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| Nom | David Lloyd George Noakes |
| Date de naissance | 3 août, 1942 |
| Date de décès | 1 décembre, 2020 |
| Ville natale | Hensall, ON, CA |
| Autre ville | Corvallis, OR, US |
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| 1961 - 1965 | University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Science, Honors Biology, Gold Medal | ||
| 1965 - 1966 | University of Western Ontario, Master of Science, Zoology | ||
| 1966 - 1971 | University of California Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy, Zoology | ||
| 1970 - 1972 | University Demonstrator, University of Edinburgh | ||
| 1971 - 1972 | Edinburgh University, Post-doctoral | ||
| 1972 - 2005 | Professor, University of Guelph | ||
| 1990 - 1996 | University of Guelph, Director, Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology | ||
| 2000 - 2002 | University of Guelph, Director, Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology | ||
| 2000 - 2020 | Fish & Fisheries Monographs, Editor | ||
| 2001 - 2020 | Environmental Biology of Fishes, Editor-in-Chief | ||
| 2005 - 2020 | Professor, Oregon State University | ||
| 2005 - 2020 | Oregon State University, Director, Oregon Hatchery Research Center | ||
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In honour of David's legendary baking abilities and his founding of the Friday Coffee Club in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University, we have created a cookbook featuring some of his favourite recipes.
Please view the book at:
https://fwcs.oregonstate.edu/fwcs/david-noakes-memorial-cookbook
Charrs and best fishes,
Rachel Crowhurst and Michelle Scanlan
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Dr. Noakes was my prof for Animal Behaviour and Animal Ethology. He had an incisive mind and a keen eye for the core of the issue, and a brilliant dry wit. I always liked him and he was one of the profs that brought out the best in me. His insistence on excellence provoked a demand for the same in oneself. He was a great professor. I didn't know he was gone until just now. This is hard to accept.
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I had David for two courses in my undergraduate BSc at Guelph in the early 80's and in the mid-80's he served on my MSc committee. He was, for many reasons, one of my favourite professors at the university. I have a story about him I've shared with people who knew him over the years....
David had an infamous deadpan sense of humour. He'd make these hilarious statements during class but would never break stride or even look as if he knew he'd said something funny. We were honestly not sure whether he was being funny on purpose or not. One day he was giving a slide show (literally a slide show back then) and he said something that was just hilarious. I happened to glance back and I could see light reflecting off of his teeth as he silently laughed.
He was overall a great professor. He was organized, taught well, and encouraged us to strive for excellence. I *still* have the fish I boiled down, defleshed, degreased, and glued and mounted for my Icthyology class with him.
His contributions to my MSc thesis were considerable. I became a good researcher in part because of the efforts he put in.
I'm very sorry to hear of his passing, but his family should know that he was a wonderful influence on many, many people throughout his years as a professor and his loss will be felt by us all.
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I first met David in 1992 as an undergraduate student when I took his Animal Behavior course at the University of Guelph. Little did I know that David would become a part of my life for many years to come. After I graduated, I worked in Bill Beamish’s lab for several years and David, or “Noakes” as we called him, was a frequent visitor in our basement lab. Friday morning coffee time at the Institute of Ichthyology became a regular part of my life which we all looked forward to. I still make all the rhubarb desserts that David shared recipes for.
David ran the “Loaves and Fishes” seminar series during lunchtime in the Department of Zoology. David convinced me to participate, despite my incredible anxiety about public speaking. This led to me presenting at a Great Lakes Fishery Commission conference despite being completely green and totally out of my comfort zone. David graciously took me out for dinner the night before I presented, and put my mind at ease. David was an excellent mentor and encouraged women in science, which with few women faculty members in the Zoology Department in the early 90s, was much needed and appreciated.
When David took over the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes from Eugene Balon in 2002, I became his Managing Editor prior to Lynn Bouvier taking over when I had my second son. From there, David connected me to Jennifer Neilson to manage Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries and to Jack Trevors to manage and Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. I copyedited books for David as part of the Fish and Fisheries series and worked with him on a few freelance projects.
While my career made a hard turn over the years from fish ecology to a veterinary health writer and finally to a mental health writer, David helped me hone my research, writing and editing skills, and connected me to so many people over my career.
As many others have mentioned, David always took an interest in everyone else’s interests! My son Michael was interested in stamp collecting when he was very young. Periodically, Michael would receive a large envelope from David filled with stamps from all over the world. And of course, David’s business card. Michael kept every single one of those business cards which spawned a new collection (pun intended). Michael was also interested in computers at a very young age and so David, in typical David fashion, gave Michael an old iMac G3. This started an obsession with both of my children – Andy kept a large vintage Mac collection and Michael is now a developer for an international digital platform security company. David made a huge impact not only on my life, but my children’s lives as well.
David always brought us souvenirs from his trips abroad (a leather wallet, baseball hat and of course Brennivin from Iceland, and coasters and a beautiful change purse from Japan). When David and Pat moved to Corvallis, David gave me several of his plants that were housed in the Institute of Ichthyology (orchid, jasmine, lily). One of the plant pots has NOAKES scrawled on it in magic marker – it’s faded, but still there. David and Pat invited us out to their house in Hillsburgh, and they passed on books, games and craft supplies for the kids. When David moved to Oregon, he sent Oregon State Beavers baseball hats for the kids.
I haven’t seen David and Pat for many years, but always received a card from them at Christmas time. When I didn’t receive one in early 2021, my heart sank. My sincere condolences to Pat and Jeff and to everyone who held David in their heart.
As David would say, Charrs and Best Fishes.
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Links to videos from the Tribute for David on April 5, 2021:
Introduction and Biography:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_dijr7rhi
Invited Tributes:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_4xxamuoh
Tributes from Around the World:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_xaqx8h9c
Children and Typewriters:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_4ggxv210
Photos of David:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_gfrzts9g
Pat also asked us to share a message from the family:
https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/1_lgb22mg6
To view the videos, copy the link (https://media...) and paste it into your browser address bar.
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All videos and image can be downloaded to your computer, but please realize the files are large.
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From Abby Schwarz
David was one of the most genuine men I'd ever met. We talked about science, biology, always fishes, and much else, and I still recall his wonderfully dry humour and ready wit. He accepted women in science and treated me with an easy respect that meant more than I can express. I shall miss David's sweet smile, his integrity and his warmth.
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Photo: David with Miles Keenleyside and the student award winners, Naomi Gardiner and Camille Leblanc, at EEEF in Boston.
One of the best decisions I ever made was to go to my first EEEF meeting since that is where I met David Noakes. Lucky for me David did not believe in scientific circle boundaries; instead, he welcomed me and was intrigued I showed up at a meeting where I did not know anybody. The wonderful EEEF meeting atmosphere inspired by David was like no other for including everyone, being open to ideas and mentoring. Later I would host EEEF in Boston, and his advice and the sponsors he found made the meeting what it was. In “About EEEF” that David wrote back then, he stated “We are firmly rooted in the past but dedicated to the future”. Along with his scientific brilliance, this idea shaped the vision of the scope of “The Cichlid Book”, as he called it. I am grateful to David for the opportunity he gave me to work with him on this book. It has been both an honor and a privilege to be involved in this process.
David could have earned the world’s long-distance record for the open-door office policy which extended all the way to Boston and probably beyond. He always had time to start off these conversations with the initial bantering mixed in with asking about was going on around here. David was the SUPER HERO of good will, collegiality and mentorship.
