NOAA FISHERIES

Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) Dutton, Peter H., and Amy Frey Molecular Ecology Resources 9(1):354-356

A Bayesian approach to line-transect analysis for estimating abundance Eguchi, Tomoharu, and Tim Gerrodette Ecological Modelling 220(13-14):1620-1630

Proceedings of the 2008 Tri-National Sardine Forum (Astoria, Oregon, December 4-5, 2008) Emmett, Robert L., and Nancy C.H. Lo (eds.) NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report. 89 p.

Female philopatry in coastal basins and male dispersion across the North Atlantic in a highly mobile marine species, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Engelhaupt, D., A.R. Hoelzel, C. Nicholson, A. Frantzis, S. Mesnick, S. Gero, H. Whitehead, L. Rendell, P. Miller, R. De Stefanis, A. Cañadas, S. Airold, and A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni Molecular Ecology 18(20):4193-4205

2008-2009 International Whaling Commission-Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research (IWC-SOWER) cruise Ensor, Paul, Hiroyuki Komiya, Saeko Kumagai, Sanna Kuningas, Paula Olson, and Yasunari Tsuda Paper SC/61/IA19 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC61 meeting, Madeira, Portugal, 2009). 54 p.

The ocean environment Fiedler, Paul C. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 792-797. Academic Press.

Oceanography and cetaceans in the eastern tropical Pacific Fiedler, Paul, George Watters, Karin Forney, and Megan Ferguson Paper SC/F09/CC10 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (IWC Workshop on Whales and Climate Change, Siena, Italy, February 2009). 3 p.

Oceanography and cetaceans in the eastern Pacific Fiedler, Paul, George Watters, Karin Forney, and Megan Ferguson In: Jennifer Hoffman, Ana Fonseca, and Carlos Drews (eds.), Cetaceans and other marine biodiversity of the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Options for adapting to climate change (workshop report, February 9-11, San Jose, Costa Rica), p. 35-36. WWF / Ministerio de Ambiente, Energia y Telecomunicaciones de Costa Rica (MINAET).

Bocaccio rebuilding analysis for 2009 Field, John C., and Xi He In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2009, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 17 p.

Status of bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, in the Conception, Monterey and Eureka INPFC areas for 2009 Field, John C., E.J. Dick, Don Pearson, and Alec D. MacCall In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2009, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 255 p.

Meeting report: "Workshop on Climate Change and Adaptation Options for Cetaceans and Other Marine Biodiversity of the Eastern Pacific," Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, 9-11 February 2009 Fonseca, Ana, Daniel Palacios, Jennifer Hoffman, and Mark Simmonds The Society for Marine Mammalogy Newsletter 17(2):6-7

A pink-footed shearwater in Hawai'i Force, Michael P., and Lisa T. Ballance 'Elepaio 69(6):39-40

First records of Chatham Island petrel Pterodroma axillaris in the eastern Pacific Ocean Force, Michael P., James M. Cotton, Richard A. Rowlett, and Lisa T. Ballance Marine Ornithology 37(3):277-279

Surveys Forney, Karin A. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 1129-1131. Academic Press.

Functional group biodiversity in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems questions the wasp-waist trophic structure Freon, Pierre, Javier Aristegui, Arnaud Bertrand, Robert J.M. Crawford, John C. Field, Mark J. Gibbons, Jorge Tam, Larry Hutchings, Hicham Masski, Christian Mullon, Mohamed Ramdani, Bernard Seret, and Monique Simier Progress in Oceanography 83(1-4):97-106

Environmental stochasticity Fujiwara, Masami Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 7 p.

Identifying environmental signals from population abundance data using multivariate time-series analysis Fujiwara, Masami, and Michael S. Mohr Oikos 118(11):1712-1720

Comments on implementation of the Annex P process in the JARPN II review Gales, N., P. Clapham, and R. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/61/SCP1 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC61 meeting, Madeira, Portugal, 2009). 6 p.

Guidelines for the treatment of marine mammals in field research Gales, N.J., W.D. Bowen, D.W. Johnston, K.M. Kovacs, C.L. Littnan, W.F. Perrin, J.R. Reynolds III, and P.M. Thompson Marine Mammal Science 25(3):725-736

Blue whales off Isla de Chiloe, Chile: update of 2009 field research season of the Alfaguara project Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Elsa Cabrera, Carole Carlson, Mariano Sironi, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/61/SH22 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC61 meeting, Madeira, Portugal, 2009). 2 p.

