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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
SHARING OUR IMPACT & RESULTS
Sharing our work near and far is one of the most important parts of PWSSC's impact. Our staff members are widely published; here’s a summary of their publications, reports, posters, oral presentations, outreach, and service for 2022.
MARY ANNE BISHOP, PH.D.
PUBLICATIONS
Bishop, M.A., D. Liu, G. Zhang, D. Tsamchu, Y. Le, F. Qian, and F. Li. 2022. Rapid growth of the Bar-headed Geese (Anser indicus) wintering population in Tibet Autonomous Region: 1991-2017. Bird Conservation International 32(3):398-413 doi:10.1017/S0959270921000265).
Hill, N.J., M.A. Bishop, N.S. Trovão, K. Ineson, A. Schaefer, W.B. Puryear, K. Zhou, A. Foss, D. Clark, K. McKenzie, J.D. Gass Jr., L. Borkenhagen, J.S. Hall, J.A. Runstadler. 2022. Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread. PLoS Pathogens. 18(5): e1010062. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062
Schaefer, A.L., K.B. Gorman, and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:999461 doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.99946.
Taylor A., M.A. Bishop, A. Schaefer, R. Porter, K. Sowl. 2022. Using geolocator data to address changes in migration patterns for Black Turnstone. Animal Migration 9(1)1-13. https://doi.org/10.1515/ami-2022-0118.
PRESENTATIONS
Schaefer, A.L., and M.A. Bishop. Winter marine bird surveys in Prince William Sound. Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council Board of Directors Meeting September 2022 (online oral presentation given by Schaefer).
POSTERS
Arimitsu, M., M. A. Bishop D. Cushing, S. Hatch, R. Kaler, K. Kuletz, et al. Changes in Marine Predator and Prey Populations in the Northern Gulf of Alaska: Gulf Watch Alaska Pelagic Update 2021. Poster presented online for Alaska Marine Science Symposium. January 2022. Anchorage, AK.
Cypher, A., S. Danielson, R.W. Campbell, M.A. Bishop, J. Eiler, and H. Statscewich. Detecting Acoustic Tagged Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Using an Autonomous Underwater Glider Carrying an Integrated Acoustic Receiver in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Poster presented online for Alaska Marine Science Symposium. January 2022. Anchorage, AK.
REPORTS
Gorman, K. B., A. L. Schaefer, and M. A. Bishop. 2022. Resolving the annual pelagic distribution of tufted puffins: associations with oceanographic features and isotopic niche. NPRB Project 1812 Final Report.
Schaefer, A.S. and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Marine winter bird Surveys in Prince William Sound. Final report to Prince William Sound Regional Citizen’s Advisory Council.
OUTREACH
Delta Sound Connections
Bishop, M.A. 2022. Early returns: Do herring winter near their spawning grounds?
Bishop, M.A. & A. Schaefer. 2022. Semipalmated Plovers: Bolder Eyebrows Reveal the Sex!
Schaefer, A., K. Gorman, & M.A. Bishop. 2022. Tufted Puffins: Where to Winter?
Schaefer, A., & M.A. Bishop. 2022. Focus on Wintering Seabirds and Oil Tanker Traffic.
Cordova Times
Bishop, M.A. 2022. PWSSC studies avian influenza and how it spreads. Cordova Times. June 10. Page 2. And online.
Schaefer, A., K. Gorman, M. A. Bishop. Tufted Puffin Research Paper Published: Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the northeast Pacific Ocean. September 2022.
ROBERT W. CAMPBELL, PH.D.
PUBLICATIONS
Du, X., Campbell, R.W. and S. Kibler. 2022. Seasonal Changes of Microphytoplankton Community in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 2019. Estuaries and Coasts. //doi: 0.1007/s12237-022-01144-z.
Danielson, S.L., Hennon, T.D., Monson, D.H., Suryan, R.M., Campbell, R.W., Baird, S.J., Holderied, K. and T.J. Weingartner. 2022. Temperature variations in the northern Gulf of Alaska across synoptic to century-long time scales. Deep Sea Research II 203. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105155.
Dias, B.S., McGowan, D.W., Campbell, R.W. and T.A. Branch. 2022. Influence of environmental and population factors on Prince William Sound herring spawning phenology. Marine Ecology Progress Series 696:103-117. doi: 10.3354/meps14133.
