Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Ransom Myers and the major organizations and projects with which he was affiliated during his career as Killam Oceans Chair at Dalhousie University; there are also records created during his doctoral studies and his tenure as a research scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The collection includes correspondence, draft manuscripts, offprints, conference and association materials, presentations, course and teaching materials, litigation and consultancy records (including affidavits and invoices), photographs, annotated research materials, press collected about Myers’ work or pertaining to his research, student files, datasets and web content.
File contains draft manuscript by Ransom Myers and Andre Talbot. File also contains correspondence between Myers and Talbot regarding revisions of manuscript.
File contains handwritten draft manuscript, annotated reference manuscript and correspondence regarding reviewer comments on the mathematical parts of a manuscript by Keith Bowen, Ransom Myers and Hay.
File contains draft manuscripts "Large scale salmon aquaculture reduces survival of wild salmonids" and supplementary materials by Jennifer S. Ford and Ransom Myers; correspondence with manuscript submission; "Precipitous Declines in Northwest Atlantic Dusky Sharks"; letter of appeal for manuscript review and more.
File contains the following offprints: "Offshelf ekman transport and larval fish survival in the Northwest Atlantic" by Ransom Myers and Kenneth Drinkwater; "Influence of seasonal river discharge on survival of juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar" by R.J. Gibson and Ransom Myers; "Accuracy of pup classifications and its effect on population estimates in the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)" by G.B. Stenson and Ransom Myers; "The North Atlantic oscillation and the ocean climate of the Newfoundland shelf" by Ransom Myers, S.A. Akenhead and Ken Drinkwater; "Wind-driven currents and larval fish survival" by Ransom Myers and Kenneth Drinkwater; "The role of environmental temperature and seasonal migration on estimates" by Ransom Myers; "The influence of Hundson Bay runoff and ice-melt" by Ransom Myers, S.A. Akenhead and Kenneth Drinkwater, this offprint is annotated; and "Mating success of alternative maturation phenotypes in male Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar" by Jeffrey Hutching and Ransom Myers.
File contains the following offprints: "An aerial survey estiamte of 1989 Grey sea (Halichoerus grypus) pup production in St. George's Bay, Nova Scotia" by Mike Hammill, Ransom Myers and G. Stenson; "Mark-recapture estimates of non-Sable Island grey seal (halichoerus grypus) pup production" by Mike Hammill, G. Stenson, Ransom Myers and Wayne Stobo; " Monitoring fluctuations of pelagic fish availability with seabirds" by William Montevecchi and Ransom Myers, "Cold water recruitment in 2J3KL cod" by Ransom Myers, Kenneth Drinkwater, Nicholas Barrowman; "The influence of salinity on cod recruitment in the Newfoundland region" by Ransom Myers, Kenneth Drinkwater and Nicholas Barrowman; "Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pup production in the Gulf of St. Lawrence" by Mike Hammill, G.B. Stenson and Ransom Myers; and "The influence of salinity on 2J3KL cod recruitment" by Ransom Myers, Kenneth Drinkwater and Sterling Brown.
File contains the following offprints: "Climatic data for the Northwest Atlantic: The position of the shelf/slope front and the northern boundary of the Gulf Stream between 50W and 75W, 1973-1992" by Kenneth Drinkwate, Ransom Myers, R.G. Pettipas and T.L. Wright; "What can be learned from the collapse of a renewable resource? Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, of Newfoundland and Labrador" by Jeffrey Hutchings and Ransom Myers; "The evolution of alternative mating strategies in variable environments" by Jeffrey Hutchings and Ransom Myers; and "The ecological impact of the great salinity anomaly in the northern North-west Atlantic" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers.
File contains the following offprints: "Time series bias in the estimation of density-dependent mortality in stock-recruitment models" by Ransom Myers and Nicholas Barrowman; "Statistical analysis of catch-at-age data with correlation error" by Ransom Myers and Noel Cadigan; "Was an increase in natural mortality responsible for the collapse of northern cod?" by Ransom Myers and Noel Cadigan; "Spatial scales of variability in cod recruitment in the North Atlantic" by Ransom Myers, Gordon Mertz and Nicholas Barrowman; "Summary of worldwide spawner and recruitment data" by Ransom Myers, J. Bridson and Nicholas Barrowman.
