Carl Walters

Carl Walters
Born	Carl John Walters Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Fields	Zoology, fisheries science, population ecology
Institutions	UBC Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Alma mater	Colorado State University
Doctoral advisor	Robert E. Vincent
Known for	Fisheries stock assessments, adaptive management, ecosystem modeling
Influences	Crawford Stanley "Buzz" Holling, James Kitchell
Influenced	S.J.D. Martell and many other Masters and Ph.D. students
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998), Mote Eminent Scholar at FSU (2000-2001), Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation (2001), Murray A. Newman Award for Marine Conservation (2005), Volvo Environment Prize (2006), American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence (2006), Timothy R. Parsons Medal (2007)
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Carl Walters (born 1944) is an American-born biologist known for his work involving fisheries stock assessments, the adaptive management concept, and ecosystem modeling. Walters has been a professor of Zoology and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia since 1969. He is one of the main developers of the computer simulation program Ecosim and is involved in the Sea Around Us Project established by Daniel Pauly, the Quantitative Modeling Group, and the Lenfest Oceans Future Project. His most recent work focuses on how to adjust human behaviors in environments that are full of uncertainty. He is a recent recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize (2006).

Carl Walters graduated from Bakersfield College with an A.A in 1963 and continued to Humboldt State College to graduate with a B.S. in 1965. After Walters graduated, he went to Colorado State University to study the "Distribution and production of midges in an alpine lake" under the advisement of Dr. Robert E. Vincent. After obtaining his M.S. in 1967, Walters stayed on with R.E. Vincent to get his doctorate on the "Effects of fish introduction on invertebrate fauna of an alpine lake" and graduated in 1969. Walters did not go on for a postdoctoral position; instead he almost immediately started working at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Walters's first professorship was at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in the UBC Fisheries Centre. In 1977, he became an Associate Professor and then a Professor in 1982. Prior to his professional appointment at UBC, Walters worked in the Department of Fish and Game and the Game, Fish and Parks Department and he was also a graduate fellow, a consultant, and an aide on numerous occasions. He has taken many sabbaticals to the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, the University of Florida, where he is an adjunct professor, and Australia. He has been on the editorial board for multiple journals including the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Conservation Ecology, and Ecosystems and has been the associate editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation and the Northwest Environmental Journal. Walters also served, and continues to serve, as a consultant to many government agencies.

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