Life in biology lives on

The 44th annual meeting of the Atlantic Society of Fish and Wildlife Biologists (ASFWB) recently took place at Acadia University.

At the event banquet, Dr. Donald Dodds was honoured with an Acadia scholarship set up in his name, which will eventually see an annual $1,000 scholarship given to a masters-level biology student.

Donations to establish the scholarship were given to Dr. Marty Snyder, head of biology, by Jason LeBlanc, ASFWB president; Dr. Tom Herman, acting VP academic at Acadia University and president of Science and the Management of Protected Areas Association (SAMPAA); as well as by Dr. Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, biology professor and treasurer of SAMPAA.

Dodds joined Acadia University in 1964, where he established a successful wildlife program at Acadia.

Innumerable wildlife biologists from this program now work in a variety of capacities within natural resources in both provincial and federal agencies, in the Maritimes and beyond.

Dodds retired from Acadia in 1987. According to Bondrup-Nielsen, who replaced Dodds, the biology department continues to focus on ecology and conservation, as well as other relevant courses to fish and wildlife management.