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50 citations most recently added to the Pubs Database:

  • St. John, C. A., Timm, L. E., Gruenthal, K. M., and Larson, W. A. 2025. Whole genome sequencing reveals substantial genetic structure and evidence of local adaptation in Alaskan red king crab. Evolutionary Applications, 18(1), e70049.   Online.  (added 1-15-25).
     
  • Kimber, B. M., Braen, E. K., Wright, D. L., Harlacher, J. M., Crance, J. L., & Berchok, C. L. 2025. Less ice, more predators: passive acoustic monitoring shows variation in killer whale (Orcinus orca) presence in the U.S. Arctic with declining sea ice. Polar Biology, 48(1), 21.   Online.  (added 1-15-25).
     
  • Waples, R. S., Masuda, M. M., LaCava, M. E. F., and Finger, A. J. 2025. A method to maximise precision of the temporal method for estimating N in genetic monitoring programs. Molecular Ecology Resources. e14057.   Online.  (added 1-13-25).
     
  • TenBrink, T. T., Sullivan, J. Y., & Gburski, C. M. (2025). Exploring the use of otolith shape analysis to identify the stock spatial structure of dusky rockfish (Sebastes variabilis). Fisheries Research, 281, 107189.   Online.  (added 1-6-25).
     
  • Gardner, J. L., Long, W. C., and Swiney, K. M. 2025. Reproductive potential of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) across warm and cold stanzas in Bristol Bay in southwestern Alaska. Fishery Bulletin, U. S. 123(1): 1-12.  Online.  (added 1-6-25).
     
  • Jakobsson, M., Mohammad, R., Karlsson, M., Salas-Romero, S., Vacek, F., Heinze, F., Bringensparr, C., Castro, C. F., Johnson, P., Kinney, J., Cardigos, S., Bogonko, M., Accettella, D., Amblas, D., An, L., Bohan, A., Brandt, A., Bünz, S., Canals, M., . . . Mayer, L. 2024. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 5.0. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1420.   Online.  (added 1-6-25).
     
  • Gunn, J. C., Clements, S. J., Adams, G., Sterling, E. M., Moore, M. J., Volkers, T. N., & Eggert, L. S. 2024. Phenotypic homogenization and potential fitness constraints following non-native introgression in an endemic sportfish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae137   Online.  (added 12-4-24).
     
  • Seung, C. K. 2024. Developing a port-level economic impact model for Alaska fisheries. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-492, 23 p.  Online.  (added 11-25-24).
     
  • Parsons, K. M., May, S. A., Gold, Z., Dahlheim, M., Gabriele, C., Straley, J. M., Moran, J. R., Goetz, K., Zerbini, A. N., Park, L., & Morin, P. A. 2024. Using eDNA to supplement population genetic analyses for cryptic marine species: Identifying population boundaries for Alaska harbour porpoises. Molecular Ecology, e17563.   Online.  (added 11-25-24).
     
  • Oke, K. B., Litzow, M. A., & Mueter, F. 2024. Shifting temperature-abundance relationship for Bering Sea walleye pollock consistent with northward expansion during exceptionally warm conditions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 749, 141-158.   Online.  (added 11-25-24).
     
  • Hollarsmith, J. A., R. Cates, A. Bishop, J. Starzynski-Hotch, S. Oates, and H. Wilson. 2024. Bringing seaweed cultivation into the classroom: a case study in rural Alaska. Journal of STEM Outreach 7 (1): 1–10.  (added 11-25-24).
     
  • Hollowed, A. B., Holsman, K. K., Wise, S. P., Haynie, A. C., Cheng, W., Evans, D. C. K., Hermann, A. J., Ianelli, J. N., Kearney, K. A., Punt, A. E., Reum, J. C. P., Stram, D. L., & Szuwalski, C. S. 2024. Development of climate informed management scenarios for fisheries in the eastern Bering Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. fsae034.   Online.  (added 11-25-24).
     
