UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Quantitative Seminar

Autumn 2011 Schedule

Date

Speaker & Topic

30 September

Maureen Kennedy, SFR, UW and USFS Pacific Wildlands Fire Sciences Lab

Using simple models to understand complex behavior

Abstract

7 October

Anne Beaudreau, NOAA Fisheries

Effects of climate variability on the abundance and distribution of demersal fishes in the California Current Ecosystem

Abstract

14 October

Adrian Raftery, Statistics and Sociology, UW

Probabilistic weather forecasting using ensemble Bayesian Model Averaging

Abstract

21 October

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Biology, UW

Can range shifts keep up with climate change?

Abstract

28 October

James Thorson, SAFS, UW

A general approximation to time-varying parameters in ecological models

Abstract

4 November

Eli Holmes, NOAA Fisheries

Inferring (plankton) ecosystem dynamics with multivariate autoregressive state-space models

Abstract

11 November

Veterans Day Holiday

18 November

Charlotte Boyd, SAFS, UW

A spatially-explicit individual-based foraging model for central place foragers

Abstract

25 November

Thanksgiving Holiday

2 December

Ashley Steel, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service

Human impacts to riverine thermal regimes and biological consequences: From landscapes to experiments

Abstract

9 December

Kirstin Holsman, NOAA Fisheries

Defining multi-species control rules using a bioenergetics-based multi-species statistical catch-at-age model (MSMt) for Bering Sea walleye pollock, Pacific cod, and arrowtooth flounder

Abstract