Fishline

February 8, 2010

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Seminar Series & Talks


Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries
Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Departmental Seminar

Schedule (Web)

Thursday, 4:30pm, 102 (Auditorium) Fishery Sciences (map), 1122 Boat St, UW Seattle campus
Further info: safsdesk@u.washington.edu, 206-543-4270

11 Feb

Barry Gold, Marine Conservation Initiative Lead, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Leverage Points and Incentives in Shaping Sustainable Fisheries: The Role of Environmental Foundations


Friday Lunch Quantitative Seminar

Schedule (Web)

Friday, 12:30-1:30pm, 203 Fishery Sciences (map), 1122 Boat St, UW Seattle campus
Further info: Contact quantsem@u.washington.edu

12 Feb

Elizabeth Moffitt, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

The Design and Implications of Marine Protected Areas for Mobile Species


Water Center Seminars

Schedule (Web)

Tuesday, 8:30-9:20am, 223 Anderson Hall (map), UW Seattle campus
Sponsored by the Water Center
Further info: Debbie, cwws@u.washington.edu, 206-543-6920. 

9 Feb

Patrick Christie, Associate Professor, UW School of Marine Affairs and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Marine Resource Management in the Philippines: The Best and Worst of the World


Biology Seminar Series

Schedule (Web)

Tuesday; note venue change—Hitchcock 132 (map), 4 p.m
Further info: Sara O'Hara, frontbio@u.washington.edu

9 Feb

James C. Carrington, Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology - Oregon State University

Small RNA-Directed Silencing Pathways in Plants

11 Feb

Michael Angilletta Jr., Faculty Candidate - Indiana State University

Tuning Synaptic Growth Signaling By Endocytic Membrane Traffic: A Tale of Two Endosomes


Oceans and Human Health Joint NOAA/UW Seminar Series

For more information about this seminar or to arrange a meeting with the speakers, Rita Peterson at ritap@u.washington.edu.

9 Feb

Jess Silver, Hershman Fellow/Washington State Department of Health, Marine Biotoxin Program

Big Ideas, Small Budget:  Making Sense of the Science-Management Relationship


NWFSC Monster Seminar Jam

Schedule (Web)

Thursday, 11:00am, the Northwest Fisheries Science Center auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd East (auditorium is between the east and west buildings). Further info: Blake Feist, blake.feist@noaa.gov, 206-860-3408

11 Feb


Kimberly T. Murray, Resource Evaluation and Assessment Division, Protected Species Branch, Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Sea Turtle Bycatch in NW Atlantic Waters: The Truth Behind the Magic Number


National Marine Mammal Lab (NMML) Seminars

Wednesday/Friday, 12:00 pm, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Room 2039, Bldg. 4, Sand Point Way NE, Seattle
Further info: Charles Fowler, Charles.Fowler@noaa.gov

10 Feb

Dr. Jay Ver Hoef of the Polar Ecosystems Program, National Marine Mammal Laboratory

A Spatial Hierarchical Model for Estimating Abundance of a Dynamic Population in the Presence of Incomplete Availability and Detection: A Case Study of Three Ice Seal Species in the Eastern Bering Sea

12 Feb

Dr. Paul Conn, Beaufort Lab, NOAA Fisheries Southeast Science Center

Coping with Transience and Bilateral Photographs in Marine Mammal Mark–Recapture Studies


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Kudos


Migrations
(Student, staff and faculty arrivals and departures)


Student Exams

Advising professors in parentheses.


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.

Vadopalas, B, TW Pietsch, CS Friedman. 2010. The proper name for the Geoduck: resurrection of Panopea generosa Gould, 1850, from the synonymy of Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) (Bivalvia: Myoida: Hiatellidae). Malacologia 52(1):169-173.

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

UW Water Center's 20th Annual Review of Research and Water Career Fair
February 17, 2010, 8am-5pm
UW HUB West Ballroom (map), University of Washington, Seattle

Hear the latest UW research on water-related topics from UW faculty and graduate students! Free and open to the public. No registration required.  The complete program will be accessible at this webpage soon:

Conservation in Practice: A College of the Environment Colloquium
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 1pm-5pm (reception to follow)
HUB Ballroom
http://depts.washington.edu/cbcomm/colloquium

Please join us for an exciting look at the exceptional breadth of conservation-related activity being conducted at the University of Washington (UW). Our emphasis is on pro-active, solution-based approaches to critical conservation problems world-wide. The Colloquium will foster a sense of community among our conservation scholars, display our existing connections, and build new ties between units and individuals. Come celebrate, learn, and get connected with the diversity of conservation efforts at UW.

Everyone is invited to attend; registration is required but there is no charge. The registration form is available on the Colloquium website listed above.

Presentations will be solicited from individual researchers and interdisciplinary research teams. Abstract submission instructions will be posted on the Colloquium website (due December 18, 2009).

This event is sponsored by the UW Conservation of Living Systems Graduate Program within the College of the Environment and is made possible through the generous support of Harriet Bullitt. For more information, please send email to conscoll@u.washington.edu.

FYI
(General Information)

Faculty Meetings, 2010

Faculty meetings in 2010 will be held on Tuesdays, from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Fisheries Building, room 203 as follows:

  • February 9 and 23
  • March 9
  • April 6 and 20
  • May 4 and 18
  • June 1