Professor Aaron Fisk has been named a 2015 Pew Marine Fellow to support his work to develop an Arctic fisheries research program.
Professor Aaron Fisk has been named a 2015 Pew Marine Fellow to support his work to develop an Arctic fisheries research program.
Postdoctoral researcher Melissa McKinney has won a fellowship to support her work studying the effects of climate change on Arctic ecosystems.
Postdoctoral researcher Melissa McKinney has won a fellowship to support her work studying the effects of climate change on Arctic ecosystems.
Professor Aaron Fisk and Ed Holder, minister of state for science and technology, look over work by student Alex Weidl in Dr. Fisk’s research lab.
UWindsor researchers will receive $3.5 million in funding from the federal Discovery Grants Program.
The waters off the coast of Sudan are considered a biodiversity hotspot for such critically important marine species as sharks and manta rays, and a pair of UWindsor scientists has laid the groundwork to begin protecting them.
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Preliminary data gathered from state-of-the-art acoustic technology in the deep waters off the shores of Baffin Island will provide extraordinary insight for developing new commercial Inuit fisheries and protecting fish stocks for future generations in northern Canada, according to a University of Windsor scientist.
Determining both the causes and the effects of climate change can be tricky business for a scientist, but there’s little doubt in the mind of Arctic researcher Aaron Fisk about whether it’s happening. Climate change is dramatic, 
it’s real and at this point it may be irreversible, he believes.
Dave Yurkowski learned a great deal about Arctic ecology during his two week journey to the Canadian north this summer to study how climate change affects the behaviour of ringed seals. He also learned a lot about what’s commonly referred to as one of life’s most important virtues.
“You do have to be really patient,” the master’s student said of the time he had spend waiting for a seal to be caught in the nets he helped set. “You can be sitting there for hours. But that’s just part of field work. Once the seal gets caught in the net – that’s when the action starts.”
