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Colin Bates
MSc Candidate
I'm originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, and have lived
in Fredericton, N.B. since January 2000. I did my BSc. at Simon
Fraser University, and spent lots of time at the Bamfield
Marine Station. The person I can credit with showing me the
charisma of seaweed is my 'phycological grandfather', Dr.
Louis Druehl. After
I finished my Bachelor degree in 1996, I took three years off to
travel to Central America, restore a 1958 Lambretta scooter, and
start a landscaping company. In 1999, I returned to school to take
the Fall Program in Marine Science at BMS. My love of algae was
renewed, so I moved to the bustling hub of Canadian seaweed science,
Fredericton, New Brunswick. These days, my non-research time is
filled with teaching guitar, graphic & web design, mountain
biking and taking photographs. (See some here)
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Project Description:
Seaweeds are an ecologically and economically
important component of the Bay of Fundy intertidal ecosystem. Records
of seaweed diversity along the New Brunswick coast of the Bay of
Fundy were produced on and off up until the late 1970's, but since
that time records are scarce, if extant at all. Over the past 20
years, the array of anthropogenic pressures on the Bay of Fundy
coastline has continually diversified and intensified, but the
lack of recent records has made it difficult to assess if these
increased pressures are altering seaweed assemblages.
The main focus of this project is to implement a floristic monitoring
program for red, green and brown algae in the Bay of Fundy. With
data gathered during this monitoring program I will achieve the
following four objectives: 1) determine if the marine flora in
the Bay of Fundy exhibits symptoms characteristic of anthropogenically
impacted floras elsewhere in the world; 2) obtain current and detailed
baseline records; 3) compare contemporary and historical data to
highlight changes in the flora; and 4) gain insight into the expected
range of variation in Fundy seaweed communities.
CV
Colin
R. Bates
Research interests:
Seaweed ecology and evolution, life history strategies, marine
dispersal ecology, biodiversity assessment, biostatistical analysis.
Education |
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| Ph.D. |
University
of British Columbia |
Sept
2002 - |
M.Sc.
(in progress) |
University of New Brunswick |
Jan
2000 - Aug 2002 |
Fall
Program in Marine Science |
Bamfield
Marine Station |
1999 |
B.Sc. |
Simon
Fraser University |
1996 |
| Teaching
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| Courses
TA’d: |
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| BIOL
2105: Research Foundations in Ecology |
UNB |
2001-2002 |
| MASC
410: Marine Phycology |
Bamfield
Marine Station |
2001 |
| BIOL
2065: Foundations in Organismal Biology |
UNB |
2000-2001 |
| BIOL
1016: Man & the Biosphere |
UNB |
2000 |
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| Other |
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| Invited
lecture/field exercise: Introduction
to Marine Biodiversity & Biomonitoring |
Huntsman
Marine Science Centre / UNB (BIOL 3173) |
2000,
2002 |
| Shad
Valley Program field exercise: Morphological Diversity
of Intertidal Seaweeds |
UNB |
2000 |
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Volunteer
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| President
- UNB Biology Graduate Student Society |
2001
- present |
Co
Treasurer – Biology Graduate Student Society |
2000
- 2001 |
| Vancouver
Aquarium Public Education Program |
1998-1999 |
| Newsletter
Editor, Vespa Club of Canada |
1997-1999 |
| Chair
to the Board of Directors, CJSF campus-community radio |
1993 |
Memberships |
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| Centre for Marine
Biodiversity |
2001- present |
| Northeast
Algal Society |
2000
- present |
| Scholarship
and Awards |
| PGS-B
Scholarship (2002) |
NSERC |
$38,200 |
| 2002
PRIMER Workshop Bursary (HMSC) |
Centre
for Marine Biodiversity |
$800 |
| Best
talk: 2nd Place |
UNB
Graduate Research Conference |
$175 |
| Vaughan
Graduate Fellowship |
(UNB) |
$1200 |
| Best
talk: 2nd Place |
15th
NWAS |
$50
(US) |
| Canada’s
Natural Capital Conference , 2001 |
Graduate
student bursary |
$50 |
| Huntsman
Marine Science Centre, 2001 |
Graduate
student research scholarship |
$500 |
| Bamfield
Marine Station,1999 |
Student
award |
$600 |
| Conferences /
Workshops Attended |
| PRIMER workshop |
Huntsman Marine Science
Centre |
2002 |
| 41st Northeast Algal
Symposium |
UNH, New Hampshire |
2002 |
| 10th UNB Graduate
Student Research Conference |
UNB |
2002 |
| 15th Northwest Algal
Symposium |
Whidbey Island, WA |
2001 |
| 40th Northeast
Algal Symposium |
Plymouth,
MA |
2001 |
| Canada’s
Natural Capital |
Ottawa,
Ontario |
2001
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| Coastal
Zone Canada/ BoFEP |
Saint
John, New Brunswick |
2000
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| MacMillan
Biodiversity Workshop |
Bamfield,
British Columbia |
2000
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| 39th Northeast
Algal Symposium |
Rhode
Island |
2000 |
| Publications |
| Bates CR,
T Chopin, and Saunders GW (2001). Monitoring seaweed diversity
in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. p.163-176.
