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Message from Message from the Director 1 the Director In 2011, we continue to be challenged to do “more with less” in these ongoing severe budgetary times for the State. Yet, the School remains vibrant, productive, and renowned. Across the University, academic units are providing performance metrics for program reviews to help 2 The Curious determine resource distribution and further budget cuts. In response, data are gathered that will, Case of Ted understandably, portray each unit in the best possible terms. These metrics reflect the elements Pietsch of successful programs: role in the field, quality, strategic relevance, student demand, and value to the State. You will be glad to know that SAFS excels in all. 4 Alumni Updates Did you know? SAFS is ranked top in the nation project. And some of these undergraduates go 6 Alumni News In exhaustive reviews published by the on to publish their research findings. National Research Council in 2010 and Most of our PhD students publish one or Gifts The Chronicle of Higher Education previously, more journal papers before graduating, as 6 the School has ranked #1 nationally among do more than 30% of our MS graduates. fishery science schools. Collectively, they are authors on almost 50% Life on (and in) of the total papers published annually by the 8 the High Seas Our faculty are among the best in the world School. All attend major conferences and give Three are members of the Washington State talks and poster presentations. Academy of Sciences. Awards & More than 80% of SAFS graduate students 9 Four (20% of our teaching faculty) have been Honors find careers of first choice, and 15% of our honored as UW Distinguished Teachers. PhD graduates have gone on to faculty posi- Our faculty publish, on average, about four Degrees tions. Our students are trained for careers 10 Awarded peer-reviewed articles annually, of which in federal, state, and tribal agencies, NGOs, an increasing number appear in influential industry, and academia. journals such as Science, Nature, and Our school is a valuable resource to the 40th SAFS Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 11 Celebration State Our students receive the best fishery We provide value through best science, advice, science education testimony, education, leadership, and outreach Photos (left to right): More than half of SAFS undergraduate majors about myriad issues that affect the residents Jackie Carter, Jeremy Monroe, and the economy of Washington State. Amanda Phillips, Jonathan Moore participate in independent study projects, and 100% of seniors receive in-depth experiential We engage in debate and help define issues learning through the “Capstone” thesis of wide public interest, such as the effects

AUT 2010– —continued on page 6 WIN 2011 1 the curious case of ted Pietsch… Robin Layton, Seattle Post-Intelligence MS 1969, University of Southern California (USC) PhD 1973, USC: The osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lütken http://fish.washington.edu/pietsch

Ted Pietsch joined the SAFS faculty in 1978. He conducts MD: Why are anglerfishes so interesting? research on marine ichthyology, including biosystematics, TP: Below 1,000 meters, they are the most species rich group zoogeography, and behavior of deep-sea fishes. He is also of vertebrates in the deep ocean (11 families and some curator of the Fish Collection of the UW Burke Museum 160 species), yet they are extremely rare. Even where they of Natural History and Culture (http://uwfishcollection.org). are most concentrated, we estimate only one anglerfish every Ted was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, and earned a BS 30 meters. in Zoology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He Anglerfishes include species with males that are a frac- noted that his entrepreneurial activities as a youth, raising tion of the size of the females. To reproduce, the male bites zebrafish and earthworms for local aquariums and bait shops, onto the female, their tissues fuse, and he becomes a perma- likely influenced his direction in college. Initially interested nent parasite. The male feeds off the nutrients in her blood in herpetology, Ted found his true calling in graduate school and she carries him around for life. at the University of Southern California, where he discovered Yet, not all deep-sea anglerfishes exhibit this complex anglerfishes. He said, “I took one look and got hooked!” adaptation of sexual parasitism. It only occurs in 4 of the 11 Ted’s career took on an added dimension in the 1980s, families, and we’d always assumed that these 4 all evolved when he started to pursue historical studies of aquatic together. But, through phylogenetic analysis, we now know organisms and the people who wrote about them, including that this parasitism has evolved independently within the Peter Artedi, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus, Charles group as many as five times. This is really astounding! Plumier, and Louis Renard. He has published numerous No other animals share bodily fluids, a fact that has books that demonstrate his interest in the historical. This profound biomedical implications: For example, there is curiosity is particularly evident when you walk into his office, no tissue rejection. The male and female are of totally which is filled with bones, fossils, and artifacts dating back different parental lineages, yet they fuse tissue and blood… to early human history. immunologically, this is amazing.

