The Fisheries Centre is pleased to administer the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship, endowed by Cecil B. Morrow in honour of his parents, Cecil and Kathleen Morrow, and worth $2300 in 2008 (see note above with regard to 2009 and future years). This scholarship is under the Fisheries Centre's control and the conditions set out here supersede all other conditions listed in the UBC directory. The award has been made annually since 2001, except in 2006 and 2009.

The Fisheries Centre awards this as a travel research scholarship to the student making the best academic proposal for travel for research work using techniques developed at the Fisheries Centre. Preference will normally be given to work involving international travel. The usual requirement that the work should be able to be completed without the need for additional resources will not be in force for the 2010W award.

Proposals should be no longer than 1000 words. Submit email proposal to office@fisheries.ubc.ca. Proposal submission deadline is April 15 of each year.

The money will be paid as a lump sum by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. No budget is required in the proposal and the money can be spent in any fashion. The student is responsible for all tax implications.

Conditions of the award are:

1. Applicant must be a graduate student member of the Fisheries Centre.
2. The work must be completed by August 31 of the following year.
3. The successful applicant provides as product a short paper for one of the Fisheries Centre's published research reports, with the intention to submit later to the peer-reviewed literature.
4. A shorter version should be submitted to the Fishbytes newsletter in liaison with the editor.
5. Up to 4 suitable photos on the research trip, with informative captions, submitted to the Fisheries Centre web site photo gallery.

Previous Winners:

2008 - Carie Hoover is the recipient of the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship for 2008. Carie used the award to gather information on Hudson Bay ecosystems through meetings with field researchers and DFO experts, which will be used to build an ecosystem model using Ecopath with Ecosim. 

2007 - Pramod Ganapathiraju was the recipient of the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship for 2007. He is using the award to do research on unreported catches from subsistence and small scale fisheries in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

2005 - Robyn Forrest was the recipient of the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship for 2005. She used the award to do research at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Tasmania, Australia, comparing the predictions of two structurally different types of ecosystem model (EwE and Atlantis). Her report, "Do EwE agree?", appeared in http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/fishbytes/FB13-4.pdf

2004 - Brajgeet Bhathal did research on Indian fisheries with emphasis on effort and cost data and build ecosystem models to explore different policy options for fishery management in India. Her report, "Seeing Indian fisheries in a new light", was published in http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/fishbytes/12-3.pdf

2003 - Wilf Swartz report "Tracking Japanese fish consumption" was published in http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/fishbytes/10-4.pdf

2002 - Hector Lozano report "Talking with fishers of the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico" was published in http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/fishbytes/9-4.pdf

2001 - Tom Okey report "Witnessing okhotsk sea changes" was published in http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/fishbytes/9-1.pdf