  • Seung, C. K., Kim, D.H.. and Choi, J.H. 2024. Effects of stock rebuilding – A computable general equilibrium analysis for a mackerel fishery in Korea. npj Ocean Sustainability 3, 55 (2024).   Online.  (added 11-21-24).
     
  • Kimmel, D. G., Crouser, D. C., Harpold, C. E., Lamb, J. F., & Spear, A. H. 2024. Rapid zooplankton assessment: Evaluating a tool for ecosystem-based fisheries management in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography, n/a(n/a), e12707.   Online.  (added 11-13-24).
     
  • Sullaway, G., Cunningham, C. J., Kimmel, D., Pilcher, D. J., & Thorson, J. T. 2024. Evaluating the performance of a system model in predicting zooplankton dynamics: Insights from the Bering Sea ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography, n/a(n/a), e12691. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12691   Online.  (added 11-13-24).
     
  • Taras, B. D., Conn, P. B., Bravington, M. V., Kilian, A., Lang, A. R., Bryan, A., Stimmelmayr, R., & Quakenbush, L. 2024. Estimating demographic parameters for bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus, in Alaska using close-kin mark-recapture methods. Evolutionary Applications, 17(11), e70035.   Online.  (added 11-13-24).
     
  • Shelden, K. E. W., Brower, A. A., Christman, C. L., and Goetz, K. T. 2024. Distribution of eastern Bering Sea belugas from aerial line-transect surveys in 2024. AFSC Processed Rep. 2024-12, 57 p. Alaska Fish. Sci. Cent., NOAA, Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle WA 98115.  Online.  (added 11-12-24).
     
  • Brower, A. A., Young, N. C., Freed, J. C., Delean, B. J., Muto, M. M., Keogh, M. J., Raum-Suryan, K. L., Savage, K. M., Teerlink, S. S., Wright, S. K., Jemison, L. A., Wilkinson, K. M., Jannot, J. E., and Somers, K. A. 2024. Human-caused mortality and injury of NMFS-managed Alaska Marine Mammal stocks, 2018-2022. AFSC Processed Rep. 2024-11, 7 p. + Supporting file. Alaska Fish. Sci. Cent., NOAA, Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv.,7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle WA 98115.  Online.  (added 11-12-24).
     
  • Zacher, L. S., Hennessey, S. M., Richar, J. I., Fedewa, E. J., Ryznar, E. R., and Litzow, M. A. 2024. The 2024 eastern Bering Sea continental shelf trawl survey: Results for commercial crab species. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-491, 228 p.  Online.  (added 11-12-24).
     
  • Fukuda, K., Hibiya, Y., Kastelle, C.R., Suzuki, K., Iizuka, T., Yamashita, K., Helser, T.E. and Kita, N.T. 2024. Radial transport and nebular thermal processing of millimeter-sized solids in the Solar protoplanetary disk inferred from Cr-Ti-O isotope systematics of chondrules. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. Early Online.  Online.  (added 11-6-24).
     
  • Ledger, K. J., Hicks, M. B. R., Hurst, T. P., Larson, W., and Baetscher, D. S. 2024. Validation of environmental DNA for estimating proportional and absolute biomass. Environmental DNA, 6(5), e70030.   Online.  (added 10-30-24).
     
  • Longo, G. C., Minich, J. J., Allsing, N., James, K., Adams-Herrmann, E. S., Larson, W., Hartwick, N., Duong, T., Muhling, B., Michael, T. P., and Craig, M. T. 2024. Crossing the Pacific: Genomics reveals the presence of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanosticta) in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Molecular Ecology, e17561.   Online.  (added 10-30-24).
     
  • Neidetcher, S. K., Arrington, M. B., Helser, T. E., Goldstein, E. D., Benson, I. M., & Waters, C. D. 2024. A novel approach for rapidly determining the reproductive status of walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) using Raman spectroscopy. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11.  Online.  (added 10-17-24).
     