2 MD: You spent 10 years studying the of the Kuril MD: Recently, you added a new dimension to your historical Islands in the Russian Far East. studies with the publication of a “hard fiction” book, TP: There was no information on plant and animal The Curious Death of Peter Artedi: A Mystery in the assemblages on these islands. With National Science History of Science. Foundation (NSF) funding, we collaborated with TP: This book is 95% factual—I only added a few small Russian and Japanese scientists, conducting 10 annual twists and turns to support a history that might have summer expeditions with a staff of 35 people working been: from a Russian research vessel. Our work yielded more Linnaeus and Artedi met in college in the early than 160 publications and an international symposium 1700s. Given similar interests, they worked together, held in Sapporo, Japan, in 2001. with Linnaeus studying plants and Artedi pursuing We discovered 46 species new to science. And we fishes. When Artedi was about to publish his monograph stumbled upon pottery, stone axes, arrowheads, and on fishes, he wound up dead in an Amsterdam canal. other relics in the sides of cliffs worn away by the ocean. Artedi and Linnaeus had promised that if anything The remains were attributed to human cultures dating happened to one of them, the other would see that his back 50,000 years and more! This discovery launched a work was published. Linnaeus did publish all of Artedi’s major NSF-funded project by the UW Department of manuscripts, but he waited three years to do so! In the Anthropology. interim, he published his own work, using Artedi’s approaches and methodology in his books on plants. MD: There’s Ted Pietsch, the curator, taxonomist, and systematist. Understand, this was an implication, not proof of Then there’s also Ted Pietsch, the historian. wrongdoing. Even so, why would Linnaeus wait so long TP: I started to pursue historical research in the early 1980s. to publish Artedi’s works? And why would he allow From deep-sea anglerfishes, I became interested in their Artedi to be buried as a pauper, in an unmarked grave? relatives, shallow-water frogfishes. I discovered an old The obvious answer is he wanted to be first to publish drawing of a frogfish (below), which really captivated me. the innovative ideas that Artedi had come up with, and This led to my doing extensive research on Louis to make sure that Artedi was forgotten while his own Renard—an 18th century bookdealer, seller of medici- legacy would be assured for future generations. nals, and secret agent—and publishing a large volume So there’s good reason to believe that Artedi’s death titled Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs: Louis Renard and His benefited Linnaeus enormously. And this creates a good Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the premise for delving into some fiction. Every ichthyolo- Indies in 1995. More recently, I published a book on gist hears this story, and no one has ever suggested it was oceanic anglerfishes, another on fishes of the East Indies, anything but an accident; yet, I really don’t think it was and I’m just now finishing a book, with translation help an accident. n from staff member, Beatrice Marx, on the history of the natural sciences.

MD: What motivated you to undertake these projects? TP: It’s a lot of fun, and aside from the esthetic value, histori- cal studies often contribute in unexpected ways. For example, there’s a species called Histrio histrio, named by Linnaeus in the first edition of hisSystema Naturae of 1758. Through careful historical research, we’ve discov- ered that he based his description not on a single species but on a complex mix of different things. We were able to sort out all the different species—critical information to issues relating to conservation and management.

Louis Renard, 1719

3 Alumni Updates

Stephanie Carlson PhD 2006: The evolutionary effects of bear predation on salmon life history and morphology

