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The NWFSC Scientific Publications Database serves as an archival repository of NWFSC-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, technical memorandums, reports, or other information authored or co-authored by NWFSC or funded partners. As a repository, the SPD retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.

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In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyNaish, K. A., R. B. Phillips, M. S. Brieuc, L. Newton, A. Elz, L. K. Park. In press. Comparative genome mapping between Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and rainbow trout (O. mykiss) based on homologous microsatellite loci. Genes, Genomes, Genetics , 3 (12) : 2281-2288. doi:10.1534/g3.113.008003
In pressJournal ArticleFishery Resource Analysis and MonitoringLangseth, B. J., S. Glover. In press. Distinguishing species-specific targeting practices within the main Hawaiian islands Deep 7 bottomfish fishery. Fisheries Research.
In pressJournal ArticleFish EcologyAngert, A. L., L. G. Crozier, L. J. Rissler, S. E. Gilman, J. J. Tewksbury, A. J. Chunco. In press. Do species traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges? Ecology Letters , (14) 677-689.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyHess, J. E., R. D. Vetter, P. Moran. In press. A steep genetic cline in yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus, suggests regional isolation across the Cape Mendocino faunal break. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
In pressJournal ArticleFish EcologyCrozier, L. G., B. J. Burke, B. Chasco, D. L. Widener, R. W. Zabel. In press. Climate change threatens Chinook salmon throughout their life cycle. Communications Biology.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyWilliamson, K. S., B. P. May. In press. Mitochondrial DNA haplotype diversity in apparent XY-female Fall- and Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California's Central Valley. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyWiedenmann, J., J. Wilen, P. S. Levin, M. Plummer, M. Mangel. In press. A framework for exploring the bioeconomic causes and consequences of ecosystem fishing patterns. Coastal Management.
In pressJournal ArticleArkoosh, M. R., A. L. Van Gaest, S. A. Strickland, G. P. Hutchinson, A. B. Krupkin, M. Rew, J. P. Dietrich. In press. Dietary exposure to a binary mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers alters innate immunity and disease susceptibility in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.
In pressJournal ArticleLeising, A., I. D. Schroeder, S. J. Bograd, E. P. Bjorkstedt, J. Field, K. Sakuma, J. Abell, R. R. Robertson, J. Tyburczy, W. T. Peterson, R. D. Brodeur, C. Barcelo, T. D. Auth, E. A. Daly, G. Campbell, J. Hildebrand, R. M. Suryan, A. J. Gladics, C. A. Horton, M. Kahru, M. Manzano-Sarabia, S. McClatchie, E. D. Weber, W. Watson, J. A. Santora, W. J. Sydeman, S. R. Melin, R. DeLong, J. L. Largier, S. Kim, F. P. Chavez, R. Golightly, S. R. Schneider, P. Warzybok, R. W. Bradley, J. Jahncke, J. L. Fisher, J. O. Peterson. In press. State of the California Current 2013-14: El Niño looming. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports , 54 : 51-87.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyMurdoch, A. R., C. J. Herring, C. H. Frady, K. E. See, C. E. Jordan. In press. Estimating observer error and steelhead redd abundance using a modified Gaussian area-under-the-curve framework. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
In pressReportFish EcologyTorgersen, C. E., A. H. Fullerton, Z. Johnson, F. H. Mejia. In press. Stream temperature handbook: a primer on data and models. Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Seattle (https://cig.uw.edu/our-work/decision-support/stream-temperature-handbook/)
In pressJournal ArticleArkoosh, M. R., A. L. Van Gaest, S. A. Strickland, G. P. Hutchinson, A. B. Krupkin, J. P. Dietrich. In press. Disruption of thyroid hormone concentrations in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, BDE-47 and BDE-99. Chemosphere , 171 : 1-8. doi:DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.12.035
In pressJournal ArticleDai, X., B. D. Bill, N. G. Adams, U. Tillmann, C. A. Sloan, D. Lu, V. L. Trainer. In press. The effect of temperature and salinity on growth rate and azaspiracid concentration in two strains of Azadinium poporum (Dinophyceae) from Puget Sound, Washington State. Harmful Algae.
