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HEPR: Essential Fish Habitat Research Projects, 2006-2012 < < HEPR/EFH

Status reports (.pdf; 8.85 MB) *

Funding Year	#	Title	Principal Investigators	Status
2006	1	Mapping Long Term Equilibrium Impacts of Fishing and Evaluation of Impacts of Fishing on Fish Condition, Fish Distribution, and Fish Diet	Kerim Aydin, Angie Grieg, Al Hermann, Anne Hollowed, James Ianelli, Craig Rose, Paul Spencer, William Stockhausen, Tom Wilderbuer	Complete
2006	2	Modify trawls to reduce fishing impacts / Better characterize fishing's footprint (Met 2006 priority of "fishing gear impacts to reduce impacts of fishing")	Craig Rose	Complete
2006	3	Assessment of critical habitats for juvenile Pacific cod	Allan Stoner, Benjamin Laurel, Thomas Hurst, Alisa Abookire & Clifford Ryer	Complete
2006	5	Habitat effects on growth and condition of northern rock sole	Thomas Hurst, Alisa Abookire, Ron Heintz & Jeff Short	Complete
2006	8	Essential Fish Habitat Requirements For Skate Nurseries	Gerald R. Hoff	Complete
2006	11	Convene a workshop to plan for the development of a habitat data inventory system for the AFSC	Jon Heifetz, Bob McConnaughey, John Olson	Complete
2006	12	Essential Fish Habitat - Overwinter habitat use and energy dynamics of juvenile capelin, eulachon, and Pacific herring	Johanna Vollenweider, John Hudson, Ron Heintz	Incomplete
2006	14	Juvenile Rockfish Habitat Utilization	Pat Malecha	Complete
2006	16	Nearshore Essential Fish Habitat-Seasonal Fish Use, Mapping, GIS Database	Scott Johnson, John Thedinga, Mandy Lindeberg, Pat Harris	Complete
2006	18	Food habits and small scale habitat utilization of Atka mackerel in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Sandra Lowe	Complete
2006	20	Log transfer facilities	Katharine Miller, Linda Shaw, Jeep Rice, and John Hudson	Complete
2007	2	Habitat effects on growth and condition of northern rock sole	Hurst, Abookire, Heintz	Complete
2007	5	Habitat Specific Production of Pacific Ocean Perch in the Aleutian Islands	Rooper, Heintz	Complete
2007	6	Recovery of a sessile invertebrate of the Bering Sea shelf from trawling	Rose	Complete
2007	7	Temporal dynamics of habitat use in juvenile Pacific cod	Stoner, Laurel, Knoth, Ryer, Hurst	Complete
2007	9	Mapping and Fish Utilization of Coastal Habitats Vulnerable to Disturbance from Development and Climate Change	Johnson, Thedinga, Lindeberg, Harris	Complete
2007	10	Juvenile Pacific ocean perch habitat utilization	Malecha, Gray, Lunsford	Incomplete
2007	12	Habitat Influence on Rearing Condition and Overwinter Survival of Juvenile Capelin (Mallotus villosus)	Vollenweider, Hudson, Heintz, Calvert	Incomplete
2007	11A	Biological parameters to estimate the recovery of disturbed benthic habitat in Alaska, study A: Coral growth	Stone, Andrews, Lehnert, France	Complete
2007	11C	Biological parameters to estimate the recovery of disturbed benthic habitat in Alaska, study C: Coral genetics	Stone, Andrews, Lehnert, France	Complete
2008	1	Nearshore Fish and Habitat Assessment	Johnson, Thedinga, Lindeberg, Harris	Complete
2008	2	Productivity, habitat utilization and recruitment dynamics of Pacific cod	Laurel, Ryer, Stoner, Knoth, Urban	Complete
2008	3	Contrasting predation intensity and distribution in 2 rock sole nursery areas	Ryer, Laurel	Complete
2008	4	Physical and temporal aspects of pollock spawning habitat utilization	Bailey, Chan	Complete
2008	5	Habitat characterization and utilization of early benthic phase red king crab	Persselin, Stoner, Foy, Eckert	Complete
2008	6	Habitat Influence on Rearing Condition and Overwinter Survival of Juvenile Capelin	Vollenweider, Hudson, Heintz, Calvert	Incomplete
2008	7	Rockfish abundance and diurnal habitat associations on isolated rocky habitat in the eastern Bering Sea	Hoff, Rooper	Complete
2008	8	Characterization of Benthic Infauna Community for Modeling Essential Fish Habitat in the Eastern Bering Sea	Yeung, Yang, McConnaughey	Complete
2008	9	Juvenile slope rockfish habitat distribution	Malecha, Gray, Lunsford, Clausen	Incomplete
2009	1	Recovery of deep water sponges and sea whips from bottom trawling	Malecha, Heifetz	Incomplete
2009	2	Invertebrate colonization of PMEL moorings	Zimmermann, Floering, Van Syoc, Stabeno	Complete
2009	3	Recruitment and response to damage of an Alaskan gorgonian coral	Malecha, Stone	Incomplete
2009	4	Nearshore Fish Assemblages in the Arctic: Establishment of Monitoring Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment from Energy Development and Climate Change	Johnson, Thedinga	Complete
