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January 21-25, 2013 Alaska Marine Science Symposium hotel captain cook & Dena’ina center • anchorage, alaska Bill Rome Glenn Aronmits Hansen Kira Ross McElwee ShowcaSing ocean reSearch in the arctic ocean, Bering Sea, and gulf of alaSka alaskamarinescience.org Glenn Aronmits Index This Index follows the chronological order of the 2013 AMSS Keynote and Plenary speakers Poster presentations follow and are in first author alphabetical order according to subtopic, within their LME category Editor: Janet Duffy-Anderson Organization: Crystal Benson-Carlough Abstract Review Committee: Carrie Eischens (Chair), George Hart, Scott Pegau, Danielle Dickson, Janet Duffy-Anderson, Thomas Van Pelt, Francis Wiese, Warren Horowitz, Marilyn Sigman, Darcy Dugan, Cynthia Suchman, Molly McCammon, Rosa Meehan, Robin Dublin, Heather McCarty Cover Design: Eric Cline Produced by: NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center / North Pacific Research Board Printed by: NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington www.alaskamarinescience.org i ii Welcome and Keynotes Monday January 21 Keynotes Cynthia Opening Remarks & Welcome 1:30 – 2:30 Suchman 2:30 – 3:00 Jeremy Mathis Preparing for the Challenges of Ocean Acidification In Alaska 30 Testing the Invasion Process: Survival, Dispersal, Genetic Jessica Miller Characterization, and Attenuation of Marine Biota on the 2011 31 3:00 – 3:30 Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Field 3:30 – 4:00 Edward Farley Chinook Salmon and the Marine Environment 32 4:00 – 4:30 Judith Connor Technologies for Ocean Studies 33 EVENING POSTER RECEPTION - ARCTIC, BERING SEA, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS iii Speakers: ARCTIC Tuesday January 22 Ecosystem Perspectives Bruce 8:00 – 8:30 A Half Century of Coastal Change along the North Coast of Alaska Richmond 34 An Integrated Ecosystem Field Study of Hanna Shoal, Northern 8:30 – 8:45 Kenneth Dunton Chukchi Sea, Alaska 35 An integrated ocean observing approach to understanding the 8:45 – 9:00 Jeffrey Napp effects of climate variability in the NE Chukchi Sea 36 Humans Broader Impacts ON Scientists: Results from Alaska Marine 9:00 – 9:15 Robin Dublin Ecosystem Workshops and the National COSEE Scientist Survey 37 Thirty Years of Social Science Research on the North Slope of 9:15 – 9:45 Stephen Braund Alaska 38 COFFEE BREAK Climate and Oceanography Climate Impacts of the Loss of Summer Sea ice in the Beaufort 10:15 – 10:30 James Overland Sea Since 2007 39 A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from 10:30 – 10:45 Muyin Wang CMIP5 models 39 10:45 – 11:00 Seth Danielson Modeling Ice and Circulation in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas 40 The Chukchi-Beaufort Seas Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling Xiangdong 11:00 – 11:15 Project: An Overview of High-Resolution Atmospheric Reanalysis Zhang (CBHAR) 40 Andrew 11:15 – 11:30 Leads and Landfast Ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas Mahoney 41 LUNCH PROVIDED High-resolution observations of hydrography and circulation of the 1:00-1:15 Peter Winsor Chukchi Sea 42 Lower Trophic Levels Using imaging flow cytometry to examine phytoplankton 1:15 – 1:30 Samuel Laney assemblage structure in the Bering and Chukchi Seas 43 iv Speakers: ARCTIC Tuesday January 22 Zooplankton of the Chukchi and Northern Bering Sea in Early 1:30 – 1:45 Carin Ashjian Winter – Results from the 2011 November-December Cruise on USCGC Healy 43 1:45 – 2:00 Kelly McFarlin Indigenous Arctic Microorganisms Degrade Oil in Arctic Seawater 44 Fish and Fish Habitat 2:00 – 2:15 Franz Mueter The Arctic Ecosystem Integrated Survey (Arctic Eis) 45 Dispersal of adult Dolly Varden from the Wulik River, Alaska, 2:15 – 2:30 Andrew Seitz evaluated using satellite telemetry 45 COFFEE BREAK Seabirds Post-breeding shorebird use of food resources at river deltas 3:00-3:15 Roy