Thank you to everyone who attended the 2020 Mat-Su Salmon Science and Conservation Symposium! We had a great event, with interesting and informative presentations and lively chat discussions and Q&A sessions. We’d like to say a special thanks to our keynote speaker Dr. Tom Quinn for an engaging talk about his experience working with Alaskan salmon populations over the last 40 years.
2020 Symposium Recordings
Recordings of the Symposium Zoom sessions are embedded below. We have broken up the recordings into the morning and afternoon sessions, and provided timestamps so you can skip around to any particular portion that interests you most. You can find the Symposium Agenda here, and the Symposium Booklet with full presentation abstracts here. Click here for responses to questions Dr. Quinn did not have time to address during Symposium proceedings.
Morning
Timestamps
0:06:45: Welcome from Jessica Speed
0:12:38: Welcome from Eric Booton
0:19:00: Welcome from Jason Brune
0:23:50: Keynote Introduction by Ben Meyer
0:26:50: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Thomas Quinn, Changing Themes in Salmon Conservation: a 40-Year Personal Perspective
1:51:00: 1st session starts, moderator Dan Rinella
1:52:50: Community Perspective, Andy Couch
2:06:00: Sue Mauger, Building Habitat Resiliency for Chinook Salmon in the Deshka River Watershed
2:22:10: Becky Shaftel, Predicting Stream Temperatures in the Deshka and Anchor River Watersheds
2:38:30: Brad Nissen, Deshka River Water Temperature and Juvenile Coho Salmon Growth During the Record-Hot Summer of 2019
2:52:15: Vanessa von Biela, Premature Mortality Among Alaska’s Pacific Salmon During Record Heat and Drought in 2019
3:08:15: Ben Meyer, Short-Term Effects of Wildfire on Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Chena River
Afternoon
Timestamps
0:00:00: Dan Coleman Elodea Video
0:06:10: Announcements – Jessica Speed
0:11:15: Partnership Updates – Jessica Speed
0:20:05: Partnership Project Mapper – Marcus Geist
0:26:20: Tidbits
0:41:00: 2nd session starts, moderator Melissa Heuer
0:42:40: Community Perspective, Walt Nesbett
0:52:30: Andy Wizik, Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Whiskey & Hewitt Lakes
Pike Suppression Project
1:08:15: Taylor Cubbage, Physiological Performance of Northern Pike (Esox lucius): Implications for Barrier Design in Invaded Systems
1:26:00 Carrie Ann Brophil, 2019 Native Village of Eklutna, Eklutna River Salmon Habitat Assessment, Final Results
1:42:40: Closing Remarks, Kendra Zamzow
Quick links: Presenter Guidelines, 2020 Symposium Flyer, 2020 Symposium Agenda, 2020 Symposium Booklet
2020 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas Quinn
Dr. Thomas Quinn has been teaching in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, and doing research on salmon and trout ecology and conservation since 1986. His research has been conducted primarily in western Washington and Alaska (chiefly Bristol Bay) on a wide variety of topics, and his book, The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout, was published by the University of Washington Press.
His presentation, Changing Themes in Salmon Conservation: a 40-Year Personal Perspective, looked back over the decades that he has studied salmon, considering themes in research and management that were pressing in the 1970s but are no longer seen in the same light, and ones which were off or low on our radar screens in the past but are now more prominent sources of concern.
Thank you to our 2020 Symposium Supporters!
