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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

PCCRC News

PCCRC Announces Availability of Funds for 2012 August 30, 2011

Pollock fleet donations top $10 million in 10 years January 13, 2010
Fairbanks, Alaska – A group of pollock catcher-processor companies have donated more than $10 million to the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences during the last decade.

PCCRC awards $500,000 to marine, fisheries scientists April 8, 2008
The Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has funded more than $500,000 for the study of Alaska's marine ecosystems.

Fisheries center funds $300,000 in new research projects March 27, 2007)
Fairbanks, Alaska – The Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has awarded more than $300,000 to fisheries and marine scientists to study the health of Alaska's marine resources.

UAF names Keith Criddle to Stevens Professorship (February 24, 2006)
Fairbanks, Alaska – Alaska will soon have a new marine policy expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Pollock fleet provides record funding (January 31, 2006)
Fairbanks, Alaska – Donations from a group of North Pacific pollock fishing companies to the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have made them the single largest private contributor in School history.

Contact PCCRC

Michael Castellini, 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: macastellini@alaska.edu

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