Senior Speakers

Dr Anne Babcock Hollowed is a Senior Scientist with the National Marine Fisheries Service’s, Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. She earned a Master of Sciences degree in Biological Oceanography from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and a Ph. D. in Fisheries from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Throughout her career she has conducted research on the effects of climate and ecosystem change on fish and fisheries. Anne is the leader of the Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment (SSMA) program. Scientists within this program develop analytical methods to assess the past, present and future status of federally managed fish and shellfish in waters off the coast of Alaska. SSMA analysts evaluate management strategies and provide advice to managers on the impacts of proposed changes. New analytical methods are designed to account for species interactions and shifts in spatial distributions. The SSMA program includes the Fisheries Interaction Team. Members of this team conduct experiments to evaluate whether commercial fishing operations are capable of impacting the foraging success of top trophic level consumers either through disturbance of prey schools or through direct competition for a common prey. Anne serves as the Co-Chair ICES-PICES Strategic Initiative on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems. She is a lead author of Chapter 28, Polar Regions, of the Working Group II contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Anne is an Affiliate Professor with the School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Washington. She is a member of the NPFMC Scientific and Statistical Committee, the Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) Steering Committee. 

Dr. Jack Barth is a professor of oceanography in Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. He received a Ph.D in Oceanography in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography. Jack’s research seeks to understand the spatially and temporally variable ocean circulation, water mass structure and ecosystem response in coastal waters. He has led a number of research, technology development and ocean observing system projects off Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Jack participated in the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) Northeast Pacific and the Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) research programs, including serving as Chief Scientist on many interdisciplinary research cruises. His present research includes a focus on the characteristics and formation of low-oxygen zones off Oregon. Jack’s research team uses autonomous underwater gliders to study this region, logging over 51,000 km of measurements over the last half dozen years. He presently serves on the Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council’s (OPAC) Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee. From 2004 to 2007, Jack was a member of NSF’s Observatory Steering Committee that launched the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). As Project Scientist for the OOI, he is responsible for facilitating the scientific use of the Endurance Array being installed off Oregon and Washington.