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Will Duguid is a PhD Candidate in the Fisheries Ecology and Marine Conservation Group at UVic, working under Dr. Francis Juanes and supported through a MITACS accelerate fellowship sponsored by the Pacific Salmon Foundation. Will is interested in fine scale spatial and temporal patterns of habitat use by Pacific Salmon in their first year at sea. These patterns determine how juvenile salmon experience bottom up and top down regulators of first year survival; which in turn may be the primary drivers of variable recruitment in a changing ocean. Will’s current focus is understanding how juvenile Chinook Salmon distribution, diet and growth are influenced by the gradients of tidal mixing and water column stratification that are conspicuous characteristics of the inside waters of the Salish Sea.
Select Presentation(s) / Publication(s):
Duguid, William & Iwanicki, Thomas & L. Journey, Meredith & L. Noel, Amanda & Beckman, Brian & Juanes, Francis. (2018). Assessing Indices of Growth for Field Studies of Juvenile Salmon: An Experiment and Synthesis. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 10. 204-223. 10.1002/mcf2.10020.
Weil, Jacob; Duguid, Will; and Juanes, Francis, “Fine-scale taxonomic and spatiotemporal variability in the energy density of prey for juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)” (2018).Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 421. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/421
Duguid, William & Juanes, Francis. (2017). Microtrolling: an Economical Method to Nonlethally Sample and Tag Juvenile Pacific Salmon at Sea. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 146. 359-369. 10.1080/00028487.2016.1256835.
Weil, Jacob; Duguid, Will; and Juanes, Francis, “Fine-scale taxonomic and spatiotemporal variability in the energy density of prey for juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)” (2018).Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 421. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/421
Qualley, Jessica; Duguid, Will; Innes, Katie; Juanes, Francis; “Using salmon to sample the Salish Sea: diets of recreationally harvested Chinook and Coho salmon as an ecosystem monitoring tool” (2018). Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 291. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/291/
Duguid, Will; Qualley, Jessica; Pellett, Kevin; Rechisky, Erin; Welch, David; Juanes, Francis, “A case study of fine scale habitat use by first ocean year Chinook salmon: implications for growth and predation exposure” (2018). Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 367. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2018ssec/allsessions/367/
