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…
Due to the growing number of inquiries on citations received by Q-quatics Librarian, Lyra Joyce Banasihan, a seminar on the conventions of encoding in the Reference Management System (RMS) for FishBase and SeaLifeBase references was deemed necessary thus organized and conducted on 14 November 2019 (Thursday, 2:00-300PM) at the Q-quatics…
Story-telling time for Q-quatics Communication Officer Joann Glorioso on how FishBase dove into the world of social media, her experiences and strategies in leading the development and management of the FishBase Facebook and Twitter accounts, to her colleagues through a short seminar-presentation held on October 24th of 2019 in Los…
The 17th Annual FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium was recently held at the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre (IOMRC) of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth. For the first time since 2003, the FB symposium ran for two(2) whole days, from the 9th to the 10th of September 2019….
To foster wellness and fitness in the workplace, Q-quatics conducted an in-house seminar on “Desk-friendly Exercises” on the 29th of August 2019 held at the IRRI Gym. Coach Ronald Bernaldez briefly discussed the benefits of exercise to professionals and then led and guided the participating Qq staff to a few…
On the 15th of August 2019, Ms. Emily Capuli, Thematic Group Leader for Taxonomy in Q-quatics, gave a seminar-presentation on “Integrating and Splitting of Species in FishBase: species/distribution updates affecting Qq projects” at the Qq office in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. Emily began her presentation by citing different sources used…
Dr. Roger Pullin (former ICLARM Program Leader – Inland Aquatic Resources Systems), now Founding Director of the Irish Sea Centre) meets with Q-quatics (who currently manages FishBase and SeaLifeBase) on 19 July 2019 for initial talks of collaboration between the two centers. The Irish Sea Centre (www.irishseacentre.org), a young and promising…
Branding expert Ms. Giulia Bottoni led the Q-quatics staff in the development of the Qq corporate identity through graphics design in a 3-day training-workshop held last August 2019 at the Qq office in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. It was participated in by Maan Bimbao (Executive Director), Tuttay Luna (Executive Assistant),…
Dr. Todd Miller, Recruitment, Energetics and Coastal Assessment Program Manager at NOAA Fisheries and lead of IsotopeBase, a global database for stable isotopes and trophic levels in aquatic food webs was at Qq headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna (Philippines) on 31 July 2019. Todd met with Josephine ‘Skit’ Barile (IT…