  • London, J.M., Conn, P.B., Koslovsky, S.M., Richmond, E.L., Ver Hoef, J.M., Cameron, M.F., Crawford, J.A., Von Duyke, A.L., Quakenbush, L., Boveng, P.L. 2024. Spring haul-out behavior of seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Implications for abundance estimation. PeerJ 12:e18160   Online.  (added 10-10-24).
     
  • Alaska Fisheries Science Center and Alaska Regional Office. 2024. North Pacific Observer Program 2023 Annual Report. AFSC Processed Rep. 2024-10, 128 p. Alaska Fish. Sci. Cent., NOAA, Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle WA 98115. View Online.  Online.  (added 10-7-24).
     
  • Lew, D.K., Magnusson, G. and. Ray, K.D. (Eds.) 2024. Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific. PICES Sci. Rep. No. 65, North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, Canada, 247 p.   Online.  (added 10-3-24).
     
  • Bassett, C., De Robertis, A., and Gallagher, M. 2024. A passive acoustic drifter for radiated noise measurements of NOAA Fisheries survey vessels. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-490, 116 p.  Online.  (added 10-1-24).
     
  • Bryan, D. R., Yochum, N., & Wilson, K. C. 2024. Evaluating Pacific salmon swimming behavior in the aft end of a pelagic trawl to inform bycatch reduction device design and use. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 16(4), e10306.   Online.  (added 9-25-24).
     
  • Handegard, N. O., De Robertis, A., Holmin, A. J., Johnsen, E., Lawrence, J., Le Bouffant, N., O'Driscoll, R., Peddie, D., Pedersen, G., Priou, P., Rogge, R., Samuelsen, M., & Demer, D. A. 2024. Uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) as platforms for fisheries and plankton acoustics. ICES Journal of Marine Science.  Online.  (added 9-25-24).
     
  • Pelland, N., Sterling, J. T., Lea, M.-A., Johnson, D. S., Melovidov, P. I., Lestenkof, A. P., & Divine, L. M. 2024. Weather, climate, and entry into migration of northern fur seal pups. Canadian Journal of Zoology, Early Online. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2023-0212  Online.  (added 9-11-24).
     
  • Crance, J., & Kennedy, A. 2024. Contemporary sightings of eastern North Pacific right whales, 2006 to 2023. Endangered Species Research, 54, 427-441.   Online.  (added 9-11-24).
     
  • Stephens, T., Li, Y., Yarish, C., Rogers, M. C., & Umanzor, S. 2024. Does seawater nitrogen better predict the baseline farmed yield for sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) rather than the final yield? Phycology, 4(3), 370-383.   Online.  (added 9-11-24).
     
  • VanderWright, W. J., Bigman, J. S., Iliou, A. S., and Dulvy, N. K. 2024. Ecological lifestyle and gill slit height across sharks. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11(5). 11231867.   Online.  (added 9-9-24).
     
  • von Szalay, P., Laman, E., Kotwicki, S., Barnett, L., & Ono, K. 2024. Quantifying the effects of sample size and species distribution on the precision and accuracy of abundance estimates from bottom-trawl surveys in the Gulf of Alaska. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 122.   Online.  (added 9-9-24).
     
  • Litzow, M. A., Fedewa, E. J., Malick, M. J., Connors, B. M., Eisner, L., Kimmel, D. G., Kristiansen, T., Nielsen, J. M., & Ryznar, E. R. 2024. Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab. Nature Climate Change, 14(9), 932-935.   Online.  (added 9-9-24).
     
  • Ryznar, E. R., & Litzow, M. A. 2024. Predicting the distribution of red king crab bycatch in Bering Sea flatfish trawl fisheries. Fisheries Research, 279, 107158.  Online.  (added 9-3-24).
     
