NOAA FISHERIES

Environmental drivers of biogeography and community structure in a Mid-Atlantic estuary Oleynik, Haley A., Joseph J. Bizzarro, Edward A. Hale, and Aaron B. Carlisle Oecologia 204(3):543-557

Using Antarctic blue whale photo-ID data from the SOWER cruises: Capture-recapture estimates of abundance Olson, Paula A., and Douglas Kinzey Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue 4:13-20

Future climate-induced distribution shifts in a sexually dimorphic key predator of the Southern Ocean Ouled-Cheikh, Jazel, David March, Renato Borras-Chavez, Massimiliano Drago, Michael E. Goebel, Jose M. Farina, Manel Gazo, Marta Coll, and Luis Cardona Global Change Biology 30(3):e17191 (17 p.)

Review of 2023 ocean salmon fisheries (amended): Stock assessment and fishery evaluation document for the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 354 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 131 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 73 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.

Demographic and physiological signals of reproductive events in humpback whales on a southwest Pacific breeding ground Pallin, Logan J., Claire Garrigue, Nicholas M. Kellar, C. Scott Baker, Claire D. Bonneville, Solene Derville, Ellen C. Garland, Debbie Steel, and Ari S. Friedlaender Conservation Physiology 12(1):coae038 (17 p.)

Energy-dispersive diffraction tomography of shark vertebral centra Park, Jun-Sang, Ryan M. Horn, Haiyan Chen, Kelsey C. James, Michelle S. Passerotti, Lisa J. Natanson, and Stuart R. Stock Powder Diffraction 39(2):69-75

Small pelagic fish: new frontiers in ecological research Peck, Myron A., Ignacio A. Catalan, Susana Garrido, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Rebecca G. Asch, Jan R. McDowell, Elliott L. Hazen, and Isaac C. Kaplan Marine Ecology Progress Series 741:1-6

Detection of Leptospira kirschneri in a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis delphis) stranded off the coast of southern California, USA Prager, K.C., Kerri Danil, Elyse Wurster, Kathleen M. Colegrove, Renee Galloway, Niesa Kettler, Rinosh Mani, Ryelan F. McDonough, Jason W. Sahl, Nathan E. Stone, David M. Wagner, and James O. Lloyd-Smith BMC Veterinary Research 20:266 (11 p.)

Reintroduction of spring-run Chinook salmon in the San Joaquin River: Evaluating genetic and phenotypic effects of captive breeding Pregler, Kasey C., Anthony Clemento, Mike Grill, Paul Adelizi, Stephanie M. Carlson, John Carlos Garza Conservation Science and Practice 6(9):e13176 (13 p.)

Catch as catch can: markets, availability, and fishery closures drive distinct responses among the U.S. West Coast coastal pelagic species fleet segments Quezada, Felipe J., Desiree Tommasi, Timothy H. Frawley, Barbara Muhling, Isaac Kaplan, and Stephen Stohs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(8):1135-1153

Quantifying the fates and retention of larval rockfish through Lagrangian analyses Quigley, Lucinda A., Peter J.S. Franks, Andrew R. Thompson, John C. Field, and Jarrod A. Santora Marine Ecology Progress Series 749:109-125

Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses Rankin, Shannon, Taiki Sakai, Frederick I. Archer, Jay Barlow, Danielle Cholewiak, Annamaria I. DeAngelis, Jennifer L.K. McCullough, Erin M. Oleson, Anne E. Simonis, Melissa S. Soldevilla, and Jennifer S. Trickey Ecological Informatics 80:102511 (8 p.)

Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) post-mortem findings from December 2018 through 2021 during the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific Raverty, Stephen, Padraig Duignan, Denise Greig, Jessica L. Huggins, Kathy Burek Huntington, Michael Garner, John Calambokidis, Paul Cottrell, Kerri Danil, Dalin D'Alessandro, Deborah Duffield, Moe Flannery, Frances M.D. Gulland, Barbie Halaska, Dyanna M. Lambourn, Taylor Lehnhart, Jorge Urban R., Teri Rowles, James Rice, Kate Savage, Kristin Wilkinson, Justin Greenman, Justin Viezbicke, Brendan Cottrell, P. Dawn Goley, Maggie Martinez, and Deborah Fauquier PLoS ONE 19(3):e0295861 (25 p.)

