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November 24, 2008

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Aquatic & Fishery Sciences | University of Washington


Seminar Series & Talks, Autumn 2008

Please see the "Schedule" links for each series for further information.


Young Investigators in Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Schedule: Web | PDF

Thursday, 4:00pm, 102 (Auditorium) Fishery Sciences, 1122 Boat St
Further info: safsdesk@u.washington.edu, 206-543-4270

4 Dec

Dylan Fraser, Dalhousie University

Interbreeding Between Farmed and Wild, Endangered Atlantic Salmon: Conservation Conundrum?


Friday Lunch Quantitative Seminar

Schedule (Web)

Friday, 12:30-1:30pm, 203 Fishery Sciences, 1122 Boat St, UW Seattle campus
Further info: Contact quantsem@u.washington.edu

5 Dec

Yasmin Lucero, NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center

TBA


Water Center Seminars

Schedule (Web)

Tuesday, 8:30-9:20am, 223 Anderson Hall, UW Seattle campus
Sponsored by the Water Center
Further info: Debbie, cwws@u.washington.edu, 206-543-6920. 

2 Dec

Rob Zisette, Water Quality and Aquatic Science Principal, Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Green Lake Alum Treatment—Dose for a Decade


NWFSC Monster Jam

Schedule (Web)

Thursday, 11:00am, the Northwest Fisheries Science Center auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd East (auditorium is between the east and west buildings)
Further info: Blake Feist, blake.feist@noaa.gov, 206-860-3408

4 Dec

Charles "Si" Simenstad, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

A Comprehensive View of Nearshore Ecosystem Change in Puget Sound


Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis

Schedule (PDF)

3:00 pm, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Room 1055, Bldg. 4, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle
Further info: Craig Faunce, Craig.Faunce@noaa.gov

26 Nov

Craig Faunce (AFSC/FMA)

Use of Observer Data in Fisheries Science and Management: A Review


Oceans and Human Health: Student Presenter Series

Schedule (PDF)

Tuesday, 2:30-3:30: 108 Fishery Sciences
For more information, contact Rita Peterson at ritap@u.washington.edu.

2 Dec

April Bailey, UW Oceanography

Distribution of Pseudo-nitzschia in Glacier Bay Alaska as Determined with Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis

Yea Chan Hwang, UW Oceanography

Domoic Acid on the Proliferation and Differentiation of Neuron Stem Cells


National Marine Mammal Lab (NMML) Seminars

Wednesday, 12:00 pm, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMML Conference Room, 2039 Bldg. 4, Sand Point Way NE, Seattle
Further info: Charles Fowler, Charles.Fowler@noaa.gov

26 Nov

Carole Durussel, graduate student, Carl von Ossietzky Universität in Oldenburg, Germany

Characteristics of Humpback Whale Habitat in the Scotia Sea/Antarctic Peninsula


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Kudos

"Kudos" features awards, honors and other noteworthy accomplishments of our students, faculty and staff. Where appropriate, faculty advisors indicated in parentheses.


Migrations

"Migrations" highlight new arrivals and departures of people at our school as well as other pertinent information about our people.

New SAFS Undergraduates

Please welcome our latest cohort of undergraduates to the SAFS program:


Student Exams

Advising professors in parentheses.

General Exam

Congratulations to Jennifer Tran (Anderson), who passed her PhD general exam on 13 November.

Upcoming Defenses

PhD

Jason Cope (Punt), Monday, 1 Dec, 8am, 203 Fishery Sciences

Issues and Advances in Data-Limited Fisheries Stock Assessment: Experimentation Through Simulation

Tessa Francis (Schindler), Monday, 1 Dec, 10am, 102 Fishery Sciences

Effects of Shoreline Urbanization on Aquatic–Terrestrial Linkages in Lakes

Successful Defenses

Congratulations to Melissa Haltuch (Punt), who passed her PhD final exam on 18 November. Her defense was titled "Modeling Human and Climate Impacts on the Management of the Pacific North West Groundfish Industry."


FYI
(General Information)


Publications

Bold indicates SAFS author.

Punt, AE. 2008. Refocusing stock assessment in support of policy evaluation. Pages 139-152 in K Tsukamoto, T Kawamura, T Takeuchi, TD Beard, Jr, MJ Kaiser (eds), Fisheries for Global Welfare and Environment, 5th World Fisheries Congress 2008. Terrapub, Tokyo.

Punt, AE, DC Smith, K KrusicGolub, S Robertson. 2008. Quantifying age-reading error for use in fisheries stock assessments, with application to species in Australia’s southern and eastern scalefish and shark fishery. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65:1991–2005.

Please forward PDF files (or 2 reprints if no PDF is available) for peer-review publications to Marcus Duke, Box 357980. Comprehensive lists of SAFS publications can be found at http://fish.washington.edu/Publications/.


Conferences, Workshops, and More

The 18th World IMACS Congress and
MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
Cairns, Australia
13-17th July 2009
http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/

MSSANZ and IMACS bring together a broad spectrum of scientists who apply mathematical modelling, simulation, statistical, engineering, spatial and computer science methodologies and skills in solving practical problems coming from a wide range of endeavours including environmental and global change modelling, water resources management, health care, biological simulation and engineering.

There will be 10 streams, each with numerous sessions, including a session (F6.) on Social, Economic and Ecological Modelling of Fisheries and Marine Resources (Environment and Ecology Stream). For more information, please see the above-listed website or contact either of the following people:

The 30th Annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (PEEC)
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, BC, February 20th-22nd, 2009
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~peec/

The annual PEEC is directed to graduate students from Western Canada and the United States. In addition to providing a formal forum for presenting current advances in ecological and evolutionary research, the PEEC also gives students an excellent opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with their peers. We encourage graduate, post-doctoral, and advanced undergraduate researchers to join us and present oral presentations or posters on their research—or attend to learn more about current research being conducted in the region.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to, community ecology, behavioural ecology, population biology, evolution, conservation, and molecular ecology.

Registration and abstract submission will open December 1st 2008. Further information is available at the above-listed website or by writing to PEEC2009@gmail.com.

2009 State of the Salmon Conference: Bringing the Future into Focus
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver BC, Canada, February 2–5, 2009
http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/conference2009/

Thus conference will feature several panels of distinguished leaders and speakers, discussing issues and ideas important to everyone working to conserve wild Pacific salmon. The conference, and the dialogue it will inspire, build on the idea that climate change impacts and dramatic landscape changes aren’t decades away – they’re occurring now. By “bringing the future into focus,” this conference will provide a unique international forum and context to explore how we move from conservation principles to action—today—so that salmon might continue their amazing and successful evolutionary course of survival around the North Pacific. For further information, see the website listed above; for more information about the State of the Salmon organization, see http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/.