Churchwell along the Beaufort Sea Coast 46 Complex Foodweb Dynamics of the Marine Bird Communities of 3:15 – 3:30 Douglas Causey the High and Low Arctic 47 Marine Mammals Sixty years of bowhead whale stable isotope geochemistry and 3:30 – 3:45 Nadine Lysiak linkages to the rapidly changing Arctic 48 Bowhead Whale Feeding Ecology Study (BOWFEST) - Five years 3:45 – 4:00 David Rugh in review 49 James 4:00 – 4:15 An index of optimum sustainable population for the Pacific Walrus MacCracken 49 Acoustic detection of bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) in the 4:15 – 4:30 Kalyn MacIntyre Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas 2008 – 2011 50 Spatial Use Patterns of Ribbon and Spotted Seals in the Bering 4:30 – 4:45 Josh London and Chukchi Seas 51 Variation in the nutritional and reproductive ecology of two polar 4:45 – 5:00 Karyn Rode bear populations experiencing sea ice loss 52 EVENING POSTER RECEPTION – GULF OF ALASKA v Speakers: BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Wednesday January 23 Ecosystem Perspectives 8:00 – 8:30 Michael Lomas What controls trophic interconnectivity in the eastern Bering Sea? 53 Declines of top predators in the central Bering Sea: Are Pribilof 8:30 – 8:45 Andrew Trites seabirds and fur seals living in the wrong neighborhood? 54 8:45 – 9:00 Jon Warrenchuk Identifying Important Ecological Areas in the Aleutian Islands 55 Distribution of corals and sponges in two large canyons on the 9:00 – 9:15 John Hocevar Bering Sea shelf break 56 Humans Targeting ability under rights-based management: The 57 9:15 – 9:30 Matthew Reimer Amendment 80 Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands groundfish fishery COFFEE BREAK 10:00 – 10:15 Marcus Gho Permit Stacking in Bristol Bay 57 Using traditional knowledge interviews and participatory mapping 10:15 – 10:30 Lily Ray to identify drivers of habitat change and fine-scale habitat features 58 for ice seals and walruses Lewis Point, a seasonal subsistence fish camp in transition: 10:30 – 10:45 Jory Stariwat 58 negotiations in a mixed cash/subsistence economy 1980-2011 Climate and Oceanography Margaret Ice-Ocean Interactions in the Bering Sea: Observations and 10:45 – 11:00 59 Sullivan Model Simulations Geostrophic circulation and water masses of the SE Bering Sea 11:00 – 11:15 Edward Cokelet 59 shelf Integrated assessment of the carbon budget in the southeastern 11:15 – 11:30 Jessica Cross 60 Bering Sea: From the atmosphere to the sediment LUNCH ON YOUR OWN Lower Trophic Levels Spring and fall phytoplankton blooms in a productive subarctic 1:00 – 1:15 Mike Sigler 61 ecosystem, the eastern Bering Sea, during 1995-2011 Georgina On-shelf transport of oceanic mesozooplankton populations in the 1:15 – 1:30 62 Gibson Eastern Bering Sea Climate-mediated changes in zooplankton community structure for 1:30 – 1:45 Lisa Eisner 62 the eastern Bering Sea vi Speakers: BERING SEA AND ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Wednesday January 23 Fish and Fish Habitat The influence of a changing climate in management: a 1:45 – 2:00 Cody Szuwalski Management Strategy Evaluation for the fishery for snow crab in 63 the eastern Bering Sea Sandra Parker- Evolving perceptions of forage fish distributions in the SE Bering 2:00 – 2:15 63 Stetter Sea Ecology of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and Janet Duffy- 2:15 – 2:30 Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) in canyon and 64 Anderson slope habitats of the eastern Bering Sea COFFEE BREAK The influence of climate change and predation on biological 3:00 – 3:15 Kristin Holsman reference points estimated from multispecies and single species 65 stock assessment models Seabirds Hydrographic structure and the distribution of seabird communities 3:15 – 3:30 George Hunt 66 across the southeastern Bering Sea Shelf Do Albatrosses Use Molting Areas in the Aleutian Islands? 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