For a second year in a row, Environmental Science and Biology Professor Steven Cooke has been named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2021 by Clarivate Analytics. This honour recognizes researchers with multiple publications that rank in the top one per cent of citations in their field in the Web of Science.
Cooke has been producing science to help define the urgency that half of Canada’s freshwater fish species are at risk of extinction despite our numerous lakes and rivers for years. Freshwater ecosystems face many threats that terrestrial and marine ones do—climate change, development, and disruption by extractive industries—in addition to being a valuable resource for agricultural production, drinking water, and generating electricity.