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Upcoming Events
Growth of chum salmon in relation to population abundance and climate in the eastern North Pacific Ocean and the recruitment of pollock in the eastern Bering Sea Ellen Martinson
Ecology and energetics of early life stages of walleye pollock in the eastern Bering Sea: the role of spatial variability across climatic conditions. Elizabeth Calvert Siddon
16th Annual American Fisheries Society Student Symposium
Friday, 13 April, 9:00 amvarious ,
Faculty Advisor:
Juneau—103 Lena Point • Fairbanks—138 Irving II
9:30 Welcome and introduction Rachael Blevins
9:40 Zac Hoyt
Recolonization by sea otters, Enhydra lutris, in southern Southeast Alaska and implications for shellfish fisheries
9:55 Jessica Glass
Analysis of benthic communities on Alaskan weathervane scallop beds
10:10 Michael Kohan
Spatial variation in distribution and condition of juvenile chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) in response to environmental factors in Southeast Alaska
10:25 Courtney Lyons
Examining potential drivers of Pribilof Island blue king crab recovery failure
10:40 10 MINUTE BREAK
10:50 Melissa Meiner-Johnson (Fairbanks)
Classifying groundfish habitats based on geologic, biologic, and physical oceanographic
conditions
11:05 Jason Neuswanger (Fairbanks)
How inedible detritus affects juvenile Chinook salmon drift-feeding success
11:20 Shelley Cotton (Fairbanks)
Motivation for subsistence Pacific salmon harvest in the Beaufort Sea
11:35 Thomas Farrugia (Fairbanks)
Movement patterns of skates in the Gulf of Alaska and implications for the management of a
skate fishery
11:50 10 MINUTE BREAK
12:00 Ellen Chenoweth
Humpback whale predation on released salmon smolts and fry at enhancement facilities
12:15 Danielle Duncan
Are creosote pilings hazardous to herring embryos?
12:30 Dean Courtney
Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus trophic ecology in the eastern North Pacific inferred from nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios and diet
12:45 LUNCH
1:45 Elizabeth Siddon
Responses of ichthyoplankton to recent climate variability in the southeastern Bering Sea
2:00 Allyson Hughes
Traditional ecological knowledge of Tlingit people concerning the eulachon of Yakutat
2:15 Brendan Coffin
Environmental covariates of recruitment of two demersal fish species, sablefish (Anoplopoma
fimbria) and Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus), in the Gulf of Alaska
2:30 Emily Lescak (Anchorage)
Identification of ancestral clades in threespine stickleback from Prince William Sound and the
Gulf of Alaska
2:45 10 MINUTE BREAK
2:55 Thaddaeus Buser (Fairbanks)
Physiological color change and crypsis in marine sculpins
3:10 Lauren Divine (Fairbanks)
Snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) stock characteristics and trophic dynamics in the US Arctic
3:25 Kevin Siwicke (Fairbanks)
Ecology of parasitic marine-phase lamprey in the Bering Sea and Arctic lamprey importance in
Alaska
3:40 10 MINUTE BREAK
3:50 Suzie Teerlink
Reaching out to a community of whale lovers
4:05 Matt Catterson
An exploratory analysis of Situk River steelhead
4:20 Alexis Hall
Groundfish feeding habits in the Bering Sea
4:35 Closing remarks Rachael Blevins
Locations
host Juneau Lena103/101
Fairbanks Irv2 138
Kodiak Owen 225
Anchorage MAP
Seward auditorium
Petersburg MAP/Library
