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 Interdisplinary Presentation during 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. Keifer, 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.by 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 OBrien, 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. Foster, Dana L. Woodruff, and Nathan R. Evans. 2005.
  Offshore Finfish Mariculture in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

  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 Asimolar 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.

  EASy

• Domeier, Michael L., Dale Kiefer, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, Adam Wagschal, and Frank O’Brien. 2005
  Tracking Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus orientalis) in the northeastern Pacific with an automated algorithm that estimates latitude by matching sea-surface-temperature data from satellites with temperature data from tags on fish.
  Fishery Bulletin 103(2).


• Tsontos, Vardis M., and Dale A. Kiefer. 2003.
  The Gulf of Maine Biogeographical Information System Project: Developing a Spatial Data Management Framework in Support of OBIS.
  Oceanologica Acta 25: 199–206.


• Tsontos, Vardis M., and Dale A. Kiefer. 2000.
  Development of a dynamic biogeographic information system for the Gulf of Maine.
  Oceanography, Vol. 13, No. 3

Selected Newsclips

1. The New York Times, December 9, 2003. Tagging Sharks? No problem. They're big babies.

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2. Newsweek, September 20, 1999. Oceans of research flowing together.

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