The High Seas Salmon Research program was initiated by W.F. Thompson in 1953. Since then, the project has had several Principal Investigators and Project Leaders and has employed dozens of fisheries biologists and graduate students. The current crop of project members acknowledges the accomplishments and contributions of the many former members and thanks them for providing us with the databases and foundation we depend on to do our work.
School address and fax, and current program members are listed below. We can all be reached at the same address and fax number:
Professional Sketches
Katherine West Myers
Research Synposis
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Katherine W. Myers is Principal Investigator of the long-term (1953-present) High Seas Salmon Research Program at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington. The overarching goal of her research is to increase scientific knowledge of the biology and ecology of Pacific salmon and steelhead trout in the open ocean of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea through retrospective, field, laboratory, and computer modeling research in cooperation with other scientists in Canada, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States.
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A. Degrees
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Ph.D. in Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 1998
M.Sc. in Fisheries, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1980
B.Sc. in Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, 1976
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B. Appointments
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2004—present
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Principal Research Scientist and Principal Investigator, High Seas Salmon Research Program, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
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1999—2003
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Principal Research Scientist and Co-Principal Investigator, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program
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1987-1998
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Principal Fisheries Biologist and Project Leader, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program
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1984-1986
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Senior Fisheries Biologist and Asst. Project Leader, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program
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1981-1984
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Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program
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1980
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Research Aide 1, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program
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C. Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (5)
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Armstrong, J.L., K.W. Myers, N.D. Davis, R.V. Walker, D.A. Beauchamp, J.L. Boldt, J. Piccolo and L.J. Haldorson. 2008. Interannual and spatial feeding patterns of juvenile pink salmon in the Gulf of Alaska in years of low and high survival. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 137:1299-1316.
Bugaev, A.V., and K.W. Myers. In press. Stock-specific distribution and abundance of immature Chinook salmon in the western Bering Sea in summer and fall 2002-2004. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Cross, AD, DA Beauchamp, JH Moss, KW Myers. 2009. Interannual variability in early marine growth, size-selective mortality, and marine survival for Prince William Sound pink salmon. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management and Ecosystem Science 1:57-70.
Myers, K.W., R.V. Walker, N.D. Davis, J.L. Armstrong, and M. Kaeriyama. In press. High seas distribution, biology, and ecology of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon: direct information from high seas tagging experiments, 1954-2006. In Pacific salmon: ecology and management of western Alaska’s populations. Edited by C.C. Krueger and C.E. Zimmerman. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 70, Bethesda, MD.
Myers, K.W., N.V. Klovach, O.F. Gritsenko, S. Urawa, and T.C. Royer. 2007. Stock-specific distributions of Asian and North American salmon in the open ocean, interannual changes, and oceanographic conditions. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 4:159-177.
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D. Professional Activities/Awards (5)
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US Advisor for Washington State, North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, 2009; US Salmon Expert, North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Committee on Scientific Research and Statistics, 1993-present; US Member, Science Sub-Committee, 1998-2005; US Member Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) Working Group, 2001-present
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service, Committee on Review of Western Alaska (AYK) Research and Restoration Plan for Salmon 2003-2005, The National Academies, September 2003-2005
Distinguished Service Award, American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, 2000
Award for Excellence for Exemplary Service to the University of Washington, Professional Staff Organization, 1994, for leadership of the University of High Seas Salmon Research Program; Nominated by the School of Fisheries for the 1997 Distinguished Staff Group Award for Exemplary Service to the University of Washington |
A. Degrees
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Ph.C. in Fisheries, University of Washington, 1981
M.S.T. in Biology, Cornell University, 1973
A.B. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 1971
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B. Appointments
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2001—present
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Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington, GAK Salmon (research grant funded by US GLOBEC/NSF); Chinook, sockeye scale pattern analysis (research grant funded by USGS); Bering Sea Chinook (research grant funded by Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative); Trawl Chinook (research grant funded by Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association/NOAA), University of Washington
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1987—2005 |
Senior Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program, Asst. Project Leader (research contract funded by NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory)
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1986-1987
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Senior Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program (research contract funded by NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory)
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1980-1986
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Pre-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program (research contract funded by NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory)
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1980
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Research Assistant, University of Washington, Columbia River irrigation withdrawal study
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1976-1978
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Fisheries Biologist, St. Vincent, West Indies, small cetacean subsistence fishery
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973-71974
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Field Biologist, Fisheries Research Board, Canada, shore-based cetacean observation
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C. Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (5)
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Armstrong, J.L., K.W. Myers, N.D. Davis, R.V. Walker, D.A. Beauchamp, J.L. Boldt, J. Piccolo and L.J. Haldorson. 2008. Interannual and spatial feeding patterns of juvenile pink salmon in the Gulf of Alaska in years of low and high survival. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 137:1299-1316.