The tuna-dolphin issue Gerrodette, Tim In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 1192-1195. Academic Press.

Status of the U.S. splitnose rockfish (Sebastes diploproa) resource in 2009 Gertseva, Vladlena V., Jason M. Cope, and Donald E. Pearson In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2009, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 272 p.

Occurrence of plastic micro-debris in the southern California Current system Gilfillan, Lisa R., Mark D. Ohman, Miriam J. Doyle, and William Watson CalCOFI Reports 50:123-133

Pinniped research at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica, 2008/09 Goebel, Michael E., Douglas Krause, Scott Freeman, Ryan Burner, Carolina Bonin, Raul Vasquez del Mercado, Amy Van Cise, and Jennifer Gafney In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 38-43. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Atlas of cetacean sightings for Southwest Fisheries Science Center cetacean and ecosystem surveys: 1986-2005 Hamilton, Tiffanie A., Jessica V. Redfern, Jay Barlow, Lisa T. Ballance, Tim Gerrodette, Rennie S. Holt, Karin A. Forney, and Barbara L. Taylor U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-440. 70 p.

Estimating the proportions of closely related species: performance of the two-phase ratio estimator Hankin, David G., Michael S. Mohr, and Hans Voight Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 14(1):15-32

Ecological and economic considerations in the conservation and management of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Hannesson, Rögnvaldur, Samuel Herrick, Jr., and John Field Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(5):859-868

Rebuilding analysis for widow rockfish in 2009 He, Xi, Andre Punt, Alec D. MacCall, and Stephen Ralston In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2009, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 19 p.

Status of the widow rockfish resource in 2009 He, Xi, Donald E. Pearson, E.J. Dick, John C. Field, Stephen Ralston, and Alec D. MacCall In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2009, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 187 p.

California, Galapagos, and Japanese sea lions: Zalophus californianus, Z. wollebaeki, and Z. japonicus Heath, Carolyn B., and William F. Perrin In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 170-176. Academic Press.

Global production and economics Herrick, Samuel F., Jr., Jerrold G. Norton, Rognvaldur Hannesson, U. Rashid Sumaila, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, and Julio Pena-Torres In: D. Checkley et al. (eds.), Climate change and small pelagic fish, p. 256-274. Cambridge University Press.

Migration of green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, in the Sacramento River Heublein, Joseph C., John T. Kelly, Carlos E. Crocker, A. Peter Klimley, and Steven T. Lindley Environmental Biology of Fishes 84(3):245-258

A quantitative analysis of sources for summertime phytoplankton variability over 18 years in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) region Hewes, C.D., C.S. Reiss, and O. Holm-Hansen Deep-Sea Research I 56(8):1230-1241

Phytoplankton studies in the South Shetland Islands Hewes, Christopher D., Osmund Holm-Hansen, Jose Luis Iriarte, Nicolas Sanchez Puerto, Douglas Krause, and Nelson Silva In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 7-12. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Krill and other plankton Hewitt, Roger, and Jessica D. Lipsky In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 657-664. Academic Press.

Utility theoretic semi-logarithmic incomplete demand systems in a natural experiment: Forest fire impacts on recreational values and use Hilger, James, and Jeffrey Englin Resource and Energy Economics 31(4):287-298

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2009 for U.S. management in 2010 Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-452. 216 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Elephant seals: Mirounga angustirostris and M. leonina Hindell, Mark A., and William F. Perrin In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 364-368. Academic Press.

Deployment of an underwater photographic/video imaging system to characterize seafloor habitats and benthic invertebrate megafauna and detect vulnerable marine ecosystems Hoek, Andre, Christopher Jones, Anthony Cossio, Susanne Lockhart, and Derek Needham In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 76-80. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Climate-driven changes in abundance and distribution of larvae of oceanic fishes in the southern California region Hsieh, Chih-Hao, Hey Jin Kim, William Watson, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, and George Sugihara Global Change Biology 15(9):2137-2152

Population genetic structure in the redefined vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) indicates limited larval dispersal and reveals natural management units Hyde, John R., and Russell D. Vetter Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(9):1569-1581

Polyploid microsatellite data reveal stock complexity among estuarine North American green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) Israel, Joshua A., K. Jun Bando, Eric C. Anderson, and Bernie May Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(9):1491-1504

Report of Vaquita Expedition 2008 and current conservation actions Jaramillo-Legorreta, Armando M., Barb Taylor, Tim Gerrodette, Shannon Rankin, Rene Swift, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Paper SC/61/SM23 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC61 meeting, Madeira, Portugal, 2009). 5 p.

