur in…
Big congratulations to Qq Board of Trustees’ Vice Chair Dr. William Cheung, awardee of a 2019 UBC Killam Research Fellowship which enables him to pursue full-time research during study leave. Dr. Cheung is a Professor with UBC’s Changing Ocean Research Unit and Director (Science) of the Nippon Foundation’s Nereus Program…
It was a dynamic and productive start of 2020 for Q-quatics! To start the year on the right footing, a Board of Trustees meeting was scheduled on January 13th but due to the eruption of Mt. Taal resulted in a 1-day delay in Dr. Cornelia Nauen’s (President, Mundus Maris) flight…
The Q-quatics’ search process for four (4) positions: three (3) Research Assistants and one (1) Software Engineer has began. Qualifications and requirements of the said job call are found below. We are hoping to attract interests from the widest pool of young talents. Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (www.q-quatics.org) is a non-stock, non-profit,…
The 9-day recreational fair “boot 2020” in Duesseldorf (Germany), a unique joint initiative for ocean and water protection, recently transpired with huge participation. About 50 conservation-minded organizations on the extended ‘love your ocean’ space joined the fair with an entire “island” about sounds from the sea. More than 250,000 water…
A meeting between IRRI and Q-quatics was held on 15 January 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the IRRI Khush Hall conference room in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines to discuss and initiate possible collaborations in the area of rice-cum-fish. At the meeting, Q-quatics was represented by Cornelia Nauen…
The differences in traits causing (and resulting from) indeterminate growth continues to confuse colleagues who are used to work with birds and mammals exhibiting determinate growth, i.e., reaching their maximum size quickly. See SharedIt link: rdcu.be/bRIwd Here, my son and I criticize the notion that a mysterious “uncoupling” of brain growth…
Breaking news to add to the joys of the holiday season, Dr. Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares (Qq Science Director) has been chosen to be a recipient of UBC Faculty of Science’s ‘Excellence in Service Awards’ for 2019! This is given in recognition of staff, students, and faculty whose service contributions…
A newly developed method for assessing how abundant fish populations are and how fishing is affecting them revealed that several fish stocks across oceans are far below internationally agreed minimum levels and in urgent need of sustainable management. The methodology, known as Abundance Maximum Sustainable Yields or AMSY, was developed…