File contains the following offprints: "Pup production of harp seals, Phoca groenlandica, in the Northwest Atlantic during 1994" by G.B. Stenson, Mike. Hammill, M.C.S. Kingsley, B. Sjare, W.G. Warren and Ransom Myers; "An analysis of lumpfish from data on individual fishermen in Newfoundland region" by Ransom Myers, Becky Sjare and Robin Luscombe; "Estimates of cod mortality in the Newfoundland region from tagging data" by Ransom Myers and Nicholas Barrowman and John Hoenig; "Estimating the predictability of recruitment" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers; "Synchrony of recruitment across the North Atlantic: an update, Or, 'now you see it, now you don't!'" by Ransom Myers, Nicholas Barrowman and K.R. Thompson; "Prey harvests of seabirds reflect pelagic fish and squid abundance on multiple spatial and temporal scales" by William Montevecchi and Ransom Myers; "Recruitment of marine fish: the relative roles of density-dependent and density-independent mortality in the egg, larval, and juvenile stages" by Ransom Myers; "Pup production of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) in the Northwest Atlantic" by G.B. Stenson, Ransom Myers, I-H. Ni, and W.G. Warren; "1994 pup production of Northwest Atlantic harp seals, Phoca groenlandice" by G.B. Stenson, M.O. Hammill, M.C.S. Kingsley, B. Sjare, W.G. Warren and Ransom Myers; "Replacement yield of hooded seals in the Northwest Atlantic" by Ransom Myers and Garry Stenson; "The biological limits of overexploitation" by Ransom Myers and Gordon Mertz; "The biological limits of overexploitation of Greenland halibut, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides" by Ransom Myers Gordon Mertz and W.R. Bowering; "Changes in the concentration of flatfish off Newfoundland from 1971 to 1994" by Ransom Myers, Bill Brodie, Nicholas Barrowman and Ray Bowering; "An analysis of otter trawl catch per unit effort for Greenland halibut" by Ransom Myers, Ray Bowering and Don Power; "Gill net catch per unit effort for Greenland halibut from the Canadian fishery" by Ransom Myers and W.R. Bowering; "Population dynamics of exploited fish stocks at low population levels" by Ransom Myers, Nicholas Barrowman, Jeffrey Hutchings and Andrew Rosenberg; and "The biological collapse of Atlantic cod off Newfoundland and Labrador: An exploration of historical changes in exploitation, harvesting technology and management" by Jeffrey Hutchings and Ransom Myers.
File contains the following offprints: "Estimating tag-shedding rates for experiments with multiple tag types" by Nicholas Barrowman and Ransom Myers; "An extended cohort analysis: incorporating the effect of seasonal catches" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers; "Influence of fecundity on recruitment variability of marine fish" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers; "Is fish recruitment related to spawner abundance" by Ransom Myers and Nicholas Barrowman; "Invariants of spawner-recruitment relationships for marine, anadromous, and freshwater species" by Ransom Myers, Gordon Mertz and Nicholas Barrowman; "Spatial scales of interannual recruitment variations of marine, anadromous, and freshwater fish" by Ransom Myers, Gordon Mertz and J. Bridson; "The collapse of cod in Eastern Canada the evidence from tagging data" by Ransom Myers and Nicholas Barrowman, John Hoenig and Z. Qu; "Hypotheses for the decline of cod in the North Atlantic" by Ransom Myers, Jeffrey Hutchings and Nicholas Barrowman; "An augmented clark model for stability of populations" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers; "Selected papers on harp and hooded seals" by G.B. Stenson, B. Sjare, W.G. Warren, Ransom Myers, MikeHammill and M.C.S. Kingsley; and "Dietary changes of seabirds indicate shifts in pelagic food webs" by William Montevecchi and Ransom Myers.
