Spring 2009
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
July 10	Ralph Townsend	Catch Share Programs in New Zealand	New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries
June 10	Roland Pitcher	An integrated approach to assessment of seabed habitat & biodiversity in support of trawl management on the continental shelf of the Great Barrier Reef	CSIRO, Australia
May 28	Jonathan Deroba	How many are there and how many can we kill?  Lake whitefish in the Great Lakes	Michigan State University
May 27	Kristen Ampela	Diet and feeding ecology of gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) in United States waters, based on hard part andfatty acid analysis	City University of New York
May 18	Jun Zhu	Statistical modeling and inference for animal movement in response to landscapes	U. Wisconsin
May 15	Jeff Polovina	Recent changes at the top and bottom of the North Pacific subtropical gyre ecosystem	PIFSC
Apr. 23	Fabio Pranovi	The Venice Lagoon and Northern Adriatic Ecosystems: Effects of Fishing	University of Venice
Apr. 2	Bob Mohn	Fishing with Newtonian Uncertainties	Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Mar. 9	John Steele	End-to-end estimates of fisheries yield on Georges Bank	WHOI – Marine Policy Center
Mar. 4	Mark Wuenschel	Energetics of juvenile gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus): evaluation of abiotic and biotic properties of nursery areas across a latitudinal gradient.	NEFSC
Feb. 6	Mike Fogarty	An Overview of the NEFSC Ecosystem Assessment Program	NEFSC
Feb. 4	Rich McBride	The reproductive strategy and tactics of female winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus): a review of biotic and abiotic processes	NEFSC
Jan.16	Olav Ormseth	Reproductive potential of Pacific cod in Alaska	AFSC

Fall 2008
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Nov. 12	Rui Prieto	Studying cetaceans from a rock in the middle of the ocean... and loving it.	University of the Azores
Oct. 29	Larry Alade	Evaluating the performance for a yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) Movement-Mortality Model Based on Simulations	NEFSC
Oct. 2	Irene Mantzouni	Meta-analysis and hierarchical modeling to identify temperature and habitat effects on North Atlantic cod carrying capacity and maximum reproductive rate	Danish Institute of Fisheries Research
Sept. 24	Paul Rago	GARM III: The Status of 19 Groundfish Stocks in the Northeast--A Dull Title for Some Exciting Science	NEFSC
Sept. 18	Laura Oremland	Comparing scallop dredge catches to underwater HabCam photographs	NMFS – S&T
Sept. 17	Dorothy Dankel	Can we get around managing by the "weakest link"? Exploring management strategies for Georges Bank haddock; a rebuilt stock in a multi-species complex	Institute of Marine Research , Norway
Sept. 10	Eric Thunberg	Trends in Northeast Region Marine Industries	NEFSC
Sept. 3	Dvora Hart	Analysis of sea scallop growth using linear mixed-effects models	NEFSC

Spring 2008
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Aug. 13	Steve Saul	What catch locations tell you about fish densities: Estimating spatial distribution and abundance from catch per unit of effort	Univ. of Miami, RSMAS
Jul. 16	Ayeisha Brinson	Developing Socioeconomic Indicators for Atlantic Billfish Management	Univ. Miami - RSMAS
Jul. 9	Jonathan Phinney	Creating a West Coast-wide Ecological Observing System for NMFS and NOAA	SWFSC
Jun. 25	Dr Priti Brahma	NOAA's Educational Partnership Program: Partnership through education towards career development	NOAA's Educational Partnership Program
Jun. 18	Michelle Portman	"Waterfront Land Use Change and Marine Resource Conditions: New Bedford Pilot"	WHOI
Apr. 23	Bill Overholtz	Satellite Imagery, Trawl Surveys, Spatial Statistics, GIS and a bit of Frequentism:  Tools for Unraveling the Clues to Changes in Mackerel Distribution	NEFSC
Mar. 5	David Welch	The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Array (POST)- A Permanent Continental-Scale Array For The West Coast Of North America: Performance, Applications, & Relevance	Kintama Research, Nanaimo, BC
Feb. 12	Dan Gaughan	Implementing ecosystem based fisheries management in Western Australia	Western Australia Fisheries
Feb. 6	Richard Merrick	NOAA's Right Whale Ship Strike Reduction Strategy	NEFSC
Feb. 5	Ian Stewart	Letting trawl survey catch performance dictate when to ‘throw in the towel’ during adverse weather conditions.	NWFSC
Jan. 23	Scott Gallager	The Northeast Bentho-pelagic Observatory (NEBO) to Support Fisheries and Ecosystem Management	WHOI
Jan. 22	Lynnath Beckley	Influence of the Leeuwin Current on larval fishes off Western Australia	Murdoch University- Australia

