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…
An ad hoc group composed of Skit Barile, Kathy Reyes, Jenks Espedido, Gelli Parducho and Tuttay Luna together with Deng Palomares (Qq Science Director) and Mary Ann Bimbao (Qq Executive Director), met with the Institute of Statistics of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), led by its Director…
Dr. Roger Pullin, former ICLARM Program Leader of the FishBase project, now Founding Director of the Irish Sea Centre met with Q-quatics (who currently manages FishBase and SeaLifeBase) on July 19th at the Qq headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna (Philippines) for initial talks of collaboration between the two centers. The…
As a marine science student at Pearson College in Canada, 17-year-old Nadia Vaillancourt was looking for a marine conservation-related job to work on while spending her summer vacation in the Philippines. According to Nadia, while using FishBase in a research project in school she had pondered on the work behind FishBase….
Ma. Josephine France ‘Skit’ R. Barile has been selected as the new Thematic Group Leader for IT effective April 4th, 2019, designated to manage, organize and coordinate IT tasks of Q-quatics. Skit is also expected to assure the progress and completeness of deliverables for projects and Q-quatics activities where IT-related…
It is with great pride and honor that we announce the prestigious award given to two of our very own, Dr. Benjamin Vallejo Jr. (Associate Professor- UP Diliman and Q-quatics BOT Secretary) and Jeniffer Conejar-Espedido (Research Officer-Q-quatics), together with their colleague, Leanna Manubag (Ecosystem Management Specialist-DENR – Biodiversity Management Bureau), for their work on “The…
To impart knowledge and skills on image analysis in Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs) among Q-quatics staff, Mr. Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Reyes Jr. (Head of Species ID Team and Leader of the Underwater Video Image Analysis project with the University of Western Australia) conducted a seminar on “Identifying, Tagging and Measuring…
Un Océan de Combats, the book which summarizes the awe-inspiring and novelesque life of FishBase Founder Daniel Pauly, has recently been published and launched for circulation to the public. Compiled and written by David Grémillet, it is the fruit of 2 years of research and dozens of interviews over 4 continents….
For the month of June, Jeremy Jansalin(Qq Research Officer) in partnership with Geezle Painaga (Qq Administrative Assistant), conducted a mini-seminar for the Q-quatics staff on the use of Google Calendar for work-related purposes. The tutorial started with instructions on how to open Google Calendar, followed by discussions on the following: What…