In pressReportFish EcologyKatz, S. L., H. Beecher, M. Brady, J. Cook, K. K. Gates, J. Padowski, G. R. Pess, M. D. Scheuerell, J. Yoder. In press. Technical Supplement to Department of Ecology for Determining Net Ecological Benefit. Washington Department of Ecology, Olympia, Washington
In pressJournal ArticleConservation Biology

Berger, H.M., Siedlecki, S.A., Matassa, C.M., Alin, S.R., Kaplan, I.C., Hodgson, E.E., Pilcher, D.J., Norton, E.L. and Newton, J.A., 2021. Seasonality and life history complexity determine vulnerability of Dungeness crab to multiple climate stressors. AGU Advances, 2(4), p.e2021AV000456.

In pressJournal ArticleFish EcologySwieca, K., S. Sponaugle, C. Briseño-Avena, M. Schmid, R. D. Brodeur, R. Cowen. In press. Changing with the tides: fine-scale larval fish prey availability and predation pressure near a tidally-modulated river plume. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
In pressJournal ArticleEbel, J. D., D. A. Larsen, K. R. Conley, M. A. Middleton. In press. A fish out-of-basin: Increased stress physiology and reduced performance of Salmon River hatchery Chinook Salmon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
In pressJournal ArticleFish EcologyThallman, H. L., E. A. Daly, R. D. Brodeur. In press. Two anomalously warm years in the northern California Current: impacts on early marine steelhead diet composition, morphology, and potential survival. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
In pressJournal ArticleFish EcologyChamberlin, J. W., J. Hall, T. Zackey, F. E. Leonetti, M. Rustay, C. A. Rice. In press. Spatial and Temporal Variability in Chinook Salmon Abundance Reflects Opportunity to Support Life History Diversity in an Estuarine Landscape. Estuaries and Coasts.
In pressJournal ArticleFishery Resource Analysis and MonitoringGao, J., J. T. Thorson, C. Szuwalski, H. Wang. In press. Historical dynamics of the demersal fish community in the East and South China Seas. PLoS ONE.
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Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2017 Aug;142:157-163. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.03.044. Epub 2017 Apr 11

In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyFraik, A. K., J. R. McMillan, M. Liermann, T. R. Bennett, M. L. McHenry, G. J. McKinney, G. A. Winans, A. H. Wells, J. L. Kelley, G. R. Pess, K. M. Nichols. In press. The impacts of dam construction and removal on the genetics of recovering steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) populations across the Elwha River watershed. Gene.
In pressChapter or SectionSchultz, I. R., J. L. Bolton, R. Stimmelmayr, G. M. Ylitalo. In press. Chapter 37: Contaminants. In George, J., J. Thewissen. (Eds.) The Bowhead Whale. Balaena mysticetus: Biology and Human Interactions. Academic Press (Elsevier).
In pressJournal ArticleKeogh, M. J., B. Taras, K. B. Beckmen, K. A. Burek-Huntington, G. M. Ylitalo, B. S. Fadely, L. Rea, K. W. Pitcher. In press. Organochlorine contaminant concentrations in blubber of young Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) are influenced by region, age, sex, and lipid stores. Science of the Total Environment.
In pressJournal ArticleLema, S. C., M. I. Chow, E. J. Reiner, A. A. Westman, A. H. Dittman, D. May, K. M. Hardy. In press. Endocrine and metabolic impacts of warming aquatic habitats: differential responses between recently-isolated populations of a eurythermal desert pupfish. Conservation Physiology.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyFaber-Hammond, J., R. B. Phillips, L. K. Park. In press. The Sockeye Salmon Neo-Y Chromosome is a Fusion between the Coho Y Chromosome and the Long Arm of Rainbow Trout Omy2. Cytogenetic and genome research , 136 (1) : 69-74.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyBrainard, R. E., C. Birkeland, C. M. Eakin, P. McElhany, M. Patterson, G. A. Piniak, M. Dunlap, M. Weijerman. In press. Incorporating Climate and Ocean Change into Extinction Risk Assessments for 82 Coral Species. Conservation Biology.
