SFOS Newsletter
Fall 2007
Student Standouts
Lisa Kamin working with Pacific ocean perch. Read more in our featured student section. Photo by Nancy Roberson.
- Jeanette Nienaber (M.S. Marine Biology) left for Antarctica in October to study how aging affects Weddell seals. Nienaber is continuing research on a project begun by her advisor, Jo-Ann Mellish, last year. Nienaber’s graduate work compares thermoregulatory changes in harbor seals and Steller sea lions by using infrared thermography.
- Jiaqi Huang (M.S. Seafood Science & Nutrition) won awards for two of his papers at the July Institute of Food Technologists annual conference in Chicago. He earned first place for a paper called “Purifying red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) oil using a combined neutralization and adsorption process”.
- Seanbob Kelly (M.S. Fisheries) was selected as a 2008 National Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. Kelly will receive a year’s stipend to work in Washington, D.C., either within marine resource agencies of the federal executive branch or in Congressional committees that help make policies related to marine life. Kelly’s graduate work examined Pacific herring habitat use in Prince William Sound.
- Jodi Pirtle (Ph.D. Fisheries) was awarded a research assistantship to work on the Alaska Sea Grant-funded Alaska Regional Marine Research Plan with Keith Criddle. The project’s mission is to develop a consensus around marine research and information needs for the Aleutian Islands.
- Andrew Garry (B.S. Fisheries) completed an internship this summer with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Fairbanks. Garry says: “I saw a lot of what the Interior has to offer and found that it is an amazing part of Alaska.... The biologists and area managers I worked with at ADF&G have all been great to work for, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the way the internship turned out.”
- Celeste Leroux (M.S. Marine Biology) gave a presentation on the Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation and Biology Program at the national headquarters of NOAA in Washington, D.C., in September. Leroux also spent two weeks on board the R/V Albatross IV, a NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service vessel from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She served as a volunteer scientist on the bottom trawl survey from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to Cape Hatteras, New Jersey.
- Kelly Newman (Ph.D. Marine Biology) and Christine Peterson (B.S. Fisheries) were recipients of the Katherine “K” E. and John P. Doyle Scholarship. Newman is studying feeding behavior and acoustics of killer whales near the Pribilof Islands. Peterson is a senior in the fisheries program at SFOS. She is interested in fisheries management, particularly in the management of salmon. Last fall, she completed a semester abroad studying fisheries in Australia.
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