Stephanie Carlson is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, where she focuses on the evolutionary of freshwater fishes. Growing up in Sacramento, Stephanie spent a lot of time near the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers, which she credits as influencing her career path. Biology was her favorite subject in school and, initially, she considered going into medicine. Indeed, as an undergraduate at UC Courtesy of Stephanie Carlson Davis, she was on a pre-medicine track until Professor Peter Moyle lured her into fish ecology: “His enthusiasm was contagious and it is because of his passion that I changed my entire career direction.” immediately and regularly, which helped me to become Stephanie’s work with Moyle’s group motivated her to comfortable with scientific writing. Moreover, he is an attend graduate school: She said, “With each new experience outstanding teacher and mentor, and I learned a lot through I realized that I had much left to learn.” For her MS degree, direct observation that I am now applying in my own classes she attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and interactions with students at UC Berkeley.” where she met a postdoc fellow—SAFS alumnus Andrew After graduating from the UW, Stephanie received a Hendry (UW ’98). Fueled partly by discussions with National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hendry, who “raved about his experiences with the SAFS Biological Informatics to work with Marc Mangel and Alaska Salmon Program (ASP),” Stephanie applied to our Thanos Kottas at UC Santa Cruz—she credits Ray Hilborn PhD program. She joined the ASP, with Tom Quinn as her for opening a door to this position. During the fellowship, adviser, so she could study salmonids in a relatively pristine she examined size-dependent over-winter mortality in environment. sticklebacks, using long-term data collected by the Alaska At SAFS, Stephanie examined the evolutionary effects Salmon Program. of bears on salmon populations. She spent several seasons At UC Berkeley, Stephanie continues to examine the in the field in Alaska, tagging and tracking individual fish influence of predators on wild populations, but with a focus and quantifying how salmon lifespan and size-selective on human predators as agents of trait change. She and her predation by bears differed among creeks. She also served students are examining juvenile steelhead ecology in an as the TA (teaching assistant) for the Alaska field ecology intermittent stream and the influence of land use on the course taught by professors Tom Quinn, Ray Hilborn, and distribution and abundance of fishes in streams flowing into Daniel Schindler. San Francisco Bay. Stephanie elaborated: “The TA work enabled me to get Stephanie concluded: “I cannot overemphasize the role involved in several side projects with students and to serve SAFS has played in advancing my career. SAFS researchers as an informal mentor to many of them. These interactions are top-notch, and my interactions with faculty and students were among the highlights of my doctoral training, and stretched my thinking in numerous areas.” She acknowledged helped me realize that I would enjoy a career that involved the generous financial support that SAFS endowments pro- research and teaching.” vided: “I received more than two years of support from the Stephanie gave high marks to her adviser: “Tom is Keeler Fellowship, which provided opportunities to focus on a prolific writer and he involved me in writing projects research and writing.” n

4 Carmen Wiseman MS 1996: Seasonal dynamics of cladoceran zooplankton in water bodies of the conterminous United States: Do regional patterns exist?

Carmen teaches grades 3 and 4 in New Westminster, British As a teacher, Carmen participates in and often coordi- Columbia (BC). In hindsight, this career choice seemed nates the BC program equivalent of SIC—“Salmonids in inevitable and clearly benefited from her SAFS education. the Classroom.” She spoke to the importance of salmon in Carmen grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, where her educating school children: father, a professor of microbiology at the University of “Salmon are iconic in BC, so it’s a given that I teach my Kentucky, encouraged her interests in biology and nature. students about these wonderful fish. When I tell the kids She noted, “The goldfish pond he built in the backyard that we’ll be studying salmon, they begin to purr! Through sparked my passion for fish. My dad was one of the best salmon, I teach about BC First Nations art, culture, and teachers I’ve ever known.” respect for the environment; the effect of development on After earning a BA in Spanish and Linguistics at and preservation/restoration of habitat; and the effects of Macalester College in Minnesota, and working for many pollution, , and on development years as a writer and editor, Carmen reacquainted herself and migration.” with aquatic science by volunteering at the New England Carmen added, “These kids become personally attached Aquarium (NEA). This led to a job as a research technician to the salmon they raise in the classroom. This may make on an NIH-funded project, investigating fish hyperostosis. them think twice about practices that could harm ‘their’ She said, “We were possibly the first group to use fishes as salmon.” Carmen credits SAFS with giving her the back- models for human bone diseases.” ground to teach about salmon, aquatic communities, fish Her NEA experience motivated her to take science behavior, and more. She said, “I have a stockpile of informa- courses and then look for a graduate program. When asked tion most elementary teachers lack. Also, my perspective why she chose SAFS, she explained: “I was interested in enhances my students’ understanding of the importance of aquatic toxicology and fish diseases. SAFS offered diverse science, especially biology, in their day-to-day lives.” n academic and research possibilities.” Another attraction was the Salmon in the Classroom (SIC) program, which brought thousands of K–12 students to the SAFS hatchery pond to learn about salmon. Working with SAFS faculty member Frieda Taub, Carmen studied large-bodied cladoceran zooplankton (daphnids) and fish–zooplankton interactions in US lakes. She also worked as a TA, a tutor, and a volunteer and program coordinator for SIC. She explained: “I did SIC out- reach at Seattle elementary schools. I also created a ‘portable stream’ for teaching kids about salmon spawning and a salmon migration board game.” Through these activities, Carmen realized that she loved working with elementary school students. After SAFS, Carmen worked on various research projects, but eventually went back to school, this time enrolling in the University of BC Teacher Education Pro- gram, where she earned a Bachelor’s in Education. (She is currently working on an MS degree in special education.)