Moss, J.H., D.A. Beauchamp, A.D. Cross, E.V. Farley, J.M. Murphy, J.H. Helle, R.V. Walker, and K.W. Myers. In Press. Bioenergetic model estimates of interannual and spatial patterns in consumption demand and growth potential of juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in the Gulf of Alaska. Deep-Sea Research II.
Myers, K.W., R.V. Walker, N.D. Davis, J.L. Armstrong, and M. Kaeriyama. In press. High seas distribution, biology, and ecology of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon: direct information from high seas tagging experiments, 1954-2006. In Pacific salmon: ecology and management of western Alaska’s populations. Edited by C.C. Krueger and C.E. Zimmerman. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 70, Bethesda, MD.
Walker, R.V., and K.W. Myers. In press. Behavior of Yukon River Chinook salmon in the Bering Sea as inferred from archival tag data. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Walker, R.V., V.V. Sviridov, S. Urawa, and T. Azumaya. 2007. Spatio-temporal variation in vertical distributions of Pacific salmon in the ocean. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish. Comm. Bull. 4:193-201. |
D. Professional Activities/Awards (5)
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US Salmon Expert, North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Committee on Scientific Research and Statistics, 1993, 1995, 1997-2004, 2008; Research Planning and Coordinating Group, 1995, 1997-2004; Ad-Hoc Working Group on Archival Tags, 1998-1999
US Salmon Expert, US-Russia Bilateral Meeting on North Pacific Salmon Resources, 1999
Nominated by the School of Fisheries for the 1997 Distinguished Staff Group Award for Exemplary Service to the University of Washington
US Salmon Expert, International North Pacific Fisheries Commission; Sub-Committee on Salmon, 1986-1992
Citation for the most significant paper in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Volume 7, American Fisheries Society, 1988
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A. Degrees
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Ph.D. in Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 2003
M.Sc. in Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1978
B.A. in Zoology, Drew University, Madison, 1976
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B. Appointments
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2006-present |
Senior Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, Chinook, sockeye scale pattern analysis (research grant funded by USGS), Ocean Steelhead (research grant funded by Washington Sea Grant), Bering Sea Chinook (research grant funded by Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative), GAK pink salmon (research grant funded by US GLOBEC/NOAA) |
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2001—2005
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Senior Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, GAK Salmon (research grant funded by US GLOBEC/NSF); Trawl Chinook (research grant funded by Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association/NOAA)
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1990—2005
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Senior Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program (research contract funded by NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory)
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1983-1990
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Fisheries Biologist, University of Washington, High Seas Salmon Research Program (research contract funded by NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratory)
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1980-1982
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Fisheries Biologist, Invertebrates and Marine Plants Section, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Private contract)
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1978-1980
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Biologist, Squid Observer Program, Wainwright Analytical and Marine Services, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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C. Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (5)
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Davis, N.D., K.W. Myers, and W.J. Fournier. In press. Winter food habits of Chinook salmon in the eastern Bering Sea. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Davis, N.D., A.V. Volkov, A. Ya. Efimkin, N.A. Kuznetsova, J.L. Armstrong, and O. Sakai. In press. Review of BASIS salmon food habits studies. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Fukuwaka, M., N.D. Davis, T. Azumaya, and T. Nagasawa. In press Bias-corrected size trend of chum salmon in the Central Bering Sea and North Pacific. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Buser, T.J., N.D. Davis, I. Jimenez-Hidalgo, and L. Hauser. In press. Genetic techniques provide evidence of Chinook salmon feeding on walleye pollock offal. N. Pac. Anadr. Fish Comm. Bull. 5.
