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2nd NWFSC Science Symposium

 

February 24-25, 2009

 

Montlake Auditorium

 


Day 1

Time

Speaker

Title

Division

 

Welcome & Keynote Address

8:00

8:10

Usha Varanasi

Welcome

SD

 

8:10

8:40

Michelle McClure

Keynote Address

CB/OMI

 

Session 1: Climate Change

8:40

9:00

Tim Beechie

Restoration strategies to increase salmon resilience to climate change

EC

 

9:00

9:20

Lisa Crozier

Predicting effects of freshwater climate change with life-cycle models of spring Chinook salmon

FE

 

9:20

9:40

Penny Swanson

Canaries in the sea: monitoring physiological status of fish in the context of environmental conditions

REUT

 

9:40

10:00

Peter Lawson

Tempo and mode: possible effects of climate change on variability in ocean environments and salmon survival

CB

 

10:00

10:20

Vera Trainer

Climate impacts on harmful algal blooms in Puget Sound

EC

 

Break AM

10:20

10:40

 

 

 

 

Session 2: Research HiLights I

10:40

11:00

Gary Winans

Multivariate characterization of anadromous and resident O. mykiss: three dam scenarios

CB

 

11:00

11:20

Dan Bottom

Role of the Columbia River estuary in salmon recovery

FE

 

11:20

11:40

Gina Yitalo

Ageing cetaceans by fatty acid analysis: a major advance in conservation biology

EC

 

11:40

12:00

Marla Holt

How noise exposure affects the vocal behavior of Southern Resident killer whales

CB

 

12:00

12:20

Nick Tolimieri

Home range size and patterns of space use by lingcod, copper rockfish and quillback rockfish in Puget Sound in relation to diel and tidal cycles

FRAM

 

Lunch

12:20

1:00

 

 

 

 

Session 3: Ecosystem Research

1:00

1:20

Mark Scheuerell

Quantitative approaches for identifying species interactions and resilience in marine ecosystems

FE

 

1:20

1:40

Barry Berejikian

An ecosystem-scale assessment of abundance and life history diversity in Threatened Oncorhynchus mykiss

REUT

 

1:40

2:00

Anne Guerry

Ecosystem Services Provided by the Nearshore in Puget Sound: An Analysis of Change

CB

 

2:00

2:20

Jason Cope

A descriptive example of applying vulnerability evaluation criteria to California nearshore species

FRAM

 

2:20

2:40

Sandie 0'Neill

Developing environmental indicators for Puget Sound

EC

 

Break PM

2:40

3:00

 

 

 

 

Session 4: RapidFire I

3:00

4:30

 

 

 

 

 

1

Andrew Dittman

Molecular correlates of olfactory imprinting in Pacific salmon

REUT

 

 

2

Ewann Berntson

Deep-water coral DNA sequence repository for species from the NE Pacific

CB

 

 

3

Linda Rhodes

Evaluating the microbial composition of the sea surface microlayer and killer whale breath

REUT

 

 

4

Keith Bosley

Reproductive parasitism of lithodid crabs by snailfishes off the western U.S.

FRAM

 

 

5

Anna Kagley

Puget Sound Chinook salmon residency and habitat selection using acoustic tags

FE

 

 

6

Regan McNatt

Residence time of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Columbia River estuary

FE

 

 

7

Lyndal Johnson

Juvenile salmonid surveys in the Lower Columbia

EC

 

 

8

Laurie Weitkamp

Pacific salmon on the brink of ocean entry: new insight from the Columbia River estuary

CB

 

 

9

Isaac Kaplan

Evaluating ecological and economic impacts of individual quotas for the groundfish trawl fleet

FRAM

 

 

10

Karma Norman

Assessing institutional designs for managing water supplies across the Puget Sound

CB

 

 

11

Curtis Roegner

Restoration of salmon habitat in tidal wetland habitats: an example from the Grays River tributary of the lower Columbia River

FE

 

 

12

Mark Myers

Improved flatfish health after remediation of a Superfund site

EC

 



Day 2

Time

Speaker

Title

Division

 

Sesion 5: Research HiLights II

8:30

8:50

Don Larsen

Hatchery-induced life history variation in Columbia River Chinook salmon.

REUT

 

8:50

9:10

Melissa Haltuch

The promise and pitfalls of using climate data in fish stock assessment

FRAM

 

9:10

9:30

Dezhang Chu

Acoustics: an advanced remote sensing technology in fisheries surveys

FRAM

 

9:30

9:50

Ric Brodeur

Understanding dynamics of the California Current ecosystem

FE

 

9:50

10:10

Rohinee Paranjpye

The enigma of Vibrio parahaemolyticus outbreaks in the Pacific Northwest

REUT

 

Break AM

10:10

10:30

 

 

 

 

session 6 RapidFire II

10:30

11:30

 

 

 

 

 

1

Jon Lee

Acoustic tracking of hatchery-reared lingcod in Puget Sound

REUT

 

 

2

Megan Moore

Early marine survival and behavior of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) smolts through Hood Canal and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

REUT

 

 

3

Nat Scholz

Pesticides as a limiting factor for salmon recovery in the western U.S.

EC

 

 

4

Eli Holmes

Super-crunching multi-species monitoring data

CB

 

 

5

Chris Harvey

Effects of temperature change on demersal fishes in the California Current:  a bioenergetics approach.

FRAM

 

 

6

Jim Hastie

Rebuilding depleted West Coast groundfish species: management actions and early results

FRAM

 

 

7

John Incardona

A new paradigm for oil toxicity: the fish heart as a target

EC

 

 

8

Sandy Downing

Adult PIT detection in the JDA River

FE

 

Poster Session/ Lunch

11:30

1:00

 

 

 

 

NWFSC All Hands Meeting (open to NWFSC staff only)

1:15

2:30

Usha Varanasi

View sub–agenda of All Hands Meeting here

SD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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