2 October

Mark Scheuerell, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Improving sibling models for forecasting salmon returns through the inclusion of time-varying information about jack proportions

9 October

Jim Thorson, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Multispecies estimation of Bayesian priors for time-varying catchability functional parameters

16 October

Stan Kotwicki, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences/ NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Estimating the capture probability of the survey bottom trawl

23 October

Andre Punt, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Recent development related to bio-economic analysis in the Australia's NPF

30 October

Ben Stewart-Koster,Griffith University, Australia Rivers Institute

Linking the conceptual to the statistical: A Bayesian hierarchical model for stream fish abundance

Bob Lessard, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Environmental factors influencing the population viability of Sacramento River Winter Run Chinook salmon

Trevor Branch, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Fishing throughout marine food webs and the Worm-Hilborn collaboration

20 November

Yasmin Lucero, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Determing whether or not spawning is a complicating factor in the correlation of habitat features and juvenile salmon densitites (genus Oncorhynchus).

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

Standardizing opportunistically collected acoustic data and assessing fish spatial and temporal distribution patterns using a generalized additive mixed model (GAMM)

Todd Seamons, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Toward a standard methodology in DNA based parentage assignment in ‘open’ populations: is a different method necessary for every species/population/question?