2021 VIRTUAL ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM GULF OF ALASKA DAY † Bachelors Student JANUARY 26TH, 2021 * Master’s Candidate AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE ** Doctoral Candidate TITLE PRESENTER TYPE SECTION TIME Molly McCammon, A Legacy of Leadership that Paved the Way for Gulf of Phil Mundy, LIVE KEYNOTE Alaska Ecosystem Research: Honoring the “Petes” Robert Spies, 8:30 - 9:00 AM Jeep Rice, Jim Bodkin Changes in Nearshore Ecosystems and Relevance to PANEL LIVE Coastal Communities in the Gulf of Alaska DISCUSSION 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Multiple Stressors in the Marine Ecosystem: What Do We PANEL LIVE Know So Far, and How Can We Use This Information in DISCUSSION 1:00 - 2:30 PM Management? **Examining the Response of the Alaskan Bidarki (K. Marina Oral Climate and PRE-RECORDED Tunicata) to Elevated pCO2 and Temperature Conditions Washburn Presentation Oceanography Freshwater Inputs Change Ocean Acidification Impacts on Oral Climate and Claudine Hauri PRE-RECORDED Nearshore Biogeochemistry in the Gulf of Alaska Presentation Oceanography *Ocean Change Along an Alaskan Shoreline: Examining Oral Lower Trophic the Relationship Between the Pacific Plate Limpet (Lottia Shelby Bacus PRE-RECORDED Presentation Levels Scutum) and the Mottled Star (Evasterias Troschelii) The Influence of Marine Mesoscale Eddies on Plankton Oral Lower Trophic Caitlin Kroeger PRE-RECORDED Community Structure in the Gulf of Alaska Presentation Levels Epidemiology of Ichthyophoniasis in Pacific Herring in Oral Fishes and Fish Maya Groner PRE-RECORDED Sitka Sound and Prince William Sound From 2007-2018 Presentation Habitats **Using Antibody Data to Inform Viral Infection History Oral Fishes and Fish and Improve Estimates of Survival in Fisheries Stock John Trochta PRE-RECORDED Presentation Habitats Assessment Models *The Metabolic Rate of Pacific Sleeper Sharks, Somniosus Oral Fishes and Fish Taylor Smith PRE-RECORDED Pacificus, in Alaska Presentation Habitats *Too Hot to Handle: Effects of Thermal Variability on Hillary Oral Fishes and Fish Juvenile Pacific Cod Foraging and Growth in Gulf of Alaska PRE-RECORDED Thalmann Presentation Habitats Nursery Habitats **Development of Pacific Herring Roe Under Projected Oral Fishes and Fish Lauren Bell PRE-RECORDED Ocean Acidification and Warming Presentation Habitats Reduced Relative Fitness in Stray Hatchery-Origin Pink Oral Fishes and Fish Salmon from Large-Scale, Segregated Hatcheries in Prince Kyle Shedd PRE-RECORDED Presentation Habitats William Sound, Alaska What Affects Spawning Phenology of Herring (Clupea Oral Fishes and Fish Beatriz Dias PRE-RECORDED Pallasii) in Prince William Sound? Presentation Habitats *Population-Level Effects of Crude Oil on Juvenile Oral Fishes and Fish Kelly Ireland PRE-RECORDED Threespine Stickleback Growth and Development Presentation Habitats **Recruitment Variation Disrupts the Stability of Oral Fishes and Fish Alternative Life Histories in An Exploited Salmon Lukas DeFilippo PRE-RECORDED Presentation Habitats Population *Environmental Drivers of Nearshore Fish Community Oral Fishes and Fish Composition in Glacially-Influenced Gulf of Alaska Nina Lundstrom PRE-RECORDED Presentation Habitats Estuaries Retrospective Analysis of Giant Pacific Octopus Oral Fishes and Fish Ashley Kirby PRE-RECORDED (Enteroctopus Dofleini) Life History at an Aquarium Presentation Habitats 2021 ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM - 1 - 2021 VIRTUAL ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM GULF OF ALASKA DAY † Bachelors Student JANUARY 26TH, 2021 * Master’s Candidate AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE ** Doctoral Candidate TITLE PRESENTER TYPE SECTION TIME Forecasting Fisheries Monitoring Efficiency and Oral Fishes and Fish Craig Faunce PRE-RECORDED Effectiveness in Alaska Presentation Habitats Sitka Herring, Past and Present: Using Ancient DNA and Oral Fishes and Fish Whole Genome Sequencing to Examine Genetic Diversity Eleni Petrou PRE-RECORDED Presentation Habitats Over Time Oceanic Movement and Behavior of Steelhead, Elucidated Michael Oral Fishes and Fish PRE-RECORDED With Pop-Up Satellite Tags Courtney Presentation Habitats *The Diet Composition of Aleutian Tern Chicks in the Oral Jill Tengeres Seabirds PRE-RECORDED Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska Presentation †The Use of Thermal Imaging for the Censusing of Oral Colonial Seabirds in the Gulf of Alaska: Implications for Emmylou Kidder Seabirds PRE-RECORDED Presentation Management and Conservation Marine Bird Response to Forage Fish During Winter in Oral Anne Schaefer Seabirds PRE-RECORDED Bays of Prince William Sound, Alaska Presentation Combining the Old and the New to Take the Long View: Using Contemporary Models to Estimate Long-Term Oral Jamie Womble Mammals PRE-RECORDED Trends and Abundance of Sentinel Marine Species in Presentation Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska **Modeling Habitat Suitability Based on Acoustic Natalie Oral Monitoring of Male Sperm Whales and Social Units in the Mammals PRE-RECORDED Posdaljian Presentation Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands Recovering Alaska’s Imperiled Marine Mammals Under Oral Kristin Carden Mammals PRE-RECORDED the U.S. Endangered Species Act Presentation Skin Microbiome of Beluga Whales: Spatial, Temporal, Oral Amy Van Cise Mammals PRE-RECORDED and Health-Related Dynamics Presentation Estimating the Energy Expenditure of Harbor Seals in Ice Oral Linnea Pearson Mammals PRE-RECORDED and Terrestrial Habitats Presentation *Health Metrics and Immune Function in Non-Stranded Oral Samantha Rae Mammals PRE-RECORDED Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) Presentation Cetacean Occurrence in the Gulf of Alaska from Long- Oral Ally Rice Mammals PRE-RECORDED Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring Presentation Historical Ecology of a Recovering Keystone Predator: Insights into Ancient Sea Otter Diet and Habitat Use in Emma Elliot Oral Mammals PRE-RECORDED Southeast Alaska Via Bulk Tissue and Compound-Specific Smith Presentation Isotope Analysis *Evidence of Microplastics in Top Predators: Comparing Oral Fecal Samples from Two Resident Killer Whale Jenna Harlacher Mammals PRE-RECORDED Presentation Populations Using Frequent Whale Surfacing Events to Estimate the Oral Noble Hendrix Mammals PRE-RECORDED Rate of Rare Ship-Whale Collisions Presentation Humpback Whales and Tourism in Juneau, AK: Oral Establishing Baseline Measurements during the Covid-19 Heidi Pearson Mammals PRE-RECORDED Presentation Pandemic Data from the Dead Support Management of the Living: Oral Population Genetic Structure of Alaska Harbor Porpoise Kim Parsons Mammals PRE-RECORDED Presentation From Carcasses and eDNA Samples 2021 ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM - 2 - 2021 VIRTUAL ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM GULF OF ALASKA DAY † Bachelors Student JANUARY 26TH, 2021 * Master’s Candidate AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE ** Doctoral Candidate TITLE PRESENTER TYPE SECTION TIME Leveraging Multiple Years of Mother-Offspring Association to Estimate Cook Inlet Beluga Fecundity and Gina Himes Oral Mammals PRE-RECORDED Survival Using A Novel Extension to the Multievent Mark- Boor Presentation Recapture Model **I Like to Move It, Move It: Insight Into the Migration Oral of North Pacific Right Whales Revealed By Stable Isotope Dana Wright Mammals PRE-RECORDED Presentation Analysis **Regional Blubber Fatty Acid Signature Analysis of Oral Victoria Neises Mammals PRE-RECORDED Harbor Seals in Alaska From 1997-2010 Presentation Anthropogenic Scarring in Long-Term Photo-Identification Oral Records of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales, Delphinapterus Tamara McGuire Mammals PRE-RECORDED Presentation leucas Conceptualizing and Reducing Ship-Whale Collisions: New Oral Scott Gende Humans PRE-RECORDED Ideas and Collaborative Approaches Presentation Big Catch, Undecided Risks: Perceptions of Risk, Reward, Hannah Oral and Trade-Offs in Alaska’s Alaskan Salmon Enhancement Humans PRE-RECORDED Harrison Presentation Program Southeast Alaskan Kelp Forests: Inferences of Process Oral Ecosystem Torrey Gorra PRE-RECORDED From Large-Scale Patterns of Variation in Space and Time Presentation Perspectives From Suspended Animation to Fully Active: Post-Diapause Oral Ecosystem Vittoria Roncalli PRE-RECORDED Transcriptomic Restart in a High Latitude Zooplankter Presentation Perspectives How the Mighty Have Fallen: Indirect Effects of Sea Star Oral Ecosystem Wasting Syndrome on Mussel Abundance in the Northern Sarah Traiger PRE-RECORDED Presentation Perspectives Gulf of Alaska *Influence of Glacial Melt on Estuarine Intertidal Oral Ecosystem Mary McCabe PRE-RECORDED Community Structure and Their Environmental Drivers Presentation Perspectives †Ocean Water Samples and Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis; Yaak) Samples Collected During the Summer of 2020 Poster Climate and Talia Davis PRE-RECORDED Strengthen Data Sovereignty for the Tlingit Community of Presentation Oceanography Kake, Alaska UAF Ocean Acidification Research Center: Increasing Poster Climate and Natalie Monacci PRE-RECORDED Monitoring Capacity For Alaska Presentation Oceanography *Characterizing Groundwater Fluxes and Water Residence Poster Climate and Times Using Radioisotope Tracers: Preliminary Findings Josianne Haag PRE-RECORDED Presentation Oceanography From Kachemak Bay, Southeast Alaska **Freshwater in the Northern Gulf of Alaska Marine Poster Climate and Isaac Reister PRE-RECORDED Environment Presentation Oceanography Knowledge Co-Production and Climate in Southeast Poster Climate and Elizabeth Figus PRE-RECORDED Alaska Presentation Oceanography Speed Dating Through Meroplankton? Linking Ocean and Poster Lower Trophic Kris Holderied PRE-RECORDED Nearshore Ecosystems in Kachemak Bay Alaska Presentation