About QERM

Ingrid Spies
"The genetic effects of fisheries management: a management strategy evaluation for Pacific cod off Alaska."

Faculty Facilitator:
Andre Punt, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Cole Monnahan
"Splitting historical blue whale catches using spatial GAMs"

Faculty Facilitator:
Trevor Branch, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Miranda Fix
"Evaluation of various methods to estimate understory light availability in a low-light environment."

Faculty Facilitator:
David Ford, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Kristin Broms
"Spatial Statistics for Areal Units"

Faculty Facilitator:
Loveday Conquest, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Chloe Bracis
"Modeling animal movement with memory"

Faculty Facilitator:
Jim Anderson, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Jeff Rutter
"Modeling Chinook in the ocean and the implications of size-selective culling on assessments of fish growth and mortality."

Faculty Facilitator: Jim Anderson, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Ian Fraser
"Automating classification of fisheries acoustics data: Quantifying uncertainty through a non-parametric Bayesian approach"

Faculty Facilitator:
John Horne, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Aneesh Hariharan
“Management strategies for sardines: A game theoretic approach"

Faculty Facilitator:
Vince Gallucci, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Kiva Oken
"Using aggregate biomass data to understand predation effects on surplus production"

Faculty Facilitator:
Tim Essington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

NOTE: Seminar starts at 3:45

Adam Pope
"Generating multinomial likelihood models for mark-recapture studies using a GUI and R."

Faculty Facilitator:
John Skalski, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Scott Rinnan
"Quantifying Climate Breadth and Exposure in Pacific Northwest Species"

Faculty Facilitator:
Joshua Lawler, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Kelsey Vitense
"Exploring the Damped Cyclic Dynamics of Southern Snowshoe Hares using Reaction-Diffusion Models"

Faculty Facilitator:
Jim Anderson, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Christine Stawitz
"A meta-analysis of growth dynamics of North Pacific groundfish"

Faculty Facilitator:
Tim Essington, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Melissa Muradian
"Which time series are most valuable to modeling population dynamics of Prince William Sound herring?"

Faculty Facilitator:
Trevor Branch, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Loveday Conquest, Professor & QERM Director
Introduction &

Trevor Branch, Assistant Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
"Overview of Current Research Projects"

Aditya Khanna, Doctoral Candidate
"Bio-Behavioral Models for HIV Prevention."

Faculty Facilitator: Steven Goodreau, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Chris Gast, Doctoral Candidate
"Evaluation of Fixed- and Random-Effects Models and Multistage Estimation Procedure in Statistical Population Reconstruction."

Faculty Facilitator: Loveday L. Conquestion, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Motoki Wu
"Meta Analysis Model Testing in Fisheries"

Faculty Facilitator: Andre Punt, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Chloe Bracis
"Incorporating Cognition into Models of Animal Movement and Predator-Prey Interaction"

Faculty Facilitator: Jim Anderson, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Kristin Broms, Doctoral Candidate
"Applying Spatial Occupancy Models to Presence-Absence Atlas Data of South African Bird Species."

Faculty Facilitator: John Skalski, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Gregor Passolt
"Vitality and HIV"


Sam Clark, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
"Overview of Current Research Projects"

Faculty Facilitators: Jim Anderson, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
&
Sam Clark, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Ingrid Spies, Doctoral Candidate
"Using Population Genetics to Inform Fisheries Management Strategies."

Faculty Facilitator: Andre Punt, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Mandi Fix
"The Perks of Being a Fieldwork Tourist."

Cole Monnahan
"Are West Coast Blue Whales Recovering from Whaling?"

Faculty Facilitator: David Ford, Professor
School of Forest Resources

Jeff Rutter
Topic TBA

Ian Fraser
Topic TBA

Faculty Facilitator: James Anderson, Professor
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences