The Timothy R. Parsons Medal

• About the award
• About Dr. Timothy R. Parsons
• Recipients of the Medal
• Terms of Reference

"It is a daunting task to consider that marine scientists are required to understand 7/10ths of the area of the world, and, by volume, ten times the land mass, using an army of scientists who probably number less than one percent of the world's scientific effort."

"This is a moment in the history of fisheries and oceanography when we can recognize the start of a new era in which we can study whole ecosystems. We have today a new generation of scientists who are achieving data collections and interpretations that would have been unbelievable fifty years ago."

Dr. Timothy R. Parsons, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia and Honorary Research Scientist, DFO Institute of Ocean Sciences, at the inauguration of the Timothy R. Parsons Medal for Ocean Sciences, May 2005.