Fishline

November 23, 2009

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Seminar Series & Talks

Note: Owing to the Thanksgiving holidays, seminars scheduled for Thursday and Friday will not be held this week. Instead, we provide information for the next dates (December) for these series.


Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Departmental Seminar

Schedule (Web)

Thursday, 4:00pm, 102 (Auditorium) Fishery Sciences (map), 1122 Boat St, UW Seattle campus
Further info: safsdesk@u.washington.edu, 206-543-4270

3 Dec

Sarah Gaichas, Research Fishery Biologist, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Program

Where Does Ecosystem Modeling Fit into Fisheries Management? Examples from the North Pacific


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

4 Dec

Steve Barbeaux, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences/ NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

TBA


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. 

24 Nov

Curtis Hinman, Watershed Ecologist, Washington State University Extension Pierce County

Emerging Water Quality Treatment and Flow Control Performance—Trends for Low Impact Development Practices


Biology Seminar Series

Schedule (Web)

Tuesday, Physics-Astronomy A102 (map), 4 p.m
Further info: Sara O'Hara, frontbio@u.washington.edu

24 Nov

Christine Queitsch, Assistant Professor, UW Genome Sciences

Phenotypic Robustness and Variation: Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Impact


Oceans and Human Health Joint NOAA/UW Seminar Series

Schedule (PDF)

Tuesday, 2:30-3:30: Note date and location change—208 Fishery Sciences, 1122 NE Boat St, Seattle

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

8 Dec

Irv Schultz, Battelle Pacific NW National Laboratory, Marine Science Lab,
Sequim, Washington; Adjunct Assistant Professo, University of Idaho Biological Sciences

Ocean Acidification of the Northeastern Pacific Coastal Waters and Puget Sound


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

3 Dec

Carol Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center of Rapid Evolution

Rapid Evolution Following Invasions into Novel Environments


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


Migrations

New Undergraduates

We welcome two more students to our undergraduate program:


Student Exams

Advising professors in parentheses.

Final Defense

Mary Hunsicker (Essington), Monday, 23 November, 1pm, 203 Fishery Sciences

Evaluating the Role of Cephalopods Within Marine Food Webs and Fisheries


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.

Anderson, JJ, WN Beer. 2009. Oceanic, riverine, and genetic influences on spring chinook salmon migration timing. Ecol. Applic. 19(8):1989–2003.

Gomez-Ichida, D, TW Knight, DE Ruzzante. 2009. Interaction of landscape and life history attributes on genetic diversity, neutral divergence and gene flow in a pristine community of salmonids. Molec. Ecol. 18:4854-4869. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04409.x.

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

Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010: Call for Presentations
September 27-30, 2010
Portland, Maine
http://www.wateraccessus.com/callforpresentations.html

Individuals, groups, and communities with experience in planning for or implementing successful strategies for sustaining working waterfronts are invited to submit presentations for the Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010.

The Symposium provides a forum to help communities, organizations, businesses, and individuals address waterfront access challenges by showcasing successful models and tools from around the country. We invite interested parties with experience in applying successful working waterfront planning and implementation approaches to submit an abstract to the symposium.

For more information, please see the above-listed website. Presentation submission timeline is as follows:

Call for Papers, Posters, and Award Nominations
Wild Trout X—"Conserving Wild Trout
Holiday Inn, West Yellowstone, MT
September 28-30, 2010
http://www.wildtroutsymposium.com

The triennial Wild Trout Symposium assembles governmental entities, non-profit conservation groups, media representatives, educators, anglers, fishing guides, and business interests associated with trout fisheries to exchange technical information and viewpoints on wild trout management and related public policy.

Wild Trout X offers a unique forum for professionals and anglers to interact, and where participants will to be exposed to the latest wild trout science, technology and philosophies. This conference will equip participants to better manage, preserve, and restore these significant but declining resources. The symposium will focus on the needs of working-level wild trout professionals, conservationists, and trout anglers.

The Wild Trout X Program Committee is soliciting abstracts for presentations and posters. Please send brief abstracts (300 words or less) to Committee Co-chairman, Kevin Meyer, kevin.meyer@idfg.idaho.gov, no later than April 1, 2010. Guidelines for abstract, poster, and manuscript preparation can be found at the Wild Trout X website listed above.

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.

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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: