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Issue No. 5, October 2019 © Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.
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2019 FISHBASE AND SEALIFEBASE SYMPOSIUM AND CONSORTIUM MEETING HOSTED BY UWA
September 9-13, 2019 was an eventful week for the FishBase and SeaLifeBase officers, founders, board members, consortium members and selected collaborators at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Kudos and many thanks to UWA especially to Dr. Jessica Meeuwig, Director of Center for Marine Futures, for hosting, leading and organizing the annual symposium and FBC meeting for this year. [More]
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CORPORATE ID WORKSHOP
Branding expert Ms. Giulia Bottoni was invited by Q-quatics to conduct a corporate identity workshop through graphics design for 3 days in August 2019 at the Qq office in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. [More]
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NOVEL FISH STOCK ASSESSMENT METHODS GOES TO WEST AFRICA
Through collaborations led by Dr. Daniel Pauly (Sea Around Us Principal Investigator and FishBase Cofounder) and Dr. Deng Palomares (Sea Around Us Project Manager and Q-quatics Science Director), the first workshop on new stock assessment techniques for data-poor fisheries developed by Dr. Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and Cofounder of FishBase) was delivered in West Africa late September this year. [More]
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QQ WELCOMES STUDENT VOLUNTEER FROM CANADA
As a marine life enthusiast and conservationist, and FishBase user who pondered on the work behind the global fish database, Nadia Vaillancourt spent two weeks at Qq office in the Philipines for an on-the-job experience. [More]
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EXPERTS FROM UPLB-INSTAT TRAIN QQ STAFF ON R PROGRAMMING
The 3-day training-workshop on
"Statistics in R Programming" was held earlier this year at the Qq office in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines and provided the Qq staff/participants with basic knowledge in statistics and programming skills in R, especially in the areas of data manipulation and function construction. [More]
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IN-HOUSE SEMINAR ON SPLITTING AND INTEGRATING SPECIES IN FISHBASE
Emily Capuli, Thematic Group Leader for Taxonomy at Q-quatics, shared her work and experience to her colleagues on “Integrating and Splitting of Species in FishBase: species/ distribution updates affecting Qq projects” through a seminar held at the Qq office in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines in August 2019. [More]
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Dr. Todd Miller, lead of IsotopeBase, met with Qq staff Josephine Barile (IT Thematic Group Leader), Patricia Yap (Research Analyst), and Dr. Mary Ann Bimbao (Executive Director) to discuss ongoing and future collaborative work. [More]
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Former ICLARM Program Leader now Founding Director of the Irish Sea Centre), Dr. Roger Pullin met with Q-quatics for initial talks of collaboration between the two centers. [More]
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