Speaker: Jackie King, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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International Year of the Salmon is approaching! I would like to take this opportunity to update colleagues on the current, and future, juvenile salmon ocean research projects undertaken by my program at the Pacific Biological Station (Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Nanaimo, BC). Since 1998, this program has conducted field-based research on juvenile salmon off the west coast of Vancouver Island, central and northern British Columbia and into southeast Alaska. In recent years it has become more integrative with other programs both within and outside of DFO. Summer fieldwork has refocused as a month-long integrative pelagic ecosystem survey for the whole Vancouver Island continental shelf with the intent of placing juvenile salmon fully within an ecosystem context. Field-based observations on juvenile salmon are now being incorporated into the new DFO State of the Salmon Program which annually synthesizes information on the state of freshwater and marine ecosystems across the life cycle of Pacific salmon. In addition, research projects with collaborators are linking climate and ocean conditions to the interannual variability in migration timing, distribution and condition of juvenile salmon in order to augment assessment models and the forecasts of adult returns. A new initiative this year with NMFS colleagues from NWFSC and AFSC is the collective reporting of 2018 summer survey results for the relative abundance and condition of juvenile salmon from Oregon northward to southeast Alaska. The collaborative report, produced in early December, will provide agency assessment staff and managers with a synopsis for early ocean conditions and any anomalous observations. Addressing ecological impacts of changing climate and ocean conditions requires international science that is integrative– and collaboratively addressing hypotheses for these highly migratory species, that are a shared resource between nations, is an exciting opportunity for us all. My research goal is to move beyond International Year of the Salmon and, together with colleagues from NMFS, initiate long-standing collaborative projects across salmon ecosystems to provide our agencies with relevant science advice for their assessment and management of Pacific salmon.
BIO
Dr. Jacquelynne (Jackie) King is a Research Scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, BC. Her research investigates linkages between basin-scale drivers, such as climate forcing, and fish productivity through coastal processes. She collaborates in integrative pelagic field studies along the continental shelf, with her primary focus on understanding the factors controlling the abundance, distribution, and production of juvenile salmon and associated species in marine ecosystems. Her research includes climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and methods of incorporating climate variability into stock assessment advice. She is also the lead for Canadian Pacific elasmobranch research and conservation and has published research on age determination, migration, stock delineation and assessment of chondrichthyans. Subscribe to the OneNOAA Science Seminar weekly email: Send an email to OneNOAAscienceseminars-request@list.woc.noaa.gov with the word `subscribe' in the subject or body. See http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/seminars/
(Jackie King, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
When
Thu Dec 6, 2018 7pm – 8pm Coordinated Universal Time
Where
Webinar or at Northwest Fisheries Science Center Auditorium 2725 Montlake Blvd. E., Seattle WA 98112 (map)
