Speakers announced for the 2022 Alaska Salmon Program Annual Science Symposium
Taking place on Friday 9 December at 2pm, the agenda for the 2022 Alaska Salmon Program Annual Science Symposium has been announced. The event will be held in FSH 102, in the Fishery Sciences Building.
This symposium showcases the research of the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Alaska Salmon Program undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scientists. Our program focuses on all aspects of the ecology of Pacific salmon in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, and watersheds of Southwest Alaska. Participants will give brief talks sharing their research in both basic and applied ecology, as well as the biological and socioeconomic management of Alaskan fisheries.
**For undergrads who may be interested in the FISH 491 course (Aquatic Ecological Research in Alaska, offered even years, next in summer 2024), or upper division undergrads and grad students considering FISH 497 (Management of Pacific Salmon in Alaska, offered odd years, next in 2023), this is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with our research program.
2022 Speakers
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 2:00 | Chris Boatright | 2023 Bristol Bay preseason sockeye salmon forecast |
| 2:07 | Ray Hilborn | Predicting Bristol Bay Stock Composition |
| 2:14 | Grant Woodard | Updates to Bristol Bay In-season Sockeye Salmon Forecasting |
| 2:21 | Ben Koger | Using drones and computer vision to study and monitor Pacific salmon |
| 2:28 | Tom Quinn | Bears on film and hair on the wire: A decade of camera, DNA, and stable isotope studies |
| 2:35 | Liz Voytas and Grace Henry | Stable Isotope Analysis of Alaskan Brown Bear Hair |
| 2:42 | Anne Polykav | Fungi, Forests, and Fish: Fungal communities along salmon streams |
| 2:49 | Katie McElroy | Applying the Ideal Free Distribution to the movement of a highly mobile drift gillnet fishery |
| 2:56 | Jackie Carter | 2020-2022 field season summaries |
| 3:03 | Curry Cunningham | Summer 2022 acoustic surveys of Iliamna Lake: Quantifying things in space and at depth |
| 3:10-3:30 | Break | |
| 3:37 | Grace Henry | Using Compound Specific Stable Isotopes to Analyze Shifting Baselines in the North Pacific |
| 3:44 | Jada Rassmusen | How water temperature may affect salmon-bear interactions in streams |
| 3:51 | Ben Mahklouf | Combining genetic and isotope data to improve basin scale maps of relative salmon production |
| 3:58 | Cirque Gammelin | TBD |
| 4:05 | Genoa Sulaway | Exploring cross-ecosystem synchrony in bottom-up drivers of sockeye size |
| 4:12 | Jan Ohlberger | Why are Bristol Bay sockeye salmon so small recently? |
| 4:19 | Daniel Schindler | How freshwater ecotype affects density dependent growth of sockeye salmon in the ocean |
| 4:26 | Sam May | Genetic variation underlying dispersal in Sockeye: implications for population dynamics |
| 4:33 | Brian Zhang | Overview of A and C Creek |
| 4:39 | Wes Larson | Understanding the genetic basis of jacking in sockeye salmon |