Gulf of Alaska Seabirds and Marine Mammals

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Gulf of Alaska Seabirds and Marine Mammals

• Monday January 23rd

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The Session

• 20 posters
• 6 talks
• Population monitoring
• Physiology health
• Diet monitoring
• Fisheries issues
• Traditional use

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Monitoring Population Declines

• Remote Monitoring of Vital Rates in Harbor Seals
  (Phoca vitulina)
• Gail Blundell (ADFG)
• Declines in Harbor Seal Numbers in Glacier Bay
  National Park, Alaska
• Beth Mathews and Grey Pendleton (UAS)

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Monitoring Population Declines

• Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) -- Kayak
  Interactions in Pederson Lake, Kenai Fjords
  National Park
• Caroline Jezierski and Anne Hoover Miller (ASLC)
• Harbor seals as transmitters of indirect effects
  initiated by top predators and resources
  theoretical predictions
• Alejandro Frid, Grey Baker,
• Larry Dill, and Gail Blundell

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Monitoring Population Declines

• Are Killer Whales Affecting the Recovery of
  Steller Sea Lions? Assessing Evidence in Kenai
  Fjords, Alaska
• John Maniscalco, Craig Matkin D. Maldini, Don
  Calkings, Russ Andrews
• Distribution and Abundance of Juvenile Kittlitzs
  Murrelets in Kachemak Bay, Alaska, 2004-2005
• Kathy Kuletz and Elizabeth Labunski (FWS)

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Physiology and Health

• Variability in Organochlorine Contamination in
  both Blood and Blubber over Time in Captive
  Steller Sea Lions
• Matt Myers Shannon Atkinson (ASLC)
• Non-Invasive Monitoring of Testosterone in an
  Endangered Species, the Steller Sea Lion
• Beate Litz, K. Mashburn, L. Petauskas, S.
  Atkinson (ASLC)

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Physiology and Health

• Disease and Health Monitoring in Juvenile Steller
  Sea Lions Held in Temporary Captivity
• Carol Stephens, T. Goldstein, J. Mellish, S.
  Jang, M. Gray (ASLC)
• Muscle Biochemistry of Nursing Harbor Seal Pups
• Jill Prewitt ,Jenn Burns, C. Clark, M. Hammill
  (UAA)

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Monitoring Diet with QFASA

• A Quality Assurance and Quality Control Program
  (QA/QC) for Lipid Extraction and Gas
  Chromatographic Analysis for Fatty Acids (FA) an
  Inter-laboratory Study
• John Kennish, Carrie Beck, Lorrie Rea, Sara
  Iverson, Dom Tollit, Dave Kitts, Ron Heintz, L.
  Schaufler, D. Herman, Bob Foy, and Laura
  Hoberecht
• Validation Studies of Blubber Quantitative Fatty
  Acid Signature Analysis (QFASA) with Captive
  Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
• Dom Tollit, Sara Iverson, Susan Heaslip, David
  Rosen, Michael Walton, Andrew Trites

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Monitoring Diet with QFASA

• Using Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis
  (QFASA) to Estimate Diet in Young Steller Sea
  Lions (SSL) in Prince William Sound, Alaska
• Carrie Beck, Lorrie Rea, Sara Iverson, John
  Kennish, Dom Tollit, Ken Pitcher
• Fatty Acid and Stable Isotope Signatures Reveal
  Annual, Seasonal, and Age-related Variability in
  Tufted Puffin Diets
• Corey Williams, Sarah Iverson, and Loren Buck

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Fisheries Interactions

• Southeast Alaska Sperm Whale Avoidance Project
• Observations of Sperm Whale Longline Depredation
  in the Gulf of Alaska
• Jan Straley, Victoria OConnell, Linda Behnken,
  Aaron Thode, Sara Mesnick, Joe Liddle
• Using Longline Fishing Vessels as Research
  Platforms to Assess the Population Structure,
  Acoustic Behavior and Feeding Ecology of Sperm
  Whales in the Gulf of Alaska
• Aaron Thode, Jan Straley, Kendal Folkert,
  Christopher Tiemann, Valeria Teloni, Shane
  Walker, Linda Behnken, Victoria OConnell

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Fisheries Interactions

• Seabird Avoidance Gear Alternatives in Alaska
  Longline Fisheries Collaborative Research With
  Small Vessel Operators
• Victoria Baker and Allison Rice (UAF)

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Traditional Use and Monitoring

• Community-based Harvest Monitoring of Subsistence
  Harvest of Harbor Seals and Steller Sea Lions
• Joni Bryant, Monica Riedel, and Jim Fall (ANHSC)
• Samples from Subsistence Harbor Seal Biosampling
  Program
• Danielle Savarese Monica Riedel (ANHSC)
• Tsaa Tl'ooni, "Tlingit Seal Hunter"
• Matt Kookesh Mathew Brock