Since David passed away, the Christmas card I received from him and Pat in 2019 wishing me a Buon Natale, Merry Christmas in Italian, has become an important memento. David’s unique way of listening and connecting with people based on what he learned they valued or enjoyed was a wonderful gift he gave. I will never forget the time he almost convinced me to buy an Olivetti Lettera typewriter in the typewriter shop here. And it was so good that knowing David, even long distance, came with the benefit of getting to know Pat too. It is wonderful to have Pat as a friend. My heartfelt condolences to David’s entire family, and to everyone who had the pleasure of knowing David.
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David was more than a friend to me, on my sabbatical at the University of Guelph, in Ontario Canada (2002), I was allowed to occupy a space at the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology, and made me feel at home. He invited me to participate in his working group by giving me science spaces to talk about my Mexican fish projects. I am undoubtedly deeply grateful to him. Later he invited me to participate as associate editor in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes, in which I still support and will continue to support in his memory and to the extent that the journal takes my services. My deepest gratitude to him and his adored wife (Pat) who on some occasion also invited us to join my family in their house. Rest in peace dear friend. And for the family my deepest condolences.
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David Noakes brightened so many of my days in Nash Hall. When he discovered that I was deeply interested in history, military history, music history, and old firearms, he brought things by all the time for me or my daughters- wooden biplane models, a typewriter, books, and fishing rods for them, a harpoon tip for me, pemmican recipes, books about voyages by natural historians, records to borrow, and thumb drives full of photographs of interesting hardware from his trips to museums around the world. He even worked to help me run down the location of a particular antique trade gun that I was researching. My daughters (Susie and Lillie) loved the unusual things he sent home--and said he was the purveyor of weird things! We had many fun conversations about traditional foods from North America or other places (including some that I tested for him), country music, and The Mad Trapper of Rat River. We miss him terribly.
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David Noakes was an amazing man, scientist and mentor in many ways and he had a tremendous influence on my career as a fish biologist. As an undergrad at the University of Guelph in the Marine & Freshwater Biology program, his class in Ichthyology was my favourite and I loved his famous/infamous dry sense of humour. Eventually as a MSc student I was his TA for that same class and it was wonderful and hilarious being on the 'other side' with him. One of my favourite memories of that time is being introduced to the coelacanth in the university's wet collection. The world of fish and fisheries is all the poorer without him and it saddens me to know I won't get another chance to chat with him at the next conference. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
Best fishes and charrs Dr. Noakes!
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I worked with David during my overlap with him at the university of Guelph. I was a starting ecologist and we intersected through the Institute of Ichthyology that he ran there. He was truly a gentleman and a scholar and I appreciated his mentorship. I recall many get together and his abilities to create a warm friendly research setting, coupled to his magnificent wit, were second to none and he will be greatly missed. My deepest condolences to family and friends
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The tributes on this site so beautifully express the kind, caring, generous, brilliant scientist, friend, and family man that David was, so I will just share a few memories.
Exaggerating the bass tones of his voice for effect, that dry humour, the stern look on his face intimidated a lot of students, but it didn't intimidate me for long because I saw the sparkle in his eyes behind it.
We had a collegial relationship and a friendship based on respect, a tone that he had with everyone. Reflecting back over the years, I don’t take that for granted David always made me feel like an equal - respected and appreciated (and that’s so important for a young woman studying in university at the beginning of her career).
I first got to know him taking ichthyology class in 4th year university at Guelph. I have a lousy memory, but we developed a good connection - he told me about Rivulus marmoratus (as it was known then) - the tiny, self-fertilizing hermaphroditic fish, unique among vertebrates, that fascinated him and that he had a small colony of in an incubator in the Food Science building. He transmitted that interest to me, and I ended up doing an NSERC Summer Research Award with him after graduating (see the photo). I became so intrigued with this fish that I ended up doing my master’s degree with David as my supervisor.
I’ll never forget the first time I handed in something to him as his grad student. David of the “bleeding page” - that’s what I called it. He was already an editor at the scientific journal, “Environmental Biology of Fishes.” The report was literally covered in red. Yes, this was the time we dealt with paper and pen. (Trivia: He was the first one I ever met that got an Apple computer - an Apple 2e).
A highlight from this time is our field trip to the Florida Keys with Will Davis. Rivulus prefers mangrove swamps where it lives in crab holes. Not the kind of glamorous fish-collecting trip one associates with the Florida Keys. We wove our way in and out of entangled mangrove branches and spider webs, often knee deep in mud, and discovered Rivulus in unexpected places like coconut shells, a bamboo hollowed out trunk, and even beer cans. David made jokes about how Rivulus preferred Anheuser Busch over Michelob. He said I had the metabolism of a baby bird because we were either stopping for food for me or the restroom.
We kept in touch sporadically over the years. He would send me things – job and conference notices, and updates about Rivulus and more recently about clove oil. I ended up doing aquaculture research with CUSO in Indonesia where I learned that clove oil could be used as a fish anesthetic. I published research on this work and David, his student, and I subsequently collaborated on a study testing clove oil on rainbow trout.
I saw him many years later at a fisheries conference (CCFR) in Montreal or Ottawa… I hadn’t been to one or seen him in years and we reconnected there. We were standing in the hallway and a longtime colleague of his came up and David asked us us playfully: “What’s the biggest bony fish in the world?” The other gentleman’s answer was wrong, and I piped up with mola (the massive sunfish that can be seen floating on the surface). Yes! David was so proud of his once-graduate student that he treated me to a 30-year-old Oban.
The day after his son Jeff shocked me with the news of his passing, I had the song playing on repeat in my head from James Taylor’s Fire and Rain, “I always thought that I’d see you again….” This is a tough one. David, “So long and thanks for all the
fish!”
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David Noakes had a very special relationship with Iceland, involving numerous projects, achievements, friends and fun times to remember. Þingvallavatn with its morphs of Arctic charr and threespine stickleback was one of the primary locations for this association. The lake is in a tectonic valley, and there is a prominent fault extending north from the lake with the local name Davíðsgjá (the fault of Davíð). Here is a picture of David standing beside it, taken in 2017.
As a mentor, colleague and a friend, David was a major force in shaping my life, and I will always keep his memory in my heart. Sólrún and I think of Pat and Jeff and share with them our deepest sympathy.
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David Noakes was a very intelligent and helpful person. He assisted us in Zanzibar in many ways in various coastal projects. We will never forget him.May god rest his soul in eternal peace
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Time spent with David was always good and working with him always a pleasure. David was tremendously loyal to his people networks, making opportunities to keep in touch just for the pleasure of it. He was a true scholar who loved his animals, loved knowledge, and pulled pure joy from the research process that created it. I have fond memories of our last meeting as he passed through Halifax. While he definitely wanted to catch up with me, various family members including at least one grandkid were in the hotel room and he could not wait to get back to them. Truly a life well-lived at all levels. Goodbye old friend.
