Thu, March 28, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL).
Recently, an expedition team, consisting of 21 researchers from Canada, the United States, Russia, Japan, and Korea – all Pacific salmon producing countries – set out on the Russian Vessel, the Professor Kaganovskiy, for a five-week long voyage in the Gulf of Alaska – the first winter-at-sea international research collaboration, surveying of abundance and condition of salmon.
Grab your lunch and join us as Dr. Evgeny Pakhomov, professor and Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and Chief Canadian Scientist on the International Gulf of Alaska Expedition, and Dr. Brian Hunt, researcher on the Expedition discuss the voyage, the research findings so far, and where we go from here in our search to understand our iconic Pacific salmon species.
Location: Hakai Node, (Rm. 216, AERL Building)