Courtesy of Carmen Wiseman Courtesy of Carmen 5 —From the Director, continued from page 1 Gifts of hatcheries on wild populations, use of marine protected areas 2009–2010 for conservation, water regulation and health of salmon, habitat During 2009–2010, our SAFS alumni, restoration, and the global freshwater crisis. faculty, and friends continued their long- News media, government panels, citizen oversight committees, standing, critical role in supporting our and hundreds of individuals ask us for our opinions in formal programs through their generous financial testimony, keynote addresses, and as expert witnesses on numerous issues that affect the health of aquatic systems and resources, and gifts. We acknowledge and thank our many the people who depend upon them. benefactors for their sustained support.

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Graphics: ©2011 www.photos.com 7 Life on (and in) the High Seas The High Seas Salmon Program http://fish.washington.edu/highseas In 1953, College of Fisheries Director W. F. Thompson initiated the School’s High Seas Salmon Program to help be irreplaceable or lack the skills or knowledge to run determine how many Pacific salmon from North America were the program! being “intercepted” by the Japanese high-seas driftnet fishery. MD: Jan, you’re the “youngest” member of the team. In 1955, the International North Pacific Fisheries JA: I joined in 2000 to work with SAFS faculty Dave Commission (INPFC)—comprising Japan, Canada, and the Beauchamp and his students on Prince William Sound USA—was formed to determine the oceanic migration pat- pink salmon. We investigated sources of pink salmon, terns of Asian and North American salmon. The School’s High including hatchery fish, as well as salmon diet, using Seas staff was contracted to conduct the tagging studies. bioenergetics modeling and growth studies. In the mid-1960s, the High Seas team focused on the A highlight was our study on larvacians and ptero- marine life history of major North American salmon stocks. pods in the diets of early outmigrating pinks. This While the foci have changed over time, the goal has always became a very hot topic because of the effects of ocean been to improve the management and conservation of Pacific acidification on pteropods, which are an important salmon and steelhead. food source for young pink salmon—60% of their diet. The Japanese driftnet fishery for salmon and squid was ultimately closed in 1992. This coincided with the expansion MD: Trey, you’ve been studying salmon vertical distribution of the INPFC to include Russia (and later South Korea), using electronic data storage tags. and its name change to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish TW: Since 1998, we have tagged more than 1,000 salmon, Commission (NPAFC). recovering about 100 of them. We were surprised to A reduction in historical sources of funding, along with learn about the diurnal patterns of salmon—they are departures of long-term staff—three who have been with the on the surface at night and up and down during the program since the early 1980s—signifies a new phase. Staff day. We also found that depth distribution varied across members Kate Myers, Trey Walker, Nancy Davis, and Jan species. Recently, I’ve been working on a North Pacific Armstrong reflected on the life and times of the program. Research Board project on overwinter survival of Chinook salmon at sea, which runs through June 2012. MD: After the driftnet fishery closed, what did you study? KM: The closure of the Japanese driftnet fisheries meant MD: Beyond 2012, funding is uncertain, but there are still there was no more funding for fisheries research, so the many unanswered questions. whole program shifted to a more ecological emphasis. TW: To really know what’s going on in the ocean, you need Through the NOAA Fisheries Auke Bay Lab, we a committed research effort, and not just for salmon. became the US high-seas researchers for the NPAFC. For example, since the high-seas driftnet fishery ended, When funding was cut in 2005, however, we started flying squid have not been fished in the central North doing research outside of the NPAFC, including US Pacific. That’s an enormous resource that’s not being GLOBEC research on Prince William Sound pink tapped. And mesopelagic fish represent another poten- salmon, Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon tially huge resource. We need to know how to fish these Initiative research on Chinook salmon in the Bering resources effectively and sustainably. Sea, and Washington Sea Grant research on steelhead MD: Nancy, you’re the “queen of the high seas!” in the North Pacific Ocean. ND: [Laughs] In 1989, I started going on research cruises, MD: As a team, you each have your specialty, yet you also racking up more ship time than my three colleagues share the workload. combined. I originally went as an observer, but Kate KM: The program was always staff-run. We decided the best encouraged me to do my own research. I didn’t want approach was for everybody to work at all levels, from to interfere with other researchers’ work, so I found lab tech to lead investigator. That way, nobody would something no one else was doing—salmon diets. —continued on back page

