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Recent Accolades

NASA Features PHAM Module on their Website, 2012
NASA has featured our Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module (PHAM) in an article about declining Tuna populations and the effort to restore them. PHAM is designed to be used by fishery regulators to solve such problems. To read the full article, click on the link below.
Shadowing the Tuna Boats

Award in AMSA 2005
Nurhidayah (Nellie) A Razak won the CSIRO's MFR Prize for Best Interdisciplinary Presentation during the Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Conference, AMSA 2005, in Darwin. Her presentation was an application of EASy. Congratulations to Nellie!

Selected Publications: AquaModel Module

Rensel, J.E., K. Bright and Z. Siegrist. 2011. Integrated fish-shellfish mariculture in Puget Sound. NOAA Award NA080AR4170860. NOAA National Marine Aquaculture Initiative. Rensel Associates, Arlington WA in association with American Gold Seafoods and Taylor Shellfish. 82 p.

Richards, D.C., J.E. Jack Rensel, Z. Siegrist, F.J. O'Brien, D.A. Kiefer. 2011. Rufus Woods Lake: Columbia River Reservoir Morphometrics, Initial Food Web and Rainbow Trout Fishery Studies. Prepared for the Colville Confederated Tribes Fish and Wildlife Department, Nespelem, WA by EcoAnalysts, Inc. Wenatchee, WA and System Science Applications Inc. Irvine, CA. 130 p.

Rensel, J.E. 2011. Changing the Adverse Impacts into Beneficial Effects: Enrichment of West Coast Freshwater and Marine Aquaculture Food Webs with Aquaculture Wastes. Aquaculture Association of Canada, Quebec City.

Fredriksson D., J. Irish, D. Kiefer, J.E. Jack Rensel, F. O'Brien. 2011. AquaModel Software Application to Understand the Regional Effects of Multiple Marine Fish Farms in the Gulf of Maine, USA. Aquaculture Association of Canada, Quebec City.

O'Brien, F., D. Kiefer and J.E. Jack Rensel. 2011. AquaModel: Software for Sustainable Development of Open Ocean Fish Farms. United States Department of Agriculture: Small Business Innovation Research. Final Report Prepared by System Science Applications, Inc. Irvine, CA. 124 p.

Kiefer, D.A., J.E. Rensel, F.J. O'Brien, D.W. Fredriksson and J. Irish. 2011. An Ecosystem Design for Marine Aquaculture Site Selection and Operation. NOAA Marine Aquaculture Initiative Program Final Report. Award Number: NA08OAR4170859. System Science Applications, Irvine CA in association with United States Naval Academy and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 181 p.

Kiefer, D.A., David W. Fredriksson, James D. Irish, J.E. Jack Rensel, and Frank J. O'Brien. 2010. Modeling Offshore Fish Farms in New Hampshire and California. World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego.

David W. Fredriksson, James D. Irish, Dale A. Kiefer, J.E. Jack Rensel, and Frank O'Brien. 2010. A Circulation Model to investigate the Movement of Wastes from an Open Ocean Aquaculture Site. World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego.

James D. Irish, David W. Fredriksson, Dale A. Kiefer, J.E. Jack Rensel, and Frank O'Brien. 2010. Environmental Observations in Support of Physical and Biological Modeling of Aquaculture Sites. World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego.

J.E. Jack Rensel, Dale Kiefer, Frank O'Brien, Michael Rust, Thomas Scott, Cameron Carter. 2010. Bioenergetics of Cobia and Moi: Applications to Offshore Culture and Modeling. World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego.

Rensel, Jack J.E., Dale A. Kiefer, John R. M. Forster, Dana L. Woodruff, and Nathan R. Evans. 2005. Offshore Finfish Mariculture in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Selected Publications: PHAM Module

Snyder S, D P Harrison, S Kohin, E Armstrong, F O'Brien, and D Kiefer. 2010. Dynamic Habitat Mapping for Large Pelagic Species of the California Current. 61st Tuna Conference, Lake Arrowhead, California, May 17-20, 2010.

Edward Armstrong, Dale Kiefer, Frank O'Brien, Daniel Harrison, Michael Hinton, Suzanne Kohin and Stephanie Snyder. 2010. Decision Support Tools for Pelagic Fisheries. ESIP Federation 2010 Winter Meeting, Washington D.C, Jan 5-7, 2010.

Harrison, D P, D A Kiefer, M G Hinton, S Kohin, E M Armstrong, S Snyder, F J O'Brien. 2010. Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module for GIS-Based Fisheries Decision Support. Abstract, AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2010, Portland, USA.

Armstrong E, D Kiefer, F O'Brien, D P Harrison, M Hinton, S Kohin, S Snyder. 2009. The Pelagics Habitat Analysis Module (PHAM): Decision Support Tools for Pelagic Fisheries. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., IN31A-0998.

Harrison D P, S Kohin, S Snyder, E Armstrong, F O'Brien, and D Kiefer. 2009. Dynamic Habitat Mapping for Pelagic Shark Species of the California Current. CalCOFI Conference, Asilomar 2009.

Kiefer D, D P Harrison, T Lam, F O'Brien, M Hinton, and E Armstrong. 2009. A Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module for Tuna of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. GHRSST International Users Symposium.