### CURRICULUM VITAE

**W. WALDO WAKEFIELD**

**NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service**

**Northwest Fisheries Science Center PHONE: 541-867-0542**

**2032 SE OSU Drive FAX: 541-867-0505**

**Newport, Oregon 97365 email: waldo.wakefield@noaa.gov**

###### EDUCATION

Ph.D.: Oceanography, 1990, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

M.S.: Oceanography, 1984, Oregon State University

B.S.: Biology, 1973, Pennsylvania State University

###### POSITIONS HELD

***NOAA / NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center***

1999-present: Fisheries Research Biologist, Fishery Resource Analysis
and Monitoring Division, NWFSC; courtesy appointment as Associate
Professor, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Sciences (2002 - present), and adjunct faculty at Washington State
University Vancouver (2005-present)

***Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences***

1998-1999: Assistant Research Professor

1993-1998: Assistant Research Professor and Science Director for
Mid-Atlantic Bight National Undersea Research Center (NOAA's National
Undersea Research Program)

***University of Alaska Fairbanks***

1991-93: Affiliate Assistant Professor and Science Director for West
Coast National Undersea Research Center (NOAA's National Undersea
Research Program)

***NOAA/NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center***

1990-91: National Research Council, Research Associateship post doc

***Scripps Institution of Oceanography***

1982-90: Graduate Research Assistant

***Oregon State University, School of Oceanography***

1981-82: Research Assistant; 1978-81: Graduate Research Assistant;
1977-78: Teaching Assistant

***Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Division of Limnology
and Ecology***

1975-77: Biologist/Principal Investigator, Benedict Estuarine Research
Laboratory; 1973-75: Research Assistant, stream survey team, Museum in
Philadelphia

**[AWARDS]{.underline}**

\- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Marine Resources
Fellow, 1982-1983

\- Fager Memorial Award, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1985

\- National Research Council, Research Associateship, 1990-1991

\- Rutgers University, Faculty Academic Service Increment Program Award
for 1994, 1997, 1998

\- NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center Certificate of
Recognition for Heceta Bank Research Project 1999/2000

\- NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center Certificate of
Recognition for Ocean Exploration Project off Oregon, 2001

\- 2008 NOAA Bronze Medal Award for protecting U.S. west coast essential
groundfish habitats via regulations to restrict fishing, buy-out
trawlers, and create Marine Protected Areas.

**[RECENT EXPERIENCE/RESPONSIBILITIES]{.underline}**

1999-present: Research Fisheries Biologist in the Fishery Resource
Analysis and Monitoring Division at the Northwest Fisheries Science
Center, Newport Station; responsible for developing marine fish habitat
studies program at the NWFSC and leading Habitat and Conservation
Engineering group; continuing to pursue research interests in
oceanography, fisheries, the ecology of deep-sea fishes, and the
application of advanced technologies. Through my affiliations with
Oregon State University and Washington State University Vancouver, I am
continuing to pursue my research and teaching interests with academic
colleagues.

1993-1999: Science Director for the Mid-Atlantic Bight National Undersea
Research Center (NURC), responsible for developing and operating (with
the Center Director) NOAA\'s National Undersea Research Program in the
Mid-Atlantic Bight of North America. The Mid-Atlantic Bight Center was
one of six regional centers, which promote in situ research and
technological development in marine, estuarine and limnological studies.
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal
Sciences with an appointment in the Graduate Program in Oceanography -
in addition to administrative duties, continued to pursue research and
teaching interests.

###### AFFILIATIONS WITH PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Geophysical Union, American Fisheries Society, American Society
of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Institute of Fishery
Research Biologists, Gilbert Ichthyological Society, Marine Technology
Society

**[SEA EXPERIENCE since 1997 (at sea experience dates back to
1974)]{.underline}**

***1997***: M/V CAVALIAR / DELTA - submersible, manned-submersible study
of demersal shelf rockfish habitats and rockfish stock assessment

R/V DELAWARE II - in situ observations of surfclam and ocean quahog
dredging operations as part of NOAA / NMFS clam stock assessment efforts

***1998***: R/V MEDEIA - Sidescan sonar survey of fishing grounds off SE
Alaska

***1999***: R/V DISCOVERY BAY - Sustainable Seas Expedition in Olympic
Coast National Marine Sanctuary

R/V MEDEIA / DELTA - manned submersible study of demersal shelf rockfish
habitats in SE Alaska

