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 Josephines ‘Skit’ Barile (IT Thematic…
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 to work on a marine conservation-related job while spending her summer vacation in the Philippines. With the help of a common friend between Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares (Q-quatics Science Director) and Nadia’s mom who’s based…
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…
