RAM's Birthday June 13

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.

World Ocean Day

...remembering RAM, Dr. Ransom Myers, the world's greatest Ocean Scientist , on World Ocean Day.

Ram's Mermaid

Desperately Seeking Susan is seeking a picture of Ram's mermaid. Please post a pik here or email it to her.

RAM inducted in N.S. Hall of Fame

"Nova Scotia’s best and brightest minds were honoured last night at The 2007 Discovery Awards for Science and Technology. The 5th annual gala event celebrated dedicated individuals from the fields of science and technology whose locally, nationally and internationally recognized work is being carried out right here in Nova Scotia.
The awards are held as a Discovery Centre fundraiser and as a unique way to recognize the exceptional talents of Nova Scotians working in science and technology.

Three people were also inducted into the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame for Science and Technology: Dr. Frederic Sexton, founder of Nova Scotia Technical College, Dr. Ransom Myers, a world leader in large marine animal analysis, and Dr. Robert Ackman, co-founder of Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology.

Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Discovery Centre has announced that it will posthumously induct Dr. Ransom Myers, world leader in large marine animal analysis, into the Nova Scotia Science and Technology Hall of Fame. Myers dedicated his career to studying marine life in Nova Scotia and around the world.
Among Myers’ many breakthroughs, his research revealed that a few decades ago, tuna were twice the size they are today, and that marlins the size of killer whales once swam the world’s oceans. At the forefront of his work, Dr. Myers’ provided evidence, which he and a co-worker produced and published, that demonstrated that 90 per cent of the world’s large fish population has vanished completely.......
The Hall of Fame induction will take place at the 2007 Discovery Awards for Science and Technology on November 29 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel.

RAM working on vacation

I took this picture just over a year ago. Ram was working during his family vacation in Cape Breton. And now, it's almost a six months since he left us... involuntarly and unwillingly. Ram had so much more work to do, so many ideas, and yes, so much love for all of us. Damn Brain Cancer!

Was RAM an "Ocean Historian?"

"Dusting off sales records, fishery yearbooks and other sources, researchers Brian R. MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark and the late Ransom Myers of Canada’s Dalhousie University show majestic bluefins teemed in northern European waters (North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Skaggerak, Kattegat, and Oresund ) for a few months each summer until an industrialized fishery geared up in the 1920s and literally filled the floors of European market halls with them.
The research, to appear in a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries Research, shows that generations ago Atlantic bluefins typically arrived in the northern waters by the thousands in late June and departed by October at the latest, their foraging travels likely related to seasonal warming."
http://www.huliq.com/29399/historians-detail-collapse-of-bluefin-tuna-population-off-northern-europe