  • Castellote, M., Gill, V. A., Garner, C. D., Gilstad, A. J., Hou, B. X., Brewer, A. M., & Knoth, J. M. 2024. Using passive acoustics to identify a quiet winter foraging refuge for an endangered beluga whale population in Alaska [Original Research]. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11.   Online.  (added 8-30-24).
     
  • Pearson, S. F., Amburgey, S. M., Clark, C. T., Tanedo, S. A., London, J. M., Huber, H. R., & Jeffries, S. J. 2024. Trends and status of harbor seals in Washington State, USA (1977–2023). Marine Mammal Science, Early Online, e13161.   Online.  (added 8-28-24).
     
  • Levine, R. M., De Robertis, A., Bassett, C., Levine, M., & Ianelli, J. N. 2024. Acoustic observations of walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) migration across the US-Russia boundary in the northwest Bering Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae071   Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Kokkalis, A., Berg, C. W., Kapur, M. S., Winker, H., Jacobsen, N. S., Taylor, M. H., Ichinokawa, M., Miyagawa, M., Medeiros-Leal, W., Nielsen, J. R., & Mildenberger, T. K. 2024. Good practices for surplus production models. Fisheries Research, 275, 107010.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Correa, G. M., Hurst, T. P., Stockhausen, W. T., Ciannelli, L., Kristiansen, T., & Pilcher, D. J. 2024. Modelling the multiple action pathways of projected climate change on the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) early life stages. Progress in Oceanography, 227, 103313.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Zhou, Z. T., Owens, G. L., Larson, W. A., Lou, R. N., & Sudmant, P. H. 2024. loco-pipe: an automated pipeline for population genomics with low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. Bioinformatics Advances, 4(1).  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Ward, E. J., Hunsicker, M. E., Marshall, K. N., Oken, K. L., Semmens, B. X., Field, J. C., Haltuch, M. A., Johnson, K. F., Taylor, I. G., Thompson, A. R., & Tolimieri, N. 2024. Leveraging ecological indicators to improve short term forecasts of fish recruitment. Fish and Fisheries, Early Online.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Kanaji, Y., Williams, R., Zerbini, A. N., & Branch, T. A. 2024. Density dependence only affects increase rates in baleen whale populations at high abundance levels. Journal of Applied Ecology, Early Online.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Cheng, M., Goethel, D. R., Hulson, P.-J. F., & Cunningham, C. J. 2024. Confronting transitions in fishery fleet structure and selectivity: Practical recommendations for integrated age-structured stock assessments based on simulation analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Early Online.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Berger, C. A., Steinberg, D. K., Copeman, L. A., & Tarrant, A. M. 2024. Comparative analysis of the molecular starvation response of Southern Ocean copepods. Molecular Ecology, Early Online, e17371.   Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Howard, R. A., Rogers, L. A., Kearney, K. A., Vary, L. L., & Ciannelli, L. 2024. Projecting marine fish distributions during early life stages under future climate scenarios. Fish and Fisheries, 25(4), 733-749.  Online.  (added 8-14-24).
     
  • Stephens, J. D., & McConnaughey, R. A. 2024. Physical and geochemical responses to bottom trawling on naturally disturbed sediments in the eastern Bering Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science.   Online.  (added 8-5-24).
     
  • Onorato, D. P., Cunningham, M. W., Lotz, M., Criffield, M., Shindle, D., Johnson, A., Clemons, B. C. F., Shea, C. P., Roelke-Parker, M. E., Johnson, W. E., McClintock, B. T., Pilgrim, K. L., Schwartz, M. K., & Oli, M. K. 2024. Multi-generational benefits of genetic rescue. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 17519.  Online.  (added 7-31-24).
     
  • Balstad, L. J., Fedewa, E. J., & Szuwalski, C. S. 2024. Drivers of bitter crab disease occurrence in eastern Bering Sea snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio). ICES Journal of Marine Science.   Online.  (added 7-31-24).
     
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