Aquaculture-related ecosystem services in PICES member countries Ray, Kevin D., Gisele Magnusson, Yuhang Liu, Hiroki Wakamatsu, Claire Cazorla, Adam Colilli, Rosemary Kosaka, Daniel K. Lew, Jingmei Li, Wei Liu, Meng Su, and Ziyan Wang In: Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, and Kevin D. Ray (eds.), Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific, p. 75-133. North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES Scientific Report no. 65.

Report on the Summer 2023 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2307RL), 17 July to 3 November 2023, conducted aboard NOAA Ships Reuben Lasker and Bell M. Shimada, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and three uncrewed surface vessels Renfree, Josiah S., Alice Beittel, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-702. 53 p.

Relative sarcolipin (SLN) and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA1) transcript levels in closely related endothermic and ectothermic scombrid fishes: Implications for molecular basis of futile calcium cycle non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) Robinson, Sean, Nicholas C. Wegner, Chugey A. Sepulveda, and Jens P.C. Franck Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 295:111667 (7 p.)

Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Rogers, Tanya L., Samuel M. Bashevkin, Christina E. Burdi, Denise D. Colombano, Peter N. Dudley, Brian Mahardja, Lara Mitchell, Sarah Perry, and Parsa Saffarinia Ecology 105(4):e4274 (15 p.)

Mexico must save the vaquita from gill nets [letter to the editor] Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo, Barbara L. Taylor, Randall R. Reeves, Andrew Read, Jay Barlow, Greg Donovan, Peter O. Thomas, Frances Gulland, Sarah L. Mesnick, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Annette Henry, Jorge Urban, and Tim Gerrodette Science 385(6708):504

Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems Rose, Kenneth A., Kirstin Holsman, Janet A. Nye, Emily H. Markowitz, Thomas N.S. Banha, Nina Bednarsek, Juan Bueno-Pardo, David Deslauriers, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Klaus B. Huebert, Martin Huret, Shin-ichi Ito, Stefan Koenigstein, Lingbo Li, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara A. Muhling, Philipp Neubauer, Jose Ricardo Paula, Elizabeth C. Siddon, Morten D. Skogen, Paul D. Spencer, P. Daniel van Denderen, Gro I. van der Meeren, and Myron A. Peck Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:193-221

Perturbations in a pelagic food web during the NE Pacific large marine heatwave and persistent harmful diatom blooms Ruiz-Cooley, Rocio I., Clarissa Anderson, Raphael Kudela, Robin Dunkin, and John Field Harmful Algae 140:102743 (13 p.)

Using environmental DNA to assess the response of steelhead/Rainbow Trout and Coastrange Sculpin populations to postfire debris flows in coastal streams of Big Sur, California Rundio, David E., Brian C. Spence, Dorothy M. Chase, and Carl O. Ostberg North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(6):1167-1182

Development of methods for collecting spectral data from Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy to age three small coastal pelagic species (Pacific Sardine, Pacific Mackerel, Northern Anchovy) in the northeast Pacific Ocean Saas, Emma, Emmanis Dorval, Dianna L. Porzio, and Brittany D. Schwartzkopf U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-694. 47 p.

Project report: Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, RL-24-06, May 1 - June 18, 2024) Sakuma, Keith NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 18 p.

Stay or go? Geographic variation in risks due to climate change for fishing fleets that adapt in-place or adapt on-the-move Samhouri, Jameal F., Blake E. Feist, Michael Jacox, Owen R. Liu, Kate Richerson, Erin Steiner, John Wallace, Kelly Andrews, Lewis Barnett, Anne H. Beaudreau, Lyall Bellquist, Mer Pozo Buil, Melissa A. Haltuch, Abigail Harley, Chris J. Harvey, Isaac C. Kaplan, Karma Norman, Amanda Phillips, Leif K. Rasmuson, Eric J. Ward, Curt Whitmire, and Rebecca L. Selden PLOS Climate 3(2):e0000285 (28 p.)

Beyond boundaries: governance considerations for climate-driven habitat shifts of highly migratory marine species across jurisdictions Santos, Bianca S., Elliott L. Hazen, Heather Welch, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Barbara A. Block, Daniel P. Costa, Scott A. Shaffer, and Larry B. Crowder npj Ocean Sustainability 3:22 (8 p.)

