SFOS Newsletter
Fall 2008
Michael Malick with two king salmon. Photo courtesy of Michael Malick.
STANDOUTS Student News
Congratulations to our Summer Graduates!
•Elizabeth Gustafson, Ph.D. Oceanography, Don Button, Thesis: Adaptations of the bacterial flywheel for optimal mineral cycling in oligotrophic surface waters
•Katy Howard, M.S. Fisheries, Milo Adkison, Thesis: Interdecadal change in sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) growth and maturity in the northeast Pacific Ocean
•Beate Litz, M.S. Marine Biology, Shannon Atkinson, Thesis: Characterization of reproductive cyclicity of sex steroids by fecal analysis in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
•Michael Malick, M.S. Fisheries, Milo Adkison, Thesis: Variable effects of biological and environmental processes on coho salmon marine survival in southeast Alaska
•Sarah Manes, M.S. Biological Oceanography, Rolf Gradinger, Thesis: Identifying seasonal trends of photosynthetic activity in arctic sea ice algae as captured by pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry
•Theresa Tanner, M.S. Fisheries, Joe Margraf, Thesis: Geomorphology and inconnu spawning site selection: An approach using GIS and remote sensing
More Student News
Mandy Keogh and other students head out for field work on Steller sea lions on the R/V Jubatus. Photo courtesy of Mandy Keogh.
•Markus Janout, Ph.D. physical oceanography, completed a student exchange earlier this year with Hokkaido University, UAF's partner university in Japan. Janout worked with his host Dr. Sei-Ichi Saitoh, a specialist in remote sensing for applications in fisheries science and oceanography.
•Seward marine biology graduate students Abbie Ellsworth, Rebekka Federer, Mandy Keogh and Jeanette Nienaber presented their research at the Alaska SeaLife Center Annual Research Colloquium in September. Ellsworth and Federer spoke about their research on spectacled eiders and Keogh and Nienaber presented on Steller sea lions.
•Mary Bozza, Celeste Leroux and Erin Steiner were named Dean John A. Knauss Fellows. As Knauss Fellows, Bozza, Leroux and Steiner will spend a year in Washington, D.C., learning how the federal government makes national marine environmental policy.
•David Caroffino, Ph.D. fisheries, was selected as an honorable mention recipient of the American Fisheries Society Skinner Memorial Award. The award provides funding assistance for fisheries students to travel to AFS meetings. SFOS now offers an annual travel fund named in honor of Matthew Myers, a distinguished marine biology graduate student who died last September in a diving accident. The Matt Myers Graduate Student Travel Fund will offer two $1,000 travel awards to SFOS graduate students in support of travel to marine science conferences.
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