F/V MISS LEONA - West Coast groundfish time-series cruise

***2000***: R/V RONALD H. BROWN w/ DELTA submersible and ROPOS ROV -
NURP funded project to study habitats of Heceta Bank, OR

F/V COAST PRIDE - West Coast groundfish time-series cruise

***2001***: R/V RONALD H. BROWN w/ ROPOS ROV- NURP funded project to
study habitats of Heceta Bank, OR,

F/V SEA EAGLE - West Coast groundfish research -- in situ camera work

M/V CASITAS w/ UNCW ROV system and SAIC laser line scanner - evaluation
of application of laser line scan system for habitat and groundfish
studies

***2002***: F/V SEA EAGLE - West Coast groundfish research -- in situ
camera work

R/V THOMPSON, Ocean Exploration funded project off Oregon, multibeam
seafloor mapping.

#### R/V VELERO w/ DELTA submersible -- NWFSC project on Heceta Bank, OR

***2003***: R/V RICKER -- West Coast Pacific hake acoustic survey

#### R/V VELERO w/ DELTA submersible -- multibeam sonar survey in Southern California Bight and in situ sampling with submersible (geological and fish habitat studies)

***2004***: F/V MS. JULIE - West Coast groundfish research

#### R/V VELERO w/ DELTA submersible -- multibeam sonar survey in Southern California Bight and in situ sampling with submersible (geological)

#### R/V THOMPSON and ROPOS ROV -- Advanced technologies as applied to groundfish research. ***2005***: F/V PIKY -- Research on reducing bycatch of groundfish in West Coast bottom trawl fisheries using a DIDSON ultrasonic camera. 

R/V THOMPSON - Advanced technologies as applied to groundfish research.

***2006***: F/V MS. JULIE -- Research on reducing bycatch of groundfish
in West Coast bottom trawl fisheries using a DIDSON ultrasonic camera.

***2007***: F/V EXCALIBUR -- Research on hypoxia off Oregon.

F/V MS. JULIE -- Research on reducing bycatch of groundfish in West
Coast bottom trawl fisheries using a DIDSON ultrasonic camera.

**2008**: F/V SOUTH BAY -- Morro Bay, CA, collaborative research with
fishing industry, Nature Conservancy and Quester Tangent

### PUBLICATIONS

Shenker, J. M., D. J. Hepner, P.E. Frere, L. E. Currence, and **W.W.
Wakefield**. 1983. Upriver migration and abundance of naked goby
(*Gobiosoma bosci*) larvae in the Patuxent River, Maryland. Estuaries 6:
36-42.

**Wakefield, W.W.** 1984. Feeding relationships within an assemblage of
benthic fishes on the Oregon continental shelf. Masters Thesis, Oregon
State University.

**Wakefield, W.W.** and A. Genin. 1987. The use of a Canadian
(perspective) grid in deep-sea photography. Deep-Sea Research
34:469-478.

Kaufmann, R.S., **W.W. Wakefield**, and A. Genin. 1989. Distribution of
epibenthic megafauna and lebensspuren on two Central North Pacific
seamounts. Deep-Sea Research 36:1863-1896.

Reimers, C.E., and **W.W. Wakefield**. 1989. Flocculation of siliceous
detritus on the sea floor of a deep Pacific seamount. Deep-Sea Research
36: 841-1862.

**W.W. Wakefield**. 1990. Patterns in the distribution of demersal
fishes on the upper-continental slope off central California with
studies on the role of ontogenetic vertical migration in particle flux.
Ph.D. Thesis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

**W.W. Wakefield**, and K.L. Smith, Jr. 1990. Ontogenetic vertical
migration in *Sebastolobus altivelis* as a mechanism for transport of
particulate organic matter at continental slope depths. Limnology.
Oceanography 35:1314-1328.

Smith, K.L. Jr., R. S. Kaufmann, and **W. W. Wakefield**. 1993. Mobile
megafauna activity monitored with a time-lapse camera in the abyssal
North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research 40: 2307-2324.

Adams, P.B., J.L. Butler, C.H. Baxter, T. E. Laidig, K. A. Dahlin, and
**W. W. Wakefield** (1995) Population estimates of Pacific Coast
groundfishes from video transects and swept-area trawls. Fishery
Bulletin 93:446-455.

O'Connell, V.M., **W.W. Wakefield**, and H.G. Greene. 1998. The use of a
no‑take marine reserve in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska to protect
essential fish habitat, pp 127-134, *In* M.M. Yoklavich (ed.), Marine
harvest refugia for the west coast rockfish: A workshop. NOAA Technical
Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-255. 159 p.

