Remember RAM on his birthday. He was born on Friday the 13th! This is one of the last pictures I took of him and is how i remember him.....thinking and smiling.
Showing posts with label " RAM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label " RAM. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Friday, January 19, 2007
Dr. Jeff Hutchings on RAM
George Lilly, Ram Myers, Jeff Hutchings Department of Fisheries & Oceans, St. John’s, Newfoundland
December 1994 Photograph taken in JH’s office, commemorating our receipt of the 1993 Wilfred Templeman Publication Award for: Hutchings, J.A., Myers, R.A., and G.R. Lilly. 1993. Geographic variation in the spawning of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, in the Northwest Atlantic. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 2457-2467.
"Ram has an uncanny ability to take disparate sets of data and bring it all together to address fundamentally important questions."
"He has highlighted the demise and declines of marine fishes and brought it to the attention of people that previously hadn't been aware of it and that was groundbreaking."
"He's been outspoken within and outside DFO," he said. "I wrote a paper in 1997 and cited a letter of reprimand he had received from his directors at DFO . saying he was not supposed to speak on certain things."
"I think Ram's contribution really will ultimately be his ability to communicate important issues about marine conservation biology to as broad an audiuence as possible. His work absolutely and quite appropriately provokes. We've needed the scientifically driven provocations by Ram to force us to look very carefully at our oceans."
--Dr. Jeff Hutchings, marine biologist, Dalhousie University, published almost 20 papers with Ram. (as quoted in article by ALISON AULD, published in Canada East, Wednesday January 17th, 2007
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=92606
"He has highlighted the demise and declines of marine fishes and brought it to the attention of people that previously hadn't been aware of it and that was groundbreaking."
"He's been outspoken within and outside DFO," he said. "I wrote a paper in 1997 and cited a letter of reprimand he had received from his directors at DFO . saying he was not supposed to speak on certain things."
"I think Ram's contribution really will ultimately be his ability to communicate important issues about marine conservation biology to as broad an audiuence as possible. His work absolutely and quite appropriately provokes. We've needed the scientifically driven provocations by Ram to force us to look very carefully at our oceans."
--Dr. Jeff Hutchings, marine biologist, Dalhousie University, published almost 20 papers with Ram. (as quoted in article by ALISON AULD, published in Canada East, Wednesday January 17th, 2007
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=92606
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Brain Cancer
The Hamilton Spectator reported today, "A Canadian scientist renowned for his groundbreaking research and blunt warnings about the extinction of marine species around the world has been hospitalized with an inoperable brain tumour. Ransom Myers, 54, a marine biologist who's been a vocal critic of Ottawa's management of Canadian fisheries, is reportedly in critical condition in hospital after being diagnosed in November 2006 with a rare form of brain cancer."
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