Peter Anthony Larkin - Vancouver

Peter Larkin, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, is a Rhodes Scholar, fisheries researcher, teacher, administrator and science policy advisor.

One of Canada's best known scholars, and the author of more than 160 papers, it is difficult to find an area of resource management, fisheries science and conservation in which his name does not occupy a prominent position.

Dr. Larkin has held numerous positions at U.B.C., including that of Head of the Zoology Department, and Dean of Graduate Studies; he has served on the Science Council of Canada and the National Task Force on the Environment and the Economy; and has played a major role in developing Canada's position on the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission as well as in fisheries research and development at the United Nations.

Though now retired, Dr. Larkin serves currently as overseer of the North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium and as Chair of the Northern River Basins Study.

In 1995, our recipient was given the Science Council Chairman's award for lifelong service to science and technology in B.C. and was inducted into the Order of Canada in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the quality and relevance of scientific teaching and research in Canada.