PSRC News & Events

Conferences:

American Elasmobranch Society Meetings, Tampa, Florida, July 6-11, 2005 ABSTRACTS

7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 15-20, 2005 ABSTRACTS

The Third International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research & Application, Townsville, Australia, 11-16 July 2004 ABSTRACTS

American Elasmobranch Society (AES) and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) meetings, Norman, Oklahoma, 26-31 May 2004. ABSTRACTS

Western Groundfish, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 9-13 February 2004. ABSTRACTS

Conservation and Management of Deepsea Chondrichthyan Fishes, Dunedin, New Zealand, 27-29 November 2003. ABSTRACTS

Western Society of Naturalists, Long Beach, California, 7-10 November 2003. ABSTRACTS

CalCOFI, Pacific Grove, California, 5-7 November 2003.

Gilbert Ichthyological Society, Newport, Oregon, 19-21 September 2003

American Elasmobranch Society (AES) and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) meetings, Manaus, Brazil, 27 June to 2 July 2003. ABSTRACTS

Foro de Intercambrio Cientifico sobre Tiburones y Rajas: Biologia, Ecologia, y Pesqueria in Guaymas, Mexico, May 2003. ABSTRACTS

American Fisheries Society, Western Division, meeting in La Jolla, California, April 2003. ABSTRACTS



Field Notes:

PSRC members at the American Elasmobranch Society meetings, May 2004. Pictured (from l to r) Greg Cailliet, Dave Ebert, Chante Davis, Tonatiuh Trejo (2004 AES Carrier Poster Award winner), Brooke Flammang, Joe Bizzarro, and Wade Smith.
The 2004 AES Carrier Poster Award winner Tonatiuh Trejo receiving his award from Jeff and Carol Carrier (on his left) and AES President Carl Luer (on his right). Congratulations Tonatiuh!
PSRC members (l to r) Wade Smith, Greg Cailliet, Joe Bizzarro, Brooke Flammang, Dave Ebert at the 13th Western Groundfish Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia, 9-13 February 2004. Also attending, but missing from the photo was Colleena Perez.
Dr. David Ebert at the Conservation and Management of Deepsea Chondrichthyan Fishes conference, University of Otago, Portobello Marine Laboratory, South Island, New Zealand, November 2003.
Dr. David Ebert at the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Red List Panel meeting
in Durban, South Africa, Sept. 2003.
PSRC staff boating on the Amazon River. Dr. Greg Cailliet on panel discussion
at conference in Guaymas.



Featured National Shark Research Consortium Project:

Examining the Lives of Skates



Recent Publications:

Bizzarro, J.J. 2003. "Elasmobranchii". In J.W. Nybakken, W.W. Broenkow, and T.L. Vallier, eds. Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences: Vol. I. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference. p. 358-359.

Bizzarro, J.J. 2003. "Holocephali". In J.W. Nybakken, W.W. Broenkow, and T.L. Vallier, eds. Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences: Vol. II. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference. p. 103-104.

Benz, G.W., H.F. Mollet, Ebert, D.A., C.R. Davis, & S.R. van Sommeran. 2003. Five species of parasitic copepods (Siphomostomatoida: Pandaridae) from the body surface of a white shark captured in Morro Bay, California. Pacific Science, 57(1): 39-43.

De Carvalho, M., L.J.V. Compagno, & Ebert, D.A.. 2003. Benthobatis yangi, a new species of blind electric ray from Taiwan (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 72(3): 923-939.

Ebert, D.A. 2003. The sharks, rays and chimaeras of California. University of California Press, 284 pp.

Ebert, D.A. 2002. Ontogenetic changes in the diet of the sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus). Mar. Freshwater Res., 53: 517-523.

Ebert, D.A. 2001. First eastern Pacific records of the longfin mako shark, Isurus paucus, Guitar Manday, 1966. Calif. Fish Game, 87(3): 117-121.

Ebert, D.A. & P.D. Cowley. 2003. Diet, feeding behavior, and habitat utilization of the blue stingray, Dasyatis chrysonata, in southern African waters. Marine and Freshwater Research. 54: 957-965.

Ebert, D.A., H.F. Mollet, A. Baldridge, T. Thomas, K. Forney, and W.E. Ripley. 2004. Occurrence of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith 1828, in California waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 2004, 85(1): 20-22.

Mollet, H.F. & G.M. Cailliet. 2003. Reply to comments by Miller et al. (2003) on Mollet and Cailliet (2002): confronting models with data. Marine and Freshwater Research, 54 (6):1-6.

Mollet, H.F. & G.M. Cailliet. 2002. Comparative population demography of elasmobranchs using life history tables, Leslie matrices, and stage-based matrix models. Mar. Freshwater Res., 53(2): 503-516.

Yoklavich, M.M., G.M. Cailliet, D.S. Oxman, J.P. Barry, and D.C. Lindquist. 2003. Fishes, Chapter 10, pages 163-185, In: Caffrey, J., M. Brown, W. Breck Tyler, and M. Silberstein (Editors), Changes in a California Estuary: A Profile of Elkhorn Slough. Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 280 pages.

Book Reviews:

Ebert, D.A. In press. The shark almanac, by Thomas B. Allen. The Lyons Press, Connecticut, 274 pp. Marine Technology Society Journal.

Ebert, D.A. 2003. The secret life of sharks: A leading marine biologist reveals the mysteries of shark behavior, by A. Peter Klimley. New York: Simon and Shuster, 292 pp. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 78(4): 511.

Publications in Press:

Allen, L.G., M.M. Yoklavich, G.M. Cailliet, and M.H. Horn. In Press. Chapter 4. Bays and Estuaries. In: Allen, L.G., M.H. Horn, and D.J. Pondella, Jr. (Editors), Ecology of California Marine Fishes. University of California Press.

Cailliet, G.M. and K.J. Goldman. In Press. Chapter 14. Age Determination and Validation in Chondrichthyan Fishes, In: Carrier, J., J. Musick, and M. Heithaus (Editors), The Biology of the Chondrichthyes. CRC Press.