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I met David through my close friendship with Pat , a teaching buddy at Erin P.S. He called us " Those Mother Truckers " as we lugged furniture back and forth to our University kids at Western ,Toronto and Ottawa .He and Pat hosted Grand Rehearsal Dinners for both my girls. My love for the three Noakes' is beyond measure as is my sorrow in the loss of David. Love, Barb ( McK ) Hanes
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When I was a visiting researcher at the University of Washington in 2009, David kindly invited me to his lovely house in Oregon just because I was a former student of Prof. Katsumi Tsukamoto. It is a great memory for me to spend a happy time with David and Pad, and they guided me around the museum, experimental facilities etc. Even after I returned to Japan, he always gave me various advice. When one of our colleagues got sick, he immediately sent a warm letter. I will try my best to become a scientist like David, who is open-minded, kind to everyone, and keeps interest. My deepest condolences.
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It has been months and I am still in shock. David was EVERYWHERE... I connected with him on three continents in as many years. I first met David when I was an undergrad... but I was already well aware of his work and his prominence in our community. He was absurdly intelligent... but also a people person. That combination was/is unique. I reflect on all of my interactions with David and am humbled by the fact that most of those interactions arose from HIM reaching out to me. He was extraordinary at connecting people with common interests, often across vast geographies. One of my fave David stories was from the 1st year of my MSc when we were both heading to AFS Monterey. I had nothing to present so not surprisingly my supervisor at the time could not support my travel. My Dad was a frequent flyer for his work and used points to score me a free seat. Somehow I got upgraded. So... I am sitting in business class and on walks David (and Pat). David spots me and stops next to me in the aisle and shakes his head... saying nothing. I shrunk into my seat. I was mortified. BUT... the remarkable thing is he recognized me and knew who I was... I was a novice MSc student (3 months in) at a different institution. I had met him once. And he remembered me. That was classic David dry humor. And I came to appreciate it as I matured. He was a character... someone who was memorable and who also made every interaction you had with them memorable. I can remember every meeting and interaction I have had with David over the past 20 years... There are lots of other folks who I met with last week and have already forgotten we met. As we move forward without David we have lots of memories and a huge legacy to build on. I am so thankful that David was one of my mentors even though I never formally trained with him.
Steven Cooke, Carleton University, EBFI Editorial Board Member
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David was always a joy to visit with. The lab I work in was right across the hall from David's office so we had a bunch of informal conversations. He was interested in so many things. We had talks about tardigrades, native bees, ticks, terrestrial isopods and, of course fish. He also arranged for me to get my first taste of Icelandic rotten shark meat, and arranged for a colleague of his to translate a journal article about amphipods from Japanese into English for me. I miss him!
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It was a stroke of immeasurable good fortune for Hiram and me when David Noakes decided to come to Corvallis for a new phase in his brilliant career. He and Pat became dear friends, and he has been an extraordinary colleague. A little over a year ago I was unable to accept an award in person, and I was deeply honored that David agreed to be there in my place. A moment shared to be remembered forever.
With a focus on my respect for David as a teacher and mentor, I include a revision of a letter I’d written in support of him for an international award:
As the first director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center (OHRC) on the Alsea River, David’s personal enthusiasm and expertise in experimental science and evolution of fishes attracted researchers from around the globe. From the moment he opened the doors at our new state-of-the art facility he facilitated a diverse array of experimental and field research, including graduate and undergraduate training. Importantly, his vision also embraced an innovative variety of educational experiences. These included public events such as an annual Fall Salmon Festival, and NSF funded k-12 teaching workshops. He asked me to keynote the first of the teacher workshops. At his suggestion I approached the talk with a cultural perspective, and it was one of the most rewarding interactions I have ever had in training teachers. David’s multi-faceted approaches created strong support with legislators and the public, critical to this state-funded center.
Every year David taught a rigorous graduate course in Fish Ecology, and he regularly shared with me his latest exciting ways for introducing research. Drawn from his expertise in lab and field experimentation, these were memorable hands-on activities, including the use of typewriters, that expanded how his students thought about our scientific enterprise. Early in his directorship David asked me to help teach a field-oriented session of the class at the OHRC, and I saw first-hand his respectful, engaged approach teaching young graduate students. There were many other co-teaching moments, including international student exchanges and coastal teacher workshops where he quietly worked behind the scenes to secure funding and facilitate endless details. I learned that was David’s way – unobtrusively providing opportunities for colleagues and students, bringing together folks he knew would benefit from the interactions.
Dr. Noakes’ mentoring and genuine long-term interests in his students was revealed in many ways. Though he was located in our little Oregon town, his former students and colleagues regularly, often repeatedly, sought him out here, and many presented seminars in our weekly Monday Morning Meetings (aka Stream Team) that he co-led for several years, coming from Canada, Iceland, Thailand, Japan and other points around the world. A few years ago Hiram and I were lucky enough to travel with David and Pat to visit his many friends, former and contemporary students, in Iceland where his long-term, international influence in aquatic science and freshwater policies was present everywhere. A memorable, once-in-a-lifetime experience for us.
David’s graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, talented men and (many) women from many countries, were indicative of his consistent interests in nurturing a significant diversity of expertise. They were highly engaged teams working together. David often chose towards strong international representation. To our great advantage, these choices expanded perspectives of those within his team, in our department and our region. David was unfailingly generous with his time, looking out for the academic success of his students, carefully watching after their personal welfare. He often made it possible for his students to join him in attending a variety of international meetings, undoubtedly benefiting from his many contacts including those made as long-standing editor of the Environmental Biology of Fishes. I know he paid close attention and helped ease student hardships associated with international travel for travel to Pakistan, Canada, Iceland and Thailand for professional and personal trips. The consistent devotion David dedicated to overseeing the progress of his students, while giving them great freedom in exploring ideas and approaches of their own, was a hallmark in mentoring style.
It has been a great joy visiting with many of David’s students spanning his early years in Guelph to his young graduate students and post-docs here in Oregon. These brilliant scientists share in common not only their enthusiasm for fisheries science, but importantly, an ethical commitment to ways we can contribute to the societies in which we live. I am certain these attributes were fostered David’s good humor, guidance and unwavering support. Those memories, so bittersweet at this moment, inspire us to follow his example.
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Many folks have mentioned happy memories of David & Pat's holiday greetings, and she asked me to post two of her favorites for you all.
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I first became acquainted with David Noakes when he took over the editorship of Environmental Biology of Fishes from a bitter Eugene Balon in 2002. David brought the journal from being a personal fiefdom to being a modern journal with diverse articles and wide readership. I think he was happy with me because I agreed to continue as an Advisory Editor. I agreed because I liked David as someone with good ideas for the journal and strong opinions about many things. But he also had a twinkle in his eye when he espoused opinions, waiting to be challenged. Thus he argued to me that the best mystery writers in the world were Icelandic (e.g.,Yrsa Sigurðardóttir) and he even sent me a few volumes to make his point. I thought they were good but rather on the dark side. Otherwise, his tastes seemed to run Canadian. For music, he was surprised that I was not a Leonard Cohen enthusiast (as he claimed to be) and he sent me the album Rupa and the April Fishes as a demonstration of Canadian musical creativity. Or maybe it was a joke: every year David sent out e-mail greetings on April 1, saying “Poisson d’Avril”, which is “April Fools!” in French culture. An e-mail saying just Poisson d’Avril was a typical communication from David, short and slightly amusing.
