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…
The objectives of this activity are for the members of the Qq Species ID Team (Lead: Rudy Reyes, Members: Isay Abucay, Jeremy Jansalin, Aque Atanacio, Mike Yap, Fayte Sicnawa and Selina de Leon) and other members of the FishBase Team, (Armi Torres, Emily Capuli and Joann Glorioso) to: – take…
On 30 May 2019, Ms. Jessika Woroniak, Research Assistant at Sea Around Us, gave a short presentation on the Catch Maximum Sustainable Yield (CMSY) collaborative work of Q-quatics and Sea Around Us (Oceana and Minderoo projects) for the Q-quatics in-house CMSY Team. Dr. Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares, Project Manager of Sea Around Us and Science Director…
A teaching seminar was given by Ms. Josephine ‘Skit’ Barile (head of the Information Technology Group) to address inquiries and help members of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Team in executing MS Access queries in relation to their database tasks. Two newly-hired researchers (Fayte Sicnawa and Selina De Leon) gained primarily from…
A summary of the results of the AMSY workshop held at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany on 23-25 April 2019, as reported by Rainer Froese, can be found below. The workshop was kindly sponsored by the Minderoo Foundation. Participants were Rainer Froese, GEOMAR (Chair); Nina Garilao, GEOMAR (Org.); Daniel Pauly, UBC, Canada (remote participation);…