McKinstry, C.A.E., Campbell, R.W. and K. Holderied. 2022. Influence of the 2014-2016 marine heatwave on seasonal zooplankton community structure and abundance in the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Deep Sea Research II. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2021.105012.
POSTERS & PRESENTATIONS
Campbell, R.W. The Prince William Sound Plankton Camera: a profiling in situ observatory of plankton and particulates. PICES Annual Meeting 2022. Busan, Korea.
Campbell, R.W. A long term comparison of net-caught versus image-based estimates of zooplankton concentrations in Prince William Sound, Alaska. ASLO/TOS/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022, online.
Campbell, R.W. Monitoring Plankton With Cameras? Intercalibration of In-situ Imagery and Net Based Estimates of Plankton Concentrations and Observations from a Multiyear Time Series of High Frequency Observations in Prince William Sound. Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2022, online.
Cypher, A., Danielson, S., Campbell, R.W., Bishop, M.A., Eiler, J. and H. Statscewich. Detecting Acoustic Tagged Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Using an Autonomous Underwater Glider Carrying an Integrated Acoustic Receiver in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2022, online.
Sabo, A., Hardison, D.R., Matweyou., J., Kibler, S., Guo, C., Du., X., Hondolero, D., Campbell, R.W., Wright, B., Holland, W.C. and K. Holderied. Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Forage and Predatory Fishes of Southcentral and Southwest Alaska: NPRB 1801 Year 3 Update. Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2022, online.
REPORTS
Campbell, R.W. Temperature trends in Prince William Sound. pp 156 in: Ferris B., and S. Zador (Eds.). Ecosystem Status Report 2022: Gulf of Alaska. North Pacific Fishery Management Council Report 2021, Anchorage, AK.
Campbell, R.W. Monitoring the Oceanographic Conditions of Prince William Sound. Report to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Gulf Watch Alaska project. 2022.
Delta Sound Connections
Campbell, R.W. Are you ready for your close-up? Counting plankton with cameras. In-water fish counting computers.
ALYSHA D. CYPHER, PH.D.
PRESENTATIONS
Cypher, A.D., Statscewich, H., Campbell, R., Danielson, S. L., Eiler, J.H., Bishop, M. A. Detecting acoustic tagged Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) using an autonomous underwater glider carrying an integrated acoustic receiver in Prince William Sound, AK. Alaska Marine Science Symposium. January 2022. Anchorage, AK.
Cypher, A. D., Herring Patterns in Prince William Sound. Prince William Sound Natural History Symposium. May 2022.
SCOTT PEGAU, PH.D.
PUBLICATIONS
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Review of the Inland Estimated Recovery System Potential (ERSP) Prototype Calculator. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26649.
REPORTS
Pegau, W. S., J. Trocta, and J. Morella. 2022. Prince William Sound Herring. In. Ferriss, B. E. and Zador, S. 2022. Ecosystem Status Report 2022: Gulf of Alaska, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Report, North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Anchorage, AK. https://apps-afsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/refm/docs/2021/GOAecosys.pdf.
Mearns, A., D. Janka, S. Pegau, R.W. Campbell, and B. Robinson. 2022. Three-decades of Rocky Intertidal Photo Series Documenting Interannual Variability in Western Prince William Sound. 44th Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Technical Seminar.
PRESENTATIONS
Pegau, W. S. Remotely Operated Surface Vessel for Oil Spill Response, International Oil Spill Science Conference 2022.
Arimitsu et al. Changes in marine predator and prey populations in the northern Gulf of Alaska: Gulf Watch Alaska pelagic update 2021 (poster). Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2022.
Nedwed, T., S. Pegau, K. Stone, J. Cho, T. Thornton, P. Schuler, V. Broje, P. Taylor, and N. Kalimov. Remotely Operated Surface Vehicle for Oil Spill Response (presentation). Interspill 2022.
OUTREACH
Pegau, W. S. Oil Spill Recovery Institute research activities, presentation to the Alaska Regional Response Team, 2022.
Pegau, W. S. Oil Spill Recovery Institute, presentation to the Arctic and Western Alaska Area Committee, 2022.
Pegau, W. S. Oil Spill Recovery Institute, presentation at a meeting of spill research funding organizations. Clean Gulf conference, 2022.
Pegau, W. S. Oil Spill Recovery Institute, presentation to the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research, 2022.
PETER S. RAND, PH.D.
