Our team is active in public outreach, fostering relationships with local communities, promoting conservation, and developing creative ways to communicate science. Check out some diverse examples of our work below!
Fostering Indigenous Small-scale fisheries for Health, Economy and food Security (FISHES) meeting at Concordia University in Montreal, June 2024. Here, our research groups spent two days knowledge sharing and planning new research initiatives with collaborative Indigenous communities from across Northern Canada.
Dylan Fraser and postdoc Julie Gibelli teach grade 5 for the day at a Montreal area public school! Here they explain how evolution works and why diversity within species (e.g. distinct populations, genetic diversity) matters for people.
This comic was created by lab member Thais Bernos to summarize how scientists and local Cree fishers each ‘see’ diversity in lake trout differently, for bridging different knowledge types in conservation.
Going over the value of intraspecific diversity in fisheries management and conservation, as well as experimental research on fishes, with environmental science students in continuing education from northern communities
The FISHES project team at our project booth, Meechum grocery store, Mistissini, QC. We are grateful to everyone in the local community who shared knowledge, stories and laughter about fishes with us, and/or who wanted to learn a little fish science. Left to right: Thais Bernos, Badrouyk Chamlian, Julie Gibelli, Sozos Michaelides, Dylan Fraser, Nicole Yu
An example infographic developed by lab member Thais Bernos (postdoc) highlighting the value of interweaving Indigenous ecological knowledge and Western science for a better understanding of lake trout diversity
Check out this original rap song by Badrouyk Chamlian (MSc). It summarizes results from ongoing genomic research of culturally- and socio-economically important fish species for Cree Indigenous communities in Eeyou Istchee/northern Quebec, Canada. Learn about the relevance of fish ecotypic variation, admixture and local adaptations for the sound stewardship and management of wild fish populations.
Brian Gallagher’s outreach talk at the Mistaken Point Ecological Preserve, NL, where our lab researches adaptation to climate change in brook trout populations (poster prepared by Mathieu Hillyard)
Badrouyk Chamlian’s (MSc) rap song of his proposed graduate research. This tribute to a famous 50 Cent song highlights the application of genomic tools to understand the contributions of different fish populations to fishery harvests and how this is done.
The Fraser Lab’s inaugural rap song of research being carried out for the Fostering Indigenous Small-scale fisheries for Health, Economy and food security (FISHES) project in northern Canada – a tribute to Coolio’s classic song. Example newsletter highlighting research results for local Cree communities in northern QC, part 1Example newsletter highlighting research results for local Cree communities in northern QC, part 2
This training video highlights an overview of fisheries and genomic research we conduct in northern Canada, and reviews sampling techniques for local community members.
This lecture was prepared for Eeyou Marine Region and Cree Trapper’s Association Officers of James Bay Cree communities in northern Quebec. It summarizes some general ways that fisheries scientists assess the dynamics and overall health of wild fish populations.Sozos Michaelides (Postdoc) presenting genomic research of walleye at a public outreach event in Mistissini, QC.Julie Gibelli (MSc) developed a board game for Cree communities to communicate the relevance of studying genomics in local fish populations. Through this game, one learns how scientists use the characteristics of distinct fish populations to determine where individual fish caught in each lake are born and which populations produce more fish for the annual harvest.
