8:30 – 9:00                      Registration and Coffee and Poster Viewing

9:00 – 9:10                      Opening Comments.
Kevin D.E. Stokesbury, Dean, School for Marine Science & Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Abby Archer, President, AFS Southern New England Chapter

9:10-9:25                         Using precise fishery data and fleet definitions to estimate economic exposure of the summer flounder fishery to offshore wind farms. Marjadi, Meghna, Anna Mercer, Andrew Jones, and Steven Cadrin.

9:25-9:40                         Forecasting species distribution shifts in a warming Gulf of Maine: implications for fisheries and coastal communities. ** Maguire, Jessica, Will Kocthitzkyl, Ben Tupper, and John A. Mohan.

9:40-9:55                         Evaluating the effects of input controls on summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) recreational fishery performance. ** Walsh, Kamran, Gavin Fay, Andrew Carr-Harris, Geret DePiper, Sarah Gaichas, Scott Steinback, Brandon Muffley, Tracey Bauer, Julia Beaty, and Chelsea Tuohy.

9:55-10:10                       Do random effects on the survival process account for movement dynamics in a stock assessment and better achieve management objectives? Chengxue, Li, Jonathan Deroba, Aaron Berger, Brian Langseth, Amy Schueller, and Daniel Goethel.

10:10-10:25                    Intra-annual variability in the energetic condition of spring- and fall-spawning Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. ** Warren, Joseph, Mark Wuenschel, and Kenneth Oliveira.

10:25-10:50                    Break and Poster Viewing

10:50-11:05                    Professional & Student Awards Ceremony

Award of Excellence – Michael Armstrong, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries

Special Achievement Award – Karina Mrakovcich, US Coast Guard Academy

Outstanding Organization Award – School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

SNEC Student Travel Award – Nick Starosta, University of New England

Saul B. Saila Best Student Paper Award – Peter Hennessey, University of New England

11:05-11:20                    Evaluating the utility of ensemble modeling to classifying the origin of Atlantic bluefin tuna in US waters. ** Berge, Kailee, Lisa Kerr, and Kohma Arai.

11:20-11:35                    Climate-informed stock-recruitment models indicate potential mechanisms of climate-driven recruitment for United States commercial fish stocks. ** Marshall, Rachel, Jeremy Collie, Richard Bell, Paul Spencer, and Cóilín Minto.

11:35-11:50                    Using eDNA to estimate seasonal presence of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in southern Maine. ** Tyrrell, Kade, Emily Lancaster, Benjamin Gowell, Markus Frederich, and John A. Mohan.

11:50-12:05                    Simulating stock assessments with split survey indices. ** Carrano, Cole and Steven Cadrin.

12:05-13:35                    Lunch and Poster Viewing

13:35-13:50                    Comparing juvenile river herring diets and growth in pelagic and littoral lake habitats. ** Bergoff, Julian, Jason Stolarski, Allison Roy, and Adrian Jordaan.

13:50-14:05                    Spatial variation in mercury contamination in freshwater fish species across Rhode Island. ** Lotti, Brianna, David Taylor, Jonathan Serbst, Jim Lake, Alan Libby, and Mariel Sorlien.

14:05-14:20                    Investigating the host role of anadromous river herring for freshwater mussels in the Connecticut River watershed. ** Stephens, Jacqueline, Allison Roy, Adrian Jordaan, David Perkins, and Kenneth Sprankle.

14:20-14:35                    From snapshots to a continuous record: Advancing River herring monitoring with AI. Zhonqui, Chen, Timm Haucke, Sara Beery, Kevin Bennett, Robert Vincent, and Linda Deegan.

14:35-15:00                    Break and Poster Viewing

15:00-15:15                    Engineering co-existence: co-design of floating offshore wind, and commercial recreational fishing. Pol, Mike, Everett Rzeszowski, Damian Brady, Ericka Lozon, Ryan Davies, and Kristen Ampela.

15:15-15:30                    Environmental influences on Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stock dynamics. Behan, Jamie, Abigail Tyrell, Scott Large, and Lisa Kerr.

15:30-15:45                    Development of a harvest strategy for the data-limited octopus fishery in the United Republic of Tanzania. Bell, Richard, Bigeyo Neko Kuboja, Said Mgeleka, Mary Kishe, Ishmael Kimirei, Madeleine Guyant, Edward Senkondo, Emmanuel Mpina, and Mathew Silas.

15:45-16:00                    Habitat and anthropogenic influences shape the gut microbial communities of mummichogs, Fundulus heteroclitus. Conroy, Christian, Nikolas Stasulli, Timothy Yaroshuk, Anne Gilewski, and Nilang Suthar.

16:00-16:15                   Sedentary shellfish seem simple… but are complex for fishery reference points. Steven Cadrin.

16:15-16:30                   The hitchhiker’s guide to the sea turtle: teleost associations with leatherback and loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Atlantic. Munnelly, Ryan, Samir Patel, Heather Haas, Mike James, and Ronald Smolowitz.

16:30-16:45                   Integrating climate indices into stock assessment in a rapidly warming region. Kerr, Lisa, Steven Cadrin, Alex Hansell, Amanda Hart, Scott Large, Jessica Kittel, Timothy Miller, and Abigail Tyrell.

17:30-19:30                    Social at Sixes & Sevens

** Denotes student paper, Presenter name is underlined

Posters

P1 Promoting the visibility of women in marine science. ** Painten, Andie, Lindsay Graff, Amy Martins, Leticia Fabre de Lima, and Catalina Roman.

P2 Incorporating markets into models: charting the pathways to resilience in New England supply chains. ** Hope, Sarah, Gavin Fay, and Kate Masury.

P3 Juvenile river herring diets and prey availability in pelagic and littoral lake habitat. ** Connors, Emma, Julian Burgoff, Allison Roy, and Adrian Jordaan.

P4 Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. ** Sanchez, Sebastian, Jaime Gustafson, Victoria Futch, Karina Lorenz Mrakovcich, and Donna Selch.

P5 The impact of epizootic shell disease on the growth of the American lobster in nearshore Rhode Island waters. ** Secor, Riley, Candace Oviatt, and Michael Foley.

P6 Where the wild forage fish are: an update to landlocked alewife distribution in Connecticut. Aleah Grindell, Eleni Haskos, and Andrew Ransom.

P7 Aquatic biodiversity in the town brook watershed. Church, Gwendolyn, James Garner, and Michelle Staudinger.

P8 Fauna attraction to nature inclusive design for offshore wind projects in the Mid-Atlantic bight. O’Del, Jenna, Brandon Jensen, Brian Hooker, James Moore, Tony Martins, David Snyder, and Melanie Cahill.

P9 Knock Knock – who’s there? Passive acoustic monitoring of haddock in the Gulf of Maine. Smith, Anne, Xaviar Mouy, Rebecca, Van Hoeck, and Sofie Van Parijs.

P10 Modeling the spatiotemporal impacts of ocean warming and acidification on the Atlantic sea scallop to guide adaptive fisheries management. ** Berger, Halle, Samantha Siedlecki, Catherine Matassa, Emilien Pousse, Dvora Hart, Felipe Soares, Antonie Chute, and Shannon Meseck.

P11 Keep what you catch – fishers stress damages of deck-loading in a scallop fleet. ** Martins, Amy.

P12 Spatiotemporal variation in the reproductive dynamics of female American lobsters, Homarus americanus, on the northeastern continental shelf of the United States. Arnott, Stephen, Noelle Olsen, Linus Stoltz, and N. David Bethoney.

**Denotes student poster, Presenter name is underlined

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