8888 Photos: above: Jack Scherting, USC&GS, NOAA; opposite page: ©2011 www.photos.com Awards & Honors

Undergraduates Eric Larson (PhD, Olden) was awarded the William Audrey Djunaedi was named Udall Scholar for 2010 Trachtenberg Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by the by the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. The Sustainable Fisheries Foundation and the American Fisheries award supports sophomores and juniors who are com- Society Western Division. The scholarship supports students mitted to careers related to the environment, tribal public studying fisheries sustainability. policy, or Native American health care. Audrey also Steve Barbeaux (PhD, Horne) won Best Oral Presentation– participated in the SAFS Departmental Honors program, PhD Level at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchor- received multiple SAFS scholarships, and was selected as a age, for his talk, “Using cooperative acoustic surveys to man- NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholar. age small-scale fisheries in sensitive habitat: Aleutian Islands cooperative acoustic survey studies.” Mary Gates Awards Sasha Troiano and Rachel Thompson were awarded Lisa Crosson (MS, Friedman) hooked the Best Student Pre- Mary Gates Scholarships, which help fund undergradu- sentation award at the 64th Annual Shellfish Conference and ate research. Recipients present their research at the UW Tradeshow, sponsored by the National Shellfisheries Association Undergraduate Symposium. Sasha presented a poster on and Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association. Her talk was “Exposure of shiner perch to carbaryl following applica- titled “Influence of rickettsial pathogens on endangered black tions to control burrowing shrimp;” Rachel’s poster was abalone: differential susceptibility and host response.” focused on “Ocean acidification and the general stress Rachel Arnold (PhD, Pietsch) was awarded the Ernst Mayr response of the oyster Crassostrea gigas.” Travel Grant by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard In addition, several SAFS students received Mary Gates University. This award funds travel and expenses for students awards through their participation in research, appren- conducting animal systematics research at museums. ticeships, and courses at the Friday Harbor Labs: Aaron Galloway (PhD, Duggins/Summers [Friday Harbor AnneMarie (Kaza) Ansley, Jeff Benca, Lauren Colpo, Labs]) was awarded the American Academy of Underwater Sean Luis, Katherine Stanton, and Rebecca Stombaugh. Sciences’ Kathy Johnston Scholarship for PhD students. This Joel Kramer was granted a Mary Gates Leadership Award, award will fund a portion of his doctoral research, which in- which helps students devote time to developing leader- volves algae collection and extraction of fatty acids from algae. ship skills. Faculty Graduate Students Last summer, Loveday Conquest became the first recipient of Degree track and faculty advisers in parentheses. the College of the Environment’s Outstanding Teaching Faculty Bethany Craig (MS, Simenstad) was one of three UW Award. She was recognized for her devotion to quality training students awarded a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy in quantitative science and her efforts and creativity in teaching Fellowship for 2011. This fellowship enables graduate subjects critical in the training of natural resource professionals students to work for one year on the staff of the US and environmental scientists. Congress or with a federal agency that addresses marine Ray Hilborn, Ted Pietsch, and Tom Quinn were elected to the issues. Washington State Academy of Sciences. The Academy provides Matt Smith (MS, L Seeb) netted the Best Student Paper expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public award at the SNP Workshop III sponsored by the Ameri- policy-making, and works to increase the role and visibility of can Fisheries Society, Genetics Section. His paper was science in the state of Washington. Quinn was also honored by titled “Multiplex pre-amplification and SNP genotyping the American Fisheries Society with the Excellence in Fisheries of (Oncorhynchus nerka) scales: a forty-five Education Award in recognition of his years of outstanding year retrospective of catch compositions in Bristol Bay.” teaching and advising. n