In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyLeong, K., S. Wongbusarakum, R. J. Ingram, A. Mawyer, M. R. Poe. In press. Improving Representation of Human Well-Being and Cultural Importance in the West Hawai¿i Integrated Ecosystem Assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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Arkoosh, M. R., J. Dietrich, M. B. Rew, W. Olson, G. Young, and F. W. Goetz. 2018. Exploring the efficacy of vaccine techniques in juvenile sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria. Aquaculture Research, 49:205-216

In pressJournal ArticleConservation BiologyCharnley, S., R. McLain, M. R. Poe. In press. Natural Resource Access Rights and Wrongs: Nontimber Forest Products Gathering in Urban Environments. Society & Natural Resources.
2026Journal ArticleEconomic and Social Science Research ProgramLisa Pfeiffer,Paul Carvalho,Min-Yang Lee,Anna Ableman,Alan Haynie 2026. The Spatial Economics Toolbox for Fisheries (FishSET) is an R package for modeling fisher behavior and simulating policy scenarios. , 83. (https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsag032)
2026Journal ArticleWatershed ProgramJoshua Chamberlin, Max R. Lambert, Eric M. Beamer, W. Todd Zackey, Doris Small, Paul Cereghino, and Stephanie Ehinger. 2026. Juvenile salmonids transit through marine waters to access non-natal habitats for rearing. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 83: 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0313 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0313)
2026Journal ArticleNearshore Marine EcologyHeery, EC, MN Dethier, BE Feist, KP Sebens & JE Duffy (2026) A new tool for quantifying urbanization gradients across seascapes predicts habitat-forming macroalgal distribution patterns in the Salish Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 776: 1-15. DOI: 10.3354/meps14998 (10.3354/meps14998)
2026Journal ArticleIntegrative Marine EcologyLovindeer, R., Fulton, E. A., Allen, S. E., Garate, J. P., Latornell, D. J., Morzaria-Luna, H., & Morell, A. (2025). Equations for modelling contaminant impacts throughout a marine ecosystem. Ocean Modelling, 102646. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2025.102646)
2026Journal ArticleEstuarine and Ocean Ecology ProgramBrian J. Burke, Aimee H. Fullerton, Brian K. Wells, Jan Ohlberger, Improving salmon marine survival models with covariance map indices of sea surface temperature (CMISST) and sea surface height (CMISSH), Ecological Informatics, Volume 93, 2026, 103575, ISSN 1574-9541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103575. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103575)
2026Journal ArticleMathematical Biology and Systems Monitoring ProgramEric Ward,Melissa Head,Kristin Marshall,Kelli Johnson 2026. Applying Fisher Information to increase the efficiency of life-history sampling in fisheries data. , 293. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107641)
2026Contract ReportEcosystem Analysis ProgramOgden, D. A., A. L. Barenberg, and R. M. Gleason. 2026. Operation of the Adult Trap at Lower Granite Dam, 2023. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Contract Report NMFS-NWFSC-CR-2026-01. (https://doi.org/10.25923/p8bs-7517)
2026Technical MemorandumEcosystem Science ProgramGaydos, J. K., H. H. Nollens, C. F. Lo, M. B. Hanson, K. Haman, M. Weiss, D. Giles, S. J. Thornton, T. R. Robeck, and C. Dold. 2025. Remotely Sensed Metrics for Evaluating Wild Killer Whale Health. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-204. (https://doi.org/10.25923/jftd-d217)
2026Processed ReportConservation Biology DivisionGuerra, A. S., K. S. Andrews, B. E. Feist, I. C. Kaplan, M. G. Jacox, M. Pozo Buil, B. Muhling, D. Pilcher, and J. F. Samhouri. 2026. A Framework for Selecting Climate Projections for Marine Spatial Research and Planning: A U.S. West Coast Case Study. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Processed Report NMFS-NWFSC-PR-2026-01. (https://doi.org/10.25923/8f27-nq63)
