NOAA Fisheries News Releases
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February 7, 2008
Sheela McLean, Public Affairs
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NOAA Fisheries scientist receives national award
Dr. Kate Myers, University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, holds the certificate and the cash for the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists’ Kasahara Award being presented to NOAA researcher Dr. Jamal Moss to her left. Also pictured in front of Moss’s poster at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage.is Howard Horton of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists and Dr. Phil Mundy of NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Photo: John Myers
NOAA Fisheries scientist Jamal Moss from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center received the first award given by the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists to honor outstanding young professionals at the outset of their careers.
Moss works at the new Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute at Lena Point in Juneau, Alaska.
He received the newly-established Kasahara Early Career Award during the Alaska Marine Sciences Symposium in Anchorage in late January. He also received prize money--$2,500.
Moss’ current research focuses on the effects of climate on the ecology, production, and status of juvenile salmon and on the fish community that lives where light penetrates into the Chukchi Sea and the eastern Bering Sea.
When asked what he plans to do with the cash award, Moss said: "My hope is to head to the Arctic to give a seminar on marine research in Alaska's Arctic region and a short course designed to help young adults locate opportunities in the field of fisheries biology. The course would begin with an introduction to the goals and missions of governmental agencies, conservation groups, and universities; and then move into strategies for finding information on the internet, utilizing professional societies, and establishing university contacts. Currently, I’m looking to leaders from the North Slope Borrow to partner with me in this endeavor."
“The Kasahara Early Career Award is intended to support and encourage the Institute's most promising scientists, who show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of fisheries science and conservation. The Kasahara Early Career Award promotes the connections between fundamental and applied research and highlights the importance of integrating science with public policy for the future of living marine resources and their ecosystems,” according to materials from the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists .
Moss received a B.A. degree (with honors) from Connecticut College in 1997, and an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. Moss has served as President of the American Fisheries Society Alaska Chapter. He is a ‘Fisheries and The Environment’ steering committee member, and a member of the Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) Working Group of the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC), and was appointed Rapporteur of the NPAFC's Committee on Scientific Research and Statistics at their 15th Annual Meeting in Vladivostok, Russia in October 2007.
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