It seemed like David was always organizing one sort of meeting or another. In 2007, at the AFS meeting in San Francisco, he organized (with help from Judy Li) a dinner of friends to celebrate awards that Carl Schreck and I had received. It was a pleasant surprise for me. In a cold February, in 2009, he organized a session on fish conservation at the AAAS meeting in Chicago. His motivation was to get more recognition of fish issues by the big national organization, a quixotic idea. Hiram Li and I were among the invitees. As it happened the audience was small, almost entirely the speakers. At the end, he said something like ‘so it goes at times’ with his small smile and slight shrug. While David left to attend an official lunch of some sort, Hiram and I took off to walk the frozen streets of Chicago to the Shedd Aquarium and the Museum of Art. David later said we made the better choice.
These anecdotes are my attempt to show why I and so many others liked and respected David Noakes. He kept his sense of humor despite his somewhat cynical worldview. He got things done, quietly and efficiently. He had strong and usually defensible opinions but did not push them. He was an advocate for fish conservation, although through science, rather than out-right advocacy. He was simply a likeable guy. He accomplished a lot in his life and I regret he is no longer around to keep making good things happen.
Peter Moyle, University of California, Davis.
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What did it mean having been one of David’s younger brothers? My name is John. My twin brother Don passed away in October just 6 weeks before David.
Memories from early times are a bit vague but the most vivid memories began when David had gone to London to attend UWO. I can picture him walking along the sidewalk on his way home for the weekend. As he passed Bert Horton’s house, the anticipation of seeing him again in person was almost too much to bear!!
He was a guiding force in my life. It was beneficial to have him as my chess tutor. Little did I know how much value those lessons would be later in life. Even when your queen has been taken, it doesn’t mean the game has been lost. It just means it is the time to dig a bit deeper with the resources that you have left.
As time went by, David was my “go to person” when any questions about science had to be answered. It was an honour to have such a person turn to me to answer questions about Ham radio, Morse code, telecommunications and short wave radio receivers. I can still remember him asking me to build a ‘stream flow meter’ using a diagram that he found in a book. I managed to build it and by all accounts, he did use it. He was pretty happy because he said that he wasn’t able to buy one of those things anywhere.
His last couple of years were occupied with his younger brother bugging him about a science experiment that was unfolding in real life. We shared a lot of emails back and forth. His last words of advice to me were to keep our dog away from it. Thanks, David. That is the best advice you could ever have given!
I have posted a photo of our dog with me on a visit we had to a long term care facility in Kamloops. The visit took place just before Christmas about 6 weeks before everything locked down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. David, Pat, my twin brother Don and his wife Olga, along with our sister Jean and her husband Murray came to visit and met our dog Buddy when we had just adopted him as a puppy. (He was a handful.)
I do regret that I couldn’t visit either brother in their last days; Covid-19 did that to a lot of people. Maybe a visit from a therapy dog would have been appreciated.
Not everyone could have been fortunate enough to have had a brother like David. Four guys were. I shall be ever grateful for that blessing in life.
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One of the luckiest days in my research (and non-research) life was when David Noakes walked into my office in the EPA building some 13-14 years ago to introduce himself and chat. He said that Bob Lackey had suggested that he get in touch with me—for which, I am ever indebted to Bob.
Of course, I had heard some about the Oregon Hatchery Research Center (OHRC) and its Director David. But still, I had not gotten up the gumption to go over and introduce myself to explore possible research opportunities there. I could visualize opportunities for some research with fish diets and stable isotope analyses but did not think that OHRC, or EPA, would be much interested in such a collaboration. But David did.
He politely but directly questioned me about what kind of things one could do along such a research line, based upon what we had learned from our prior work on the West Fork of the Smith River. With every cautious suggestion that I made, he would respond—"We can do that out at OHRC." Near the end of our discussion, I asked something like, "Really? Would you be interested in collaborating on such work? You know, I have no formal training in ichthyology," which point he just shrugged off—didn't matter. David could see very clearly the research opportunities, and he made it happen. Thus, we began a productive and hugely enjoyable collaboration—absolutely a highlight of my research life.
Of course, as I would later realize, this sort of research visualization and recruitment was precisely the sort of thing at which David excelled. He reached out to people, created research opportunities, and nurtured those opportunities into meaningful fruition—across the world, throughout his life. And he made a world of friends doing so.
One delightful byproduct of our research collaboration was getting to know David a bit. We would get together to discuss research, and often the discussions would branch off into other topics. These included such diverse things as: possibilities for connections for Atlantic Salmon fishing in Iceland (I am an avid fly fisherman); chess (and the invasion of Iceland by the despicable Bobby Fischer); dog training (he found it nearly hilarious how impressed I was that he knew the dog behaviorist Patricia McConnell well), and, of course, one day, completely unexpected, a lengthy, and highly entertaining discourse on typewriters!
I will miss David immensely, more than I can express here. I will miss his encouragement, his enthusiasm (including the "Slime Bags" team T-shirts he created in honor of our research on measuring stable isotopes in fish mucus), his deadpan humor and wit, and his mischievous grin. He was an exceptional scientist and indeed a splendid person—one of a kind.
We last were in touch towards the end of last October when, at his request, I provided some information on the storage of tissue samples for possible future isotopic analyses and how profitable additional analyses would be by some future researchers. His last sign-off to me was, "Thanks! We can talk. David." We never got to have that talk. I'm sure it would have been a treat—as always.
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There is a wonderful video of David discussing his life and career on the OSU Oral History Project website:
http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/oh150/noakes/biography.html
David contributions to the field of fish ecology and conservation, the community of aquatic scientists around the world, as well as our department family are enormous. David connected us and made us a better community of aquatic scientists and friends. His spirit of sharing and exploration of new ideas will always inspire us.
I have been fortunate to know Dr. David Noakes professionally and personally for several decades. When you consider David’s illustrious research and teaching accomplishments and awards from the most noted societies in science, you would think he spent his time thinking lofty thoughts and wrestling with the more esoteric idiosyncrasies of biology, evolution, philosophy of human culture. Sometimes he has that look, but mostly you see his pragmatic focused look as he solved the task in front of him and moved on expeditiously to the next. When David interviewed for the position as Director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center, I was blown away by his Arctic charr seminar, which wove his research on behavior, ecology, genetics, and evolution into a seamless story of discovery. It was so impressive that I thought his candidacy for the Center Director was dead on arrival. Clearly, someone this accomplished could not want to grapple with the complicated, often poorly informed, frequently irritating, and always political issues of managing wild and hatchery salmon and steelhead. Most of us were astounded when he was offered the job and even more amazed when he took it. He had the rare talent to communicate clearly fellow researchers, managers, politicians, sports anglers, commercial fishers, community leaders, and everyday people.
As a mentor to students, faculty, and colleagues, he sometimes took on the mantle of the wiser, more experienced person if he thought such input would help. Sometimes he embodied one of his favorite retorts of Queen Elizabeth—“How interesting . . . for you.” But David was deeply empathetic when needed. He could sense your needs and take on the role that would serve the greatest good. When asked for professional advice, he drew on his vast experience in academia and fisheries management. When he detected that the person needed a kick in the pants, he became stern and no nonsense. But even more importantly, when he sensed that a person was struggling or hurting, he listened carefully, gently provided options, and encouraged them to move forward knowing that someone listened and cared. Guiding and assisting people came naturally to David. When David arrived in 2005, he started a Friday morning coffee club for the entire Department that continues to this day, and David provided strange, noisy birthday cards and cakes for everyone. David was our friend and teacher.