Greene, H.G. M.M. Yoklavich, R.M. Starr. V.M. O'Connell, **W.W.
Wakefield**, D.E. Sullivan, J.E. McCrea, and G.M. Cailliet. 1999. A
classification scheme for deep seafloor habitats. Oceanologica Acta
22:663-678.

Cailliet, G.M., A.H. Andrews, **W.W. Wakefield**, G. Moreno, and K.L.
Rhodes. 1999. A comparison of the fish fauna from beam trawl samples,
camera sled photographs and submersible observations in benthic deep-sea
habitats off central California. Oceanologica Acta 22:579-592.

McRea Jr, J.E., H.G. Greene, V.M. O\'Connell, **W.W. Wakefield**. 1999.
Mapping marine habitats with high resolution sidescan sonar.
Oceanologica Acta 22:679-686.

Weinberg, J.R., P.J. Rago, **W.W. Wakefield** and C. Keith. 2002.
Estimation of tow distance and spatial heterogeneity using data from
inclinometer sensors: an example using a clam survey dredge. Fisheries
Research 55:49‑61.

Number range CHAPTERYoklavich, M.M., C.B. Grimes, and **W.W.
Wakefield**. 2003. Using laser line scan imaging technology to assess
deepwater habitats in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Marine
Technology Society Journal 37:18-26.

Bosley, K.L., W. Lavelle, R.D. Brodeur, **W.W. Wakefield**, R.L. Emmett,
E.T. Baker, K.M. Rehmke. 2004. Feeding relationships among pelagic and
benthic communities in relation to the hydrodynamics of Astoria
Submarine Canyon, Oregon, USA. Journal of Marine Systems 50:21-37.

Lauth, R.R., J. Ianelli, **W.W. Wakefield**. 2004. Estimating the size
selectivity and catching efficiency of a survey bottom trawl for
thornyheads, *Sebastolobus* spp., using a towed video camera sled.
Fisheries Research 70:27-37.

Lauth, R.R., **W.W. Wakefield**, K. Smith. 2004. Estimating the density
of thornyheads, *Sebastolobus* spp., using a towed video camera sled.
Fisheries Research 70:39-48.

**Wakefield, W.W.**, C.E. Whitmire, J.E.R. Clemons, B.N. Tissot. 2005.
Fish habitat studies: Combining high-resolution geological and
biological data, pp 119-138. *In* P. W. Barnes and J. P. Thomas,
editors. Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing. American Fisheries
Society, Symposium 41, Bethesda, Maryland.

Grimes, C.B and M Yoklavich, **W. Wakefield,** H.G. Greene. 2005. Using
lasers to investigate deepwater habitats in the Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary off central California. p 204. *In* P.W. Barnes and J.
P. Thomas, editors. Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing.
American Fisheries Society, Symposium 41, Bethesda, Maryland.

Yoklavich, M.M. and **W.W. Wakefield**. In Press. Pacific coast region,
pp. 155-163, In NMFS. 2008. Our living oceans. The status of habitats of
U.S. living marine resources, 2007. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo.
NMFS-F/SPO-75, 263 p.

Romsos, C., C. Goldfinger, R. Robison, R.L. Milstein, and **W.W.
Wakefield**. 2007. Development of a regional seafloor surficial geologic
habitat map for the continental margins of Oregon and Washington, USA.
In B.J. Todd and H.G. Greene, eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat
Characterization. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 47, p.
219-243.\
\
Amend, M., M.M. Yoklavich, Y. Rzhanov, C.B Grimes, and **W.W.
Wakefield**. 2007. Mosaics of benthic habitats using laser line scan
technology: it's in the details. In B.J. Todd and H.G. Greene, eds.,
Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization. Geological
Association of Canada, Special Paper 47, 61-70.\
\
Whitmire, C.E., R.W. Embley, W.W. Wakefield, S.G. Merle, and B.N.
Tissot. 2007. Characterizing benthic habitats at Heceta Bank, Oregon. In
B.J. Todd and H.G. Greene, eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat
Characterization. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 47,
111-126.\
\
Copps, S., M.M. Yoklavich, G. Parkes, **W.W. Wakefield**, A. Bailey,
H.G. Greene, C. Goldfinger, R.W. Burn. 2007. Applying Habitat Data to
Fishery Management on the US West Coast. In B.J. Todd and H.G. Greene,
eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization. Geological
Association of Canada, Special Paper 47, 451-462.\
\
Greene, H. G., V. M. O'Connell, **W.W. Wakefield**, C. Brylinsky. 2007.
The offshore Edgecumbe Lava Field, southeastern Alaska: Geologic and
habitat characterization of a commercial fishing ground In B.J Todd and
H. G. Greene, eds., Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization.
Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 47, 277-296.\
\
Stoner, A.W., C.H. Ryer, S.J. Parker, P.J. Auster, **W.W. Wakefield**.
2008. Evaluating the role of fish behavior in surveys conducted with
underwater vehicles. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
65:1230-1243.

