“We’re basically asking if wild fish feel ‘peer pressure’ from hatchery fish to migrate,” said Dr. Berdahl. “Hatchery production is common throughout the Pacific Northwest, so the findings could improve salmon conservation broadly.”

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Filmed over the course of the summer and fall of 2021, Jason Ching and Professor Daniel Schindler from the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program recently released a short film on the salmon habitats of southwest Alaska. Mosaic: The Salmon Wilderness of Bristol Bay, Alaska showcases the region’s pristine streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands and how they sustain its vast sockeye salmon runs. 

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Future Rivers invites you to a special film screening on October 14th of the documentary, River to the Heart (105m), followed by a conversation with the director, Eddy Harris, author of Mississippi Solo. This documentary charts Eddy’s adventures as a lone Black man canoeing 2,318 miles down the entirety of the Mississippi River.

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Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño, along with researchers from NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Baywater Shellfish Farms, will examine the impacts of stressors on shellfish as part of a new project funded by the NOAA Sea Grant and the Ocean Acidification Program.

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SAFS Assistant Professor Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño was recently named the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. This prestigious award will support Padilla-Gamiño’s research to explore how changing oceans and plastic pollution will impact coral reef ecosystems; it will also support continued education and outreach initiatives with citizens, teachers and grade school students in Hawaii.

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In July, Professor John Horne eagerly returned to the field after more than a year of pandemic related delays. As part of a multi-institutional science team, John set sail aboard the R/V Point Sur from Gulfport, Mississippi, testing new technologies to study deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico in more detail. This voyage was also the first opportunity for John and his team to deploy the new glider technology they have been developing.

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Each year, our students, faculty, and staff win regional, national, and international awards. Please join us in congratulating this year’s group of award winners!

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September 6, 1926–March 17, 2021

We thank the Liston family and SAFS faculty and students for their contributions to this memoriam. Some content was adapted from the Seattle Times obituary published on May 16, 2021.

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June 29, 1927–March 17, 2021

Thanks to Dick’s family and many students, colleagues, and friends for their contributions to this memoriam. Some content was adapted from an obituary published by Dignity Memorial https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/snohomish-wa/richard-whitney-10114346.

On 17 March 2021, Richard (Dick) Whitney, SAFS professor emeritus, passed away at the age of 93.

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16 April 1949– December 24, 2020

Thanks to Glenn’s many students, colleagues, and friends for their contributions to this memoriam. Some content was adapted from an article published in the February 2021 issue of Marine Mammal Science

On 24 December 2020, Glenn VanBlaricom, SAFS professor emeritus, passed away at the age of 71 following a long battle with thyroid cancer.

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