Clymene dolphin: Stenella clymene Jefferson, Thomas A. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 241-243. Academic Press.

Dall's porpoise Phoceonoides dalli Jefferson, Thomas A. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 296-298. Academic Press.

Rough-toothed dolphin: Steno bredanensis Jefferson, Thomas A. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 990-992. Academic Press.

Distribution of common dolphins (Delphinus spp.) in the western Atlantic Ocean: a critical re-examination Jefferson, Thomas A., Dagmar Fertl, Jaime Bolanos-Jimenez, and Alexandre N. Zerbini Marine Biology 156(6):1109-1124

Photo-identification of the vaquita (Phocoena sinus): the world's most endangered cetacean Jefferson, Thomas A., Paula A. Olson, Thomas R. Kieckhefer, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 7(1-2):53-56

Demersal finfish survey of the South Orkney Islands Jones, Christopher, Malte Damerau, Kim Deitrich, Ryan Driscoll, Karl-Hermann Kock, Kristen Kuhn, Jon Moore, Tina Morgan, Tom Near, Jillian Pennington, Susanne Scholing In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 49-66. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Model-based assessment of persistence in proposed marine protected area designs Kaplan, David M., Louis W. Botsford, Michael R. O'Farrell, Steven D. Gaines, and Salvador Jorgensen Ecological Applications 19(2):433-448

Bryde's whales: Balaenoptera edeni/brydei Kato, Hidehiro, and William F. Perrin In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 158-163. Academic Press.

Blubber testosterone: a potential marker of male reproductive status in short-beaked common dolphins Kellar, Nicholas M., Marisa L. Trego, Corina I. Marks, Susan J. Chivers, Kerri Danil, and Frederick I. Archer Marine Mammal Science 25(3):507-522

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2009 season Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath River Technical Advisory Team. 31 p.

Klamath River fall Chinook age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2008 run Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath River Technical Advisory Team. 20 p.

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2008 Koslow, Tony, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Russ Vetter, and Anne Allen CalCOFI Reports 50:5-13

Aspects of the biology and population genetics of the Antarctic nototheniid fish Trematomus nicolai Kuhn, Kristen L., Thomas J. Near, Christopher D. Jones, and Joseph T. Eastman Copeia 2009(2):320-327

Age and growth of spiny icefish (Chaenodraco wilsoni Regan, 1914) off Joinville-D'Urville Islands (Antarctic Peninsula) La Mesa, M., A. De Felice, C.D. Jones, and K.-H. Kock CCAMLR Science 16:115-130

Demersal fish and habitat associations from visual surveys on the central California shelf Laidig, Thomas E., Diana L. Watters, and Mary M. Yoklavich Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 83(4):629-637

Fish and invertebrate bycatch estimates for the California set gillnet fishery targeting halibut and white seabass, 1990-2006 Larese, Jason P. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-441. 49 p.

Growth and reproduction of female eastern and whitebelly spinner dolphins incidentally killed in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna purse-seine fishery Larese, Jason P., and Susan J. Chivers Canadian Journal of Zoology 87(6):537-552

Biogeography LeDuc, Rick In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 112-115. Academic Press.

Delphinids, overview LeDuc, Rick In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 298-302. Academic Press.

Climate variability and the collapse of a Chinook salmon stock [abstract] Lindley, S., M. Mohr, W.T. Peterson, C. Grimes, J. Stein, J. Anderson, L.W. Botsford, D. Bottom, C. Busack, T. Collier, J. Ferguson, C. Garza, A. Grover, D. Hankin, R. Kope, P. Lawson, A. Low, B. MacFarlane, K. Moore, M. Palmer-Zwahlen, F.B. Schwing, J. Smith, C. Tracy, R.S. Webb, B. Wells, and T. Williams American Geophysical Union, 2009 Fall Meeting, Abstract NH41A-1230

What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse? Lindley, S.T., C.B. Grimes, M.S. Mohr, W. Peterson, J. Stein, J.T. Anderson, L.W. Botsford, D.L. Bottom, C.A. Busack, T.K. Collier, J. Ferguson, J.C. Garza, A.M. Grover, D.G. Hankin, R.G. Kope, P.W. Lawson, A. Low, R.B. MacFarlane, K. Moore, M. Palmer-Zwahlen, F.B. Schwing, J. Smith, C. Tracy, R. Webb, B.K. Wells, and T.H. Williams Pre-publication report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, March 18, 2009. 118 p.