Tissot, B.N., **W.W. Wakefield,** M.A. Hixon, and J.E.R. Clemons. In
press. Twenty years of fish-habitat studies on Heceta Bank, Oregon. In
J.R. Reynolds and H.G. Greene, Marine habitat mapping technology for
Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, CD-ROM

McCain, B.B., S.D. Miller, and **W.W. Wakefield**. NWFSC Internal
Review. Life history, geographical distribution, and habitat association
of 82 West Coast groundfish species. NOAA Technical Memorandum.

Juan Jordá, M.J., J.A. Barth, M.E. Clarke and **W.W. Wakefield**. In
Review. Groundfish species associations with distinct oceanographic
habitats off the Pacific Northwest Coast. Fisheries Oceanography.

Hart, T.D. J.E.R Clemons, **W.W. Wakefield**, S.S. Heppell, B.N. Tissot.
NWFSC. Internal Review. Day and night activity patterns in demersal
fishes on Heceta Bank, Oregon. Fishery Bulletin.

**Wakefield, W.W.**, B.N. Tissot, M.A. Hixon, D.L. Stein, W. Barss,
N.P-F. Puniwai, K.J. York, and C. Whitmire. In Preparation. Long-term
habitat-based assessment of changes in groundfish populations on Heceta
Bank, Oregon derived from submersible surveys.

**Wakefield, W.W.**, J.E.R. Clemons, B.N. Tissot, C.E. Whitmire, and
R.W. Embley. In Preparation. Habitat associations in demersal fishes on
a deep-water rocky bank off Oregon.

Tissot, B.N., **W.W. Wakefield**, N. P-F. Puniwai, M.M. Yoklavich,
J.E.R. Clemons, J. Pirtle, J. Bright. and R.W. Embley. In Preparation.
Ecological associations between structure-forming invertebrates and
rockfishes on Heceta Bank, Oregon with special reference to corals.

**Other Recent Publications / Reports / etc. (1994 to present):**

O\'Connell, V.M. and **W.W. Wakefield**. 1994. Applications of Side Scan
Sonar and Laser Line Systems in Fisheries Research. Special Publication
no. 9.

Gann, J.T., V.M. O'Connell, H.G. Greene, **W. Wakefield**, T.R. Bruns.
1994. Characterization of rockfish habitats of the offshore Mt.
Edgecumbe lava field and Fairweather Ground, Southeast Alaska, using
side scan sonar. Eos Trans. AGU, 75(44):319, Suppl., Abstract O12D-4.

Starr, R. and **W.W. Wakefield**. 1996. GIS, GPS, and underwater
positioning: a workshop on assessing spatial characteristics of marine
habitats. A special session and workshop at the Ninth Western Groundfish
Conference, Newport, Oregon, January 23 25, 1996.

Hughes Clarke, J.E., L.A. Mayer, J.A. Goff, H. Lee, **W. Wakefield**.
1996. Regional seabed characterisation through analysis of the angular
response of seabed backscatter strength: application to STRATAFORM East
and West Coast surveys. Eos Trans. AGU.

**Wakefield, W.W.**, V. M. O'Connell, H.G. Greene, D.W. Carlile, and
J.E. McRea. 1998. The role of sidescan sonar in seafloor classification
with a direct application to commercial fisheries management.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) CM1998/O:36.

O'Connell, V.M., D.W. Carlile, and **W.W. Wakefield**. 1998. Using line
transects and habitat-based assessment techniques to estimate the
density of yelloweye rockfish (Scorpaenidae: *Sebastes*) in the eastern
Gulf of Alaska. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
(ICES) CM1998/O:56.

