SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Otolith growth analysis to elucidate environmental influences on growth of rockfish early life history
- Notice Date
- 6/25/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Region Acquisition Division, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, Washington, 98115-6349
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- WRAD-9-15676
- Archive Date
- 7/24/2009
- Point of Contact
- Melvin N. Fondue, Phone: (206) 526-6043
- E-Mail Address
-
melvin.n.fondue@noaa.gov
(melvin.n.fondue@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This publication serves as notice of intent to procure services for the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) with Humboldt State University to provide techincal support for Groundfish stock assessments on the US West Coast typically employ information on age and/or length composition derived from port samples and abundance estimates derived from trawl surveys. More recently, assessments for some stocks have incorporated as data fishery-independent estimates of pre-recruit abundance obtained from a coast-wide midwater trawl survey of pelagic juvenile rockfish (Sakuma et al. 2006, Hastie and Ralston 2007). Environmental indices have not yet been incorporated in these assessments. NOAA's Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program recently funded a proposal to develop recruitment indices for rockfish through the use of individual based models (IBM) for rockfish early life history stages (ELHS) nested in a coupled bio-physical model (CBPM) of the coastal upwelling system off north-central California and elsewhere along the U.S. West Coast. One element of this work is to develop and analyze otolith growth data to improve IBMs for rockfish ELHS, with specific focus on enriching our empirical understanding of how growth rates of rockfish ELHS respond to environmental forcing. The requested funds will support a graduate (Masters) student enrolled in the Department of Fisheries Biology at Humboldt State University to carry out the work described in the Project Summary. This work will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Eric Bjorkstedt, and will take advantage of existing microscopy assets at HSU. Project Summary (1) Extract growth chronologies from archived otoliths of pelagic juvenile chilipepper (Sebastes goodei), yellowtail rockfish (S. flavidus), and widow rockfish (S. entomelas) collected during the 1990s and 2000s, and compile these data with similar observations from the 1985-1989 year classes. (2) Analyze these new data and existing data from the 1985-1989 year classes to model otolith growth in response to a suite of environmental parameters, including, e.g., Ekman transport, turbulence, sea level anomaly, sea surface temperature, and outputs from coupled bio-physical models for the coastal marine ecosystem. Deliverables (1) Database of otolith growth increments and associated microphotographic records of otoliths. (2) M.S. Thesis on response of otolith growth rates to environmental forcing. Interested parties must respond to this announcement within fifteen (15) calendar days of its publication. All responses must be in writing and may be faxed to 206-526-6025 or email (melvin.n.fondue@noaa.gov). This is a simplified acquisition with an estimated value of less than $100,000. **** The Westren Regional Acquisition Division, requires that all contractors doing business with this Acquisition Office be registered with the Central Contractor Registey (CCR) as of October 1, 2003. After this date, NO award can be made unless the vendor is registered in CCR. For additional information and to register in CCR please access the following web site: http//www.ccr.gov. In order to register with CCR and be eligible to receive an award from this Acquisition Office, all offerors must have a Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUN). A DUN number may be acquried free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet on line at www.dnb/eupdate of by phone at (800) 333-0505
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, California, 95060, United States
- Zip Code: 95060
- Zip Code: 95060
- Record
- SN01857280-W 20090627/090626000542-212c31b0392f0942082c56df49ed9166 (fbodaily.com)
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