October 9, 2008

"Kudos" features awards, honors and other noteworthy accomplishments of our students, faculty and staff. Where appropriate, faculty advisors indicated in parentheses.

SAFS Sweeps Student Awards at 62nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association (PCSGA)

In late September/early October, SAFS graduate students swept all three student awards at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the PCSGA, held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Section of the National Shellfish Association. Lisa Crosson, a MS student of Carolyn Friedman, was winner of the best student paper award. And Ann Baxter (MS student of Russ Herwig) and Kristi Straus (PhD student of Carolyn Friedman) won the student scholarship award competition.

"Migrations" highlight new arrivals and departures of people at our school as well as other pertinent information about our people.

New SAFS Undergraduate

Please join us in welcoming the latest recruit to our undergraduate program, Crystal Franco (Junior).

Advising professors in parentheses.

General Exams

Upcoming Defenses

PhD

Jeremy Sterling (VanBlaricom), Friday, Oct 24, 10am, 102 Fishery Sciences

Northern fur seal foraging behaviors, food webs, and interactions with oceanographic features in the eastern Bering Sea.

Successful Defenses

Faculty Meeting Schedule
Spring–Autumn 2008
11:30 am, 203 Fishery Sciences

• October 21
• November 18
• December 2

Bold indicates SAFS author.

Lessard RB, R Hilborn, BE Chasco. 2008. Escapement goal analysis and stock reconstruction of sockeye salmon populations (Oncorhynchus nerka) using life-history models. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65(10):2269–2278.

Lytle, DA, JD Olden, LE McMullen. 2008. Drought-escape behaviors of aquatic insects may be adaptations to highly variable flow regimes characteristic of desert rivers. Southwest. Nat. 53: 399-402.

Naiman, RJ, JJ Latterell, NE Pettit, JD Olden. 2008. Flow variability and the vitality of river systems. C.R. Geo. 340:629-643.

Vander Zanden, MJ, JD Olden. 2008. A management framework for preventing the secondary spread of aquatic invasive species. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65:1512-1522.

Please forward PDF files (or 2 reprints if no PDF is available) for peer-review publications to Marcus Duke, Box 357980. Comprehensive lists of SAFS publications can be found at http://fish.washington.edu/Publications/.

The 30th Annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference (PEEC)
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, BC, February 20th-22nd
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~peec/

The annual PEEC is directed to graduate students from Western Canada and the United States. In addition to providing a formal forum for presenting current advances in ecological and evolutionary research, the PEEC also gives students an excellent opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with their peers. We encourage graduate, post-doctoral, and advanced undergraduate researchers to join us and present oral presentations or posters on their research—or attend to learn more about current research being conducted in the region.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to, community ecology, behavioural ecology, population biology, evolution, conservation, and molecular ecology.

Registration and abstract submission will open December 1st 2008. Further information is available at the above-listed website or by writing to PEEC2009@gmail.com.

Society for the Protection of Old Fishes—40th Annual Meeting
Friday, October 24, 6:00-9:45pm
Douglas Class Room, Botanical Gardens, University of Washington

You are invited to attend the 41st Annual Meeting and Buffet of the Society for the Protection of Old Fishes (SPOOF). The guest speaker will be Rebecca Hoff, NOAA Biologist and Facilitator. To attend, please fill out the invitation form and submit according to the various options provided in the PDF.

Forty years ago SPOOF was created as a non-profit organization to serve as a global network for coelacanth research. It quickly developed into a society of scientists, students, artists, musicians and lay people dedicated to the protection of all ancient (but living) fishes. At its peak membership included 250 citizens from around the world. While the original founders have since departed this life, threats to large and ancient fishes abound. Opportunities are great for SPOOF to help bring attention to both old and ancient animals. It is time and timely to review our mission and set new directions. With Rebecca’s help we will begin this process at our annual meeting in October.

For more information, please contact President Dr. Alan Mearns (alan.mearns@noaa.gov, 206-526-6336) or Vice President Wayne Palsson (palsswap@dfw.wa.gov).

2009 State of the Salmon Conference: Bringing the Future into Focus
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver BC, Canada, February 2–5, 2009
http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/conference2009/

Thus conference will feature several panels of distinguished leaders and speakers, discussing issues and ideas important to everyone working to conserve wild Pacific salmon. The conference, and the dialogue it will inspire, build on the idea that climate change impacts and dramatic landscape changes aren’t decades away – they’re occurring now. By “bringing the future into focus,” this conference will provide a unique international forum and context to explore how we move from conservation principles to action—today—so that salmon might continue their amazing and successful evolutionary course of survival around the North Pacific. For further information, see the website listed above; for more information about the State of the Salmon organization, see http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/.