2009	5	Contrasting predation intensity and distribution in 2 rock sole nursery areas: a principle factor controlling nursery productivity - Component A	Ryer, Laurel, Knoth	Complete
2009	6	Characterization of Benthic Infauna Community for Modeling Essential Fish Habitat in the Eastern Bering Sea - Reduced plan	Yeung, Yang, McConnaughey	Incomplete
2009	7	Year 2: Assessing the physical and temporal aspects of pollock spawning habitat utilization in Shelikof Strait, Gulf of Alaska	Bailey, Chan	Complete
2009	8	Productivity, habitat utilization and recruitment dynamics of Pacific cod	Laurel, Ryer, Parrish, Stoner, Knoth, Urban	Complete
2009	9	Characterize habitat utilization and productivity for rockfish species	Rooper, Heintz, Aydin, Boldt	Complete
2009	10	Natural and man-made disturbance of eelgrass beds in northern southeastern Alaska: damage and recovery	Harris	Complete
2009	11	Contrasting predation intensity and distribution in 2 rock sole nursery areas: a principle factor controlling nursery productivity - Component B	Ryer, Laurel, Knoth	Complete
2009	12	Utilization of nearshore habitat by fishes in Nushagak and Togiak Bays (Bristol Bay)	Ormseth, Norcross, Holladay	Complete
2009	13	Nearshore Fish Assemblages in Coastal Areas Facing Development in Southcentral Alaska	Eagleton, Johnson	Complete
2010	1	Recruitment and response to damage of an Alaskan gorgonian coral	Malecha, Shotwell, Amman	Incomplete
2010	2	Collection of field data to support modeling bottom trawling impacts and subsequent recovery rates of sponges and corals in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Rooper	Complete
2010	3	Reproductive ecology of the red tree coral (Primnoa pacifica)	Stone, Waller, Mondragon	Complete
2010	4	Nearshore Fish Assemblages in Coastal Areas Facing Development in Upper Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, Alaska	Johnson, Eagleton	Complete
2010	5	Productivity, habitat utilization and recruitment dynamics of Pacific cod	Laurel, Ryer, Parrish, Knoth, Urban	Complete
2010	6	Northern Bering Sea habitat suitability for benthic-feeding flatfishes	Yeung, Yang	Incomplete
2010	7	Identification of high relief living structures in the Gulf of Alaska slope areas	Rooper, Hoff, Wilkins	Complete
2010	8	Reproductive Biology of Pacific Sand Lance near Juneau, Alaska: Spawn Timing and Location, and Larval Distribution	Harris	Incomplete
2010	9	Recruitment, post-settlement processes and habitat utilization by Tanner crab Chionoecetes bairdi	Ryer, Long, Spencer	Incomplete
2010	10	Seasonal habitat use and overwintering habits of juvenile Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in coastal nursery areas	Knoth, Conrath, Urban, Laurel, Worton	Incomplete
2011	1	Determinants of juvenile tanner crab growth from different nursery embayments	Ryer, Spencer, Iseri, Ottmar, Copeman	Incomplete
2011	2	Recruitment and response to damage of an Alaskan gorgonian coral	Malecha, Shotwell, Amman	Incomplete
2011	3	The role of benthic habitat in larval rock sole settlement dynamics	Laurel, Stoner	Complete
2011	4	Quantifying flatfish habitat quality in the eastern Bering Sea by infauna prey density	Yeung, Yang	Incomplete
2011	5	Collection of seafloor imagery during AFSC bottom trawl surveys	Rose, McEntire	Incomplete
2011	6	Coastal fishes of Alaska: a synthesis of over a decade of nearshore marine surveys	Johnson, Thedinga, Lindeberg	Complete
2011	7	Low-cost multibeam mapping to support habitat based groundfish assessment and deepwater coral research in the Gulf of Alaska	Wilson, Rooper	Incomplete
2012	1	The role of benthic habitat in larval rock sole settlement dynamics - Yr 2 of 2	Laurel, Stoner	Incomplete
2012	2	Determinants of juvenile Tanner crab growth from different nursery embayments	Ryer, Copeman, Spencer, Ottmar, Iseri	Incomplete
2012	3	Essential fish habitats of juvenile Pacific cod, yellowfin sole, and northern rock sole along the Alaska Peninsula	Hurst, Cooper, Duffy-Anderson, Stoner	Incomplete
2012	4	Otolith Peninsula Alaska Microchemical Fingerprinting: Assessing Juvenile Pacific Cod Habitat Utilization in the Gulf of Alaska	Matta, Helser, Ormseth, Hurst	Incomplete
2012	5	Reproductive ultrastructure of red tree corals from Alaska Tracy Arm Fjord, Southeast Alaska: delving deeper into recovery dynamics	Stone, Waller	Incomplete
2012	6	A photographic guide to nearshore, marine fishes of Alaska: a beach seiner's handbook	Lindeberg, Johnson, Thedinga	Incomplete

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