2007 Marine Science Symposium

January 21-24, 2007, Anchorage, AK

Arctic Presentations

Keynote: Steve Amstrup | Polar Bears - Sentinels of Arctic Change

Carin Ashjian: Environmental Variability Relative to Bowhead Whale Distribution and Prey Availability near Barrow, Alaska

n/a

Stephen Okkonen: Exchange between Elson Lagoon and the nearshore Beaufort Sea

24MB

Rachel Potter: Using HF Radar to Map Surface Currents in the Beaufort Sea

51MB

Seth Danielson: Results from the Collection Of Oceanographic Measurements from Three Nearshore Acoustic Doppler Current Meter Profilers ADCPs along the Inner Beaufort Sea Shelf from Smith Bay to Camden Bay

5.6MB

Jia Wang: Simulating 20th century Arctic sea ice and ocean circulation variability using a Global coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-land mode

n/a

Gleb Panteleev: Variational reconstruction of the quasi-stationary Bering Sea circulation and reanalysis of the fall 1990 circulation in the Chukchi Sea

38MB

Nora Foster: Old Wine, New Bottles: Archiving George MacGinitie's Arctic Marine Invertebrate Data

57MB

Kohei Mizobata: Recent summer chlorophyll reduction affected by the warm Pacific Summer Water in the Chukchi Sea: Observation and modeling

42MB

Lunch Keynote: Thomas Litwin, Smith College | May You Live in Exciting Times: Climate Change, Public Understanding and Lessons from the Harriman Expedition Retraced

6.6MB

Stephen Murphy: Factors Affecting the Subsistence Harvest of Arctic Cisco in the Colville River

4MB

Nate Bickford: Fish Habitat and otolith chemistry

6.3MB

David Roseneau: Monitoring Murres and Kittiwakes at Cape Lisburne, Alaska, 1976-2006

49MB

Dave Rugh: Identifying Individual Bowhead Whales Through Aerial Photography

8.3 MB

Lori Quakenbush: Satellite Tracking of Western Arctic Bowhead Whales

n/a

Ryan Huebinger: Microsatellite analysis of Bowhead whales from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas with regard to population stock structure and genetic bottlenecks

4.5MB

Chadwick Jay: Preliminary Identification of Pacific Walrus subpopulations From Whole Tooth Elemental Analysis

n/a

Michael Cameron: Diving behavior, habitat use, and movements of bearded seal pups in the Bering and Chukchi Seas

n/a

Brendan Kelly: Evidence of philopatry in ringed seals

21MB

Anthony Fischbach: Landward shift in polar bear denning determined from satellite telemetry in Alaska

n/a

George Durner: A Model for Autumn Pelagic Distribution of Adult Female Polar Bears in the Chukchi Sea, 1987-1994

n/a

Cliff Ryer: Moving toward a process-based understanding of essential fish habitat in juvenile flatfish nurseries

59MB

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Presentations

Phyllis Stabeno: Was 2006 an anomalous cold year in a warming trend or a shift in decadal climate patterns?

7.5MB

James Overland: What will the Bering Sea look like in the next 30 years?

5.6MB

Don Atwood: Monitoring Alaskan Marine Ecosystems with Synthetic Aperture Radar

30MB

Mike Litzow : Warming climate alters the biogeography of the southern Bering Sea

5.4MB

Meibing Jin: Late ice retreat and ice-associated phytoplankton blooms in the Southeastern Bering Sea

n/a

Carolina Parada: Settlement patterns of snow crab associated with warm 1979 and cold 1990 years in the Eastern Bering Sea

15MB

Paige Drobny: Squid Overload in the Bering Sea

5.2MB

Robert Walker: Information from Archival Tags on Salmon in the Bering Sea, 2003-2006

2.9MB

Nicola Hillgruber: Distribution, condition, and age of chum salmon juveniles in Western Alaska

15MB

Sara Miller: Estimation of migration in an age-structured population dynamics model of Eastern Bering Sea walleye pollock

2.7MB

Kimberly Rand: Food Habits and Small-Scale Habitat Utilization of Atka Mackerel in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska

5.9MB

Daniel Cooper: Spatial and temporal variability in Atka mackerel female maturity

2.5MB

Jesus Jurado-Molina: Developing a statistical-multispecies framework for a predator-prey system in the eastern Bering Sea

1MB

Lunch Keynote: Paula Keener-Chavis, NOAA Office of ocean Exploration | Enhancing Ocean Science Literacy through NOAA Ocean Exploration

39MB

Alan Springer: Hot Oceanography? A Seabird Story From the Pribilofs

12MB

Alexander Kitaysky: Early ice retreat has opposite effects on planktivorous and piscivorous top-predators

44MB

Ian Jones: Annual variation in auklet demographic parameters and chick diets

n/a

Steffen Oppel: King Eider winter movements in the Bering Sea tracked by satellite telemetry