In 1972, the Stream Team at OSU started a series of informal seminars in aquatic ecology under the leadership of Jim Hall, Norm Anderson, and Jim Sedell. Soon other researchers in the area began attending. Before long, it included 25 to 50 faculty, students, agency researchers, conservation groups, and general public. I coordinated the Monday Morning Meetings for decades and invited others to assist and make it a community effort. When I retired, David and several others (Jim Peterson, Jason Dunham) continued to lead the MMM seminars and gradually David was in charge. It would have been easy for me to resent being supplanted after shepherding the gathering for more than 40 years, but David’s open embrace of the spirit of Stream Team and sharing our science in an informal setting made it a natural transition. He and Jim were kind and ask me to fill in occasionally. I sensed they have better options but just want to make an old dog like me feel useful. David also cared for other senior members of the Stream Team, endowing Jim Hall and Norm Anderson with special chairs with name plaques and giving Jim the “Last Word” at the end of each seminar. Now David was a member of the Stream Team in its truest sense.
Transformative science can be a buzz word in today’s funding agencies, something to set research apart from the normal and essential research on which we build our science and resource management. David’s research has transformed fisheries science in a pervasive and organismal way. There is no Noakesian equivalent of a Ricker curve or Hutchinson’s niche, nor would he have strived for it. David’s research and nurturing of science has contributed to our understanding of fish behavior, phenological responses, fish physiology, migration, and wild-hatchery fish interactions so pervasively that you cannot think of these areas of our discipline without thinking of David Noakes, a truly one-of-a-kind pioneer, teacher, and friend. We are so much richer for the many ways he touched our lives.
From Hiram Li:
David Noakes is an excellent scholar, widely noted in issues of the Annual Review of Systematics and Ecology, in multiple other international publications and conferences. His work on Lake Myvatn in Iceland is particularly impressive. Myvatn is a lake that formed on top of a geological rift. Fish invaded the lake and quickly diversified into different morphs. Unlike evolutionary processes in African Lakes, where competition among invading forms is posited as the reason for the diversity, at Lake Myvatn David and his Icelandic colleagues posited that diversity in hydrological conditions caused the diversity phenotypes. Broods at sites of different temperatures would develop at different rates, thus different phenotypes might lead to niche differences. The longevity and broad scope of David’s ongoing interests in Icelandic systems are maintained through former students that studied with him at Guelph, more recent students who studied under him at OSU, and a number of colleagues in academic and political positions in Iceland.
We were very fortunate that David agreed to run the Oregon’s Hatchery Research Center (OHRC). The Alsea drainage where the center is located, is politically sensitive. It was settled with an amalgam of loggers, retirees, and small businesses such as local eateries and stores catering to tourists and fishermen (both commercial and recreational). Each group wanted influence on the type of research that satisfied their needs with little regard to the wants of others. For instance, the sportsmen wanted “genetically pure” salmon. Some retirees wanted salmon (lots of salmon) without regard to potential effects of inbreeding. I actually heard one retiree say that his lifespan was short, and he settled in the Alsea to fish until he died.
The Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (ODFW) selected David to conduct research to solve their problems in the Alsea Watershed. He worked quickly to form a public panel to air their “wishes”. This panel does not dictate David’s research or how the hatchery is run, but the public is heard. In addition to fisheries biologists based in the Pacific Northwest David invited research scientists from different countries to do research at the OHRC. David’s secret to win people over to his side is to bake: pastries, pies, puddings. It is hard to dislike a man who has muffins in his hand and encourages you to take seconds, even thirds.
David is also a member of the Fisheries and Wildlife faculty on campus, where he is a delightful colleague. He conquers with pastries. He remembers birthdays of the secretarial staff, colleagues, and students. The department now sets aside a special room for pastries as many volunteer to provide the “goodies”. We have a seminar series that we call the “Monday Morning Stream Team Seminars”. The name is a holdover from by-gone years of the late ‘80s when NSF funding was generous and stream research, the rage. Stream research is still discussed, but the seminars now cover a broader spectrum of topics: physiology, community ecology of high deserts, statistical advances, remote sensing techniques. David volunteered to take charge (which means he visits with different faculty members to solicit guest speakers from within or outside of the O.S.U. campus).
David’s friendships last for decades and cover many countries. In particular Bill Beamish is a long-time friend and colleague from Guelph. Bill left Guelph and went to Thailand to teach and do research at Burapha University. He needed help, and would cover expenses. He asked David if anyone was available. I told David that being Chinese was not necessarily an asset in Thailand and I knew that land mines were still scattered during the periods of the Khymer Rebellion and the Vietnamese uprising. I was chicken. David was not. He went over to teach students in the class room and in the field. He said that the students knew where trouble was to be found and areas which were safe to do field work. As he did with many other international students that have come to conduct studies ranging from short experiments to much longer research, David looked after Bill’s’ students when they came to study here as well.
We value David for his scientific contributions, his genuine compassion towards everyone, and his friendship.
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David and I both joined our department at OSU the same year. We soon became fast friends as we had many friends in the animal behavior world in common. More than that, David took me under his wing and became my mentor as I adjusted to academic life. He was always suggesting, prodding and planning joint ventures be they events, seminars and courses. I miss his kindness, humor, and brilliance. He was the best friend one could have.
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I had the privilege of working with David from about 2005, when I returned to Corvallis to work as a research scientist for USGS with a Courtesy Faculty appointment in Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. For the ensuing 16 years I found myself asking David for help and advice many times, especially with the work of several of my students and colleagues at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center. David was always 110% supportive and I never doubted that he had my back when it came to advocating for the science I had hoped to conduct there. And yes I was party to the occasional embarrassing mistake, yet he was still gracious. This to me is an important hallmark of a fine leader - someone who knows we all make mistakes, but instead of getting frustrated or angry, David worked to make it right. In my years of working in science it is conduct that matters as much as content, and David's conduct was always the best. I'll miss that.
Of course as many have highlighted, I always happily introduced David as "The Man Who Knows Something About Everything." It wasn't an exaggeration. How do all of those facts stay with one person? I had zero chance of keeping up with him. Although I cannot keep up with David's encyclopedic knowledge, I hope to pay forward his kindness, support, and service of others. He was always an examples of these most important qualities of a scientist and friend.
The last time I saw David in person was at the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society meeting in Bend in 2020 - just at the COVID19 pandemic was becoming a reality, but before any of us practiced social distancing. We taught together at a writing workshop, and David spoke in the last session of the meeting on communications. After the workshop he stayed behind for a two hour discussion with the session participants - this was on a Friday afternoon with a long drive ahead of him. It was a great discussion. Lots of younger AFS members and critical discussions of the social issues in communications and fisheries in general that reflected the sea changes in awareness that were about to rock everyone's worlds in 2020. Just a parting story of my last time with David and a great example of how he was always there to support science and scientists.
Finally I want to extend my deepest condolences to David's wife Pat and his family. David's passing was a shock for all of us, but I cannot imagine what it was like for his family. Events like these remind all of us of what is most important and I hope everyone reflects on the value of living well as David did in his life.
Jason Dunham
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I had the privilege of completing my PhD thesis in David’s lab at the University of Guelph in the 1980s. At first, I was a bit afraid and in awe of him – I just didn’t know what to make of his dead-pan face and dry speaking style. Over time, he would start cracking droll jokes, smiling ever so little, sharing bits of trivia and I slowly realized that he was a warm, generous, teddy-bear of a person. I have very fond memories of the many meals and parties at David and Pat’s home, first in downtown Guelph and later in the country. Jeffrey grew up before our eyes at these events.
