Jordan T. Watson

Jordan T. Watson

Deputy Director at Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System

Publications

  1. Ward EJ, Anderson SC, Barnett LAK, English PA, Berger HM, Commander CJ, Essington TE, Harvey CJ, Hunsicker ME, Jacox M, Johnson KF, Large S, Liu OR, Richerson KE, Samhouri JF, Siedlecki SA, Shelton AO, Somers KA, Watson JT. 2024. Win, lose, or draw: evaluating dynamic thermal niches of northeast Pacific groundfish. PLOS Climate. 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000454

  2. Kuhn B, Cayetano A, Fincham JI, Moustahfid H, Sokolova M, Rifonova N, Watson JT, Fernandes-Salvador JA, Uusitalo L. 2024. Machine Learning applications for fisheries - at scales from genomics to ecosystems. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2024.2423189.

  3. Welch H, Ames R, Beukema P, Kolla N, Kroodsma DA, Marsaglia L, Russo T, Watson JT, Hazen EL. 2024. Harnessing AI to map global fishing vessel activity. One Earth. doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.09.009

  4. Newton J, Wisdom S, Iwamoto M, Carini R, Watson JT, Boulay S, Mactavish D, Hagen J, Schumacher J, Rudolph D, Kattil-Debrum D, Tuaua P, Brown E, Hopson J, Evans J. 2025. Backyard Buoys: Meeting needs of coastal, Indigenous communities through co-design and co-production. Oceanography. doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025.105.

  5. Langan JA, Cunningham C, Watson JT, McKinnell S. 2024. Opening the black box: New insights into the role of temperature in the marine distributions of Pacific salmon. Fish and Fisheries. 10.1111/faf.12825.

  6. Nielsen JM, Sigler MF, Eisner LB, Watson JT, Rogers LA, Bell SW, Pelland N, Mordy CW, Cheng W, Kivva K, Osborne S, Stabeno P. 2023. Spring phytoplankton bloom phenology during recent climate warming on the Bering Sea Shelf. Progress in Oceanography. doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103176.

  7. Watson JT, Ames, RT, Holycross B, Suter JM, Somers K, Kohler C, Corrigan B. 2023. Fishery catch records support machine learning-based prediction of illegal fishing off U.S. west coast. PeerJ. 11:e16215 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16215

  8. Welch W, Savoca MS, Brodie S, Jacox MG, Muhling BA, Clay TA, Cimino MA, Benson SR, Block BA, Conners MG, Costa DP, Jordan FD, Leising AW, Mikles CL, Palacios DM, Shaffer SA, Thorne LH, Watson JT, Holser RR, Dewitt L, Bograd SJ, Hazen EL. 2023. Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable. Nature Communications. 10.1038/s41467-023-40849-y.

  9. Rubbens P, Brodie S, Cordier T, Destro Barcellos D, Devos P, Fernandes-Salvador JA, Fincham J, Gomes A, Handegard NO, Howell K, Jamet C, Heldal Kartveit K, Moustahfid H, Parcerisas C, Politikos D, Sauzede R, Sokolova M, Uusitalo L, Van den Bulcke L, van Helmond ATM, Watson JT, Welch H, Beltra-Perez O, Chaffron S, Greenberg DS, Kuhn B, Kiko R, Lo M, Lopes RM, ove Moller K, Michaels W, Villasante S, Malde K, Irisson JO. 2023. Machine learning in marine ecology: an overview of techniques and applications. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 10.1093/icesjms/fsad100.

  10. Suter J, Ames R, Holycross B, Watson JT. 2022. Comparing observed and unobserved fishing characteristics in the drift gillnet fishery for swordfish. Fisheries Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2022.106456

  11. Shotwell, SK, Pirtle JL, Watson JT, et al. 2022. Synthesizing integrated ecosystem research to create informed stock-specific indicators for next generation stock assessments. Deep-Sea Research II Topical Studies in Oceangraphy. 198: 105070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105070

  12. Pons M, Watson JT, Ovando D, Andraka S, Brodie S, Domingo A, Fitchett M, Forselledo R, Hall M, Hazen E, Jannot J, Herrera M, Jiménez S, Kerwath S, López J, McVeigh J, Pacheco L, Rendon L, Richerson K, Sant’Ana R, Sharma R, Smith J, Somers K, Hilborn R. 2022. Trade-offs between bycatch and target catches in static versus dynamic fishery closures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114508119

  13. Watson JT, Callahan MW. 2021. Automated and operational access to environmental data for Alaska’s management areas. AFSC Processed Report 2021-06. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33498

  14. McKuin, BL, Watson JT, Stohs SM, Campbell JE. 2021. Rethinking sustainability in seafood: Synergies and trade-offs between fisheries and climate change. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9 (1): 00081. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2019.00081.