Demography of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) from the KY1804 austral summer survey in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (80 to 150°E), including specific investigations of the upper surface waters Schaafsma, Fokje L., Ryan Driscoll, Kohei Matsuno, Rikuto Sugioka, Sara Driscoll, Marin van Regteren, Hiroko Sasaki, Ryuichi Matsukura, Jan Andries van Franeker, and Hiroto Murase Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1411130 (15 p.)

Zooplankton communities at the sea surface of the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2018/2019 Schaafsma, Fokje, Kohei Matsuno, Ryan Driscoll, Hiroko Sasaki, Marin van Regteren, Sara Driscoll, Ryuichi Matsukura, Rikuto Sugioka, Ippei Urabe, Hiroto Murase, and Jan Andries van Franeker Progress in Oceanography 226:103303 (14 p.)

Seabirds in 3D: A framework to evaluate collision vulnerability with future offshore wind developments. Interim project report #1: Estimating collision vulnerability of the seabird community across a segment of the California Current System. Schneider, Stephanie R., Eli Wallach, Charles Chamberlin, Sophie B. Bernstein, Sadie Trush, David G. Ainley, Scott B. Terrill, Sharon H. Kramer, R. Glenn Ford, Janet Casey, Jarrod A. Santora, Lisa Ballance, and Arne Jacobson Report to the California Energy Commission, prepared by H.T. Harvey and Associates, the Schatz Energy Research Center, R.G. Ford Consulting Company, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and Oregon State University. Schatz Energy Research Center, Arcata, California. 175 p.

Buoyancy gliders opening new research opportunities in the Southern Ocean Schofield, Oscar, John Kerfoot, Nicole Waite, Schuyler Nardelli, Darren C. McKee, J. Alexander Brearley, and Christian Reiss Marine Technology Society Journal 58(1-2):26-37

An expert-based system to predict population survival rate from health data Schwacke, Lori H., Len Thomas, Randall S. Wells, Teresa K. Rowles, Gregory D. Bossart, Forrest Townsend Jr., Marilyn Mazzoil, Jason B. Allen, Brian C. Balmer, Aaron A. Barleycorn, Ashley Barratclough, Louise Burt, Sylvain De Guise, Deborah Fauquier, Forrest M. Gomez, Nicholas M. Kellar, John H. Schwacke, Todd R. Speakman, Eric D. Stolen, Brian M. Quigley, Eric S. Zolman, and Cynthia R. Smith Conservation Biology 38(1):e14073 (13 p.)

Update on the status of gray whales since the 2020 Implementation Review Scordino, Jonathan J., John W. Bickham, John R. Brandon, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Alexander Burdin, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Tomoharu Eguchi, Geof H. Givens, Aimee R. Lang, Dennis I. Litovka, Gen Nakamura, Andre E. Punt, Joshua D. Stewart, Jorge Urban R., and David W. Weller Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 25:1-18

Comparison of environmental DNA and underwater visual count surveys for detecting juvenile Coho Salmon in small rivers Shaffer, Jason T., Andrew P. Kinziger, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, and Andre Buchheister North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):449-462

Spirochaete genome identified in red abalone sample represents a novel genus Candidatus Haliotispira gen. nov. within the order Spirochaetales Sharma, Sharu Paul, Catherine M. Purcell, John R. Hyde, and Andrew J. Severin International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 74:006198 (8 p.)

Identifying spatial movements and residency of pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) using satellite and passive acoustic telemetry to inform local conservation in central Indonesia Shidqi, Rafid A., Mark V. Erdmann, Edy Setyawan, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Dewi R. Sari, Abraham B. Sianipar, Joshua D. Stewart, and Donald A. Croll Frontiers in Fish Science 2:1391062 (16 p.)

Organismal responses to deteriorating water quality during the historic 2020 red tide off Southern California Skelton, Zachary R., Lillian R. McCormick, Garfield T. Kwan, Joshua Lonthair, Carlos Neira, Samantha M. Clements, Todd R. Martz, Philip J. Bresnahan, Uwe Send, Sarah N. Giddings, Jeffrey C. Sevadjian, Stephanie Jaeger, Adriano Feit, Benjamin W. Frable, Phillip J. Zerofski, Melissa Torres, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Justin McCullough, Melissa L. Carter, Eva Ternon, Luke P. Miller, Gabriella M. Kalbach, Duncan C. Wheeler, P. Ed Parnell, Katherine M. Swiney, Garrett Seibert, Jeremiah J. Minich, John R. Hyde, Philip A. Hastings, Jennifer E. Smith, Lisa M. Komoroske, Martin Tresguerres, Lisa A. Levin, and Nicholas C. Wegner Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1):00067 (27 p.)

