SAFS hosts weekly lunch-time seminars, where students and faculty share findings from their current research. Read through our past seminars to get an idea of topics covered and be sure to check out our events calendar to download upcoming seminars on your calendar.

Any recordings will be uploaded below and on the SAFS YouTube.

Spring 2026 Quantitative Seminars

Fridays at 12:30-1:30 pm in FSH 203.

 

Option to join the seminars remotely via Zoom is available.

4/10/26

Matt Falcy (USGS, Idaho Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit)

TITLE: The Ecology of Uncertainty: Models, Decisions, and Management

ABSTRACT: Measuring uncertainty is a critical element of science, but using such measures in fisheries decision-making can be challenging. I will present two papers that illustrate how to use uncertainty in management. In the first paper, I suggest that widely used calculations of pHOS are not commensurate with the genetic theory that motivates the use of pHOS as an index of risk to salmonids from domestication selection in hatcheries. I derive an alternative metric of pHOS that is commensurate with the spatiotemporal variability of natural- and hatchery- origin fish and the genetic theory used to index risk. I will present variance estimators of pHOS and a Bayesian belief network that propagates uncertainty in pHOS into hatchery management decisions. In the second paper, I derive novel probability density functions of utility using the transformation of variable technique, and I show how the same data can lead to different decisions if the decision is based on p-values versus expected utility. This presentation features 26 equations and 0 pictures of nature to illustrate abstract and philosophical aspects of data-driven fisheries decision-making.

04/17/26

Sandra O’Neill & John Best (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)

TITLE:  TBD

ABSTRACT:  TBD

04/24/26

Mark Sorel (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)

TITLE: TBD

ABSTRACT:  TBD

05/01/26

Brice Semmens (University of California, San Diego)

TITLE:  TBD

ABSTRACT:  TBD

05/08/26

Roger Peters (United States Fish and Wildlife Service)

TITLE:  TBD

ABSTRACT:  TBD

05/15/26

TBD

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ABSTRACT:  TBD

05/29/26

TBD

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06/05/26

Kathleen Durkin

TITLE:  TBD

ABSTRACT:  TBD

Archived Quantitative Seminars

Past seminar recordings can be found on our YouTube channel Quantitative Seminar playlist

Winter 2026 Seminars
Autumn 2025 Seminars
Spring 2025 Seminars
Winter 2025 Seminars
Autumn 2024 Seminars
Spring 2024 Seminars
Winter 2024 Seminars
Autumn 2023 Seminars
Spring 2023 Seminars
Winter 2023 Seminars
Autumn 2022 Seminars
Spring 2022 Seminars
Winter 2022 Seminars
Autumn 2021 Seminars
Spring 2021 Seminars
Winter 2021 Seminars
Autumn 2020 Seminars
Spring 2020 Seminars
Spring 2015 Seminars