Greene, H.G., M.M. Yoklavich, V.M. O'Connell, R.M. Starr, **W.W.
Wakefield**, C.K. Brylinski, J.J. Bizzarro, and G.M Cailliet. 2000.
Mapping and classification of deep seafloor habitats. International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) CM2000/T:08

**Wakefield, W.**, M. Fogarty, I. Butler, and J. Ianelli. 2000.
Secondary effects of fishing, pp 63-66, *In* P.M. Mace ed.,
Incorporating ecosystem considerations into stock assessments and
management advice: What are the pros and cons of going beyond single
species? Proceedings of the 6^th^ NMFS National Stock Assessment
Workshop (NSAW), 83 pp.

Turk, T.A., T.L. Builder, C.W. West, D. J. Kamikawa, J.R. Wallace, R.D.
Methot, A.R. Bailey, K.L. Bosley, A.J. Cook, E.L. Fruh, B.H. Horness,
K.Piner, H.R. Sanborn, **W.W. Wakefield**. 2001. The 1998 Northwest
Fisheries Science Center Pacific West Coast Upper Continental Slope
Trawl Survey of Groundfish Resources off Washington, Oregon, and
California: Estimates of Distribution, Abundance, and Length
Composition. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo., NMFS-NWFSC-50,
122 p.

O'Connell, V., **W. Wakefield**, H.G. Greene. 2002. Edgecumbe Pinnacles
Marine Reserve. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Commercial
Fisheries, Southeast Region.
(http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/region1/finfish/grndfish/pinnacles/pinnacles.php)

Tissot, B.N., **W.W. Wakefield**, N.P.F. Puniwai, J. Pirtle., K. York,
J.E.R. Clemons. 2004. Abundance and distribution of structure-forming
megafaunal invertebrates, including cold-water corals, on Heceta Bank,
Oregon, 2000-2002. Report submitted to the Northwest Fisheries Science
Center, Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division, Seattle,
Washington, May 2004. Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver,
Washington.

**Wakefield, W.W.,** S. Copps, M. Yoklavich, G. Parks, and A. Bailey.
2004. Data gaps in the risk assessment for West Coast groundfish EFH.
Prepared for a workshop, GIS Tools Supporting Ecosystem Approaches to
Management NOAA Fisheries, NOS/NCCOS Center for Coastal Monitoring and
Assessment, Charleston, South Carolina, September 8-10, 2004
(<http://www.st.nmfs.gov/ecogis/Workshop2004/>).

Lauth, R., **W. Wakefield**, and K. Smith. 2005. Estimating the density
of thornyheads, *Sebastolobus* spp. Using a towed video camera sled, p.
16-17. *In* D.A. Somerton and C.T. Gledhill (eds.), Report of the
National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on Underwater Video Analysis,
U.S. Dep. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-68, 69 p.

**Wakefield, W.W.** 2005. Optical Imaging and analysis at the Northwest
Fisheries Science Center, p. 18. *In* D.A. Somerton and C.T. Gledhill
(eds.), Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on
Underwater Video Analysis, U.S. Dep. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo.
NMFS-F/SPO-68, 69 p.

Clarke, M.E. , H. Singh, C. Goldfinger, K. Andrews, G.W. Fleischer, L.C.
Hufnagle, S.D. Pierce, C. Roman, C. Romsos, N. Tolimieri, **W.
Wakefield**, K. York. 2006. Integrated Mapping of West Coast Groundfish
and Their Habitat Using the Seabed AUV and the ROPOS ROV, Eos Trans.
AGU, 87*(36)*, Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS46G-12.

Yoklavich, M. and **W. Wakefield**. In Review. Our living oceans. The
status of habitats of U.S. living marine resources, 2007. U.S. Dep.
Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-75, 263 p. (Section on Pacific
Coast Region).

**PRESENTATIONS (2003 -- present)**

**Wakefield, W.W**. 2003. Continuing Lewis and Clark's Legacy: Exploring
the habitats of Astoria Canyon, Oregon through NOAA's new Program in
Ocean Exploration. Invited talk, Columbia River Maritime Museum, May
2003Astoria, Oregon, Oral Presentation.

Yoklavich, M.M., C.B. Grimes, and **W.W. Wakefield**. 2003. Using laser
line scan imaging technology to assess deepwater seafloor habitats in
the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Oceans 2003 Marine
Technology and Ocean Science Conference. September 21-26, 2003. San
Diego, California, Oral Presentation.

Hart, T., J. Clemons, W. Wakefield, S. Heppell, M.Yoklavich, B. Tissot.
2003. Diel activity patterns in demersal fishes on Heceta Bank, Oregon.
Gilbert Ichthyological Society, September 19-21, 2003, Newport, Oregon,
Oral Presentation.