PUBLICATIONS
Fukushima, M., and P.S. Rand. Individual variation in spawning migration in a salmonid fish – Exploring roles of environmental and social cues. Ecology and Evolution 13(5):e10101.
von Biela, V.R., C.J. Sergeant, M.P. Carey, Z. Liller, C. Russell, S. Quinn-Davidson, P.S. Rand, P.A.H. Westley, C.E. Zimmerman. 2022. Premature mortality observations among Alaska’s Pacific salmon during record heat and drought in 2019. Fisheries 47(4):157-168.
PRESENTATIONS
Rand, P.S. International Year of the Salmon conference. Vancouver, BC. Oct. 2022.
ANNE SCHAEFER, M.S.
PUBLICATIONS
Schaefer, A.L., K.B. Gorman, and M.A. Bishop. 2022. Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 1725. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.999461.
Hill, N.J., M.A. Bishop, N.S. Trovao, K. Ineson, A.L. Schaefer, W.B. Puryear, K. Zhou, A. Foss, D. Clark, K. McKenzie, J. D. Gass Jr., L. K. Borkenhagen, J.S. Hall, and J.A. Runstadler. 2022. Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread. PLoS Pathogens 18: e1010062.
Taylor, A.R., M.A. Bishop, A. Schaefer, R. Porter, and K. Sowl. 2022. Using geolocator data to address changes in migration patterns for Black Turnstone. Animal Migration 9: 1 – 13.
REPORTS
Bishop, M.A., and A. Schaefer. 2022. Long-term monitoring of marine bird abundance and habitat associations during fall and winter in Prince William Sound. FY21 Annual Report to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (project 21120114-E.).
Gorman, K. B., A. L. Schaefer, and M. A. Bishop. 2022. Resolving the annual pelagic distribution of tufted puffins: associations with oceanographic features and isotopic niche. Final report to the North Pacific Research Board (project 1812).
Schaefer, A. L., and M. A. Bishop. 2022. Marine bird winter surveys in Prince William Sound. Final Report to the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (Contract 9110.22.01).
PRESENTATIONS
Schaefer, A. L., and M. A. Bishop. 2022. Marine bird winter surveys in Prince William Sound. Presentation to the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council Board, September 2022.
OUTREACH
Delta Sound Connections
Schaefer, A., M. A. Bishop, and K. Gorman: Tufted Puffins, Where to Winter?
Schaefer, A., and M. A. Bishop: Semipalmated Plovers, Bolder Eyebrows Reveal the Sex!
Schaefer, A., and M. A. Bishop: Focus on Wintering Seabirds and Oil Tanker Traffic.
Cordova Times
Schaefer, A., K. Gorman, M. A. Bishop. Tufted Puffin Research Paper Published: Light-level geolocation reveals the short-distance non-breeding movements and distribution of tufted puffins throughout the northeast Pacific Ocean. September 2022.
Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dan Hull (2020-23)Chair
Commercial Fisherman
Anchorage
Laura Meadors (2014-17, 2017-20, 2020-23)
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Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., Retired
Valdez
Katherine Dugan (2021-24)
2nd Vice Chair
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
Valdez
Tommy Sheridan (2018-21, 2021-24)
Secretary
Associate Director, Blue Economy Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Cordova
Thea Thomas (2017-20, 2020-23)
Treasurer
Area E Drift Gillnetter
Cordova
Katrina Hoffman
President and CEO, Ex-officio
Prince William Sound Science Center
Cordova
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Chuck Meacham (2007-10, 2010-13, 2013-16)President, Capital Consulting
Gig Harbor, Washington
Meera Kohler (1998-2008, 2011-14)
CEO, Retired
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative
Anchorage
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Craig Tillery (2017-20, 2020-23)Deputy Attorney General, Retired
Alaska Department of Law
Anchorage
Sylvia Lange (2020-23)
Owner, The Reluctant Fisherman Inn
Cordova
Robyn McGhee (2021-24)
ConocoPhillips Alaska
Anchorage
Betsi Oliver (2020-23)
Consultant, Entelechy Arts, LLC
Anchorage
Chris Rurik (2020-23)
Director
The Russell Family Foundation
Gig Harbor, Washington
Todd Telesz (2017-20, 2020-23)
CEO & GM
Basin Electric Power Coop
Bismarck, North Dakota
Peter Andersen (2021-24)
President, Chugach Commercial Holdings
Anchorage
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