2.8MB

Greg Balogh: Inter-specific Differences in Marine Habitat Use by Albatrosses in Alaska

26MB

Tom Gelatt: On their own: migrations of northern fur seal pups from increasing and Decreasing Populations

7.8MB

Alison Banks: Consequences of fur seal foraging strategies COFFS: interannual Variability

21MB

Vladimir Burkanov: Overview of abundance and trends of northern fur seals in The Commander Islands, 1958-2006 - caveats and conclusions

9MB

Brian Battaile: The Decline and fall of the alaskan pinniped empire

25MB

John Bickham: Population and Evolutionary Genetic Analyses Using Multiple Nuclear and Mitochondrial Loci in Steller Sea Lions

2.4MB

Kelly Newman: Killer Whales Do It In The Dark: Nocturnal Activity By Transients At St. Paul Island

10MB

David Mellinger: An acoustic survey for right and other endangered whales in the Bering Sea

6MB

Randy Hagenstein: The Pribilof Island Collaborative: Complex Problems, Collaborative Solutions

5.9MB

Sarah Kruse: The Pribilof Islands: Establishing a Socioeconomic Baseline

3.9MB

Ellen Lance: Evaluation of three techniques for baseline monitoring of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in Nelson Lagoon, Alaska

250MB

Gulf of Alaska Presentations

W. Scott Pegau: Connecting Oceanography and Fisheries in the Offshore Test Fishing Program

4.7MB

William Sydeman: Meso-marine ecosystems of the North Pacific: seasonal and interannual variability

3.9MB

Tal Ezer: Modeling and satellite observations of tidally-driven currents and mud flats flooding in Cook Inlet, Alaska

18MB

Lisa Etherington: Oceanography of Glacier Bay: Implications for biological patterns and productivity in a temperate glacial fjord

n/a

Mario Tamburri: ACT and Integrated Sensor Systems for Vessels of Opportunity

7.7MB

Molly McCammon: Special Poster Review Ecosystem Perspectives and Human/Community Impacts

1MB

K.O. Coyle: Calibration of a nutrient- phytoplankton-zooplankton model for use with a three-dimensional physical model to simulate ecological mechanisms on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf

4.8MB

Jon Houghton: Rocky Intertidal Benthos in Iniskin/Iliamna Bay: a 28-Year Baseline and Hints of Climate Change?

52MB

Nick Harman: Role of Grazers in the Recolonization of Hard Bottom Communities in Kachemak Bay, Alaska

14MB

Dennis Lees: Clams and Armor: Were They Casualties of The War On The Beaches?

24MB

Brenda Norcross: A model of early life history survival for Pacific herring in Prince William Sound

3.9MB

Elizabeth Logerwell: Distribution and feeding ecology of juvenile walleye pollock and capelin in the Gulf of Alaska

12MB

Sean Powers: Assessing residence time and habitat use of coho and sockeye salmon in Alaska estuaries

12MB

Lunch Keynote: Jan Straley, University of Alaska Southeast | Swimming in the lunch line: Underwater footage of sperm whales near longline fishing gear

n/a

Bruce Finney: Effects of Marine-Derived Nutrients on Biological Production in Sockeye Salmon Systems

4.3MB

Gregg Rosenkranz: Machine Vision Benthic Imaging in the Gulf of Alaska

34MB

Julie Nielson: Using a synthetic aperture acoustic telemetry method to determine the location, timing and spatial aggregation of female Tanner crabs during reproductive events

8.5MB

John Harper: The ShoreZone Coastal Dataset as a Research Tool

7MB

Matthew Berman: Spatial Fisheries Values in the Gulf of Alaska

5.5MB

Peter Boveng, Session Chair: Intro and Poster Review

n/a

Briana Witteveen: Investigation of foraging habits and prey selection by humpback whales using acoustic tags and concurrent fish surveys

6.1MB

Edward Gregr: Multi-scale predictions of right whale habitat in the North Pacific and Bering Sea

6MB

Craig Matkin: Killer whales in the Northern Gulf of Alaska: Status, Trends, and Tagging

16MB

Greg O'Corry-Crowe: Genetic indicators of metapopulation boundaries and dynamics in Steller sea lions: implications for recovery of an endangered species

3.6MB

Andreas Fahlman: Open-Water Steller Sea Lion Research Station provides new insights into the real costs of diving for food

283MB

Jamie Womble: Linking seasonal distribution patterns with prey availability in a central-place forager, the Steller sea lion

12MB

Elizabeth Mathews: The role of predation by Steller sea lions in the population decline of harbor seals in Glacier Bay National Park

n/a

Peter Boveng: Strong Seasonal Dynamics of Harbor Seals, an Upper-Trophic Predator in Cook Inlet

2.1MB

Caroline Jezierski: Impact of ecotourism on Harbor seal behavior in Pedersen Lake, Kenai Fjords National Park

4.3MB