DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TITLE

10 Jan.

Leigh Espy &

Doug Williams

Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resources Division.

The Washington State Geoduck Fishery: Managing Fish like Forests.

17 Jan.

Doug Butterworth

University of Cape Town

Revisiting the Precautionary Principle

24 Jan.

Gordie Swartzmann

SAFS/UW

To shift or not to shift: Biological response to the 1997-1998 regime shift in the California Current Ecosystem

31 Jan.

Jesus Jurado-Molina

SAFS/UW

Incorporating predation interactions to a statistical catch at age model for a predator-prey system in the eastern Bering Sea.

7 Feb.

Doug Kinzey

SAFS/UW

Measuring distances with binoculars at sea – precision and accuracy: the mysteries of reticles REVEALED.

14 Feb.

Vincent Gallucci

SAFS/UW

Multispecies management: a mesh size selection experiment for two species of gigantic shrimps in the Mediterranean Sea's deep trenches.

21 Feb.

Tim Gerrodette

SWFSC/NMFS/NOAA.

Tunas and dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific: From models to muscles.

28 Feb.

Ian Stewart, Gavin Fay,  & Trevor Branch

SAFS/UW

Doubling in Meta-analysis, Dogfish model comparisons, and length-weight parameter correlations: The Good, the Bad, and the Bayesian.

7 March

Stephane Gauthier

SAFS/UW

Models in fisheries acoustics: tools for the assessment, identification, and discrimination of pelagic fish species.

14 March

John Durban

AFSC/NOAA

Monitoring bottlenose dolphin abundance trends in NE Scotland: Bayesian models and model selection.