Observations of skin color aberrations in four shark species off the coast of southern California, USA Skelton, Zachary R., Tanya S. Prinzing, Andrew P. Nosal, Zoey Vagner, Peter Demman, Phil J. Zerofski, and Nicholas C. Wegner Environmental Biology of Fishes 107(3):391-400

Marine biophysical conditions influence the vertical and horizontal distribution of sub-adult Chinook salmon in nearshore marine waters Smith, Joseph M., Brian J. Burke, Doug Jackson, Brian Wells, Brian Beckman, Will Duguid, Thomas P. Quinn, and David D. Huff Marine Ecology Progress Series 744:133-146

Influence of migration range and foraging ecology on mercury accumulation in Southern Ocean penguins Sontag, Philip T., Linda V. Godfrey, William R. Fraser, Jefferson T. Hinke, and John R. Reinfelder Science of the Total Environment 951:175154 (9 p.)

Insights into vertebral band pair deposition rate in the juvenile common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Spear, Luka N., Suzanne Kohin, John A. Mohan, and R.J. David Wells Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):104-112

Factors impacting the timing of reproductive development in female Antarctic krill at the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula Steinke, Kirsten B., Kim S. Bernard, Christian S. Reiss, Jennifer Walsh, Giancarlo M. Correa, and Sharon E. Stammerjohn Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1383175 (15 p.)

Get them off the deck: Straightforward interventions increase post-release survival rates of manta and devil rays in tuna purse seine fisheries Stewart, Joshua D., Melissa R. Cronin, Erick Largacha, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Jon Lopez, Martin Hall, Melanie Hutchinson, Emma G. Jones, Malcolm Francis, Maitane Grande, Jefferson Murua, Vanessa Rojo, and Salvador J. Jorgensen Biological Conservation 299:110794 (13 p.)

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2023 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-703. 87 p.

Micrometer-scale structure in shark vertebral centra Stock, S.R., U. Kierdorf, K.C. James, P.D. Shevchenko, L.J. Natanson, S. Gomez, and H. Kierdorf Acta Biomaterialia 177:300-315

Connecting thiamine availability to the microbial community composition in Chinook salmon spawning habitats of the Sacramento River basin Suffridge, Christopher P., Kelly C. Shannon, H. Matthews, R.C. Johnson, C. Jeffres, N. Mantua, A.E. Ward, E. Holmes, J. Kindopp, M. Aldoo, and F.S. Colwell Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(1):e01760-23 (26 p.)

Estimating demographic parameters for bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus, in Alaska using close-kin mark-recapture methods Taras, Brian D., Paul B. Conn, Mark V. Bravington, Andrzej Kilian, Aimee R. Lang, Anna Bryan, Raphaela Stimmelmayr, and Lori Quakenbush Evolutionary Applications 17(11):e70035 (14 p.)

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Ninas Thompson, Andrew R., Rasmus Swalethorp, Michaela Alksne, Jarrod A. Santora, Elliott L. Hazen, Andrew Leising, Erin Satterthwaite, William J. Sydeman, Clarissa R. Anderson, Toby D. Auth, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Timothy Baumgardner, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brian J. Burke, Elizabeth A. Daly, Heidi Dewar, John C. Field, Jennifer L. Fisher, Newell Garfield, Ashlyn Gidding, Ralf Goericke, Richard Golightly, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Jose Gomez-Valdes, John A. Hildebrand, Kym C. Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Michael Johns, Joshua M. Jones, Bertha Lavaniegos, Nate Mantua, Gerard J. McChesney, Megan E. Medina, Sharon R. Melin, Luis Erasmo Miranda, Cheryl A. Morgan, Catherine F. Nickels, Rachael A. Orben, Jessica M. Porquez, Antonella Preti, Roxanne R. Robertson, Daniel L. Rudnick, Keith M. Sakuma, Carley R. Schacter, Isaac D. Schroeder, Lauren Scopel, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Katherine Whitaker, William Watson, Edward D. Weber, and Brian Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1294011 (21 p.)

