UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Quantitative Seminar

Winter 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker & Topic
8 January	Meaghan Darcy, University of British Columbia Deriving species specific abundance information form aggregated commercial catch and effort statistics Abstract
15 January	Liz Atwood, UW Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management Mesoscale eddies and ichthyoplankton community composition and abundance in the Gulf of Alaska Abstract
22 January	Tracey Smart, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Science / Alaska Fisheries Science Center Alternating environmental states and the early life stages of walleye pollock in the eastern Bering Sea Abstract
29 January	Fahad Khalil, UW Department of Economics Bribery vs. extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils Abstract
5 February	Hiroshi Okamura, National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries Statistical analysis for temporal periodicity in fish age validation Abstract
12 February	Elizabeth Moffitt, Alaska Fisheries Science Center The design and implications of marine protected areas for mobile species Abstract
19 February	Jeff Laake, Alaska Fisheries Science Center Abundance Estimation of Southbound Migrating Gray Whales Abstract
26 February	Kerry Naish, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Does inbreeding reduce fitness in a natural salmon population? (Or, a geneticist's perspective on generalized mixed models and Bayesian statistics) Abstract
5 March	Olaf Jensen, UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Global changes in surplus production of fish stocks: a preliminary analysis based on stock assessment data Abstract
12 March	Kevin See, UW Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management The effects of replicated observations on population viability analysis Abstract