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);…
Prolific discussions ensued from this week’s scheduled talk [April 23, 2019] by Ms. Vina Angelica Parducho on “The Application of the CMSY Concept”, the second presentation since the launching of the Qq Mini-Seminar Series on April 4. Gelli is a Research Officer at Q-quatics in charge of encoding and analysis of life…
As an effort to further enhance capacity building through knowledge sharing in the Q-quatics workplace, the Thursday mini-seminar series was recently initiated by the Qq management. It is currently being planned and organized by the seminar committee, led by Kathy Reyes with members, Joann Glorioso, Isay Abucay and Martin Nevado,…
Position ID: TGL-Taxonomy Qq Hours: Full-time Location: Los Baños, Laguna Salary: Commensurate with required qualifications Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization established in the Philippines in February 2017. Q-quatics was created to support the assembly and dissemination of key data on living aquatic resources for the development of research tools in collaboration…
To better internalize their observations on fish swimming behavior, and with the end goal of developing a “pictoguide” of depth ranges for families and species groups in BRUVS videos, the Species Identification Team of Q-quatics, led by Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Reyes Jr., (Q-quatics Research Associate) held a 2-hour workshop on 22…
Science writer Erik Stokstad recently interviewed Dr. Rainer Froese (GEOMAR) about the findings of a newly published paper which studied the impact that climate change has had so far on global fisheries. The lead author, Chris Free, is a fisheries scientist who created a computer model of the way fish populations respond…
Vision Q-quatics is a non-profit organization maintaining and developing a network of information systems that provide biodiversity and fisheries data on all aquatic life on earth and the related analytical tools for their sustainable management and/or conservation. Our vision is to provide the basic knowledge of humanity in this domain…