Issues & Experts >
Issues & Experts Archive > Coral reef fish, sustainable measures
Coral reef fish, sustainable measures
Document Tools
April 23, 2010
Fish discovery helps explain evolution
A new scientific study blows out of the water current theories about how hamlets—colourful coral reef fish found throughout the Caribbean—have evolved. SFU biologist Isabelle Côté co-authored Signatures of Speciation, published in the latest online issue of Global Ecology and Biogeography. The Belcarra resident can explain the significance of her research team’s discovery that the Caribbean’s prolific diversity of hamlet species has little to do with geographic separation.
See: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123373737/abstract
Isabelle Côté, 778.782.3705, 778.782.3989, imcote@sfu.ca
Measuring up on sustainability
On the heels of Earth Day, SFU has become one of the first Canadian universities to sign up for a new way to measure its sustainability efforts. As a charter member of the AASHE STARS assessment framework (http://stars.aashe.org/), an evaluation system designed for the post-secondary sector, SFU will be involved in the first formal reporting system of its kind designed to track its efforts across the entire university community. “It really launches SFU as one of the leaders in Canada in sustainability reporting,” says SFU sustainability coordinator Candace Le Roy.
Candace Le Roy, 778.782.8914, 604.377.6206 (cell); candace_leroy@sfu.ca
A new scientific study blows out of the water current theories about how hamlets—colourful coral reef fish found throughout the Caribbean—have evolved. SFU biologist Isabelle Côté co-authored Signatures of Speciation, published in the latest online issue of Global Ecology and Biogeography. The Belcarra resident can explain the significance of her research team’s discovery that the Caribbean’s prolific diversity of hamlet species has little to do with geographic separation.
See: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123373737/abstract
Isabelle Côté, 778.782.3705, 778.782.3989, imcote@sfu.ca
Measuring up on sustainability
On the heels of Earth Day, SFU has become one of the first Canadian universities to sign up for a new way to measure its sustainability efforts. As a charter member of the AASHE STARS assessment framework (http://stars.aashe.org/), an evaluation system designed for the post-secondary sector, SFU will be involved in the first formal reporting system of its kind designed to track its efforts across the entire university community. “It really launches SFU as one of the leaders in Canada in sustainability reporting,” says SFU sustainability coordinator Candace Le Roy.
Candace Le Roy, 778.782.8914, 604.377.6206 (cell); candace_leroy@sfu.ca