Fall 2007

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Dec. 9

Jon Hare

Forecasting the dynamics of a coastal fishery species using a coupled climate-population model

NEFSC - Narragansett

Dec. 12

Angela  Collins

Hogfish Cooperative Research Project: Science with Spearfishers

Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Nov. 7

Liz Brooks

Modeling Natural Mortality and the Consequences for Biological Reference Points

NEFSC

Sept. 26

Peter Corkeron

Approaches to marine mammal management in whaling nations: the whale in the room

NEFSC - Visiting Scientist

Sept. 19

Rich McBride

(1) Age, Growth, and Mortality of Wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri, from the Atlantic coast of Florida and the Bahamas.
(2) Reproductive Biology of Wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri, from the Atlantic coast of Florida and the Bahamas

NEFSC

Aug. 29

Gary Fitzhugh

A few fuzzy things about fish reproduction and some possible ways to sharpen our focus.

SEFSC – Panama City

 

Spring 2007

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

June 29

Lisa Kerr

Partial migration of an estuarine fish

 

UMD Chesapeake Biological Lab

May 9

Erin Kupcha

Observer At-Sea Data Collection Project

NOTE: This seminar will take place at the tech park.

NEFSC

April 25

Jeb Byers

Developing general ecological theory to address crucial marine issues: range limits, invasions, reserves, and poaching

UNH

April 18

Tracy Dalton

Stakeholder Participation in Marine Reserve Planning and Management in the Wider Caribbean

URI

April 4

Neil Sarkar

A Fish By Any Other Name: Organizing and Navigating Taxonomic Content From Literature

MBL

March 28

Nadine Stewart Lysiak

Tracking the Migration Patterns and Habitat Use of North Atlantic Right Whales With Stable Isotopes

BUMP/WHOI

March 21

Jon Sutinen

A Socio-Economic and Ecosystems Approach to Marine Resources

URI

March 14

Rich McBride

A review of fish reproduction, patterns and processes, in the North Atlantic Ocean 

NEFSC

March 7

Kathy Castro

NMFS and Sea Grant: Adversaries, competitors or partners

URI

Feb. 28

Paul Rago

A spatial model for experimental estimation of gear efficiency and animal density for sessile and nearly sessile species

NEFSC

Jan. 31

Jane Denny, Bill Danforth, Brian Andrews

Tools and Techniques for Geologic Sea-Floor Mapping

USGS Sea Floor
 Mapping Group,
 Woods Hole, MA

Jan. 10

Dvora Hart

When do marine reserves increase fishery yield?

NEFSC

 

Fall 2006

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Dec. 20

Skip DeBrusk

Codfish, Dogfish, Mermaids and Frank

Author

Dec. 18

Dan Wiley

 

A Fire-Breathing Chimera:  Periodic Incoherence in a Network of Coupled Oscillators

Howard University
 

Dec. 18

Kevin St. Martin

Charting Communities at Sea: Revealing New Potentials for

Participation in Fisheries Science and Management

Rutgers

Dec 13

Pingguo He

Size Selectivity of New England Trawl Codends: The Effect of Mesh Size, Mesh Shape, Knotless Netting and Chafing Gears

University of New Hampshire

Dec. 12

Bryan Black

Rockfish, tree rings, and climate-driven linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest

Oregon State University   

Dec. 6

Ike Wirgin

Use of genetic techniques in stock identification: a case study of Atlantic cod

New York University

Nov. 21

Fabio Pranovi

Ecosystem activities and ecosystem changes in the Lagoon of Venice

Department of Environmental
 Sciences, University of 
Ca' Foscari, Venice (Italy)

Nov. 15

Joseph Love

Interannual climatic differences cause differences in the dispersal of transient coastal  fish species of Maryland: implications on assemblage dynamics and ecosystem management

University of Maryland
 Eastern Shore

Nov. 8

Jon Hare

The NEFSC Resource Survey/Ecosystem Monitoring Working Group: An Update of Activities and a Request for Input