Parker, S.J., W.W. Wakefield. 2003. Life in the rear view mirror: What
happens behind a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)? Gilbert Ichthyological
Society, September 19-21, 2003, Newport, Oregon, Oral Presentation.

Parker, S.J. and **W.W. Wakefield**. 2004. Life in the Rear View Mirror:
What Happens Behind an ROV? Western Groundfish Conference, February
9-13, 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

York, K., B. Tissot, M. Hixon, **W. Wakefield**. 2004. You are what you
eat: using jaw morphology to infer feeding habits of benthic rockfish on
the Oregon Continental Shelf. Western Groundfish Conference, February
9-13, 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

Tissot, B., **W. Wakefield**, M. Hixon, D. Stein, W. Barss, N. Puniwai,
K. York, and C. Whitmire. 2004. Long-term habitat-based assessment of
changes in groundfish populations on Heceta Bank, Oregon derived from
submersible surveys. Western Groundfish Conference, February 9-13, 2004,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

Clemons, J.E.R, **W.W.Wakefield**, R.W. Embley, B.N. Tissot, M.M.
Yoklavich, S. Merle, C. Whitmire, and W. Barss. 2004. Fish habitat
studies at Heceta Bank on the Oregon outer continental shelf. Western
Groundfish Conference, February 9-13, 20042, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, Oral Presentation.

Hart, T., J. Clemons, W. Wakefield, S. Heppell, M. Yoklavich, B. Tissot
2004. Diel activity patterns in demersal fishes on Heceta Bank, Oregon.
Western Groundfish Conference, February 9-13, 2004, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

Amend, M., M.Yoklavich, C. Grimes, **W. Wakefield**, Y. Rzhanov. 2004.

It's in the details: benthic habitat assessment using laser line scan
technology. Western Groundfish Conference, February 9-13, 2004,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

Romsos, C., C. Goldfinger, R. Robison, R. Milstein, W. Wakefield. 2004.
Development of a regional seafloor surficial geologic (habitat) map for
the continental margin of Oregon. Western Groundfish Conference,
February 9-13, 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Poster
Presentation.

Whitmire, C.E., R.W. Embley, W.W. Wakefield, S. Merle, B. N. Tissot., N.
Puniwai. 2004. Using remote sensing, in situ observations, and
geographic information systems to map benthic habitats at Heceta Bank,
Oregon. Western Groundfish Conference, February 9-13, 2004, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada, Oral Presentation.

Whitmire, C.E., W.W. Wakefield, A. Bailey, R. Methot 2004. Relating
high-resolution submersible observational data to regional trawl survey
data -- a work in progress. Poster presentation at Western Groundfish
Conference, February 9-13, 2004, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Bosley, K.L., K.J. York, **W.W. Wakefield**, R.D. Brodeur, and T.W.
Miller. 2004.

Using stable isotope ratios and feeding habits to assess the
trophodynamics of several U.S. West Coast rockfish (genus *Sebastes*)
species. Poster presentation at Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for
Fisheries Management, March 31 -- April 3, 2004, Paris, France.

Clemons, J.E.R, **W.W.Wakefield**, R.W. Embley, B.N. Tissot, M.M.
Yoklavich, S. Merle, C. Whitmire, and W.W. Barss. 2004. Microhabitat
studies of groundfish at Heceta Bank, a rocky reef offshore Oregon.
GeoHab Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping, May
2004,Galway, Ireland, Oral Presentation.

Parkes, G., R. Vilhelm, B. Burn, C. Grayer, A. Bailey, S. Copps, **W.
Wakefield**. 2004. Bayesian network models for Pacific coast groundfish
EFH requirements. Poster presentation at GeoHab Marine Geological and
Biological Habitat Mapping, May 2004,Galway, Ireland.

Romsos, C., C. Goldfinger, R. Robison, R. Milstein, **W. Wakefield**.
2004. Development of a regional seafloor surficial geologic (habitat)
map for the continental margins of Oregon and Washington, USA. Poster
presentation at GeoHab Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping,
May 2004,Galway, Ireland.

**Wakefield, W.**, J. Clemons, and C. Whitmire 2004. The application of
*in situ* video in groundfish research at the NWFSC: field and
laboratory techniques. National Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on the
Analysis of Underwater Video Observations, August 4-6, 2004, Alaska
Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, Oral Presentation.

