UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Quantitative Seminar Series

UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Quantitative Seminar

Spring 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker & Topic
2 April	Lauren Rogers, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Nine decades of changing length distributions in Norwegian coastal cod: climate, competition, and spatial heterogeneity Abstract
9 April	Robin Waples, Northwest Fisheries Science Center Effective population size: two new twists on an old idea Abstract
16 April	Catherine Michielsens and Jim Cave, Pacific Salmon Commission Revisiting Estimates of Catchability for Fraser River Sockeye from Seine Test fisheries: Analysis of Historical Data in a Bayesian framework Abstract
23 April	Ingrid Spies, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences/Alaska Fisheries Science Center The North Pacific skates; from biology to mathematics to molecular systematics and support for a newly described species Abstract
30 April	Ray Hilborn, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Eating whales to save the rainforest? Should an environmentally conscientious person eat fish? Abstract
7 May	Jon Reum, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Evaluating Intra and interannual responses of Pacific herring and surf smelt to environmental forcing in the Skagit River estuary (Washington, USA) using two-stage generalized additive models Abstract
14 May	Bridget Ferris, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Variation in tuna mercury levels: links with oceanography, life history, and diet Abstract
21 May	Tom Helser, Alaska Fisheries Science Center A Bayesian model of radiocarbon ∆14C signatures in fish otoliths: A Probabilistic Tool for Age Validation and Examining Oceanographic Factors Affecting Functional Responses Abstract
28 March	Suresh Sethi, UW-School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Measuring risk in Alaskan fisheries Abstract