  15. Shelton AO, Sullaway G, Ward EJ, Somers K, Tuttle V, Watson JT, Satterthwaite WH. 2021. Ocean distribution of Chinook salmon stocks shift under future ocean climates. Fish and Fisheries. Vol 22(3):503-517. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12530

  16. Watson JT, Stram DL, Harmon J. 2020. Mitigating seafood waste through a bycatch donation program. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.576431/full

  17. Baker MR, Kivva K, Pisareva MN, Watson JT, Selivanovna J. 2020. Shifts in the physical environment in the Pacific Arctic and implications for ecological timing and conditions. Deep Sea Research II. Vol 177: doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104802

  18. Droghini A, Fischbach AS, Watson JT, Reimer JP. 2020. Limits to bioinvasions in the Bering Sea: Predicting suitable conditions from regional ocean models. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77(3): 964-974. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaa014

  19. McKuin BL, Watson JT, Haynie AC, Campbell, JE. 2019. Climate forcing by battered-and-breaded fillets and crab-flavored sticks from Alaska pollock. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 7: 48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.386

  20. Watson JT. 2019. Spatial and temporal visualizations of satellite-derived sea surface temperatures for Alaska fishery management areas. Pacific States e-Journal of Scientific Visualizations. Article 003. doi: 10.28966/PSESV.2019.003

  21. Beaudreau, AH, Ward EW, Brenner RE, Andrew O, Shelton AO, Watson JT, Womack JC, Anderson S, Haynie AC, Marshall KN, Williams BC. 2019. Thirty years of change and the future of Alaskan fisheries: Shifts in fishing participation and diversification in response to environmental, regulatory, and economic pressures. Fish and Fisheries. Vol 20(4):601-619. doi.org/10.1111/faf.12364

  22. Watson JT, Haynie AC, Sullivan PJ, Perruso L, O’Farrell S, Sanchirico JN, Mueter F.J. 2018. Using Vessel monitoring systems (VMS) to quantify fisher responses to regulatory change. Fisheries Research. 207: 85-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.06.006.

  23. Watson JT, Haynie AC. 2018. Paths to resilience: Alaska pollock fleet uses multiple fishing strategies to buffer against environmental change in the Bering Sea. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2017-0315

  24. Renner M, Nelson E, Watson JT, Haynie AC, Poe A, Robards M, Hess S. 2018. The risk of rodent introductions from shipwrecks to seabirds on Aleutian and Bering Sea islands. Biological Invasions. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1726-z

  25. Ward EJ, Anderson SC, Shelton AO, Brenner RE, Watson JT, Shriver JC, Beaudreau AH, Haynie AC, Adkison MD, Williams BC. 2018. Effects of increased specialization and hatchery production on revenue variability of Alaskan salmon fishers. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(3): 1082 – 1091. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13058

  26. Anderson SC, Ward EJ, Shelton AO, Adkison MD, Beaudreau AH, Brenner RE, Haynie AC, Shriver JC, Watson JT, Williams BC. 2017. Benefits and risks of diversification for individual fishers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(40): 10797-10802.

  27. O’Farrell S, Sanchirico JN, Chollett I, Cockrell M, Watson JT, et al. 2017. Improving detection of short-duration behavior in fishing vessel tracks by feature engineering of training data. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 74:1428-1436.

  28. Watson JT, Haynie AC 2016. Using Vessel Monitoring System Data to Identify and Characterize Trips Made by Fishing Vessels in the United States North Pacific. PLoS One, 11(10), e0165173.

  29. Gann JC, Eisner LB, Porter S, Watson JT, et al. 2016. Possible mechanism linking ocean conditions to low body weight and poor recruitment of age-0 walleye pollock in the southeast Bering Sea during 2007. Deep-Sea Research II 134: 115–127.

  30. Bishop MA, Watson JT, Morgan T, Kuletz KJ. 2015. Pacific herring consumption by marine birds during winter in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography 24(1): 1-13.

  31. Watson JT, Bigelow, KA. 2014. Trade-offs among catch, bycatch and revenue in the American Samoa longline fishery. Conservation Biology. 28(4): 1012 - 1022.

  32. Kobb K, Westphal N, Sayani H, Watson JT, Di Lorenzo E, Cheng H, Edwards R Charles CD. 2013. Highly variable El Niño-Southern Oscillation throughout the Holocene. Science 339: 67-70.

  33. Watson JT, Lennert-Cody CE, Essington TE, Hall MA. 2009. Trade-offs in the design of fishery closures: silky shark bycatch management in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery. Conservation Biology 23 (3): 626-635.

  34. Hansman RL, Griffin S, Watson JT, Druffel E, Ingalls AE, Pearson A, Aluwihare LI. 2009. The radiocarbon signature of microbial organisms in the mesopelagic ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(16): 6513-6518

  35. YJ Han, JT Watson, GD Stucky, A Butler. 2002. Catalytic activity of mesoporous silicate-immobilized chloroperoxidase. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic. 17(1):1-8.