In: Opportunities and challenges for protecting, restoring
and enhancing coastal habitats in the Bay of Fundy. Proceedings of the 4th Bay of Fundy Science Workshop, Saint
John, New Brunswick, September 19-21, 2000. Chopin T. and
P.G. Wells (Eds.). Environment Canada, Atlantic Region Occasional
Report No. 17, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
237p. |
| Bates
CR,
Chopin T and Saunders GW (2000) Marine conservation in
the Bay of Fundy: a macroalgal perspective. Bay of Fundy
Marine Sensitive Areas Workshop, Saint John, New Brunswick.
Submitted. (.pdf here) |
| Published Abstracts
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| Bates
C, Chopin T, & Saunders, GW (2002) Getting
the biggest bang for your phycological buck: Optimizing
methodologies in seaweed biodiversity monitoring.41st
Northeast Algal Symposium, Durham, New Hampshire. |
| Chopin
T, Belyea E, Pearce C, Daggett T, Saunders G & Bates
C (2002) Assessing nutrification in coastal waters,
seaweeds as excellent but underutilized, bioindicators
for integrated coastal management. 41st
Northeast Algal Symposium, Durham, New Hampshire.
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| Chopin
T, Belyea E, Pearce C, Daggett T, Saunders G & Bates
C (2002) ) Assessing
nutrification in the Bay of Fundy: seaweeds as excellent,
but underutilized, bioindicators for integrated coastal
management. Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership Meeting,
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
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| Chopin
T, Yarish C, Neefus C, Kraemer G, Belyea E, Carmona R,
Saunders G, Bates C, Page
F, & Dowd, M. (2001) Underutilized tools: seaweeds
as bioremediation and diversification tools and bio-indicators
for integrated aquaculture and coastal management. Journal
of Phycology 37 (3), 12-12. |
| Bates
CR, Chopin T & Saunders GW (2001) Monitoring
of intertidal seaweed diversity in the outer Bay of Fundy
(New Brunswick, Canada) reveals symptoms of environmental
stress. 15th Northwest Algal Symposium, Whidbey Island,
WA. |
| Bates
CR,
Chopin T & Saunders GW (2001) Seaweed biodiversity
monitoring in the Bay of Fundy (New Brunswick, Canada)
reveals symptoms of environmental stress. 40th Northeast
Algal Symposium, Plymouth, MA. |
| Chopin
T, Yarish C, Neefus C, Kraemer G, Belyea E, Carmona R,
Saunders G, Bates C and Rawson Jr. M (2001) Not
so new species in not so new aquaculture practices: the
rediscovery of fish/shellfish/algae integrated systems
in the western world. Aquaculture Europe 2001, Trondheim,
Norway. |
| Chopin
T, Yarish C, Sharp G, Neefus C, Kraemer G, Zertuche-Gonzalez
J, Belyea E, Carmona R, Saunders G and Bates C (2001)
Development of integrated aquaculture systems for responsible
coastal zone management. European
Aquaculture Society Conference, Oostende, Belgium. |
| Chopin
T, Yarish C, Sharp G, Neefus C, Kraemer G, Zertuche Gonzalez
J, Belyea E, Carmona R, Saunders G and Bates C (2001)
Integrating fed and extractive aquaculture for a balanced
ecosystem approach. Workshop on Ecosystem Considerations
for Aquaculture (plenary presentation) Ottawa, Ontario. |
| Chopin
T, Yarish C, Neefus C, Kraemer G, Belyea E, Carmona R,
Saunders G, Bates C, Page F and Dowd M (2001) The
solution to pollution in aquaculture… not dilution,
but conversion through integrated aquaculture. Atlantic
Aquaculture Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Bates
CR,
Chopin T & Saunders GW (2000) Seaweed biodiversity
monitoring in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. 4th Bay
of Fundy Science Workshop / Coastal Zone Canada. Saint
John, New Brunswick. |
| Bates
CR,
Chopin T & Saunders GW (2000) Monitoring seaweed
biodiversity in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. 39th Northeast
Algal Symposium, Rhode Island, USA. |
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