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Rasmuson Fisheries Expansion

Faculty Expansion

Our current SFOS fisheries faculty will be directly involved in this new initiative, both in curriculum development and delivery.  The new B.A. in Fisheries will share many courses with the current B.S. in fisheries, a program in which many of our faculty are now instructors.  The listing below shows current faculty and the undergraduate fisheries courses they teach.  It also lists the area of expertise in which new courses to support the curriculum could be developed.  Additionally, new faculty will be hired to assist in the delivery of the academic program and to conduct research important to understanding the effect of the changing ecosystem on Alaska fisheries.

Through this initiative, SFOS has hired two new fisheries faculty:

Future positions include the following:

Current SFOS fisheries faculty members are listed below:

Milo Adkison, Associate Professor
Current Undergraduate Courses: FISH 421 – Fish Population Dynamics
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  Quantitative techniques, conservation biology and harvest management

Keith Criddle, Ted Stevens Distinguished Professor of Marine Policy
Current Undergraduate Courses: No current courses, new hire – July 1, 2006   
Potential Undergraduate Courses 
Courses in area of expertise: Marine policy analysis, bioeconomics, applied statistics

A. J. Gharrett, Professor
Current Undergraduate Courses: BIOL 362 – Genetics
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  fisheries genetics, molecular techniques, evolutionary genetics

Nicola Hillgruber, Assistant Professor
Current Undergraduate Courses: FISH 427 – Ichthyology
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  ecology of marine fishes, larval fish biology

Gordon Kruse, Professor
Current Undergraduate Courses: None
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  management of marine ecosystems, spatial analysis, fishery oceanography

Terrance Quinn, Professor
Current Undergraduate Courses: None
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  fish population dynamics, renewable resource management, applied statistics

William Smoker, Professor and Director
Current Undergraduate Courses: FISH 436 – Salmon Aquaculture
Potential Undergraduate Courses
Courses in area of expertise:  biology of Pacific salmon, conservation of Pacific salmon, scientific writing for fisheries science

Most of our fisheries faculty are teaching undergraduate courses now, with several using distance delivery to do so.  With an increasing undergraduate student population attracted to this new B.A. in Fisheries, our faculty will expand their undergraduate teaching activities.  Their participation in degree program development and approval process will instill an ownership in the program among our current faculty.  It is likely they will add undergraduate courses in their areas of interest that we have not yet anticipated.  In addition, the broader program will provide opportunities for our Marine Advisory Program faculty to participate more fully in this B.A. degree program than they have in the current B.S. degree.

For more information about the Rasmuson Fisheries Expansion, please contact Dr. Trent Sutton, Undergraduate Fisheries Coordinator, e-mail: tsutton@sfos.uaf.edu, (907) 474-7285.

If you are a student interested in studying at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, please contact Katie Murra, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator, e-mail murra@sfos.uaf.edu or 907-474-6786.