News – Page 12 – Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.

New Q-quatics publication supporting the protection of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

Joann Glorioso December 15, 2020 January 27, 2021News 0

“Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction“, a Marine Policy paper Q-quatics collaborated on is now published online. For this particular work, the AquaMaps Project (Q-quatics) curated modelled data on the contemporary and future distribution under three Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios (RCP 2.6, 4.5…

New IUCN Red List of Threatened Species released, almost half of extinct species are endemic to Lake Lanao (PH)

Joann Glorioso December 14, 2020 January 27, 2021News 0

The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published recently and contains 128,918 species of which more than 35,500 species, comprising 28% of all assessed species, are threatened with extinction. Thirty-one (31) species are now declared Extinct. Almost half of these are endemic to Lake Lanao, the largest lake in…

Meet the champions of FishBase and SeaLifeBase

Joann Glorioso December 1, 2020 January 27, 2021News 0

Who supports FishBase and SeaLifeBase? Maintaining big data projects takes a lot of people to conduct research, populate databases, verify information, and make the data accessible. It also requires a lot of material and financial resources. Creating and keeping FishBase and SeaLifeBase accurate and updated is in part possible thanks…

Nicolas Bailly on how SeaLifeBase was built from an ’empty shell’ of FishBase

Joann Glorioso November 10, 2020 January 27, 2021News 0

On the fifth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Nicolas Bailly tells the story of how he took part in the creation of SeaLifeBase by taking an empty shell of the FishBase database structure and populating it with information from the Catalogue of Life (CoL). He also explains how SeaLifeBase has evolved…

Daniel Pauly takes top spot as most cited fisheries scientists in PLoS Biology study

Joann Glorioso October 28, 2020 November 17, 2020News 0

FishBase co-creator and the Sea Around Us Principal Investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, continues to be among the top 0.01% of the world’s scientists based on the impact of his publications. This is according to a study published last year in PLoS Biology and updated in 2020, whose authors created a publicly available database of the…

Daniel Pauly inducted into UBC’s Quarter Century Club

Joann Glorioso October 21, 2020 October 21, 2020News 0

This year, Dr Daniel Pauly is one of the faculty members of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia who join UBC’s Quarter Century Club. Congratulations, Dr Pauly! 🎉 The Quarter Century Club/25 Year Club was established in 1996 to honor faculty and staff of…

Cornelia Nauen on how she helped make FishBase a reality

Joann Glorioso October 14, 2020 October 14, 2020News 0

On the fourth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Cornelia Nauen (President of Mundus Maris) shares the other side of the , that is, the effort that had to be done to gather some seed money and bring the project to life. After retelling what she had to do…

New publication: Assessments of marine fisheries resources in West Africa with emphasis on small pelagics

Joann Glorioso October 13, 2020 October 22, 2020News 0

The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries of the University of British Columbia in Canada recently published a report, “Assessments of Marine Fisheries Resources in West Africa with Emphasis on Small Pelagics” based on the study conducted by the Sea Around Us, the MAVA Foundation and the Commission Sous-Régionale des…

Deng Palomares reveals the origins of SeaLifeBase

Joann Glorioso September 16, 2020 September 25, 2020News 0

On the third episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr. Deng Palomares (Science Director of Q-quatics and SeaLifeBase Project Coordinator) talks about how SeaLifeBase came to be. After recounting how the project was born as homage to John Munro, who once directed the Resource Development and Management Program at the International…

FishBase Consortium Annual Meeting goes virtual for 2020

Joann Glorioso September 15, 2020 September 28, 2020News 0

With the ongoing situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided among members that the 21st FishBase Consortium Annual Meeting would be best conducted online for this year. The 5-day teleconference meeting among members and partners transpired last week, from 7 to11 September 2020, and was hosted by…

Category: News