Student
David Preikshot
Name: David Preikshot
Email: d.preikshot@fisheries.ubc.ca
Program: PhD, RMES (2007)
Thesis: The influence of area scale climate and trophic dynamics upon North Pacific oceanic ecosystem models
Supervisor: Villy Christensen
Degree Held: BA (Royal Military College), BSc (UBC), MSc (UBC)
Biography
Dave Preikshot is from North Vancouver, but escaped from Winnipeg Manitoba, where he spent a few too many years freezing his butt off in the frozen wastes of the prairies. Dave graduated high school in 1985 after meeting the required standard in Winterpeg. Namely, hunting and killing your very own polar bear, or successfully swatting one million mosquitoes, the latter was an easier task and was accomplished one August night when there was no DEET available in the stores.
He served as an officer in the Canadian Navy from 1985 to 1991, where he developed a nasty habit of saying "ARRRRR" a lot, and received a BA in political science and history from the Royal Military College in Kingston Ontario in 1989. Dave was posted to both destroyers and minesweepers, while stationed in Victoria BC from 1989 to 1991. While on board Her Majesty's Canadian Ships Dave was never responsible for the accidental destruction of any expensive gear and was thus considered a prodigy.
Dave left the navy in 1991 (due to the end of the cold war and everyone packing up and going home) and began a BSc in oceanography and biology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC. His BSc thesis, completed in 1995, examined the energetics of sockeye salmon returning to the tributaries of the Fraser River and was under the supervision of Scott Hinch. While studying with Dr. Hinch, Dave spent the summer of 1994 helping with a field project measuring sockeye salmon energetics in the Fraser River. His military training was invaluable in helping with the construction of a potato gun at the DFO Cultus lake lab, which provided hours of maniacal enjoyment for all.
Dave began an MSc with Daniel Pauly at the UBC Fisheries Centre in 1995. His thesis addressed rapid assessment of small-scale tropical fisheries by comparing scores of biological attributes with those from social sciences using multivariate statistics. He commenced studies towards a PhD at the UBC Fisheries Centre in 2000. The focus of his PhD research will be on the effect of scale and resolution on ecosystem models and management. Dave has been active in several Fisheries Centre projects and published several papers related to this work in refereed journals and 'grey' literature.
Dave is amazed he has not been run out of the Fisheries Centre on a rail and can be found haunting the halls often Friday around beer time.
Selected Publications
Workshop proceedings prepared for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 2010
Fisheries Centre Research Reports 2007
Fisheries Centre Research Reports 1998
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His Publication list, thus far (including non-refereed and the so-called 'grey' literature:
Alder, J., T. Pitcher, D. Preikshot, K. Kaschner, and B. Ferris. In press. How good is good?: a rapid appraisal technique for evaluation of the sustainability status of fisheries in the north Atlantic. In D. Pauly and T. Pitcher (eds.) Methods for assessing the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems of the north Atlantic. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2).
Bonfil, R., G. Munro, U. R. Sumaila, H. Valtysson, M. Wright, T. Pitcher, D. Preikshot, N. Haggan, and D. Pauly. 1998. Impacts of distant water fleets: an ecological, economic, and social assessment. In The footprint of distant water fleets on world fisheries. Endangered Seas Campaign, WWF International, Godalming, UK: pp. 9-111.
Pauly, D. M.L.D. Palomares, R. Froese, P. Sa-a, M. Vakily, D. Preikshot, and S. Wallace. In press. Fishing down Canadian aquatic food webs. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., Anniversary Issue.
Pauly, D., T. Pitcher and D. Preikshot (Editors.) 1998. Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Strait of Georgia Ecosystem Fisheries Centre Research Reports, Vol. 6 (4). University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre, Vancouver: 99p.
Pitcher, T. and D. Preikshot. 2001. RAPFISH: a rapid appraisal technique to evaluate the sustainability status of fisheries. Fish. Res. 49: 255-270.
Pitcher, T., A. Bundy, D. Preikshot, T. Hutton, and D. Pauly. 1998. Measuring the unmeasurable: a multivariate and interdisciplinary method for rapid appraisal of the health of fisheries. In T. Pitcher and P. Hart (eds.). Reinventing Fisheries Management. Chapman and Hall, London: pp. 31-54.
Pitcher, T.J., S. Mackinson, M. Vasconcellos, L. Nottestad and D. Preikshot. 1998. Rapid appraisal of the status of fisheries for small pelagics using multivariate, multidisciplinary ordination. In T.J. Quinn II, F. Funk. J. Heifetz, J.N. Ianelli, J.E. Powers, J.F. Schweigert, P.J. Sullivan, C.-I. Zhang (eds.). Fishery Stock Assessment Models. Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks: pp. 759-782.
Preikshot, D. 1995. Potential effects of greenhouse warming on stock specific energy use of adult sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, in the Fraser River. BSc. thesis, Department of Oceanography, University of British Columbia.
Preikshot, D. 1998. Using interdisciplinary data in fisheries science. In Pauly, D., T. Pitcher and D. Preikshot (eds.), Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Strait of Georgia Ecosystem Fisheries Centre Research Reports 6 (4): pp. 14-18.
Preikshot, D. 1998. Reinventing the Formulation of Policy in Future Fisheries. In T. Pitcher and P. Hart (eds.). Reinventing Fisheries Management. Chapman and Hall, London: pp. 113-123.
Preikshot, D. 2000. An interdisciplinary assessment of tropical small scale fisheries using multivariate statistics (M.Sc. thesis). University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology, Vancouver: 105 p.
Preikshot, D. In press. Observation and inspection data: determining catch and by catch by foreign fisheries on the Grand Bank outside the Canadian EEZ. In Zeller, D.R., R. Watson, and D. Pauly (eds.). Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic ecosystems: catch, effort and national / regional data sets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(3).
Preikshot, D., R. Froese, and D. Pauly. 2000. The orders table. In R. Froese and D. Pauly (eds.) FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources. ICLARM, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines: pp. 55-59. Available at www.fishbase.org/manual/orders.htm
Preikshot, D., E. Nsiku, T. Pitcher, and D. Pauly. 1998. An interdisciplinary evaluation of the status and health of African lake fisheries using a rapid appraisal technique. J. Fish. Biol. 53 (A): 381-393.
Preikshot, D. and D. Pauly. In Press. Chapter 11, global fisheries and marine conservation: is coexistence possible? In E.A. Norse and L.B. Crowder (eds.) Marine conservation biology: the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity. Island Press, Washington.
Preikshot, D. and D. Pauly. 1998. A multivariate interdisciplinary assessment of small scale tropical fisheries In. T.J. Quinn II, F. Funk. J. Heifetz, J.N. Ianelli, J.E. Powers, J.F. Schweigert, P.J. Sullivan, C.-I. Zhang (eds.). Fishery Stock Assessment Models. Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks: pp. 803-814.
Vasconcellos, M. and D. Preikshot (eds.). 1998. Graduate student symposium on fish population dynamics and management. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, Vol. 6 (3). University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre, Vancouver: 40 p.
