DR. CLARENCE PAUTZKE Perspectives on a 30-year career in Alaska marine research and fishery management Abstract Clarence Pautzke will describe his early aspirations to be a biological oceanographer doing Arctic research in the Arctic Ocean and his revelatory transition into fisheries management with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. His presentation will include the historical evolution of fisheries management off Alaska, the inner workings and accomplishments of the fishery council and its need for outstanding science, and his brief sojourn to NOAA Fisheries Headquarters in D.C. in 2000-2001. He will describe the formative years of the North Pacific Research Board and end with some thoughts on the value of the annual Alaska Marine Science Symposium. Bio Clarence Pautzke holds a doctorate in biological oceanography and was project leader for various Arctic Ocean expeditions in 1968, 1973 and 1975 on Ice Island T-3 and the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX), assessing the impacts of ice cover on water column productivity. He worked at the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in Portland, Oregon as the Assistant to the Executive Director in 1978-1980. Starting in 1980, he worked for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, first as Deputy Executive Director until 1988, and then as its Executive Director. After a brief sojourn to NOAA Fisheries in 2000 and 2001 as Acting Director of the Office of Sustainable Fisheries and Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, he returned to work for the North Pacific Research Board as its first Executive Director until he retired in 2011. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Marine Gala of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward. He served as a Naval intelligence officer on a guided missile destroyer off Vietnam in 1969-70 and retired from the Naval Reserves in 1992 with the rank of Captain (O-6). He spends his retirement with his wife, Maureen McCrea, and family, alternating between summers in Alaska and winters in Hawaii on the Big Island.
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