**Wakefield, W.** and R. Lauth 2004. Estimating the abundance of
demersal fishes using a video camera sled: experiences from the field
and laboratory, and the application of DISTANCE sampling." National
Marine Fisheries Service Workshop on the Analysis of Underwater Video
Observations, August 4-6, 2004, Alaska Fisheries Science Center,
Seattle, Washington, Oral Presentation.

Copps, S., G. Parkes, A. Bailey, M. Yoklavich, **W. Wakefield**. 2004.
Assessing Risk to the Essential Fish Habitat of West Coast Groundfish.
Workshop on GIS Tools Supporting Ecosystem Approaches to Management,
Charleston, South Carolina, September 8-10, 2004.

**Wakefield, W**. 2004. Data Gaps in the Risk Assessment for West Coast
Groundfish EFH Workshop on GIS Tools Supporting Ecosystem Approaches to
Management, Charleston, South Carolina, September 8-10, 2004.

Whitmire, C.E., M.E. Clarke, **W.W. Wakefield**, M.A. Hixon. Mapping the
distribution of structure-forming invertebrates off the U.S. West Coast.
Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) 18-22
October 2004 Honolulu, HI

Whitmire, C.E., R.W. Embley, **W.W. Wakefield**, S.G. Merle, B.N.
Tissot, N. Puniwai. Quantitative Benthic Habitat Characterization at
Heceta Bank, Oregon. 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
15-19 November 2004 San Diego, CA

Whitmire, C.E., M.E. Clarke, and **W.W. Wakefield**. Mapping the
distribution of cold-water corals and sponges off the U.S. West Coast.
Geohab, Sixth International Symposium, May 4-7 2005, Sidney, British
Columbia, Canada.

Whitmire, C.E., R.W. Embley, **W.W. Wakefield**, S.G. Merle, and B.N.
Tissot. A quantitative approach for using multibeam sonar data to map
benthic habitats. Geohab, Sixth International Symposium, May 4-7 2005,
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.

Romsos, C., C. Goldfinger, M. Yoklavich, **W. Wakefield**, J. Chaytor,
L. Hufnagle, and M. Amend. Cooperative research and exploration:
Multibeam sonar surveys and habitat mapping of the seafloor within the
Cowcod Conservation Areas (CCA), Southern California Borderland. Geohab,
Sixth International Symposium, May 4-7 2005, Sidney, British Columbia,
Canada.

Strom, N.A., C. Goldfinger, B.N. Tissot, **W.W. Wakefield**.
Structure-forming invertebrates: Habitat associations on Oregon's
continental margin. Geohab, Sixth International Symposium, May 4-7 2005,
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.

Clemons, J.E.R., **W.W. Wakefield**, C.E. Whitmire, B.N. Tissot, S.G.
Merle. Using video and sonar technologies with GIS tools to investigate
fish habitat communities off the Oregon coast. Annual Meeting of the
American Fisheries Society, September 11-15, 2005, Anchorage, AK

Tissot, B.N., **W.W. Wakefield**, N. P-F. Puniwai, M.M. Yoklavich,
J.E.R. Clemons, J. Pirtle, J. Bright. and R.W. Embley. Ecological
associations between structure-forming invertebrates and rockfishes on
Heceta Bank, Oregon with special reference to corals. Annual Meeting of
the American Fisheries Society and Lowell Wakefield Symposium on North
Pacific Rockfishes September 11-15, 2005, Anchorage, AK

**Wakefield**, W.W. J.E.R. Clemons, B.N. Tissot, C.E. Whitmire, T.D.
Hart, and R.W. Embley. Habitat associations and diel activity in
rockfishes on a deep-water bank off Oregon. Annual Meeting of the
American Fisheries Society and Lowell Wakefield Symposium on North
Pacific Rockfishes September 11-15, 2005, Anchorage, AK.

Strom N.A., C. Goldfinger, **W.W. Wakefield**, and B.N. Tissot. 2005.
Structure-Forming Benthic Invertebrates: Habitat Distributions on the
Continental Margins of Oregon and Washington. Third International
Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals: Science and Management, November
28-December 2, 2005, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine
and Atmospheric Science

Miami, Florida.

Chaytor, J.D., C. Goldfinger, M.M. Yoklavich, **W.W. Wakefield**, M.E.
Clarke. 2005. Structural evidence from Dall Bank of Miocene continental
rifting in the Southern California Continental Borderland. Eos Trans.
AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract : T53E-05.