9 Degrees Awarded, Spring–Summer 2010 Our student research encompasses numerous and diverse disciplines, including biology, ecology, disease, toxicology, genetics, statistics, and physiology—as well as interdisciplinary subjects—in pursuit of improving our understanding of the interactions between humans, our environment, and the resources upon which we rely. (Advising professors in parentheses.)

BS Degrees Jackie Carter (Schindler) Responses of zooplankton Christopher R. Biggs populations to four decades of climate warm- Thaddaeus J. Buser ing in lakes of southwestern Alaska Andrew Cheung Bethany Craig (Simenstad) Life history patterns Benjamin W. Frable, cum laude, and ecology of juvenile coho salmon double degree Biology (Oncorhynchus kisutch) within a tidal Crystal M. Franco freshwater estuary Molly P. Gorman Elisabeth Lisa Creelman (Hauser) Genetic Ava M. Heston structure of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus Jessica J. Jang nerka) in the Chignik watershed, Alaska: Kaitlyn M. Martel, double degree Anthropology applications to identifying stock-specific Anna K. Mclaskey, summa cum laude juvenile emigration patterns Sophie P. Pierszalowski, cum laude, Chris Eaton (Simenstad) Resource partitioning, double major Biology habitat connectivity, and resulting foraging Erika J. Pinney variation among salmonids in the estuarine Sean K. Rohan habitat mosaic Katherine O. Stanton, double degree Philosophy John Frew (Grue) Development of a new method Paul (Frank) F. Stevick, double degree ESRM for the determination of residues of the neo- Rachel L. Thompson, cum laude, with Distinction nicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid in juvenile Steven V. Tobin Chinook using ELISA detection Alexandra (Sasha) T. Troiano, summa cum laude, Maureen Goff (Simenstad) Evaluating habitat enhancements of an urban intertidal seawall: with College Honors, double degree Biology ecological responses and management implications MS Degrees Sarah Heerhartz (Simenstad) Evaluating the eco- Michael Ackerman (L Seeb) Mixed stock and land- logical performance of nearshore fish habitat scape genetics analyses of sockeye salmon in the enhancements in an urbanized estuarine bay in Copper River, Alaska, using SNPs Puget Sound, Washington Megan Atcheson (Mantua) Interannual variation Laura Johnson (Simenstad) Ecology and natural in steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) diet, history of the freshwater tidal forested wetlands growth and consumption in North Pacific of the Columbia River Estuary marine ecosystems Errin Kramer-Wilt (Simenstad) Habitat prefer- Amanda Bruner (Young) Teratogenic and sublethal ences and interactions with macrobenthos effects of tributyltin on the threespine stickle- of the non-indigenous Asian clam, Corbicula back fish,Gasterosteus aculeatus fluminea, in a restoring freshwater tidal marsh, Sacramento River delta