I thought I would share with you one of my last memories of David that combined two of his great passions. We, that is Concordia University in Montreal, hosted the 21st biennial meeting of EEEF in 2018. He loved this conference and was likely its greatest supporter over the years. The meeting in Montreal was fantastic and David was in his usual fine form: delivering two memorable talks, mingling, talking to students, telling jokes etc. In a quiet moment after lunch one day, he asked me if I knew that Leonard Cohen was buried in Montreal. A remarkable thing about David - you learn something completely new about him every time you meet – I had no idea that he was such a passionate fan. He asked me if I knew the location of his grave – I pointed to top of Mount Royal, which is visible from almost anywhere in downtown Montreal. He really wanted to see Cohen’s grave, but there was not sufficient time before the next session. Instead, I walked with him east on de Maisonneuve Blvd towards Crescent Street and something magical, slowly emerges – a huge mural of Leonard Cohen. I think he was genuinely moved, stopped to take photos and told me how he became a fan.
When I heard the news about David’s passing, I thought back to our last quiet moment together. I regret that we did not skip that afternoon session of EEEF and find Cohen’s grave. David Noakes: thanks for being such a patient, quiet, helpful mentor and friend. So long and thanks for all the fish!
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My late husband, Aubrey, was so fond of David. He and Pat traveled across the ocean to Edinburgh to attend Aubrey's memorial, and David sent me by post 5 vinyls that he and Aub used to enjoy, jazz and Tom Lehrer. Pat and David were so kind to me after Aubrey died; I wish I could beam over and be with you Pat, for this tribute.
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David and I were fellow graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1971. Our major professor was Dr. George Barlow. We both worked on behavior in cichlid fishes. We traveled together in July, 1969 to Central America in my Toyota Land Cruiser. Unfortunately, we ran into the war between El Salvador and Honduras, and we were turned back on the Pan American Highway by a tank. I drove David to the airport in San Salvador,. The airport had just been strafed by Honduras, and everyone was hiding under tables and desks. David flew to Nicaragua to meet Dr. Barlow. I drove from Guatamala around Salvador through Honduras to Nicaragua. We were in Managua during the first Moon landing, and many Nicaraguans congratulated us on the achievement. David and I drove back to the US uneventfully. David was a brilliant scientist and a good friend, and helped me with a variety of California fisheries and biological problems. Jerry Meral
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David was an example of “quiet strength”. Firm in the defence of scientific excellence and integrity. Refined in his humorous view of life. Always expressing himself in the same serene manner. Our friendship was similarly a quiet but never running dry river since we met at Aubrey Manning’s lab in Edinburgh in 1970. Picture: David with Aubrey and Margaret Bastock at their cottage in 1970.
Frank
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So sorry to hear about David's passing .We met at Western University in undergraduate Honors Zoology and met at class reunions for several years ...when we had dinner parties at Sally Nicholson's ...I'll always remember his stories ....They were great ! Regards to Pat !
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I first met David as an undergraduate in Zoology at UWO in 1961. We took similar programs until graduating with our Honours B.Sc. in 1965. I left to travel around Britain but returned to U.W.O. to do my M.Sc. in Zoology in the autumn of 1965. I was fortunate to co-habit with David and Gary Grant for the first year. They were both great flatmates! I married and completed my M.Sc. in 1967 and went off to the University of Bristol to do my Ph.D. in Pharmacology which I completed in 1970. After a brief post doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta I joined the Department of Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in 1971. I was able to reunite with David at occasional class reunions over the years. I was very surprised and saddened to hear of David's death! I will always remember him for his remarkable honesty and trustworthiness. You could always count on David! He lived a good life and will be badly missed. My sincerest sympathies go out to his loving wife Pat! She will have many fond memories of her life with David, I am sure.
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David and I met in the early 90's when he had just received the Axlerod collection a Guelph University. I was hosting a children's science program called Wonderstruck at the time and we went there with our cameras to do the story. It was like Christmas morning as David and I opened large wooden crates filed with newspaper-wrapped fossils the we were opening the packages and seeing the fossils for the first time. David's enthusiasm for the subject was contagious as he explained each one. But it was off camera where we really connected and discovered that we shared a similar sense of humour, a love of puns and affection for Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Years later, in 2003, David was responsible for my first Honourary Doctorate at Guelph and read the citation. It was a moving experience because I never completed my university education so it was the first time I saw my name on a diploma. I will be forever grateful to David for that. He has maintained contact over the years and invited me to speak to his class at Oregon State but logistics got in the way.
It came as a great shock to hear of his death, that kind of spirit seems immortal.
He will be deeply missed
Bob McDonlad
Host, Quirks & Quarks
CBC Radio Canada
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I am a former student of Prof. David Noakes. From 1975-1977 I studied in David’s lab at the U of G, having ended up there quite fortuitously on a visit to the university in search of an opportunity to study in a field related to aquaculture.
I don’t know how many of you know that David, whose middle name (I’ve just learned) is George, had in his office a huge Oscar (cichlid fish) whom he also fondly referred to as George. The two Georges’ seemed to have had a special relationship, quietly enjoying being in each other’s presence. No visit, scheduled or otherwise, could happen without (fish) George expressing agonistic indignation and outrage at the intrusion!
However, the welcome that my fledgling family received at the Noakes’ home was just the opposite of this. We were made to feel like family and shown the utmost warmth. In fact this was so for all of David’s graduate students: always lots of fun when we got together. The Guelph days stand out as special for us only because of this family. It’s fair to say that David contributed more to my professional success than any individual other than my spouse.
In the late 1980’s while an adjunct for Larry Albrecht at SFU, I organized a small conference on aspects of nutrition and behaviour in aquaculture and was able to convince David to present a paper. I felt extremely proud to introduce him and vicariously basked in the limelight of a brilliant presentation. Unfortunately, that would be our last meeting in person, though we did occasionally communicated via email following my return to Bermuda many years (and a few appointments) later as the head of environmental protection. I cannot recall a time when the Noakes didn’t send us a Christmas card (from somewhere in the world) with enclosed photograph. We hope that in spite of our relative silence by comparison the Noakes’ will be convinced by this expression of gratitude of our unfading love and appreciation.
Sincerely,
Fred and Jo Ming,
MONTREAL
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HI, Thanks for the opportunity to share our remembrances of David, My wife Becky and I are neighbors and have known David and Pat since they moved into the neighborhood. David was a great guy a with a witty sense of humor, which will be missed.
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It was my great pleasure to know and work with David. Our time together at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center was the highlight of my fisheries career. David was so inclusive and engaging. He was also presence in the life of my children who speak fondly of him to this day. We had an ongoing banter about obscure references as I am sure many can relate to. My life was the better for having known him.
