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The Keynote Address will be delivered by Dr Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen and grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but completed high school and university studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he acquired a “Diplom” (= MSc) in 1974 and a Doctorate degree in Fisheries Biology in 1979 at the University of Kiel.
He joined the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines, in July 1979 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and gradually took increasing responsibilities as Associate, and Senior Scientist, then Program/Division Director, the last positions involving managing and fundraising for what had traditionally been one of ICLARM’s largest, and scientifically most visible, sets of activities.
After a study leave to, and his ‘Habilitation’ at Kiel University (1985), he directed the doctoral theses of a number of students at Kiel’s Institut für Meereskunde, where, as ‘Privatdozent,’ he also taught several courses in fish population dynamics. In October 1994, he joined the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, as a tenured Professor, while remaining ICLARM’s Principal Science Adviser until December 1997, and the Science Advisor of its FishBase project until 2000. He became Director of the Fisheries Centre November 1, 2003.
Since 1999 Dr Pauly has been the Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project, based at the Fisheries Centre, UBC. The Sea Around Us Project is supported by funds from the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, USA, and is devoted to studying the impact of fisheries on the world’s marine ecosystems.
His scientific output, mainly dedicated to the management of fisheries, and to ecosystem modeling, comprises authored and edited books, scientific papers and reports (a total of over 500 items), and the concepts, methods and software he (co-) developed are in use throughout the world. This applies notably to the Ecopath modeling approach and software (see http://www.ecopath.org), to FishBase, the online encyclopedia of fishes (see http://www.fishbase.org) and increasingly, to the quantitative results of the Sea Around Us Project as well (see http://www.seaaroundus.org).
In 2001, he was awarded the Murray Newman Award for Excellence in Marine Conservation Research, sponsored by the Vancouver Aquarium, and the Oscar E. Sette Award of the Marine Fisheries Section, American fisheries Society. He was named a ‘Honorarprofessor’ at Kiel University, Germany in late 2002, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) in early 2003, and became one of UBC’s ‘Distinguished University Scholars’ in mid-2003. The December 2003 issue of Scientific American listed him a one of the year’s “50 Research Leaders.” He received the American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence, the Roger Revelle Medal from IOC/ UNESCO, and the Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award of the Society of Conservation Biology in 2004. Profiles of D. Pauly were published in Science on April 19, 2002, Nature on Jan. 2, 2003, and the New York Times on Jan. 21, 2003.