Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center

2008 Awarded Research Projects

Principal Investigator(s)	Project
Shannon Atkinson	Matt Myers Memorial Graduate Student Travel Fund
Tony Gharrett and Terrance Quinn	Combining genetics and population dynamics to improve management of Pacific Ocean perch
Mark Johnson	Bering Sea temperatures and their relationship to walleye pollock fisheries: a feasibility study of year-round near-real time data acquisition.
Jo-Ann Mellish	Making our mark: Assessment of the behavioral and physiological effects of long-term tracking methods in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
Alexandra de Oliveira	Purification of pollock oil using short path distillation
Terrance Quinn II	Deployment of an acoustic data logger on commercial fishing vessels to evaluate the potential of fishing-induced declines in local pollock abundance
Amanda Rosenberger, Trent Sutton, and Nicola Hillgruber	Increasing experimental learning opportunities for undergraduate students in Fisheries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alan Springer and Sara Iverson	Fatty acid composition of forage species in the Bering Sea: Variability and its effect on estimating predator diets using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

Research projects

PCC News

Research center awards $500,000 to marine, fisheries scientists (April 8, 2008)
Fisheries center funds $300,000 in new research projects (March 27, 2007)
UAF names Keith Criddle to Stevens Professorship (February 24, 2006)
Pollock fleet provides record funding (January 31, 2006)

Contact PCCRC

Denis Wiesenburg, PCCRC Director
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220

Phone: (907) 474-7210
Fax: (907) 474-7204
Email: wiesenburg@sfos.uaf.edu

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