2026Journal ArticleNearshore Marine EcologyMoore, Stephanie K.; Adams, Nicolaus G.; Mickett, John B.; Mikulski, Christina M.; Michel-Hart, Nicolas; Birch, James M.; Roman, Brent; and Newton, Jan A. (2026) "Using the second-generation Environmental Sample Processor to provide near real-time observations of harmful algae and assess biodiversity and ecosystem change," Benefits of Ocean Observing Catalog (BOOC): Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15351/3068-2320.1149 (https://doi.org/10.15351/3068-2320.1149)
2026Contract ReportEcosystem Analysis ProgramLamb, J. J., B. P. Sandford, S. G. Smith, L. W. Stearman, R. M. Gleason, and A. L. Barenberg. 2026. Monitoring the Migrations of Wild Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Juveniles: Survival and Timing, 2025. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Contract Report NMFS-NWFSC-CR-2026-04. (https://doi.org/10.25923/vjd7-4b57)
2026Journal ArticlePopulation EcologyPublished Paper: Feddern, M. L., A.Darby, K.Oken, and N.Tolimieri. 2026. “Stage-Specific Indicators of Northern Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) Recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem.” Fisheries Oceanography 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.70041. (http://doi.org/10.1111/fog.70041)
2026Journal ArticleConservation Biology DivisionFisher, M. C., L. K. Nelson, T. B. Francis, P. S. Levin, J. F. Samhouri, C. J. Harvey, L. E. Dee, K. N. Marshall, S. J. Miller, S. K. Moore, M. L. Barnes, C. H. Cha, J. E. Cinner, S. A. Gray, A. E. Punt, C. C. Ridings, and F. W. Simon. 2026. Exploring unintended outcomes and trade-offs of climate adaptation for human well-being, using qualitative network models (QNMs). Ecology and Society 31(1):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16551-310101 (https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16551-310101)
2026Technical MemorandumFisheries Observation Science ProgramSomers, K. A., K. E. Richerson, and V. J. Tuttle. 2026. Estimated Discard and Catch of Groundfish Species in the 2024 U.S. West Coast Fisheries. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-206. (https://doi.org/10.25923/c8cz-tk83)
2026Contract ReportEcosystem Analysis ProgramOgden, D. A., A. L. Barenberg, and R. M. Gleason. 2026. Operation of the Adult Trap at Lower Granite Dam, 2024. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Contract Report NMFS-NWFSC-CR-2026-03. (https://doi.org/10.25923/9mcw-xv23)
2026Journal ArticleWatershed ProgramHanson K, Bond M, Bennett T and Liermann M (2026) Growth of coastal cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii, in intensively monitored urban and natural streams in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Front. Ecol. Evol. 14:1771898. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2026.1771898 (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2026.1771898/full)
2026Data ReportNorthwest Fisheries Science CenterRicherson, K. E., K. A. Somers, V. J. Tuttle, N. B. Riley, J. T. McVeigh, and K. M. Nichols. 2026. Observed and Estimated Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002–24. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Data Report NMFS-NWFSC-DR-2026-01. (https://doi.org/10.25923/qpg8-1573)
2026Journal ArticleWatershed ProgramPeter Kiffney 2026. Post-Wildfire Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Response in the US Pacific Northwest: Science and Monitoring Gaps. , 2. (10.1088/3033-4942/ae36cb)
2026Journal ArticleConservation Biology DivisionBliesner KL, Osborne LJ, Feden MJ, Tattam IA, Fetcho KE and Jordan CE (2026) Adaptive monitoring and partnerships in river restoration: insights from the Middle Fork John Day River Intensively Monitored Watershed, Oregon. Front. Ecol. Evol. 14:1719657. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2026.1719657 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1719657)
2026Contract ReportEcosystem Analysis ProgramBarenberg, A. L., J. J. Lamb, R. M. Gleason, and B. P. Sandford. 2026. Monitoring the Migrations of Wild Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Juveniles: Fish Collection and Tagging, 2025. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Contract Report NMFS-NWFSC-CR-2026-02. (https://doi.org/10.25923/jqs0-f478)