Research Activities for October-December 2003

John Durban and John Brandon  of the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program track a group of
Baird's beaked whales on the north side of Tanaga Island.  Photo by Paul Wade.

FEATURE

• Surveying Killer Whale Abundance and Distribution in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Alex Wertheimer Receives Wally Noerenberg Award
• Ocean Survival High for Auke Creek Wild Coho Salmon
• ESA Recovery Science Review Panel Meeting
• NPAFC Annual Meeting and International Workshop
• Eastern Bering Sea (BASIS) Coastal Research on Juvenile Salmon
• Physical Characteristics and Ichthyofauna of Eelgrass Meadows in Southeastern Alaska: Establishing Long-term Monitoring Sites
• Alaska Sablefish Assessment
• Stock Assessment of Gulf of Alaska Slope Rockfish and Pelagic Shelf Rockfish
• Electronic Tagging of Juvenile Sablefish in Southeast Alaska
• Analysis of Pacific Sleeper Shark Relative Abundance Trends in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea
• 2003 Pacific Sleeper Shark Electronic Archival Tagging in Upper Chatham Strait, Southeast Alaska
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Alaska Ecosystem Research Program:
       - Juvenile Steller Sea Lion Studies
• California Current Program:
       - San Miguel Island Research Station
       - Gray Whale Research
       - Washington/Oregon Steller Sea Lion Research
• Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program:
       - Bowhead Whale Data
       - Joint Russia-Canada-US Project to Tag Belugas off the Chukotka Peninsula
       - Workshop on Odontocete Capture and Handling Techniques
       - Abundance of Cook Inlet Belugas
• Polar Ecosystems Program:
       - Harbor Seal Surveys and Time-lapse Camera Tests in Cook Inlet
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING DIVISION (RACE)

• Groundfish Assessment:
       - Research and Analysis
       - NOAA Multibeam Sonar/ Ocean Mapping Workshops
       - Estimating Capture Probability of Skates for Survey Trawl
• Midwater Assessment & Conservation Engineering (MACE) Program:
       - Multibeam Sonar Training Course
       - GIS Visualization of Acoustic Survey Data
       - Fisheries Scientific Computer System Users Conference
• Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI):
       - Responses of Ichthyoplankton Biodiversity and Dynamics to Environmental Change
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION (REFM)

• U.S. North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program:
       - Observer Safety Reports
       - International Fishing Safety Conference
       - ATLAS System
• Age and Growth Program (Production Figures)
• Economic and Social Sciences Research Program:
       - Economic Data Collection Programs
       - Fishing Industry Productivity and Capacity
       - Regional Economics in the North Pacific
       - Groundfish SAFE Reports
       - National Bycatch Strategy
       - Fishing Communities
       - Data Requests
• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment Program:
       - 2003 Stock Assessment Summary

               - Atka Mackerel Tag Recovery Cruise Near Amchitka Island and Seguam Pass

• Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Program:
       - Fish Stomach Collection and Lab Analysis
       - Ecosystem Considerations for 2004
       - Feeding Habits of Demersal Fish