Myers, K.W., R.V. Walker, N.D. Davis, J.L. Armstrong, and M. Kaeriyama. In press. High seas distribution, biology, and ecology of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon: direct information from high seas tagging experiments, 1954-2006. In Pacific salmon: ecology and management of western Alaska’s populations. Edited by C.C. Krueger and C.E. Zimmerman. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 70, Bethesda, MD. |
D. Professional Activities/Awards (5)
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US Salmon Expert, North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Committee on Scientific Research and Statistics, 1995, 1997, 2009; Member, Salmon Tagging Working Group, 2007-present; Research Planning and Coordinating Meetings, 1995-2005; Committee on Scientific Research and Statistics, 1995, 1997; Member, Methodology Standardization Working Group, 1996-1999Nominated by the School of Fisheries for the 1997 Distinguished Staff Group Award for Exemplary Service to the University of Washington
US Salmon Expert, Sub-Committee on Salmon, International North Pacific Fisheries Commission 1987, 1989
Scientific expert for US National Marine Fisheries Service, Law Enforcement Div. and US Coast Guard for species, age, and stock identification of salmon taken in unauthorized high seas fisheries, 1984-present; Certificate of Recognition for assistance with species and stock identification of salmon illegally caught by Taiwanese fishermen, US Dept. of Commerce, 1990
Citation for the most significant paper in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Volume 7, American Fisheries Society, 1988
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A. Degrees
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M.Sc. in Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1991
B.Sc. in Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, 1970
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B. Appointments
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2000-present |
Research Scientist, University of Washington, Bering Sea Salmon Food Habits (co-PI Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, Fisheries Disaster Relief Program, Alaska NOAA grant award),GAK Salmon (research funded by US GLOBEC/ NSF), Gulf of Alaska Pink salmon diet analysis; Trawl Chinook (research grant funded by Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association/NOAA), Chinook salmon stock delineation. |
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1993-1999 |
Fisheries Consultant, Self-employed with AQUATIC RESEARCH CONSULTANTS SERVICES. Contracts included Prince William Sound Oil Impact Assessment Study (from Exxon Oil Company), sequential stock collapses under high fishing pressure in the Gulf of Alaska; Tribal Shellfish Resources Utilization Study (from Evergreen Legal Services and the U.S. Dept. of Justice) Washington State tribal shellfishing rights; Bering Sea King, Tanner and Snow crab Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 2001 (from NOAA/ NMFS), EIS regarding Snow and Tanner crab in the Bering Sea; ARCO Sunfish Project (from Dinnel Marine Research), diets of out migrating salmonid smolts, Cook Inlet, AK. |
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1991-1992 |
Fishery Biologist II, University of Washington, Prince William Sound Oil Impact Assessment Study (research grant funded by Exxon Oil Company), effects of oil on crab and shrimp populations in PWS; Tribal Shellfish Resource Utilization Study (research grant funded by Evergreen Legal Services and the U.S. Dept. of Justice), tribal fishers shellfishing rights. |
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1988-1990 |
Research Assistant, University of Washington, Prince William Sound Oil Spill Impact Assessment Study (funded by Exxon Oil Company), plankton analysis; Dredge Assessment Study in Grays Harbor, WA. (funded by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), fish and Dungeness crab population dynamics; Padilla Bay Marine Sanctuary Fish Study, fish community and fish diet analysis. |
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1987-1988 |
Graduate Student, University of Washington, School of Fisheries. |
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1980-1986 |
Fishery Biologist, University of Washington, Juvenile Red King Crab Project, Blue King Crab Project, and Bering Sea Crab Larvae Project (all funded by NOAA/NMFS/OCSEAP), plankton analysis. |
C. Recent Peer Reviewed Publications
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Armstrong, J.L., K.W. Myers, N.D. Davis, R.V. Walker, D.A. Beauchamp, J.L. Boldt, J. Piccolo and L.J. Haldorson. 2008. Interannual and spatial feeding patterns of juvenile pink salmon in the Gulf of Alaska in years of low and high survival. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 137:1299-1316.
Armstrong, J.L., J.L. Boldt, A.D. Cross, J.H. Moss, N.D. Davis, K.W. Myers, R.V. Walker, D.A. Beauchamp, and L.J. Haldorson. 2005. Distribution, size and interannual, seasonal and diel food habits of northern Gulf of Alaska juvenile pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha. Page 247-265 in H.P. Batchelder, E.J. Lessard, P.T. Strub, and T.J. Weingartner (eds.). U.S. GLOBEC Biological and Physical Studies of Plankton, Fish and Higher Trophic Level Production, Distribution, and Variability in the Northeast Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part II, Special issue 52(1-2).
Brodeur, R.D., E.A. Daly, M.V. Sturdevant, T.W. Miller, J.H. Moss, M. Thiess, M. Trudel, L.A. Weitkamp, J.L. Armstrong, and E.C. Norton. 2007. Regional comparisons of juvenile salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) feeding in coastal marine waters off the West Coast of North America. In C. Grimes (ed.), Proceedings of the American Fisheries Society 135th Annual Meeting: Ocean Ecology of Salmon in Western North America: Regional Comparisons. AFS Symposium 57, Bethesda, Maryland.
Cross, A.D., D.A. Beauchamp, J.L. Armstrong, J.L. Boldt, N.D. Davis, L.J. Haldorson, J.M. Moss, K.W. Myers, and R.V. Walker. 2005. Consumption demand of juvenile pink salmon in Prince William Sound and the coastal Gulf of Alaska in relation to prey biomass. Deep Sea Research Part II. 52(1-2):347-370.
Myers, K.W., R.V. Walker, N.D. Davis, J.L. Armstrong, and M. Kaeriyama. In press. High seas distribution, biology, and ecology of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon: direct information from high seas tagging experiments, 1954-2006. In Pacific salmon: ecology and management of western Alaska’s populations. Edited by C.C. Krueger and C.E. Zimmerman. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 70, Bethesda, MD.
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