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Schedule of Technical Sessions
Sessions-At-A-Glance
Schedule-At-A-Glance

Plenary Session (Feb 24)
We are pleased to announce the Dr. Carl Schreck, one of Oregon’s most renowned fish biologists, respected mentors, and a long-time supporter of ORAFS, has agreed to present the plenary talk at our meeting in Eugene in February.

Dr. Schreck is a professor and the leader of the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit & Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University. Dr. Schreck began his career in with an A.B. in Zoology from University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. Following a year’s study at Humboldt State University he attended Colorado State University where he received his M.S. in 1969 in Fisheries Science and his Ph.D. in 1972 in Physiology and Biophysics and Fisheries Science. In 1975 he became the Assistant Leader of the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. Two years later he became the Leader of that Unit and still serves in that capacity for the Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey where he is a Senior Scientist. He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU and has supervised about 80 graduate student theses. His research has focused primarily on salmonids where he applies environmental physiology and behavior to address environmentally relevant questions. Over the years he has authored or collaborated on over 260 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

He served on the Governor’s Coastal Salmon Science Team to develop recovery plans for at risk salmon and trout for the federal listing process. He is now serving his second four year term as a member of the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team for the State of Oregon, being appointed by the Governor, Speaker of the House and President of the Senate. He has been elected Co-Chair of the IMST for the last five years. The IMST serves to provide scientific oversight of issues related to salmonid recovery measures and restoration of watershed health.

He is in his third four-year term as President of the International Federation of Fish Endocrinologists. He has served on the editorial boards of The Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Copeia, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, General and Comparative Endocrinology, and Aquaculture. He currently serves as Editor for “The Environment” for the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Dr. Schreck has also served as a Visiting Full Professor at the University of Jos, Nigeria.

Professional recognition for Dr. Schreck includes:

Technical Sessions (Feb 24-26)
 Technical sessions will address fisheries topics from the ocean depths to mountain headwaters and into the rangeland and desert beyond.  Presentations should succinctly (and passionately) describe your subject, follow traditional scientific format (introduction, methods, results, conclusions) when possible, and stimulate discussion among your colleagues.  To get a poster or paper scheduled at the meeting, you must submit an abstract via www.ORAFS.org by DECEMBER 11, 2009.

Posters are written, self-explanatory presentations that must fit within a 4x4 ft space on a poster board (provided).  They should be readable from a distance of 3 ft, include your contact information, and may be enhanced with photos and handouts.  They will be on display throughout the meeting and featured during a social event Wednesday evening, when the lead author should be available to describe and discuss their poster.

 

Papers are 15-minute oral and/or PowerPoint presentations (existing on a flash drive or CD) and delivered live and in-person, with allowances of 5-minutes for questions and speaker changes (hence papers are scheduled at 20-minute intervals).  Papers will be grouped into sessions according to general topics to facilitate dialogue among peers with similar interests. 

 

Sessions may also be actively organized to ensure a thorough treatment of specific topics.  Please consider organizing a session around your most passionate interest, soliciting papers, and submitting three to eleven abstracts as a package.  Or, contact an organizer to see if your paper fits within a session already planned. 


Session organizers will have the honor of soliciting papers, ensuring that all abstracts are submitted by December 11, helping schedule presentations, and moderating the session.  Moderating the session means providing a laptop computer, projector, laser pointer, gathering and uploading presentations prior to the session, providing a brief introduction for each speaker, moderating questions, and keeping strictly on schedule.  A student volunteer may be available to assist with A-V and lights in each session. 

Questions?  Contact Program Chair Demian Ebert (daebert@pbsj.com; 503-222-7275)

Technical Sessions:

Presentation and poster sessions will address fisheries topics throughout Oregon and the Pacific. Please consider organizing a session around your area of expertise, soliciting presenters, and submitting abstracts as a package.  All sessions will be considered based on relevance, uniqueness, success of the organizer in populating the session with presentations, and available space. Potential session topics so far include:

Coastal Fisheries

Education: How to get the next generation outside and in the creek (Jeff Yanke; jeff.yanke@state.or.us)

Environmental Legacies: Understanding the Past – Learning for the Future (Rebecca Miller; rebecca.miller@oregonstate.edu)

Desert Fishes of Eastern Oregon

Fish Culture and Health (Ryan Couture; ryan.b.couture@state.or.us)

Fish Passage and Physical Habitat (Jason Kent; jason.kent@hdrinc.com)

Fish Taxonomy and Genetics

Freshwater habitat in Oregon: Research, Restoration, and Emerging Issues (Steve Starcevich; steve.starcevich@oregonstate.edu)

Invasive Species

Emerging Klamath Basin Fisheries Science (Ian Courter; courter@fishsciences.net)

Latest Lamprey News (Bianca Streif; Bianca_streif@fws.gov)

Legislative Policy and Aquatic Resources (David Moskowitz; dmosk@confluenceconsultingnw.com)

Marine Fisheries (Scott Heppell; scott.heppell@oregonstate.edu)

Marine Mammal Predation and Management

Mitigation/Enhancement Requirements and Solutions at Dams (Matt Bleich; Matthew.Bleich@hdrinc.com)

Modeling Returns: Where are we straying? (Ray Beamesderfer; beamesderfer@fishsciences.net)

Oregon's Native Non-Salmonid Fishes (Paul Scheerer; Paul.scheerer@oregonstate.edu)

Restoring Stream Flows through Innovation (Aaron Maxwell; aaron@deschutesriver.org)

Salmon in the City (Michael Reed; MichaelR@bes.ci.portland.or.us)

The Long Arm of the Law: Enforcement in 2010

Wet-n-Wild in 2010 (Laura Tesler; laura.tesler@state.or.us)

 

In addition, contributed papers unrelated to the above themes will be organized by Demian Ebert (daebert@pbsj.com; 503-222-7275), and student papers unrelated to the above themes will be organized by Allison Evans (Allison.Evans@oregonstate.edu) and Adam Ray (Robert.Ray@oregonstate.edu).

EXAMPLE ABSTRACT

Abstract will follow the format below: ORAL OR POSTER: Oral
SESSION: Education
TITLE: An example abstract for the 2010 ORAFS Annual Meeting
PRESENTER: Neil Ward; (503) 503-229-0191: neil.ward@cbfwa.org
AUTHORS: Ward, Neil, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, 851 SW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97204 (503) 229-0191; neil.ward@cbfwa.org; Young, Doug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2600 SE 98th Ave., Suite 100, Portland, OR 97266, (503)231-6179; Doug_Young@fws.gov
ABSTRACT: Abstracts are used by the Program Committee to evaluate and select papers for inclusion in the scientific and technical sessions of the 2010 ORAFS Annual Meeting. An informative abstract contains a statement  of the problem and significance, study objectives, principal findings and application, and it conforms to the prescribed format.

Student Presenter? (Work being reported was completed while a student): Yes

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