Fisheries Think Tank


The Fisheries Think Tank series is a collaboration between fisheries stock assessment researchers at the University of Washington's School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences and the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Alaska Fisheries Science Center of NOAA Fisheries.

Workshops from Fall 2002 to Spring 2009 (aka the SAFS/NWFSC/AFSC Miniworkshop Series) are listed on the page for Workshops from previous quarters


Fall 2009 Schedule (Tuesdays from 1:30 - 3:20 p.m.)

Date / Location Speaker Workshop Title
6 October
UW Fisheries 106
Rick Methot1, Andre Punt2, Ian Taylor1
1NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Tagging in SS3 assessment
20 October
UW Fisheries 106
Bill Clark1, Rick Methot2, Jim Ianelli3
1International Pacific Halibut Commission
2NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
3NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Estimation of natural mortality
10 November
UW Fisheries 106
James T. Thorson
UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Evaluating management benchmark estimates from single- and multi-species state-space models for time-varying catchability
1 December
UW Fisheries 106
Ivonne Ortiz, Kerim Aydin
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
FEAST, an ecosystem model
8 December
UW Fisheries 318
Sarah Gaichas1, Isaac Kaplan2
1NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
2NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Combining single species and ecosystem modeling results in ecosystem assessments

Page modified 11 November 2009 by Doug Kinzey dkinzey at u.washington.edu