Denis Wiesenburg met with nine universities in five days, traveling from Beijing to Dalian, Qingdao, Kaohsiung, Taipei and Keelung..
SFOS Journeys
Denis Wiesenburg, Dean
China Initiative Trip
December 2008
December 6-14, I made my first trip outside of the U.S. as dean. With Paul Layer from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, I traveled to the People's Republic of China and to Taiwan as part of the University of Alaska China initiative. The trip was arranged and paid for by UA Vice President Affairs Dan Julius who met us in Beijing along with UA President Mark Hamilton. [Read more]
Sea Grant biologist Kate Wynne visits the Tema Fish Market in Ghana, West Africa, during an international sustainable fishery outreach program in 2008.
Kate Wynne, MAP
Trip Report, Dakar Sénégal, West Africa.
February 2009
Sea Grant biologist Kate Wynne reports on her 2009 journey to Dakar Sénégal, West Africa-- to participate in an international sustainable fisheries outreach program sponsored by NOAA. [Read more]
Chuck Crapo, Seafood Technology Specialist
Trip Report, Japan and China
4/17 - 5/3/09
Quentin Fong, Tomi Marsh and I traveled to Japan and Hong Kong to learn about the processing methods and markets for second-grade salmon caviar and sea urchin roe (uni). We spent one week in the Tokyo area and visited the Tsujiki wholesale fish market, secondary wholesalers, and retailers. We also had meetings with roe processors and the NMFS seafood marketing specialist. This was followed by one week in Hong Kong to meet with fish roe buyers where we visited retailers and several marketers. [Read more]
Alexandra Oliveira accepts the McFee Award on behalf of Charles Crapo at the 3rd Trans Atlantic Fisheries Technologists Conference.
Alexandra Oliveira
Trip Report, Copenhagen, Denmark.
September 2009
I arrived in Copenhagen (DK) on 09/15/09 to attend the 3rd Trans Atlantic Fisheries Technologists Conference. This is a meeting that only occurs every 3 years as a joint meeting of the Western European Fisheries Technologists Association and the Atlantic Fisheries Technologies Association.
The topic for this year's conference was 'New Technology for health and Safe Seafood'. The meeting duration was from 09/16/09 to 09/18/09. I was honored with the opportunity to chair one of the meeting sessions, as indicated in the conference program and conference book of abstracts. [Read more]
Michael Castellini
Trip Report, University of British Columbia,
Zoology Department, Vancouver, Canada.
October 2009
Location:
- Invited trip to the University of British Columbia, Zoology Department, Vancouver, Canada. October 22-27, 2009.
- I was invited to UBC for two reasons.
First, as an external examiner for Dr. Jeremy Goldbogen who was defending his PhD thesis on the hydrodynamics of large baleen whales (blue whales, fin whales, etc) when they are feeding.
Why is this interesting? Because these large whales are very fast and streamlined swimmers, but when they open their mouths to gather in huge volume of seawater and krill, they come to an almost dead-stop in the water due to the drag of the extremely large volume of water that they engulf. Dr. Goldbogen's calculations show that they engulf a water volume that is actually larger than their body volume! They do this by having a massively expandable throat. This particular work used very complex 3D dive recorders and accelerometers to track and monitor the body motions during these "lunge-feeding" events. Dr. Goldbogen theorizes that the cost of such feeding is so intense that it puts a limit on the size of whales that can exist. He theorizes that a "mega whale" could not exist (2-3x that of blue whale) because the hydrodynamic cost of feeding would exceed the amount of krill that could be obtained. [Read more]
Gordon Kruse, Professor
Travel Report, Korea
October 18-30, 2009
During October 18-30, 2009, I traveled to the Republic of Korea. During the first two days (October 20-21) I visited with the Korean National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) in Busan. I was invited by Dr. Chang Ik Zhang of Pukyong National University and hosted by Dr. Jae Bong Lee of NFRDI. I gave an invited presentation, titled "The Demise of the Red King Crab Fishery off Kodiak Island, Alaska and its Failure to Recover." [Read more]
Gordon Kruse visits Warnemünde, Germany.
Gordon Kruse, Professor
Travel Report, Germany
October 31 – November 9, 2009
During October 31 – November 9, 2009, I traveled to the Warnemünde, Germany. The purpose of this travel was to participate in the ICES/PICES/UNCOVER Symposium on "Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks – Biology, Ecology, Social Science and Management Strategies" held during November 3-6, 2009. My role in the symposium was four-fold. [Read more]