In memoriam: Dr. Ransom Myers

I wasn't sure how to categorize this sad news--(and I just realized Kyle already mentioned it...) I put it under Halifax, but Dr. Myers' impact was felt well beyond it city's borders. This is from the Dalhousie website: "Ram, as he was known, captured the world’s attention time and time again with breakthrough research on declining fish populations. He focused much of his attention on models of extinction, which is a growing concern in the marine environment.As Dalhousie’s inaugural Killam Chair in Ocean Studies he was widely respected around the globe as a leading world-class ocean researcher. Last year, Fortune Magazine named him the only Canadian on a list of the “Top Ten People to Watch” in the world over the next 75 years. His work was featured on the cover of Time magazine and the New York Times (“above the fold”) and he testified at the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Overfishing and at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. He was also in Who’s Who in Canada."I know one of his PhD students, and it sounds like beyond the press releases and the awards, that Dr. Myers was a wonderful human being as well.