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Research Award Co-Recipients 2009: Dr. Thierry Chopin & Dr. Shawn Robinson
The 2009 Research Award of Excellence goes to Drs. Thierry Chopin and Shawn Robinson, in recognition of their contributions to taking the concept of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) from the ‘proof stage’ to the realm of commercial production with the help of their interdisciplinary team and industry partners. They realized that most...
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2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Yves Bastien
Yves Bastien retired from the Federal Public Service in April 2007 after a 30 year career in the provincial and federal public services, and 24 years in aquaculture. He started his aquaculture career with the Québec Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food. Over a 13 year period he occupied 3 aquaculture positions: Aquaculture Industrial...
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Research Award Recipient 2007: Prof. Richard D. Moccia
Professor Richard Moccia currently holds research and senior management cross-appointments at the University of Guelph, where he has been employed since 1987. He is the Associate Vice-President of Research (Agrifood and Partnerships), as well as Director of the university’s Aquaculture Centre and the Alma Aquaculture Research Station – both...
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2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Lucien Poirier
Lucien Poirier a débuté sa carrière dans le secteur administratif québécois des pêches après ses études en biologie à l’Université de Montréal et à l’Université McGill. Il fut le premier biologiste québécois à s’intéresser à la mytiliculture et à la pectiniculture. Depuis 1982, il occupe des fonctions de direction. À ce titre, il a contribué...
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Research Award Recipient 2006: Dr. David A. Higgs
Since August 1975, Dr. Higgs as head of the DFO Fish Nutrition Program based at the West Vancouver Laboratory (presently the DFO/UBC Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research), has conducted collaborative projects within DFO and with universities (professors and graduate students) and/or industry that have been directed primarily to (1)...
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2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Louis Deveau
Louis Deveau is the Chairman and Founder of Acadian Seaplants Limited, a seaweed manufacturing, cultivation and processing company specializing in value-added products developed for global agri-chemical, animal feeds, food ingredients including health, beauty and brewery markets and cultivated marine plants for the Asian food market. Mr. Deveau...
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Research Award Recipient 2005: Dr. John Castell
Dr. Castell is Scientist Emeritus at the St. Andrews Biological Station of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Born April 19, 1943 in Guelph Ontario where his Father taught at OAC, he completed his BSc (Hon’s) in Biochemistry at the Dalhousie University in 1964. He was Dr. Robert G. Ackman’s first graduate student completing his...
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2004 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Ovila Daigle
Ovila Daigle grew up in Pointe-Sapin a small coastal community in New Brunswick. He has a degree in Forestry from UNB where he learned his trade of land surveyor. He started his career in Newcastle N.-B. in 1959 working with the province of NB, surveying forest lots to mark their boundaries and assess wood production. […]
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Research Award Recipient 2004: Dr. Edward Donaldson
Dr. Donaldson is Scientist Emeritus at the West Vancouver Laboratory of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Originally, from Cumbria in the UK, he completed his BSc (Hon’s) in Zoology at the University of Sheffield in 1961 and a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia in 1964. Funded by a NIH Postdoctoral […]
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2003 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Dr. William Pennel
Dr. William (Bill) Pennell is a faculty advisor and instructor in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Malaspina University-College (MUC) in Nanaimo, BC. Bill received his Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from McGill University in 1973 and has been with MUC since 1980. Bill is a member of several professional associations and committees including...
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