1010 Photos: ©2010 www.photos.com 10 40th SAFS Celebration Every fall, we acknowledge students who received endowment awards and the donors who made those endowments possible. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni and friends, we can continue to recruit outstanding students and provide financial support for their education and research. The following awards were granted for the 2010–2011 academic year. We also thank our Molly McGlauflin (J Seeb) Influences donors whose funds were not used this year. of spawning habitat and geography: population structure and juvenile H. Mason Keeler Endowment migration timing of sockeye salmon Melvin G. Anderson Scholarship for Excellence (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the Wood in Fisheries Jonny Anderson, Joseph Anderson, River lakes, Alaska Joseph Bizzarro, Rachel Hovel Matt Baker, Joseph Bizarro, Rachel Casey Ruff (Schindler) Implications of Donald E. Bevan Endowed Fund Hovel, Iris Kemp, Neala Kendall, habitat heterogeneity for foraging in Fisheries Wes Larson, Emily Runnells, Jim strategies of stream-dwelling fish Supports the annual Bevan Series on Thorson, Daniel Widener Matthew Smith (L Seeb) Genetics Sustainable Fisheries provide a forty-five year retro- H. Mason Keeler Lake Washington John N. Cobb Scholarship spective of sockeye salmon Fund in Fisheries (Oncorhynchus nerka) harvest Joseph Anderson Erik Schoen compositions in Bristol Bay, Alaska Vincent Liguori Fellowship Lauren R. Donaldson Scholarship Jonny Armstrong Louisa Harding PhD Degrees Shao-Wen Ling Memorial Kristy Forsgren (Young) Regulation of Claire L. and Evelyn S. Egtvedt Scholarship development of primary and early Fellowship Jim Torson secondary ovarian follicles of coho Adam Hansen, Susan Johnson salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) by Victor and Tamara Loosanoff Fisheries Graduate Fund sex steroids Fellowship Adam Hansen Douglas Kinzey (Punt) Multispecies Wyatt Fournier, Mackenzie Gavery, stock assessment with predator– Fisheries Miscellaneous Scholarship Sam Urmy prey interactions Susan Johnson Gerald J. Paulik Memorial Fund James Murphy (Anderson) Spatial Graduate School Top Scholar Adam Hansen dynamics of the Eastern Bering Sea Award John G. Peterson Scholarship snow crab Rachel Lange Russell Perry (Skalski) Survival and Mackenzie Gavery John E. Halver Fellowship migration dynamics of juvenile William H. Pierre, Sr. Fellowship Emma Timmins-Schiffman Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus Pamela Woods tshawytscha) in the Sacramento– Institute for Food Science Samuel and Althea Strom San Joaquin River Delta Technology Scholarship Bridget Ferris Louisa Harding Roy Jensen Research Fellowship Richard T. Whiteleather Fisheries Louisa Harding Endowed Scholarship KathiJo Jankowski-Giefer

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MD: But now you’re moving on. ND: I’ve accepted a position as deputy director for the NPAFC, so I will be working in Vancouver, BC, for the next three years. My major activites will include

organizing and producing the Commission’s publica- SCIENCES tions, yearly workshops or symposia, and monitoring AQUATIC & FISHERY SCIENCES NEWS the progress of research under the new NPAFC 2011– 2015 Science Plan. The Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Newsletter provides current information on teaching, research, and service. MD: Kate, how has the program changed since the 1980s? Comments are welcome. KM: We started doing more work outside the INPFC program, becoming the go-to people for scale pattern Director David Armstrong analysis in support of stock identification. For example, Associate Director Julia Parrish recently a Chinook salmon environmental impact state- Writer & Editor Marcus Duke ment used our work for developing estimates of salmon Graphic Designer Cathy Schwartz bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. Please call Marcus Duke at 206-543-4678 MD: As project leader, what were your duties? Also, will you or email [email protected] remain involved with the program after retiring? TW: Kate did most of the writing, including all the I wish to discontinue receiving this publication. proposals that kept us going. My address has changed and I have made KM: Besides that, I do consider myself an expert on ocean corrections to the label. Please mail this to distribution and migration patterns of salmon. the return address provided above. After I retire, I will continue to do some work. For example, I’ll be writing a chapter on steelhead for a book on salmon ocean life history that the NPAFC will publish. For more information on the High Seas Salmon Program, please contact Trey Walker, [email protected], 206-543-7281. n

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