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I first met David in 1968, when I arrived at the Barlow Lab in UC Berkeley. I had just graduated from UC Santa Barbara, and found the campus vibe to be very different from 'surfer dude' UCSB. David was the first person I met in the Barlow Lab, even before George. Luckily, David took me under his fin. George ordered me to take an animal behavior lab course in my first semester; it was taught by a new faculty hire from Oxford named Richard Dawkins. David was his TA. I had never had a course in animal behavior, and David set me to reading Marler and Hamilton cover to cover, and the Baerends monograph on cichlids. It is a telling comment on his thorough nature that last year he sent me his marked up copy of the paper I wrote for that lab course, inviting me to submit a second draft. His mentoring got me through that first year. When George suggested I do an ethogram of Herotilapia, I had to ask David what an ethogram was. David gave me a wry smile and said “Its a descriptive behavioral catalog of everything a species does.” Another time I mentioned that some of his students called George 'Dr. Barlow', and others 'George.' David again with that smile, said “Always call him by his first name; Dr.” I loved David's droll sense of humor, and tried to return it in kind. David's Ph.D. thesis on 'glancing' behavior by larval Cichlasoma citrinellum.was typical of his nature. He not only dealt with the behavioral aspects, but taught himself histology and staining techniques to show the changes in the parent's skin and the the protein content of the increased mucus secretion. We overlapped a two years at Berkeley, but in that time forged a friendship and mutual respect that would last throughout our lives. We exercised together, were tear gassed together, and talked the nuts and bolts of biology all day. Indeed, I never found anyone I'd rather talk biology with. We were the only two married grad students in the lab at that time, and it was a godsend that David and Pat and Denise and I could socialize together. Grad school is not an easy place for married couples.
In 1971 David and Pat left for his postdoc at Edinburgh, and then a faculty position at Guelph. I landed at Univ. of Wisconsin in 1976. But we had stayed in close contact. In 1977, after a particularly disappointing mid-western meeting of the ABS, a bunch of us got together for the first Behavioral Ecology and Ethology of Fishes, hosted by Jack Ward at Illinois State University at Normal. That first meeting was small; but the meeting in 1979 was very large, and it took off. It eventually became the Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes, EEEF, still very active today, largely through David's efforts.
I was delighted in 2005, when David became Director of the Oregon State University, Oregon Hatchery Research Center. It was a dream job for him, and one for which he was ideally suited.
The news of David's passing hit me very hard. He seemed to me like one of life's constants. It is a reminder that no matter how accomplished we are, mortality will find us. Few of us will have touched as many lives and left behind as many good works and fond memories as David.
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So many memories, going back to 1966. I’ll stop after a few:
(1) David was the first Canadian I ever met. He was also the first person with two middle names that I ever met. I guess I was sufficiently impressionable that I assumed all Canadians had two middle names.
(2) David was part of George Barlow’s legendary 1967 Cal ichthyology class. Four of the five students and the t.a. went on to be tenured fish faculty; the backslider became a herpetologist. David was the only grad student in the class, which wasn’t fair. The rest of us had nothing but time to study, while David was working on his PhD. I suspect we outscored him on some exams.
(3) David was a grad student in George Barlow’s lab, and I was resident obnoxious undergrad hanging out with and idolizing the grad students, especially David. He was just so cool: even-tempered, droll, unexcitable, competent. What wasn’t to idolize? I never lost that admiration.
(4) David lived across the street from me my senior year at Berkeley. I was sharing an apartment on Channing with several other undergrads and Howie Schein. David WAS MANAGING THE APARTMENT BUILDING across the street. For anyone to assume such a position of authority and responsibility was astounding. It raised the aura of Canadians even more.
(5) David single-handedly kept EEEF viable, right from the beginning after Jack Ward died. Yes, we had the disorganizing committee with its shifting membership, the cats David unselfishly herded every two years to make things happen. We owe it to him to keep it alive.
Damn! I still don’t believe it. What a loss.
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At the last operating Whaling Station in the US. 1967 Dave, George Barlow, Gene Helfman
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That was in Richmond and they were flensing a fin whale (a male, as I recall). Barlow was, as usual, formally dressed and the workers made a point of tossing chunks of blubber in such a way that blood splattered on George.
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Dave and I shared an office at UC Berkeley, 1996 - 1998, and he and Pat lived across the street on Channing Way. His wry sense of humor while counting teeny fishes feeding off of their parents always kept me in stiches. PIc is 1967, Howie, Dave, Gene.
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David introduced me to the 'world of fish' when I started as publisher of 'his' journal EBFI. With humor, respect and enthusiasm he showed me proudly the Oregon and other hatcheries. Every year he sent my family a Christmas card, always with the 'charrs' at the end. David, you will always stay in our thoughts. Wishing Pat and the family all the strength.
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After examination at Bang Sean Thailand, Prof Noakes, Prof Beamish and Rakpong cerebrated near by Burapha University. Every year I received Prof Noakes greeting card a few weeks before Christmas, but not this year and promptly learn from email response. My heart goes to his family.
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David and Hiram looking for deals at yard sales in Corvallis, May 2007
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I first met David at the University of Edinburgh when I was an undergraduate in the 1970s working for my Honours degree in Zoology. David was my supervisor while I worked on my thesis and I was David’s first graduate student. We published a paper together and meanwhile he had moved on to Guelph.
We have remained in regular touch and, with his wife Pat, have managed to meet up in person a few times when he visited Scotland.
Our last meeting was to join in a celebration of the life and career of the late Professor Aubrey Manning and we revisited our old haunts at Kings Buildings in Edinburgh.
I had no clue that was to be the last time that we would meet.
David’s many achievements speak for themselves and he remained the most modest, kind and charming person always.
My heart goes out to Pat and his family. We have lost a unique treasure and I shall always be honoured to have him as my mentor and friend.
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Tribute from Don Broom, Cambridge University.
I met David in 1969 when he was a PhD student in George Barlow's group and I was teaching a summer quarter course on animal behaviour. The delightful group, including us both, had a fitness session and lunch together on most days. David was very kind and I liked his jokes. Two years later, Sally and I stopped in Edinburgh on our honeymoon and spent time with David and Pat. We have continued to see Pat, David and Jeffrey when we could in Reading, Guelph, Cambridge or at conferences. We shall miss David as a source of entertaining stories, a good friend and an innovative scientist.
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I will remember David for his enormous generosity (and his quirky humor). Even as an engineer, he was forever welcoming me onto his research trips, his journal, his conferences, his research programs, and even his home. He noticed when I was tired (and dryly pointed it out). He stretched my thinking about so many things, from fish behavior, to animal consciousness, to Icelandic horseback riding, to Darwin's birthday. He shared so much of himself and his time with me. I wish I had taken more time to let him know how much I appreciated him.
This image is from a trip to Iceland in 2006, a trip that was life changing for me in so many ways. It was also where I remember him at his happiest, among the people and fish that inspired him.
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A tribute by Michael Ruse, a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Guelph, from 1965 to 2000.
I was a colleague of David Noakes for many years at the University of Guelph, before we both came south – he to Oregon and I to Florida. I first got to know David well in the Spring of 1988. In those days, the U of G was a community rather than a business. A number of faculty had got together to buy a town house in Camden Town in London, so students could have a semester abroad and that sort of thing. In the summer, it functioned mainly as cheap digs for faculty visiting London. The idea occurred to someone that, as well as the two conventional semesters, fall and winter, it might make good sense to use the house for a short spring semester of six weeks, with students taking fewer courses, doubled up as it were.
I volunteered to do the first. I am English-born and had lived for six months in London, between school and university, working of all places in the Camden Town Labor Exchange. I am also a philosopher of science. So, on the one hand, I knew enough to show students around, museums and the like. On the other hand, I could appeal to science students as well as arts students. Since it is my specialty, we decided to focus on Charles Darwin and evolution, and to this end, I dragooned three members of the biology department to come for two-week stints and give their understanding and support. The first biologist (who shall remain nameless) was a total flop, not coming to classes, never around for trips, or the like. The third biologist (who shall also remain anonymous but if anyone mentions the name of David Lavigne, I shall simply smile cryptically, and I will mention that he was a very natty dresser) was really helpful, especially letting students see that faculty are real people and all of that.