What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse? Lindley, S.T., C.B. Grimes, M.S. Mohr, W. Peterson, J. Stein, J.T. Anderson, L.W. Botsford, D.L. Bottom, C.A. Busack, T.K. Collier, J. Ferguson, J.C. Garza, A.M. Grover, D.G. Hankin, R.G. Kope, P.W. Lawson, A. Low, R.B. MacFarlane, K. Moore, M. Palmer-Zwahlen, F.B. Schwing, J. Smith, C. Tracy, R. Webb, B.K. Wells, and T.H. Williams U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-447. 121 p.

Right whale dolphins: Lissodelphis borealis and L. peronii Lipsky, Jessica D. In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 958-962. Academic Press.

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off California in 2009 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-449. 31 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES - CALIFORNIA

Egg, larval and juvenile surveys Lo, Nancy C.H., Paul E. Smith, and Motomitsu Takahashi In: Tore Jakobsen, Michael J. Fogarty, Bernard A. Megrey, and Erlend Moksness (eds.), Fish reproductive biology: implications for assessment and management, p. 207-229. Wiley-Blackwell.

Benthic invertebrate composition and characterization of the South Orkney Islands Lockhart, Susanne, Nerida Wilson, Eric Lazo-Wasem, and Christopher Jones In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 67-75. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Distribution, abundance and demography of krill Loeb, Valerie, Kimberly Dietrich, Ryan Driscoll, Jasmine Fry, Douglas Krause, Joelle Sweeney, Nicolas Sanchez Puerto, Maria Andrade Martinez, Allan Ligon, and Amy Van Cise In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 17-24. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Distribution and abundance of Zooplankton Loeb, Valerie, Kimberly Dietrich, Ryan Driscoll, Jasmine Fry, Douglas Krause, Joelle Sweeney, Nicolas Sanchez Puerto, Maria Andrade Martinez, Allan Ligon, and Amy Van Cise In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 25-33. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Demersal fish assemblages in the Southern California Bight based on visual surveys in deep water Love, Milton S., Mary Yoklavich, and Donna M. Schroeder Environmental Biology of Fishes 84(1):55-68

A short scientific history of the fisheries MacCall, Alec D. In: D. Checkley et al. (eds.), Climate change and small pelagic fish, p. 6-11. Cambridge University Press.

Mechanisms of low-frequency fluctuations in sardine and anchovy populations MacCall, Alec D. In: D. Checkley et al. (eds.), Climate change and small pelagic fish, p. 285-299. Cambridge University Press.

Depletion-corrected average catch: a simple formula for estimating sustainable yields in data-poor situations MacCall, Alec D. ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(10):2267-2271

A proposal for new stock boundaries for bottlenose dolphins in the Hawaiian EEZ Martien, Karen K., and Robin W. Baird Document PSRD-2009-13 presented to the Pacific Scientific Review Group (November 3-5, 2009, Del Mar, California). 7 p.

TOSSM: an R package for assessing performance of genetic analytical methods in a management context Martien, Karen K., Dave Gregovich, Mark V. Bravington, Andre E. Punt, Allan E. Strand, David A. Tallmon, and Barbara L. Taylor Molecular Ecology Resources 9(6):1456-1459

Report on the NMFS California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (April and July-August 2008) McClatchie, Sam (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-438. 98 p.

The state of the California Current, Spring 2008-2009: cold conditions drive regional differences in coastal production McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, Richard Charter, William Watson, Nancy Lo, Kevin Hill, Curtis Collins, Mati Kahru, B. Greg Mitchell, J. Anthony Koslow, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Jon Gottschalck, Michelle L'Heureux, Yan Xue, Marlenne Manzano-Sarabia, Eric Bjorkstedt, Stephen Ralston, John Field, Laura Rogers-Bennet, Lisa Munger, Greg Campbell, Karlina Merkens, Dominique Camacho, Andrea Havron, Annie Douglas, and John Hildebrand CalCOFI Reports 50:43-68

