The 9-day recreational fair “boot 2020” in Duesseldorf (Germany), a unique joint initiative for ocean and water protection, recently transpired with huge participation. About 50 conservation-minded organizations on the extended ‘love your ocean’ space joined the fair with an entire “island” about sounds from the sea. More than 250,000 water…
A meeting between IRRI and Q-quatics was held on 15 January 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the IRRI Khush Hall conference room in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines to discuss and initiate possible collaborations in the area of rice-cum-fish. At the meeting, Q-quatics was represented by Cornelia Nauen…
The differences in traits causing (and resulting from) indeterminate growth continues to confuse colleagues who are used to work with birds and mammals exhibiting determinate growth, i.e., reaching their maximum size quickly. See SharedIt link: rdcu.be/bRIwd Here, my son and I criticize the notion that a mysterious “uncoupling” of brain growth…
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…