NEFSC Narragansett Lab

Oct. 25

Al Pluedemann

A Framework for Coastal Ecosystem Research in the Northwest Atlantic

WHOI

Oct. 11

Michael Rubino

Reframing the Debate on Aquaculture

NMFS Headquarters

Oct. 4

Jim Manning

A quick tour of the oceanography branch website ... what we do

NEFSC

Sept. 20

Tim Miller

A finite-state continuous-time approach to infer migration and mortality rates in spatially structured population models

University of New Hampshire

Aug. 21

Correigh Greene

Using models to determine recovery options for Pacific salmon

NWFSC

July 27

Jonathon Hare

The Invasion of the Pacific Lionfish Along the East Coast of the United States

NEFSC Narragansett Lab

 

 

 

Spring 2006

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

May 31

Chad Demarest

The potential for capacity reduction in the New England groundfish fishery through an industry-funded buyout

NEFMC

May 30

Jonathan Phinney

PaCOOS-The (fledging) National Ocean Observing 'Backbone' in the California Current

SWFSC

May 22

Captain Skip Theberge

3500 Years of Finding the Bottom: A History of Sea Floor Mapping

NOAA Central Library

May 17

Seth Tuler

Exploring the meaning of Environmental Justice and Vulnerability in New Englands fishing communities

Clark University

May 10

David Martins

Cooperative Industry-Based At-Sea Experiment To Test The Performance Of A Haddock-Separator Trawl In Closed Area I - Georges Bank

SMAST

May 3

Tom Turner

Conch fishery

Commercial Fisherman

Mar 29

Joe DeAlteris

Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduction in the Lower Chesapeake Bay Pound Net Fishery: From Concept, to Testing, to Implementation

URI

Mar 22

Dvora Hart

Rotational fishery management in theory and practice

NEFSC

Mar 14

Mikio Moriyasu

Snow crab stock assessment and related research in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

DFO Gulf Fisheries Centre

Mar 10

Cara Wilson

NOAA Fisheries and Satellite Data – Where are we and where are we going? 

SWFSC Environmental Research Division

Mar 8

Mike Fogarty

Toward an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management on the U.S. Northeast Continental Shelf

NEFSC

Feb 1

Lisa Methratta

Relating species distributions and vital rates to multivariate gradients in habitat

University of Pennsylvania

Jan 31

Richard McBride

The biology and management of hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus): fish houses, hardparts, sex change, and SEDAR

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

Jan 25

Chris Legault

Whatever Happened to Georges Bank Yellowtail Flounder?

NEFSC

 

 

 

 



 

 

Fall 2005

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

Dec 14

Jon Brodziak

Ecosystem tradeoffs in managing New England fisheries

NEFSC

Nov 16

Joachim Groeger

The Use of Innovative Monitoring  Strategies for a Spatial and Temporal Management of  Fish Stocks in the Gulf of Maine

SMAST

Nov 14

Jonathan Hare

Climate and Atlantic Croaker Population Dynamics

NEFSC - Narragansett Lab

Nov 2

Amy Sierra Van Atten

An Introduction to the Northeast Fisheries Observer Program - A Video Presentation

NEFSC 

Nov 1

David Wilson

Minimizing Sea Lion By-catch in the New Zealand Squid Fishing Industry;  A Simulink Model

Auckland University of Technology

Oct 26

Mauricio Ortiz

Estimation of von Bertalanffy growth parameters from data with minimum size limits restriction

SEFSC

Oct 19

Steve Cadrin

Stock Structure and Movement of Yellowtail Flounder off New England

NOAA / UMass CMER Director

Oct 5

Graham Sherwood

Potential food-web limitations to the recovery of Newfoundland cod

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Sept 26

Jason Link

An Overview of EMAX: The Northeast US Continental Shelf Ecological Network

NEFSC

Sept 1

Rick Methot

Stock Synthesis 2: An Integrated Length and Age-Structured Assessment Model

NWFSC

 

 

 

 

 


 

Spring 2005

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

July 13

Jon Brodziak