The one in the middle was David Noakes. I knew him but not well, and I don’t suppose I was the only person who found him a bit disconcerting – that poker face and the shrewd comments, particularly good at ferreting out insecurities and the like. David was a total revelation. Absolutely dedicated to the students, a real teacher, meaning knowledgeable but modest and non-threatening, and hugely hard working, both in class and in trips to museums and so forth. Not to mention a trip to Kent to Darwin’s home. The highlight was when David took the kids to Oxford to meet Richard Dawkins, who was David's teacher when he was doing his doctorate at Berkeley.
From then on, to this day, I was and am a David Noakes fan. I have always been grateful to Canada for taking me in and making for a full and meaningful life. Like David, I came south only because I could not face the thought of retirement. What made Canada really special – the University of Guelph particularly in its early years – was the kindness and welcoming nature of its inhabitants. Not crippled by its past as is Brexit Britain – the first country I lived in – or burdened by its present as is Trump-infected America – probably the last country I shall live in – but a country of integrity and kindness and intelligence. David Noakes was a paradigm. A privilege to call him a friend – and how he would have poked fun at me for this soppy, sentimental remembrance!
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I first met David in 2005 when he moved to OSU to run the OHRC; I lived summers on the Oregon coast (Yachats) for several yrs, and every summer spent a day or 2 with David at OHRC talking about everything fishy, and all stuff related to animal behavior....We talked particularly about fish life histories. We had such great fun.
After I left the Coast in 2010, I still made several summer trips back to OHRC just to spend a day or 2 talking science ( and flyfishing for Coastal Cutthroats in Fall Creek). I shall greatly miss David.
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Like many, I first met David and Pat during our years at Berkeley. Any mention of him brings the wry smile, ready use of usually subtle jokes, and an easy sharing of his knowledge to mind. He was one who showed a questing undergrad what an amazing world academics could be. As an early mentor, David showed me that strong science may require a strong work ethic and careful, critical reading and thinking, but it was best when practiced with caring for students and colleagues, a universal love of natural systems, and humor. One will never find, I think, a more welcoming home than that Pat and David formed together, for they were a remarkable team. I hope Pat finds great comfort in having been an integral and invaluable part of so many "Team Noakes" contributions to so many friends. We've been blessed.
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Everyone who knows David Noakes remembers when they first met him. For me, it was at the Charr Symposium in 1988 in Sapporo, Japan. David seemed very formal to a young American fish biologist still unsure of himself, and was unapproachable in my eyes. I knew of his considerable reputation in fish biology, behavior, and evolutionary biology, especially with charrs, but I didn’t expect him to be interested in my work.
The symposium was a magical experience, amid the fall colors and spawning salmon of Hokkaido. During one of the day excursions, he sat down next to me on the bus and struck up a conversation about the talk I had given, which surprised me. Later, we were on the same 5-day tour around Hokkaido, and we talked more. I saw some of his dry humor, but none of the impish side of David that I learned of much later. I subsequently collaborated extensively with Japanese fish ecologists, and his connections there continued, so we shared a love of Japan. Indeed, David asked me to edit an entire volume of papers for Environmental Biology of Fishes in honor of Dr. Hiroya Kawanabe, their elder statesman, because the proofs needed more corrections after being edited by Japanese scientists. I felt greatly honored to do this work, for both men.
More than 20 years later I became better acquainted with David when I spent a sabbatical in Corvallis and on the Oregon coast in 2011, writing a book. Like many colleagues at OSU, David was very welcoming, and we conversed many times. During my sabbatical and for the years afterwards, whenever I was in Corvallis David would show his boundless generosity in countless unexpected ways. If you ran into him in the morning, he invited you to lunch so that you could meet his postdoc and discuss her work and yours. If you needed a place to stay when you were in town, even at the last minute, he offered his own home. If you needed a quiet place to write, he offered his own apartment at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center. In countless ways, David seemed always to connect you to others and offer you ways to foster your own career, rather than his own.
And, then there were his boundless interests, and his even more amazing memory. Because my father was a Navy patrol bomber pilot in WWII, David would send me calendars with vintage airplanes of that era, out of the blue. I once expressed interest in the idea that Columbia River dams were built to produce electricity for smelting aluminum to make these WWII planes, and soon received in the mail a thick packet of xeroxed articles on this very topic, exploring it in great depth. When I retired, David and his wife Pat made the journey to Fort Collins to join the celebration, and he gave me the most amazing Tilley hat, made in Canada. It is perfect for the intense Colorado sun, and I wear it nearly every day in the summer while working outside. I understand from others that David did these things for many people, such as remembering birthdays and connecting colleagues to students and other colleagues, all for the great benefit of the broader community and fostering many people’s careers.
I’ll end by relating a story that I think sums up David Noakes for me. I had the great honor to serve as the Chairman of the committee to select the winner of the International Fisheries Science Prize for 2020. This is the highest international prize in our field, given only every 4 years at the World Fisheries Congress. It is a nearly impossible task for the committee to choose one person from among the world’s many amazing fisheries and fish biologists for an award that is given so rarely. David was among a small group nominated, and a number were, like him, all highly deserving of the award. There was one who stood out just a bit above the others, Dr. Katsumi Tsukamoto of Japan, who was awarded the prize. However, one of the deciding factors was the richly detailed letter of recommendation that David wrote in tribute to the outstanding work of his close friend and collaborator.
I hope this tribute helps his family, friends, and colleagues know the high esteem in which we all hold David Noakes, as a colleague and true friend. I offer my sincere condolences for his passing.
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At the beginning, I would like to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to Pat-san for the passing of your David. I also met him at the Charr Symposium in 1988 in Sapporo first. e was eternal teacher of salmon biology. He pushed me to the salmon world at that time. I could stay with my students at his Oregon Hatchery Research Center, OSU, few years ago. It's a last glorious memory for me. May he rest in peace.
Masahide
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David was a graduate student in Berkeley when I first met him and I was immediately struck by his humorous commentaries on the world, delivered with a dead-pan face and often in an almost inaudible voice. We have kept in touch intermittently ever since via a correspondence in which he sent me some of the most extraordinary objects I have ever received. These included a pop-up Elvis that sang Happy Birthday, a rather frightening envelope full of long black hair (unlabelled), a pack of playing cards with chickens on them and a seating plan for a dinner hosted by the US Ambassador to the UK in 1933 at which both my father and my grandfather were guests (where did he find this is in Oregon?). David had a deep knowledge of subjects as diverse as the biologist, Alfred Russell Wallace and the origin of the ‘querty’ keyboard, as well as a seemingly endless series of fish jokes. My overwhelming memory of him, however, is his kindness and thoughtfulness and his ability to make people feel better about themselves. He had a great capacity for friendship and for keeping in touch that lasted over many years and meant a great deal to many people.
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I first met David when I was a PhD student and he was a Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh. We hit it off instantaneously owing to a love of puns other humour and fish. Sometimes we would chat in the hallway for a long time, full of multilevel puns and the others had absolutely no idea what we were talking about. David was a walking encyclopaedia of fishes and fish biology and we continued to talk about fishes for 40+years. I will really miss him for all these reasons!
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