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The American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists
Symposium 2012
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DEOS MS Thesis Defense
“Salinity as a Mitigating Factor in Competition Between Spartina Alterniflora and Phragmites Australis”
By: Dahlia Lee Medeiros
Advisor: Brian Howes
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 pm
Abstract
At SMAST I, Room 204
706 S. Rodney French Blvd
New Bedford, MA 02744
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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
“Understanding and avoiding river herring and American shad bycatch in the Atlantic herring and mackerel mid-water trawl fisheries”
By: N. David Bethoney
Advisor: Kevin Stokesbury
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
10:00 am
Abstract
Location: TBA
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| Massive Georges Bank scallop study filling knowledge gaps |
05.11.12  A three-institution, three-year, three-species research project on Georges Bank is uncovering new information about sea scallops and their interrelationships with common flatfish bycatch species. Since 2010, the study has logged 14 research cruises, timed to cover the entire year, notably the winter and spring months when the fishery is normally inactive and hence not providing data. SMAST has partnered with Coonamessett Farm Foundation and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science on the study, which is supported by the industry-funded scallop research set-aside program. An article in the May issue of Commercial Fisheries News reports on the research in detail, interviewing SMAST staff and students on their respective contributions to the project. In the same issue, Fisheries Research Technician Dave Bethoney contributes an article on the SMAST river herring bycatch avoidance program. |
| New Bedford dominates underwater competition |
05.08.12  Two New Bedford secondary schools took first in six of seven categories at this year's MATE New England Regional ROV Competition. Eleven teams designed and built remotely controlled vehicles, or ROVs, and brought them to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on April 28th to be tested on their performance of a complex underwater mission. To their first-place finish overall, the New Bedford High School team added firsts in mission score and engineering evaluation, and will represent New England at the international finals in Orlando in June. Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School had best technical report and poster display, and placed third overall. Blue Hills Regional Technical High School of Canton finished in second. SMAST engineer Chris Jakubiak, chair of the New England Chapter of the Marine Technology Society, organizes the competition. |
| Mass Marine Educators award Kennedy |
05.08.12  SMAST Aquaculture Technician W. Forrest Kennedy was honored Saturday by the Massachusetts Marine Educators at their Annual Meeting and Conference in Woods Hole. Kennedy was presented with the 2012 John Patrick Crowley Memorial Teacher Grant "for his work with NSF TEACH, Ocean Academy for Teachers, and mantis shrimp exhibits at SMAST and the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford." The award was presented by Jack Crowley, Executive Director of MME. At the same event, Dr. John Farrington, former SMAST Dean and current UMassD Provost, received an MME Certificate of Appreciation for "his support of the High School Marine Science Symposium and for decades of support to MME and classroom teachers." |
| MacDonald addresses Sigma Xi |
05.08.12  Eight SMAST and Physics/SMAST presentations of marine research figured among the more than 100 posters at last week's 18th Annual Sigma Xi Research Exhibition. Each poster at the exhibition was presented by a student who had contributed, as part of a team with faculty, to the research described. SMAST Prof. Dan MacDonald delivered the exhibition's keynote address on marine renewable energy research at UMass Dartmouth, including a near-shore wave energy converter being developed by a team of UMassD students. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific and engineering research society, sponsors the exhibition, which gives students an opportunity to present research under the same conditions as at a professional scientific meeting. (Photo courtesy Jennifer White-UMass Dartmouth PhotoGraphics.) |
| Fishermen train for safety at SMAST |
04.23.12  This Friday, April 27th, the latest class of commercial fishermen will gather at SMAST for Basic Safety and Survival Training, sponsored by Fishing Partnership, a non-profit dedicated to the health and safety of fishermen and their families. The curriculum includes fire-fighting, man-overboard procedures, first aid, flood and pump operation, vessel stability, use of flares and EPIRBS, and immersion suit/life raft training. According to organizer Ed Dennehy of New Directions Southcoast, the program has trained more than 1304 fishing personnel at SMAST and other locations in the seven years of its existence. Slots are still open for Friday's full-day course (7:30 am - 2:30 pm), which includes lunch. The registration form can be submitted by email, faxed or filled out at www.newdirectionssouthcoast.org; registration is also accepted at the door. |
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