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	Model Averaging to Estimate Rebuilding Targets for Overfished Stocks	NEFSC
June 15	Bill Michaels	Overview of Seabed Classification for NOAA Fisheries Essential Fish Habitat Mandate	NEFSC
June 1	Roy Mendelssohn	When Did the 1976 Regime-Shift Occur?  Paradigm Lost.	SWFSC, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
May 25	John Mandelman	Elasmobranchs and Stress: The Physiological Changes and Mortality Associated with Fishing Capture	New England Aquarium
May 18	Chad Keith	GIS Modeling of Potential MPAs  in the NW Atlantic via Biological & Socioeconomic Parameters	NEFSC
Apr 6	Pingguo He	Fish Behavior and Its Application in Capture and Conservation of Marine Fishes	UNH, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
Mar 23	Dvora Hart	Effects of Sea Star and Crab Predators on Sea Scallop Recruitment in the Mid-Atlantic Bight	NEFSC
Mar 16	Stacy Kubis	Florida's Sea Turtles:  Encounters on the Beach, in the Water, and from Outer Space	NEFSC
Feb 23	Jason Link	Atlantis, NEUS, and Similar Myths	NEFSC
Feb 10	Beth Fulton	An Australian Overview and Perspective of Ecosystem Modeling: Atlantis	CSIRO Marine Research
Jan 13	Bill Overholtz, Jason Link, and Larry Jacobson	An Ecosystem Approach to the Assessment of the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank Herring Complex	NEFSC

Fall 2004 MISSING
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation

Spring 2004
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
June 2	Seth Tuler	Public Participation and Resource Management	Research Fellow Thomas Webler Social and Environmental Research Institute
May 21	Gavin Begg	Cooperative Research and Fisheries Management in Australia	Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Queensland, Australia
May 6&7	Many	4th Annual NMFS / Sea Grant Graduate Fellows Seminar	Various
Apr 28	Bennett	???	???
Apr 21	John Hoey	Swordfish, Shark, Tuna & Turtles: Survey Data Recovery, GIS Tools, and Observer Time Series	NEFSC
Apr 14	Robert M. Muth and Martha E. Mather	Fishing for Fun or Food: Differentiating Between Recreation and Subsistence Fishers in Urban Massachusetts	UMass Amherst
Mar 24	David Dow	Overview of the Northwest Atlantic Coastal Indicators Workshop, with an Emphasis on Fisheries	NEFSC
Mar 17	Mary Jo Avellar	Local Governance and Fishing Communities	Town Council Member, Provincetown, MA
Feb 25	Joan Trial	What Hydrologists Can Tell Biologists About the Dynamics of Atlantic Salmon Habitat - or -   Atlantic Salmon and River Discharge	Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
Feb 18	Matt McKenzie	New England Vocational Science Within the Merchant Shipping Community and the Fishing Community	University of New Hampshire
Feb 11	Jeff Bolster	The Historical Scotian Shelf Cod Fishery	University of New Hampshire
Jan 21	Rodney Avila Sr. and Greg Mayhew	Swordfishermen's Perspective on a Unique, Once-local Fishery	Commercial Fishermen New Bedford and Martha’s Vineyard
Jan 14	Russell Brown	Strategic Planning for Future Ecosystem Surveys:  Stay with Pedro, Go to the Bullpen, or Look to Make a Major Trade	NEFSC

Fall 2003
Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
Dec 10	Kurt Martin	A Day in the Life of a Weir Fisherman	Native Cape Codder
Dec 3	Bill Overholtz and Larry Jacobson	Tools for Long Time Series and the Case of the Atlantic Herring	NEFSC
Dec 2	Beverly J. Macewicz	Lifetime Fecundity of the Market Squid, Loligo opalescens, with Application to Monitoring Escapement	SWFSC
Nov 12	Brad Gentner	NOAA Fisheries Recreational Economics Program: Using Choice Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Recreational Fisheries Policies	NOAA Fisheries, Silver Spring, MD
Nov 5	Nicholas Makris, Purnima Ratilal and Deanelle Symonds	Remotely Imaging Fish Schools on the New Jersey Continental Shelf Over Tens of Kilometers in Real Time	MIT and Redwood Nero Naval Research Laboratory
Oct 29	Chris Glass	Experimental Fishing in the Eastern Georges Bank Closed Area	Manomet Center for Conservtion Sciences
Oct 22	Charles Fulcher	Aspects of Spatial Econometrics	North Carolina State University
Oct 17	Helen Rozwadowski	An Uneasy Partnership of Physics and Biology: Development of Fisheries Oceanography Throughout the 20th Century	University of Connecticut
Oct 16	Abdul-Aziz Yakubu	Ecology, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Biology and Nonlinear Dynamics	Howard University
Oct 8	Lisa Methratta	Tidepool Community Dynamics along Rocky Shores in Maine	NEFSC NRC Post-Doc
Sept 26	Heather Hass	Statistical and Simulation Modeling of Brown Shrimp Population Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico	MBL
Sept 17	Jim Bence	Fish Community Dynamics and Decision Analysis in the Great Lakes	Michigan State University
Sept 10	Tim Smith	A Historical Taxonomy of World Whaling Operations Applied to Whaling in the 21st Century	NEFSC