Matteson, K., **W.W. Wakefield**, R. Hannah, S. Parker 2006. The first
application of a DIDSON ultrasonic imaging sonar to observe fish
behavior and net structure in a groundfish trawl. 14^th^ Western
Groundfish Conference, Newport, OR, January 30-February 3, 2006.

Lanier, A. C. Goldfinger, C. Romsos, **W. Wakefield**, R.W. Embley.
2006. A surficial geological habitat classification of Nehalem Bank:
Multibeam sonar investigations off of the Oregon Continental
Margin.14^th^ Western Groundfish Conference, Newport, OR, January
30-February 3, 2006.

Clarke, M.E., H. Singh, C.Goldfinger, K. Andrews, G.W. Fleischer, L.C.
Hufnagle, S.D. Pierce, C. Roman, C. Romsos, N. Tolimieri,
**W.Wakefield**, K. York. 2006. Integrated mapping of West Coast
groundfish and their habitat using the Seabed AUV and the ROPOS ROV. Eos
Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS46G-12, and
Poster presentation at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 20-24 February 2006,
Honolulu, Hawaii.

Copps, S.L., M.M. Yoklavich, G. Parkes, **W.W. Wakefield**, A.R. Bailey.
2006. Moving from traditional fisheries management towards
spatially-explicit, habitat-based fisheries management: case study from
the essential fish habitat process on the West Coast. A poster presented
at Geographic Information Systems and Ocean Mapping in Support of
Fisheries Research and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 11, 2006 (presented by A.R. Bailey).

Ferrini, V. , H. Singh, E. Clarke, **W. Wakefield** and K. York. 2006.
Computer-assisted analysis of near-bottom photos for benthic habitat
studies. Oceans\'06 MTS/IEEE-Boston, Boston, Massachusetts USA,
September 18-21, 2006.

**Wakefield, W.W.**. 2007. Applications of advanced technologies and
direct observation in habitat and fisheries research in West Coast
groundfish fisheries. Invited seminar (Fisheries and Wildlife 507),
Oregon State University, Deparment of Fisheries and Wildlife, February
14, 2007.

**Wakefield, W.W.** and B. N. Tissot. 2007. Ecological associations
between structure-forming invertebrates and demersal fishes on Heceta
Bank, Oregon (S7-4421), Invited paper at The PICES 16th Annual Meeting,
The changing North Pacific: Previous patterns, future projections, and
ecosystem impacts, October 26 -- November 5, 2007,Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada

**Wakefield, W.W.** 2008. Policy and agency perspectives on
ecosystem-based management: A NOAA NMFS "agency perspective" on
ecosystem-based management. Presented at the COMPASS Workshop on Marine
Ecosystem-based Management in Oregon: Advancing the Science, October 19,
2008, Joyce Powell Leadership Center, Memorial Union, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Matteson, KM., **W.W. Wakefield**; R.W. Hannah; S.J. Parker.
Observations of fish behavior in the vicinity of a selective flatfish
trawl footrope using.DIDSON imaging sonar. 15^th^ Western Groundfish
Conference, February 4-8, 2008. Santa Cruz, California.

Keller, A., V. Simon, F. Chan, **W. Wakefield**, E. Clarke, E. Fruh, &
D. Kamikawa. Demersal fish abundance in relation to an offshore hypoxic
zone along the U.S. west coast. 15^th^ Western Groundfish Conference,
February 4-8, 2008. Santa Cruz, California.

Romsos, C., E.Clarke, C. Goldfinger, **W. Wakefield** and R. Gref. 2008.
Data Discovery, Access and Distribution Pathways of the Pacific Coast
Ocean Observing System (PACOOS): An Ecosystem Observing Tool for the
California Current. Geohab 2008, April 29-May 2, 2008, Sitka, Alaska.

Clemons, J.E.R., **W.W. Wakefield**, C.E. Whitmire, R.W. Embley, B.N.
Tissot, S.G. Merle, C. Goldfinger and C.G. Romsos. 2008. Habitat
characterization of Heceta Bank, Oregon, USA for use in estimates of
groundfish assemblages on the bank. Geohab 2008, April 29-May 2, 2008,
Sitka, Alaska.

**Graduate Student Committees**: L.A. Ferry, S.M. Hagan, D. Haroski, T.
Hart, B. Holladay, M.J. Juan Jorda, A. Lanier, G. Levai, M.E. Mann, S.N.
O'Brien, J.L. Pirtle, C.G. Romsos, N.A. Strom, T.M. Shank, C.E. Whitmire