2005 Marine Science Symposium

Keynote: Frank Muller-Karger - US Commission on Ocean Policy

Keynote: John Walsh - An Overview of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Mark Johnson - The Alaska Ocean Observing System
James Overland - Is the Bering Sea Stuck in a Warm Phase?
Phyllis Stabeno - A Decade of Measurements of the Southeastern Bering Sea Shelf
Edward Cokelet - GEM Biophysical Observations Aboard an Alaska State Ferry
David Welch - Developing a Permanent Continental-Scale Acoustic Tracking Array for Marine Fisheries Research
Sue Moore - Listening for Endangered Whales Offshore Alaska, 1999-2004

Keynote: Tom Royer - Alaskan Oceanography: Past, Present & Future - A Personal Perspective
Claude Belanger - Drifters’ Trajectories During the Lagrangian Field Experiment (Prince William Sound, 28 July to 10 August 2004)
Scott Pegau - Temporal Variability in Hydrographic Conditions in Lower Cook Inlet
Meibing Jin - Tidal Mixing Effects on a Biological Model
Jia Wang - Modeling Environmental Hydrodynamic Fields of the Bering Sea: Toward a Coupled Ice-Ocean-Biological Model (CIOBM)
Gleb Panteleev - Reconstruction of the Summer Circulation in the Bering Sea

Dale Kiefer - Alaskan Groundfish Feeding Ecology: An OBIS Information System
Thomas Kline - Oceanic Carbon Subsidies Led to High Marine Survival and the Enormous Prince William Sound Pink Salmon Runs of 2003
Matt Wilson - Forage Fishes in the Western Gulf of Alaska: Variation in Productivity
Elizabeth Logerwell - Does Climate-driven Variability in the Oceanographic Structure of the Gulf of Alaska Shelf Affect Fish Community Composition...
Jesus Jurado-Molina - The Multispecies Statistical Model: Incorporating Predation Equations into a Statistical Catch-at-Age Model
Lunch Keynote: John Dunnigan - NOAA's Ecosystem Approaches to Management

Keynote: Sean Powers & Mary Ann Bishop - Ecology of the Copper River Delta
Robert Lauth - Bathymetric and Temporal Range, Spatial Extent, and Habitat Characteristics of Atka Mackerel Spawning and Nesting Habitat in the Aleutian Archipelago
Jon Heifetz - Coral and Sponge Habitat Mapping in the Central Aleutian Islands
Anne Salomon - Synergistic Serial Depletion of Benthic Invertebrates Leads to a Recent Decline of a Keystone Grazer and the Alteration of a Coastal Ecosystem
Angela Dubois - Dynamics of Chemical Defenses: Dynamics of Chemical Defenses: Dynamics of Chemical Defenses in Four Kachemak Bay Kelp Species...
Katrin Iken - NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas)
Bradley Stevens - Development of Techniques for Cultivation of Blue King Crab, Paralithodes platypus

Keynote: Ray Ralonde - Vibrio Occurrence in Shellfish
Doug Dasher & Ron Klein - Application of the EPA Environmental Monitoring Assessment Program (EMAP) to Characterization of Alaska Coastal Marine Water Quality
Frank Morado - Bitter Crab Syndrome
Shannon Atkinson - Contaminants in North Pacific Basin Marine Mammals
Matthew Myers - Organochlorine Contamination in Steller Sea Lion Pups from Four Russian Rookeries
Robert Piorkowski - Initiating an Invasive Species Program in Alaska

James Fall - Update on the Status of Subsistence Uses
Lucinda Jacobs - 2004/05 Assessment of Lingering Oil and Resource Injuries from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Jeff Short - Persistence of Lingering Oil from the Exxon Valdez
James Bodkin - Restoration of Exxon Valdez Oil Contaminated Habitats by Sea Otters in Prince William Sound: Mechanisms and Consequences
David Irons - Marine Bird Population Abundance of
Prince William Sound, Alaska: Trends Following
the T/V Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1989-2004
Ron Heintz - Oil, Salmon, and How
Urbanization Decreases Population Productivity

Keynote: Gary Drew & John Piatt - Surveying the Past: North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database
William Sydeman - Wings, Fins, and the Black Box: Management Implications of Marine Bird and Fish
Alan Springer - Regime Forcing and Ecosystem Response in the Bering Sea
Robert Suryan - First-passage Time Analysis and Identification of Marine Habitats Used by Short-tailed Albatrosses...
Shannon Fitzgerald - Seabirds and Alaska Groundfish Fisheries: Efforts to Understand Seabird Interactions with these Fisheries and to Mitigate Incidental Mortality

Keynote: Lowell Fritz - Differences in Recent Trends in the
Populations of Western Steller Sea Lions and Northern Fur Seals
Verena Gill - Causes of Mortality for Northern Sea Otters
Paul Wade - A Summary of Recent Killer Whale Studies in the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, and Western Gulf of Alaska
Grey Pendleton - Harbor Seal Population Change in Alaska – The Big Picture
John Durban - Photographic Population Analysis of Killer Whales in the Coastal Waters of Southwest Alaska
Sylvie Guénette - Ecosystem Analysis of Steller Sea Lion Dynamics, Their Prey, and Predators
David Rosen - Physiological Answers to Ecosystem Questions: What We Have Learned from Laboratory Studies about the Decline of Steller Sea Lions in Alaska?
Vladimir Burkanov - Steller Sea Lion Abundance in Russia in 2004
Jan Straley & Aaron Thode - Sperm Whale Depredation
Lisa Munger - Tracking Critically Endangered North Pacific Right Whales (Eubalaena japonica) in Alaskan Waters Using Passive Acoustics

Michael Mazur - Corroboration and Application of a Bioenergetics Model to Estimate the Growth of Juvenile Walleye Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) in the Western Gulf of Alaska
Anthony Gharrett - Genetic Divergence, Phylogeography, and Recognition of Asian and North American Chinook Salmon Populations
Sue Hazlett - Assessing Long-Term Viability of a Marine Reserve
Kimani Kimbrough - A Conceptual Model Approach to Utilizing Traditional Knowledge in Resource Management
Gordon Kruse - Size at Maturity of Bering Sea Walleye Pollock
Terry Quinn - Further Developments from Acoustical Data Loggers on Pollock Vessels
Cindy Tribuzio - Life History, Ecology, and Population Dynamics of Spiny Dogfish, Squalus acanthias, in Alaska
Naoki Tojo - Implications of Environment Variability on Spawning and Management of Pacific Herring in Northern Bristol Bay, Alaska