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31: 232:(IUCN) shark specialist group, he collected data about the decline of shark populations and brought media attention to threatened shark species. One of Myers' most important areas of research was stock recruitment: collection and analysis of data and the subsequent development of models to predict the survival rate for fish larvae. 170:, he was the son of cotton planter, Ransom Aldrich Myers, Sr. and Fay A. Mitchell Myers. At age 16, in 1968, Myers won an international science fair for building an "X-ray crystallograph," which measured the symmetry of atoms. 462: 229: 298: 242:
Myers was listed among the world's ten people to watch for "working to develop new and better ways to husband the wealth beneath the sea."
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in 1997 as the first Killam Chair in Ocean Studies, he was a research scientist at the Canadian
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International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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Gioia Myers, Carlo Myers, Sophia Myers, Rosie Myers, Emily Myers
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Obituaries: "Ransom Myers, 54, fish preservation advocate"
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Myers was best known for his warnings about the worldwide
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Lula, Mississippi
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
Rice University
Dalhousie University
Biologist
Dalhousie University
Lula, Mississippi
B.Sc.
Rice University
M.Sc.
Ph.D.
Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia
Dalhousie University
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
overfishing
fish stocks
Atlantic cod
Southern bluefin tuna
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Fortune
Halifax
"Ransom A. Myers, 54, Dies; Expert on Loss of Fish Stocks"
ISSN
0362-4331
Obituaries: "Ransom Myers, 54, fish preservation advocate"

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