Effects of maternal traits and individual behavior on the foraging strategies and provisioning rates of an income breeder, the Antarctic fur seal McDonald, Birgitte I., Michael E. Goebel, Daniel E. Crocker, Yann Tremblay, and Daniel P. Costa Marine Ecology Progress Series 394:277-288

Worldwide decline in tonal frequencies of blue whale songs McDonald, Mark A., John A. Hildebrand, and Sarah Mesnick Endangered Species Research 9(1):13-21

Serving ocean model data on the cloud Meisinger, Michael, Claudiu Farcas, Emilia Farcas, Charles Alexander, Matthew Arrott, Jeff de La Beaujardiere, Paul Hubbard, Roy Mendelssohn, and Richard Signell In: Marine technology for our future: global and local challenges. OCEANS 2009, MTS/IEEE Biloxi (26-29 October 2009, Biloxi, Mississippi). IEEE / Marine Technology Society.

Paedomorphic ossification in porpoises with an emphasis on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) Mellor, Liliana, Lisa Noelle Cooper, Jorge Torre, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Aquatic Mammals 35(2):193-202

Comment on 'A spatio-temporal model for mean, anomaly, and trend fields of North Atlantic sea surface temperature' by Lemos and Sanso Mendelssohn, Roy Journal of the American Statistical Association 104(485):20-22

Mating systems Mesnick, Sarah L., and Katherine Ralls In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 712-719. Academic Press.

Potential new production estimates in four eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems Messie, Monique, Jesus Ledesma, Dorota D. Kolber, Reiko P. Michisaki, David G. Foley, and Francisco P. Chavez Progress in Oceanography 83(1-4):151-158

Flexible foraging strategies of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua over 5 years in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Miller, Aileen K., Nina J. Karnovsky, and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece Marine Biology 156(12):2527-2537

Distribution and movements of fin whales in the North Pacific Ocean Mizroch, Sally A., Dale W. Rice, Denny Zwiefelhoffer, Janice Waite, and Wayne L. Perryman Mammal Review 39(3):193-227

Marine reserve networks for species that move within a home range Moffitt, Elizabeth A., Louis W. Botsford, David M. Kaplan, and Michael R. O'Farrell Ecological Applications 19(7):1835-1847

Do impassable dams and flow regulation constrain the distribution of green sturgeon in the Sacramento River, California? Mora, E. A., S. T. Lindley, D. L. Erickson, and A. P. Klimley Journal of Applied Ichthyology 25(Suppl. 2):39-47

Genetics for management Morin, Phillip A., and Andrew E. Dizon In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 477-483. Academic Press.

Normalization and binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: overcoming the problems of allele size shift with Allelogram Morin, Phillip A., Carl Manaster, Sarah L. Mesnick, and Robert Holland Molecular Ecology Resources 9(6):1451-1455

Assessing statistical power of SNPs for population structure and conservation studies Morin, Phillip A., Karen K. Martien, and Barbara L. Taylor Molecular Ecology Resources 9(1):66-73

Significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium caused by low levels of microsatellite genotyping errors Morin, Phillip A., Richard G. LeDuc, Frederick I. Archer, Karen K. Martien, Ryan Huebinger, John W. Bickham, and Barbara L. Taylor Molecular Ecology Resources 9(2):498-504

White shark offshore habitat: a behavioral and environmental characterization of the eastern Pacific shared offshore foraging area Nasby-Lucas, Nicole, Heidi Dewar, Chi H. Lam, Kenneth J. Goldman, and Michael L. Domeier PLoS One 4(12):e8163 (14 p.)

Report to Congress: The state of science to support an ecosystem approach to regional fishery management: Pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, Section 406 National Marine Fisheries Service U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-96. 17 p.

Geographic intraspecific variation in buoyancy within Antarctic notothenioid fishes Near, Thomas J., Christopher D. Jones, and Joseph T. Eastman Antarctic Science 21(2):123-129

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, and Andre Hoek In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 2-6. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Scientific and statistical review of Appendix C, Scientific investigation program & monitoring plan, final administrative draft of biological assessment, 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project Newman, Ken B., Pete Smith, Pete Adams, Randy Baxter, Mike Chotkowski, and Steve Culberson Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, California. 15 p.

At-sea mortality of seabirds based on beachcast and offshore surveys Newton, Kelly M., Donald A. Croll, Hannahrose M. Nevins, Scott R. Benson, James T. Harvey, and Bernie R. Tershy Marine Ecology Progress Series 392:295-305