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SFOS News 1999-2002

SFOS News was not published in May, August, October or December 2002.		November 2002 (653 KB PDF) • 53^rd annual AAAS meeting held at UAF • SFOS and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology sign agreement • Garza presents subsistence gathering program

September 2002 (428 KB PDF) • Alexander named Special Assistant • Kitto receives USFS national honor • INS tightens reporting requirements • IMS back at the Boulder Patch		July 2002 (412 KB PDF) • Naidu and Kelley survey Bering Sea • Hocutt and Castellini take new positions • Norcross involved in GEM • Oshoro Maru conducts research in Alaska waters

June 2002 (464 KB PDF) • CMI project completes first trip • Tom Shirley goes to Japan • NPRB awards UA Professors $1.6 million • American Fisheries Society picked to host 3rd World Fisheries Congress		April 2002 (1.6 MB PDF) • Rasmuson Center awards $200,000 • April Behr Outstanding Fisheries Student • Bruce Finney published in Nature • Former IMS director Don Hood remembered • Sea Grant chief to retire

March 2002 (296 KB PDF) • Hocutt appointed associate dean • K-12 marine biology outreach • "Crustacean Sensation" gets help from FITC		January 2002 (632 KB PDF) • SFOS represented at December meeting • Johnson honored by Pollichia • Size paradigms in copepod communities

December 2001 (884 KB PDF) • Albatrosses threatened by floating plastic debris • 5th annual NOSBowl • Himelbloom explores safer cold-smoked salmon		November 2001 (456 KB PDF) • Evelyn Brown featured on Real Science • Bristol Bay crabs • Scientists' work included in Fifty More Years Below Zero

September 2001 (260 KB PDF) • SFOS prepares for UAF accreditation • JASON at Alaska SeaLife Center • New marine science and seafood chemistry faculty		August 2001 (416 KB PDF) • McDonald, students make a difference • Mark Johnson, Finney, and Quinn meritorious • Students involved in NEWNET program

July 2001 (184 KB PDF) • Apperson wins service award • Wynne, Foy try to free whale • SFOS to become "Center of Excellence" • SFOS hosting cold water diving symposium		June 2001 (892 KB PDF) • Tyler steps down as associate dean • Jennifer Reynolds studies submarine volcanos • IMS gets involved with Internet2 • Sea Grant sponsors Red Green Regatta

May 2001 (288 KB PDF) • Scientific diving course led by Brenda Konar • Deborah Mercy SFOS video wins award • Brenda Norcross wins leadership award • Tami Mau studies seals at Cape Cod		April 2001 (928 KB PDF) • Steve Jewett inspects McMurdo • Al Tyler postpones retirement • Naidu elected Arctic fellow

SFOS News was not published December 2000 through March 2001.		November 2000 (484 KB PDF) • Finney's research in national spotlight • Jewett investigates Red Dog port facility plan • Sitka WhaleFest 2000 • Wynne joins Steller sea lion committee • Fisheries acoustics seminar goes long distance

October 2000 (696 KB PDF) • Research and outreach in Barrow • Kim Williams at Naknek fish conference • New SFOS hires • Russian-American Bering Sea conference • A crabby Tom Shirley		September 2000 (608 KB PDF) • FITC gets involved in... peppers? • Faculty recruitment update • Bob Foy joins FITC • Johnson produces boater's handbook supplement • Steiner co-chairs debris workgroup at confer

August 2000 (696 KB PDF) • Effects of weather on snow crab bycatch • Kowalik elected to Polish Academy of Sciences • Emeritus Goering honored with symposium • Bill Smoker to head Fisheries Division • Cook Inlet oceanography workshop		July 2000 (572 KB PDF) • Alaska Sea Grant receives $100K grant • Commercial trawling impact study • Rick Steiner and the UN Millennium Forum • Looking for mercury in subsistence fish

June 2000 (784 KB PDF) • Mike Castellini featured in local newspaper • IRS contacts Terry Johnson • Dave Brenner's photos featured in children's book • Juneau graduate student symposium		May 2000 (896 KB PDF) • New research center established (PCCRC) • Sue Keller wins award • Scuba training expands scientists' capabilities • Sylvia Earle speaks at UAF • American Polar Society meeting set

April 2000 (552 KB PDF) • STAR-2000 cruise • SFOS graduate students win awards • 2000 Rasmuson Research Fellowships awarded • Sue Hills interviewed on Stellar sea lion decline • Terry Whitledge appointed to Office of Naval Research committee		March 2000 (276 KB PDF) • International Symposium on Sea Ice and the Okhotsk Sea • Ray RaLonde testifies at Alaska DNR hearings • Harmon and Mau awarded scholarships • Juneau wins ocean science bowl • Dolly Garza's "Tlinget Moon/Tide Book" wins award

February 2000 (340 KB PDF) • Conflicting data on Pacific Ocean temperature trends • Ocean science bowl rescheduled • 2000 Alpha Helix cruise schedule • New MAP television program "Sharing the Sea" to air on Alaska public television		January 2000 (724 KB PDF) • Alaska high school teams to compete in ocean science bowl • IMS researchers spend holidays in Antarctica • Students add Arctic diving skills • Brenda Norcross featured in ABC News story

December 1999 (716 KB PDF) • Eighth annual PICES meeting in Vladivostok • 17th Lowell Wakefield fisheries symposium held • Graduate student Browning wins award • Seafood consumption up nationally • New federal regulations hit Kodiak crabbers		November 1999 (476 KB PDF) • Teachers teaching teachers • New Alaska SeaLife Center director hired • Chuck Crapo, Paust, and others involved in live aquatics products conference • OSRI announces funding opportunity