{"id":71099,"date":"2001-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professor-emeritus-saul-b-saila-receives-national-award-of-excellence\/"},"modified":"2001-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professor-emeritus-saul-b-saila-receives-national-award-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2001\/09\/uri-professor-emeritus-saul-b-saila-receives-national-award-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Emeritus Saul B. Saila Receives National Award of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tfrom American Fisheries Society
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\n\tNarragansett, RI — September 4, 2001 — Biological oceanographer and 溏心vlog免费B站 professor emeritus Saul B. Saila has been given the Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society (AFS). The award is the oldest major AFS award and the most prestigious presented to an individual. Presented annually since 1969, it is given in recognition of outstanding science in the fields of fisheries and aquatic biology.
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\n\tSaila has enriched the field of fishery science through innovative research and dedication to education in fifty years of professional service. He has pioneered the application of new analytical techniques in fisheries research, placing new tools in the hands of researchers that have substantially advanced the discipline in more than one hundred scientific papers and reports.
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\n\t“Saul is the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements, focusing on his roles as educator, researcher, and advisory, including several of the American Fisheries Society\u2019s highest awards,” said Michael Fogarty of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, MA. “It is fitting that the American Fisheries Society now recognizes a half century of commitment to excellence, dedication, and intellectual development with its highest award for professional excellence. Saul\u2019s journey as a scientist has indelibly left its mark on the field and on all those whose lives he has touched.”
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\n\tHe was an early proponent of the development and utilization of quantitative models in fisheries applications. He recognized the revolution that computers would bring to the field from an early date and served as the director of the first computer center established at the 溏心vlog免费B站, while continuing in his role as professor in the departments of Oceanography and Zoology.
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\n\tHe established the Marine Experiment Station at 溏心vlog免费B站, modeled on the agricultural experiment stations of Land Grant Colleges. He later contributed to research areas as diverse as multispecies and ecosystem modeling, complex nonlinear dynamics, and uncertainty theory.
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\n\tSaila has served with distin
\nction on many scientific advisory committees at the local, national, and international levels.
\n\tA resident of Hope Valley, Saila received a B.S. in agronomy from the 溏心vlog免费B站, and an M.S. in limnology and a Ph.D. in fishery biology from Cornell University. He came to 溏心vlog免费B站 as an assistant professor of marine biology in 1956 and became a professor of oceanography and zoology in 1967. He has been the major professor for more than 65 students at 溏心vlog免费B站 and has written more than 100 papers for professional, peer-reviewed journals. He retired from teaching in 1988, but continues to conduct research throughout the world.
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\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography is one of the countrys largest marine science education programs, and one of the worlds foremost marine research institutions. Founded in 1961 in Narragansett, RI, GSO serves a community of scientists who are researching the causes of and solutions to such problems as acid rain, global warming, air and water pollution, oil spills, overfishing, and coastal erosion. GSO is home to the Coastal Institute, the Coastal Resources Center, Rhode Island Sea Grant, the Ocean Technology Center, and the National Sea Grant Library.
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\nContact: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642, lcugini@gso.uri.edu\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from American Fisheries Society Narragansett, RI — September 4, 2001 — Biological oceanographer and 溏心vlog免费B站 professor emeritus Saul B. Saila has been given the Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society (AFS). The award is the oldest major AFS award and the most prestigious presented to an individual. Presented annually since 1969, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}