File contains the following offprints: "Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada" by Ransom Myers, Jeffrey Hutchings and Nicholas Barrowman; "Comment and reanalysis: paradigms for recruitment studies" by Ransom Myers; "Spatial scales of interannual recruitment variation of marine, anadromous, and freshwater fish" by Ransom Myers and Gordon Mertz and J. Bridson; "Direct estimates of gear selectivity from multiple tagging experiments" Ransom Myers and John Hoenig; "Influence of errors in natural mortality estimates in cohort analysis" by Gordon Mertz and Ransom Myers; "Using mark-recapture to estimate the numbers of a migrating stage-structured population" by Ransom Myers and Mike Hammill and G.B. Stenson; "Estimating delayed density-dependent mortality in sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka): a meta-analytic approach" by Ransom Myers, Michael Bradford, Jessica Bridson and Gordon Mertz; "Pup production and population growth of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) near Newfoundland, Canada; G.B. Stenson, Ransom Myers, I-H. Ni and W.G. Warren; "Inshore exploitation of Newfoundland Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) since 1948 as estimated from mark-recapture data" by Ransom Myers, Nicholas Barrowman and Jeffrey Hutchings; "Duration of pelage stages of grey seal, Halichoerus grypus, pups" by Ransom Myers, W.D. Bowen and Wayne Stobo, "Maximum population growth rates and recovery times for Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua" by Ransom Myers and Gordon Mertz; "Centurial and decadal oceanographic influences on changes in northern gannet populations and diets in the north-west Atlantic: implications for climate change" by William Montevecchi and Ransom Myers; and "Recruitment variation in fish populations assessed using meta analysis" by Ransom Myers, Chapter 16 in Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations.
File contains annotated photocopies of various reference materials including: "Efron's empirical Bayes methods for combining likelihoods" by Nicholas Barrowman; "Generalized linear mixed models: a pseudo-likelihood approach" by Russ Wolfinger and Michael O'Connell; "Consistency of the maxiumum likelihood estimator in the presence of infinitely man incidental parameters" by J. Kiefer and J. Wolfowitz and more annotated materials.
File contains annotated photocopy of "Relationships among vertically structured in situ measures of turbulence, larval fish abundance and feeding success and copepods on Western Bank, Scotian Shelf" by Christian Reiss, Ayal Anis, Christopher Taggart, John Dower and Barry Ruddick.
File contains annotated photocopies of "Adaptive significance of large size and long life of the chaetognath sagitt a elegans in the arctic" by Ian McLaren; "Annual life cycle and production of the chaetognath sagitta elegans in Bedofrd Basin, Nova Scotia" by D.D. Sameoto; "Population and production ecology of zooplankton in Ogac Lake, a landlocked fiord on Baffin Island" by Ian McLaren and more articles.
File contains annotated photocopy of "Assessing biodiversity with species accumulation curves; inventories of small reptiles by pit-trapping in Western Australia" by Graham Thompson, Philip Withers, Eric Pianka and Scott Thompson.
File contains annotated photocopy of "Implementing the precautionary principle in fisheries management through marine reserves" by Tim Lauck, Colin Clark, Marc Mangel and Gordon Munro and "A policy and planning framework for marine protected area networks in Canada's oceans" by World Wildlife Federation.
File contains annotated photocopies of "Interactions of anglers and walleyes in Escanaba Lake, Wisconsin" by Stephen Carpenter, Alejandro Munoz-del-Rio, Steven Newman, Paul Rasmussen and Bret Johnson and "Functional and numerical responses: a framework for fish=angler interactions?" by Brett Johnson and Stephen Carpenter.
File contains annotated photocopy of "The Japanese long-line fishery for tunas" by Sidney Shapiro and "Preliminary report on exploratory long-line fishing for tuna in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea."
File contains annotated photocopies of "A 13-year study of the population dynamics and growth of the European eel, Anguilla anguilla, in a Norwegian river" by L.A. Vollestad and B. Jonsson; "Possible increase in catch of Atlanic elver Anguilla anguilla in 1993 and 1994" by Christopher Moriarty and F.W. Tesch; and "Is there a role of ocean environment in American and European eel decline" by Martin Castonguay, Peter Hodson, Christopher Moriarty, Kenneth Drinkwater and Brian Jessop.
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