Empirical dynamic modeling for sustainable benchmarks of short-lived species Tsai, Cheng-Han, Stephan B. Munch, Michelle D. Masi, and Molly H. Stevens ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(7):1209-1220

Distinct natal origins based on vertebral ring analysis corroborate the migration pattern of Pacific bluefin tuna in the North Pacific Ocean Uematsu, Yuki, Taiki Ishihara, Tamaki Shimose, Kuo-Shu Chen, John A. Mohan, Jay R. Rooker, R.J. David Wells, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, Seiji Ohshimo, and Yosuke Tanaka Marine Ecology Progress Series 743:65-74

Best practices for collecting and preserving marine mammal biological samples in the 'omics era Van Cise, Amy M., Alexandra D. Switzer, Amy Apprill, Cory D. Champagne, Paul M. Chittaro, Natasha K. Dudek, Mackenzie R. Gavery, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Alaina C. Harmon, Alexander L. Jaffe, Nicholas M. Kellar, Carolyn A. Miller, Phillip A. Morin, Sarah E. Nelms, Kelly M. Robertson, Irvin R. Schultz, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Ebru Unal, and Kim M. Parsons Marine Mammal Science 40(4):e13148 (36 p.)

A new, standardized international Pacific Rim baseline for genetic stock identification (GSI) of Chinook Salmon Van Doornik, Donald M., Paul Moran, Eric B. Rondeau, Krista M. Nichols, Shawn R. Narum, Matthew R. Campbell, Anthony J. Clemento, John S. Hargrove, Jon E. Hess, Rebekah L. Horn, Lisa W. Seeb, Jeff J. Stephenson, and Garrett J. McKinney North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(4):857-869

Size-selective predation effects on juvenile Chinook salmon cohort survival off Central California evaluated with an individual-based model Vasbinder, Kelly, Jerome Fiechter, Jarrod A. Santora, James J. Anderson, Nate Mantua, Steve T. Lindley, David D. Huff, and Brian K. Wells Fisheries Oceanography 33(1):e12654 (15 p.)

Integrating vertical and horizontal movements of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the easter North Pacific Ocean Vaudo, Jeremy J., Heidi Dewar, Michael E. Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:85-99

Trophic history of Hawaiian green turtles as revealed by stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) in the bones of museum specimens Velasquez-Vacca, Adriana, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, T. Todd Jones, George H. Balazs, and Luis Cardona Aquatic Conservation 34(1):e4063 (12 p.)

Perceived social benefits and drawbacks of sea turtle conservation efforts in a globally important sea turtle rookery Vieira, Sara, Victor Jimenez, Betania Ferreira-Airaud, Antunes Pina, Venceslau Soares, Manjula Tiwari, Maria A. Teodosio, Rita Castilho, and Ana Nuno Biodiversity and Conservation 33:1185-1205

Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods Vijayan, Nidhi, Sarah J. McAnulty, Gustavo Sanchez, Jeffrey Jolly, Yuzuru Ikeda, Michele K. Nishiguchi, Elodie Reveillac, Camino Gestal, Blake L. Spady, Diana H. Li, Benjamin P. Burford, Allison H. Kerwin, and Spencer V. Nyholm Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(3):e00990-23 (19 p.)

Bycatch mitigation from the sky: using helicopter communication for mobulid conservation in tropical tuna fisheries Waldo, Jennifer L., Ernesto Altamirano-Nieto, Donald A. Croll, Marta D. Palacios, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Jon Lopez, Gala Moreno, Stefany Rojas-Perea, and Melissa R. Cronin Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1303324 (10 p.)

Diet and size at birth affect larval rockfish condition and survival Walsh, Kamran A., Andrew R. Thompson, Garfield T. Kwan, Brice X. Semmens, H. William Fennie, and Rasmus Swalethorp Marine Ecology Progress Series 745:95-114

Leveraging ecological indicators to improve short term forecasts of fish recruitment Ward, Eric J., Mary E. Hunsicker, Kristin N. Marshall, Kiva L. Oken, Brice X. Semmens, John C. Field, Melissa A. Haltuch, Kelli F. Johnson, Ian G. Taylor, Andrew R. Thompson, and Nick Tolimieri Fish and Fisheries 25(6):895-909

Win, lose, or draw: Evaluating dynamic thermal niches of northeast Pacific groundfish Ward, Eric J., Sean C. Anderson, Lewis A.K. Barnett, Philina A. English, Halle M. Berger, Christian J.C. Commander, Timothy E. Essington, Chris J. Harvey, Mary E. Hunsicker, Michael G. Jacox, Kelli F. Johnson, Scott Large, Owen R. Liu, Kate E. Richerson, Jameal F. Samhouri, Samantha A. Siedlecki, Andrew O. Shelton, Kayleigh A. Somers, and Jordan T. Watson PLOS Climate 3(11):e0000454 (19 p.)

