Retired Biology Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations

A Rare, Fire-Dependent Pine Barrens at the Wildland-Urban Interface of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hill, Nick; Patriquin, David (2014-10-06)

The State-Spaced Integrated assessment model for Newfoundland's 'northern cod' as a stock assessment model that fails to distinguish between normative and natural laws

Corkett, Christopher (2018-02-06)

Stock assessment models for Atlantic Canada's groundfish fisheries such as Noel Cadigan's recent State-Spaced Integrated assessment model for Newfoundland's 'northern cod' involve single premised inductive arguments that ...

Reflections on the failure of traditional fisheries management

Corkett, Christopher John (2017-01)

A traditional fisheries management or fish stock assessment takes a Lamarckian-like instructive view of fisheries science that involves an inductive monism. Its invalid inductive arguments have no problem solving capacity ...

Reflections on the failure of traditional fisheries management

Corkett, Christopher (2016-06-03)

A traditional fisheries management or fish stock assessment takes a Lamarckian-like instructive view of fisheries science. Its invalid inductive arguments have no problem solving capacity and are responsible for the collapse ...

Demise of the garden of Acadia

Patriquin, David (DVL Publishing Inc., Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 1981-07)

In the late 1970s, plans were being developed for construction of a tidal power barrage at the mouth of the Annapolis River. Much of the land by the river in that area was dyked and was used by farmers for grazing and ...

Water quality measurements on Williams Lake and Colpitt Lake (Halifax, N.S.) Dec 7-13, 2015 with reference to possible impacts of road salt

Patriquin, David (Williams Lake Conservation Company, 2016-01-06)

Concerns have been expressed by the Williams Lake Conservation Company (WLCC) about possible effects of renewed salting of roads close to Williams Lake on water quality of the lake. Such salting was replaced by sand and ...

What is a fish stock assessment? Is it a sound method? Can it be used to manage a commercial fishery?

Corkett, Christopher John (2015-09)

Under Karl Popper's non-inductive theory of method arguments are never carried from data to advice as in a fish stock assessment. That is: a distinction or 'demarcation' has to be made between (i) a Lamarckian-like inductive ...

The sound management of a fishery as a social engineering: applying Karl Popper's demarcation criterion to an Area 2 stock of Pacific halibut

Corkett, Christopher (2014-10-23)

The Newfoundland fishery for Atlantic cod was once the largest cod fishery in the World. In the early 1990s this fishery formed part of an Atlantic Canadian groundfish fishery collapse that has become one of the World's ...

Critical thinking through the eyes of Richard Paul and Karl Popper

Corkett, Chris (2014-10-08)

This 1993 workshop marks the beginning of my new logical or metaphysical research program on the application of Karl Popper’s non-inductive theory of method to the management of the World’s commercial fisheries. The view, ...

Ecological Assessment of the Plant Communities of the Williams Lake Backlands

Hill, Nick; Patriquin, David (The Williams Lake Conservation Company, 2014-02-12)

The Williams Lake Backlands (WLB), covering approximately 200 ha, are the larger, undeveloped part of the Williams Lake Watershed which includes Colpitt Lake and Williams Lake. The WLB are part of "Purcell's Cove Backlands" ...

Distinguishing input controls from ouput controls in Atlantic Canada's fisheries: explaining the decline and collapse of Newfoundland's Atlantic cod stocks

Corkett, Christopher J. (2013-03-14)

The lobster and groundfish fisheries of Atlantic Canada have been managed in very different ways. The Atlantic lobster fishery has been managed by input controls in which regulations have been developed by a posteriori ...

Biological husbandry and the "nitrogen problem"

Patriquin, David G. (Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 1986)

Since 1978, the author has been conducting research into the theory and practice of biological husbandry in collaboration with a farmer who stopped using pesticides and mineral fertilizers in 1976. Eggs are exported from ...

Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account

Corkett, Christopher J. (2012-10-31)

It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a ...

A note on the Aristotelian origin of Popper's demarcation criterion together with its application to Atlantic Canada's fisheries

Corkett, Christopher J. (2012-03-26)

It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's demarcation criterion, the criterion he uses to distinguish an empirical science from its 'metaphysical' complement involves an interpretation of the classical theory of ...