Cooke has diverse interests in integrative biology, conservation science, and natural resource management.\u00a0 His work spans the natural and social sciences with a particular focus on developing solutions to problems facing fish and other aquatic organisms.\u00a0 Specific projects of late have focused on issues and topics such as fish migration, fish-hydropower interactions, the sustainability of recreational fisheries, aquatic habitat restoration, the movement ecology of fish, the ecology of stress in wild fish, and winter biology.\u00a0 He has also been deeply involved with defining the new discipline of \u201cconservation physiology\u201d \u2013 a field dedicated to understanding the mechanisms underlying conservation problems. \u00a0He has much experience working with practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders to co-create usable knowledge.\u00a0 Cooke founded the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation and is working with diverse partners to build capacity for evidence synthesis in his various roles in the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence.\u00a0 He has published more than 700 peer reviewed papers on topics such as conservation science, knowledge mobilization and enabling interdisciplinarity but recognizes that bi-directional knowledge exchange with potential knowledge users is even more rewarding.\u00a0 Cooke is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and is Secretary of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.<\/p>\n
Cooke, S.J.<\/strong>\u00a0 In Press.\u00a0 From frustration to fruition in applied conservation research and practice: ten revelations. Socio-Ecological Practice Research. 00:000-000.<\/p>\n Reid, A.J., A.K. Carlson, I.F. Creed, E.J. Eliason, P.A. Gell, P.T.J. Johnson, K.A. Kidd, T.J. MacCormack, J.D. Olden, S.J. Ormerod, J.P. Smol, W.W. Taylor, K. Tockner, J.C. Vermaire, D. Dudgeon and S.J. Cooke<\/strong>.\u00a0 2018.\u00a0 Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity.\u00a0 Biological Reviews.\u00a0 DOI 10.1111\/brv.12480.<\/p>\n Cooke, S.J.<\/strong>, A.M. Rous, L.A. Donaldson, J.J. Taylor, T. Rytwinski, K.A. Prior, K.E. Smokorowski and J.R. Bennett.\u00a0 2018.\u00a0 Evidence-based restoration in the Anthropocene \u2013 From acting with purpose to acting for impact.\u00a0 Restoration Ecology. 26(2):201-205.<\/p>\n