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Dr. Carl Walters e-mail Phone: 604-822-6320 |
Dr Walters is a Professor at the Fisheries Centre whose areas of research include the development of rapid techniques for teaching systems analysis and mathematical modeling to biologists and resource managers. "I mainly work on fish population dynamics, fisheries assessment and sustainable management". He believes the heart of fisheries is how to manage harvest: "The main thrust of my research is to figure out how to design management systems that are robust in an area of really high uncertainty".
A member of several of NSERC's grant committees since 1970, he has done extensive fisheries advisory work for public agencies and industrial groups. He has also conducted over two dozen three to ten day workshops in the past decade, for the International Canadian Fisheries Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. In 1992, he gave the keynote address to the American Fisheries Society, entitled: Where have all the Coho Gone?
He is the editor of The Open Fish Journal and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, the Northwest Environmental Journal, the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, and Marine and Coastal Fisheries.
Dr. Walters is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.
Awards
2009
Killam Teaching Prize for Graduate Instruction
2007
2006
American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence
The Volvo Environment Prize
(shared with Daniel Pauly and Ray Hilborn)
Select Recent Publications
Walters, C. and J. Kitchell. 2001. Cultivation/depensation Effects on Juvenile Survival and Recruitment: Implications for the Theory of Fishing. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58:39-50.
Walters, C. 2003. Folly and fantasy in the analysis of spatial catch rate data. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. (60):1433-1436
Walters, C., Christensen, V., Martell, S., Kitchell, J. 2005. Possible ecosystem impacts of applying MSY policies from single species assessment. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 62:558-568.
Walters, C., Hilborn, R. 2005. Exploratory analysis of recruitment trends using relative abundance and catch data. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1985-1990.
Walters, C.J., Korman, J., and Martell, S.J. 2006. A stochastic approach to stock reduction analysis. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 63:212-223.
Walters, C. 2007. Is adaptive management helping to solve fisheries problems? Ambio 36:304-307
Walters, C.J., Hilborn, R., and Christensen, V. 2008. Dynamics of surplus production in declining and increasing populations. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65: 2536-2551.
Recent Books
Walters, C.J. and Martell, S.J. 2004. Fisheries Ecology and Management. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ. 399p