Plasticity in gill morphology and function Wegner, Nicholas C., and Anthony P. Farrell In: Sarah L. Alderman and Todd E. Gillis (eds.), Encyclopedia of fish physiology (2nd ed.), vol. 1, p. 762-779. Academic Press.

Selection of planning unit size in dynamic management strategies to reduce human-wildlife conflict Welch, Heather, Owen R. Liu, Leena Riekkola, Briana Abrahms, Elliott L. Hazen, and Jameal F. Samhouri Conservation Biology 38(3):e14201 (12 p.)

Harnessing AI to map global fishing vessel activity Welch, Heather, Robert T. Ames, Namrata Kolla, David A. Kroodsma, Luca Marsaglia, Tommaso Russo, Jordan T. Watson, and Elliott L. Hazen One Earth 7(10):1685-1691

Unseen overlap between fishing vessels and top predators in the northeast Pacific Welch, Heather, Tyler Clavelle, Timothy D. White, Megan A. Cimino, David Kroodsma, and Elliott L. Hazen Science Advances 10(10):eadl5528 (11 p.)

Trophoscapes of predatory fish reveal biogeographic structuring of spatial dietary overlap and inform fisheries bycatch patterns Wells, Brian K., Jarrod A. Santora, Joseph J. Bizzarro, Alicia Billings, Richard D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, John C. Field, Kate E. Richerson, and James T. Thorson Marine Ecology Progress Series 741:47-70

Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge Wheeler, Kathryn I., Michael C. Dietze, David LeBauer, Jody A. Peters, Andrew D. Richardson, Arun A. Ross, R. Quinn Thomas, Kai Zhu, Uttam Bhat, Stephan Munch, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Min Chen, Benjamin Goldstein, Jessica Guo, Dalei Hao, Chris Jones, Mira Kelly-Fair, Haoran Liu, Charlotte Malmborg, Naresh Neupane, Debasmita Pal, Vaughn Shirey, Yiluan Song, McKalee Steen, Eric A. Vance, Whitney M. Woelmer, Jacob H. Wynne, and Luke Zachmann Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 345:109810 (12 p.)

Forensic geochemistry identifies the illegal introduction of Walleye into Lake Cascade, Idaho Whitman, George, Jordan Messner, Rachel C. Johnson, Malte Willmes, Brian P. Kennedy, and Carson Jeffres North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):407-414

Evaluating robustness of harvest control rules to climate-driven variability in Pacific sardine recruitment Wildermuth, Robert P., Desiree Tommasi, Peter Kuriyama, James Smith, and Isaac Kaplan Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(8):1029-1051

Integrating otolith and genetic tools to reveal intraspecific biodiversity in a highly impacted salmon population Willmes, Malte, Anna M. Sturrock, Flora Cordoleani, Sara Hugentobler, Mariah H. Meek, George Whitman, Kimberly Evans, Eric P. Palkovacs, Natalie J. Stauffer-Olsen, and Rachel C. Johnson Journal of Fish Biology 105(2):412-430

CS-PHOC: weekly census counts of Southern Ocean phocids at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island Woodman, Samuel M., Renato Borras-Chavez, Michael E. Goebel, Daniel Torres, Anelio Aguayo, and Douglas J. Krause Scientific Data 11:895 (8 p.)

Variability in coastal habitat available for Longfin Smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Young, Matthew J., Frederick V. Feyrer, Steven T. Lindley, and David D. Huff Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1282286 (13 p.)

Accurate species classification of Arctic toothed whale echolocation clicks using one-third octave ratios Zahn, Marie J., Michael Ladegaard, Malene Simon, Kathleen M. Stafford, Taiki Sakai, and Kristin L. Laidre Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(4):2359-2370

An updated model of potential habitat for northern stock Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) and its use for attributing survey observations and fishery landings Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Oceanography 33(3):e12644 (14 p.)

Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science Halpern, Benjamin S., Carl Boettiger, Michael C. Dietze, Jessica A. Gephart, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy B. Grimm, Peter M. Groffman, Jessica Gurevitch, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Kristy J. Kroeker, Heather J. Lahr, David M. Lodge, Christopher J. Lortie, Julie S.S. Lowndes, Fiorenza Micheli, Hugh P. Possingham, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Courtney Scarborough, Chelsea L. Wood, Grace C. Wu, Lina Aoyama, Eva E. Arroyo, Christie A. Bahlai, Erin E. Beller, Rachael E. Blake, Karrigan S. Bork, Trevor A. Branch, Norah E.M. Brown, Julien Brun, Emilio M. Bruna, Lauren B. Buckley, Jessica L. Burnett, Max C.N. Castorani, Samantha H. Cheng, Sarah C. Cohen, Jessica L. Couture, Larry B. Crowder, Laura E. Dee, Arildo S. Dias, Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto, Martha R. Downs, Joan C. Dudney, Erle C. Ellis, Kyle A. Emery, Jacob G. Eurich, Bridget E. Ferriss, Alexa Fredston, Hikaru Furukawa, Sara A. Gagne, Sarah R. Garlick, Colin J. Garroway, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Angelica L. Gonzalez, Eliza M. Grames, Tamar Guy-Haim, Ed Hackett, Lauren M. Hallett, Tamara K. Harms, Danielle E. Haulsee, Kyle J. Haynes, Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Kristal Jones, Gaurav S. Kandlikar, Dustin W. Kincaid, Matthew L. Knope, Anil Koirala, Jurek Kolasa, John S. Kominoski, Julia Koricheva, Lesley T. Lancaster, Jake A. Lawlor, Heili E. Lowman, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Kari E.A. Norman, Nan Nourn, Casey C. O'Hara, Suzanne X. Ou, Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamino, Paula Pappalardo, Ryan A. Peek, Dominique Pelletier, Stephen Plont, Lauren C. Ponisio, Christina Portales-Reyes, Diogo B. Provete, Eric J. Raes, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Irene Ramos, Sydne Record, Anthony J. Richardson, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Erin V. Satterthwaite, Chloe Schmidt, Aaron J. Schwartz, Craig R. See, Brendan D. Shea, Rachel S. Smith, Eric R. Sokol, Christopher T. Solomon, Trisha Spanbauer, Paris V. Stefanoudis, Beckett W. Sterner, Vitor Sudbrack, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Ashley R. Townes, Mireia Valle, Jonathan A. Walter, Kathryn I. Wheeler, William R. Wieder, David R. Williams, Marten Winter, Barbora Winterova, Lucy C. Woodall, Adam S. Wymore, and Casey Youngflesh Ecosphere 14(1):e4342 (13 p.)

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A survey of coastal conditions around the continental US using a high-resolution ocean analysis Alexander, Michael A., James D. Scott, Michael G. Jacox, Clara Deser, Dillon J. Amaya, Antonietta Capotondi, and Adam S. Phillips Progress in Oceanography 216:103055 (20 p.)

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An evaluation of high-resolution ocean reanalyses in the California Current System Amaya, Dillon J., Michael A. Alexander, James D. Scott, and Michael G. Jacox Progress in Oceanography 210:102951 (19 p.)

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Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) distributions, aggregation structures, and predator interactions in Bransfield Strait Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, George R. Cutter, and Gavin J. Macaulay Polar Biology 46:151-168

A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator Arostegui, Martin C., Barbara Muhling, Emmett Culhane, Heidi Dewar, Stephanie S. Koch, and Camrin D. Braun Science Advances 9(40):eadi8200 (11 p.)

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Highly accurate species identification of Eastern Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) with high-throughput DNA sequencing Baetscher, Diana S., Hayley M. Nuetzel, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Genetics 24(5):563-574

Fin-spine microchemistry discriminates regional stocks of Caspian Sea starry sturgeon Bakhshalizadeh, Shima, Botagoz Murasovna Nasibulina, Tatyana Fedorovna Kurochkin, Attaala Muhaysin Ali, and Theodore W. Hermann Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 292:108483 (8 p.)

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Revisiting a central prediction of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory: Gill area index and growth performance Bigman, Jennifer S., Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Fish and Fisheries 24(3):354-366

Observing ocean ecosystem responses to volcanic ash Bisson, K.M., S. Gasso, N. Mahowald, S. Wagner, B. Koffman, S.A. Carn, S. Deutsch, E. Gazel, S. Kramer, N. Krotkov, C. Mitchell, M.E. Pritchard, K. Stamieszkin, and C. Wilson Remote Sensing of Environment 296:113749 (13 p.)

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