Fishline

Summer 2009

Fishline is on summer hiatus and will resume in mid-September.

For late-breaking information and past issues, see http://fish.washington.edu/fishline. Please contact safsweb@u.washington.edu to submit a post, obtain further information, and to subscribe, update, or discontinue your subscription.


Seminar Series & Talks, Spring 2009

All seminar series have concluded for spring quarter 2009. Please check back in late September for the fall schedules. Use the menu to the left to see previous Fishline issues for seminar and other information.


The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206-543-6450/V, 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264 (FAX); dso@u.washington.edu.


Kudos

Faculty Merit Awards 2009

We are pleased to announce the Faculty Merit Awards for 2009, which are among the most prestigious awards given by the School to recognize outstanding academic achievement. Awarded annually since 1965 and based on committee evaluation of nominations submitted by SAFS faculty members, the selection criteria include academic performance; service to the School, College, University, and community;
professional activities; and scholarly activities beyond the classroom, such as scientific publications and presentations.

The award period covers Spring 2009 through Winter 2010.

B.S. Program

M.S. Program

Ph.D. Program

In addition to receiving a cash award, the names of each recipient will be inscribed on the Faculty Merit Award plaque that hangs on the wall opposite the SAFS Student Services Office (FSH 116) and listed on our Endowment website.

We also congratulate the following students, who received honorable mentions:

SAFS Undergrads Awarded COFS Scholarship

Congratulations to two SAFS undergraduates, Bethany Diehl and Rachel Thompson, both of whom were recently awarded a Clarence H. Campbell Endowed Lauren Donaldson Scholarship. The award covers three quarters of tuition for each student.


Student Exams

Advising professors in parentheses.

General Exam

Congratulations to PhD students who passed their general exams for the PhD degree:

Final Exam

Carwyn Hammond (Conquest), Monday, 6 July, 2pm, 203 Fishery Sciences

Using Reflex Action Mortality Predictor (RAMP) to Investigate If Trawl Gear Modifications Reduce Unobserved Mortality of Chionoecetes sp.

Successful Defenses

Congratulations to the following students, who passed their final exams for advanced degrees:


FYI
(General Information)

Burgner Memoir Published

We are pleased to announce that SAFS has published a memoir written by Robert L. "Bud" Burgner, professor emeritus and past director of the School's Fisheries Research Institute (1967-1985). Because of very limited availability of the books, we also have posted a PDF version of Bud's memoir and invite you to view it:

Faculty Meetings, 2009

Faculty meetings in 2009 will be held on Tuesdays, from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Fisheries Building, room 203 as follows:


Publications

Bold indicates SAFS author(s), including those no longer affiliated with this institution but whose contributions to the articles were done under school auspices.

Kendall, NW, TP Quinn. 2009. Effects of population-specific variation in age and length on fishery selection and exploitation rates of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 66:896–908.

Lockwood, JL, TM Blackburn, P Cassey, JD Olden. 2009. The shape of things to come: non-native mammalian predators and the fate of island bird diversity. Pages 235-248 in ST Turvey (ed), Holocene Extinctions. Oxford University Press.

Punt, AE. 2008. A note on the modelling of MSY-related parameters when population dynamics are stochastic. J. Cetac. Res. Mgmt. 10(3):183-189.

Quinn, TP, TR Seamons. 2009. Tales from scales: old DNA yields insights into contemporary evolutionary processes affecting fishes. Molec. Ecol. 18:2545–2546.

Skalski, JR, RA Buchanan, RL Townsend, TW Steig, S Hemstrom. 2009. A multiple-release model to estimate route-specific and dam passage survival at a hydroelectric project. N. Am. J. Fish. Mgmt. 29:670-679.

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/.


Conferences, Workshops, and More

Pacific Salmonid Recovery Conference 2009: Call for Speaker and Poster Presentations
Seattle, Washington, October 28-30, 2009
http://nwetc.org/bio-500_10-09_seattle.htm

This regional conference provides participants with current fisheries science, regulatory updates, and innovative strategies for assessment, restoration, and monitoring of salmonid populations and their habitat. The intended audience includes biologists, ecologists, planners, engineers, regulators, tribal representatives, research scientists, lawyers, elected officials, land owners, and nonprofit groups.

The Conference coordinators are currently seeking presentations in the following subject areas:

To submit a poster presentation, please email title and abstract to Leah Baugh at lbaugh@nwetc.org. For more information, visit the conference website, or download a PDF flyer.