Steven Cooke

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About Steven Cooke

Steven Cooke, FRSC, is a Canada Research Professor and Director of the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science at Carleton University. He works at the interface of the natural and social sciences, where the significance, impact and interdisciplinarity of his contributions have been recognized by Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list since 2019 with over 1200 peer reviewed papers (life-time), more than Google Scholar citations, and an H Index of 128. His work is focused on wild fishes along the entirety of the fundamental-applied continuum, with an emphasis on solving complex conservation problems. He is the Chair of the Board of Technical Experts for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Fish Guidelines Committee for the Canadian Council of Animal Care, and the US not-for-profit Keepfishwet.org. Cooke is the Past President (2023-2024) of the Society for Canadian Aquatic Sciences and serves on the Science Advisory Board for the Alberta Minister of Environment (2021-2026) and as Secretary for the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (2022-2026). Cooke has received a number of awards including the LeCren Medal from the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (2022), the Ricker Resource Conservation Award from the American Fisheries Society (2022), and the Zoological Society of London Marsh Award for Aquatic Conservation (2021). In 2018, Cooke served as the T.D. Walter Bean Visiting Professor in Environment at the University of Waterloo, in 2019 was the Robin Welcomme Visiting Professor in Inland Fisheries at Michigan State University and in 2024 is a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.