Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Morgan Sparks

Master's
Email: msparks8@alaska.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Sparks, M.M., Westley, P.A.H., Falke, J.A., and T.P. Quinn. 2017. The role of thermal adaptation and phenotypic plasticity for responding to a warming world: insights from common garden experiments in Alaskan sockeye salmon. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13782 December 2017
Sparks, M.M., Falke, J.A., Westley, P.A.H., Adkison, M.D., Bartz, K., Quinn, T.P., Schindler, D.E., and D. Young. 2019. Influences of spawning timing, water temperature, and climatic warming on early life history phenology in western Alaska sockeye salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 76:123-135. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0468 March 2019
Project Completion Date
Lake trout otoliths as indicators of past climate patterns and growth in Arctic lakes May 2016
Temperature, phenology, and embryo survival in Western Alaska sockeye salmon populations: the potential for adaptation to a warming world? May 2016
Presentations Presentation Date
Sparks, M.M., Falke, J.A., Westley, P.A.H., Adkison, M.D., Bartz, K., Quinn, T.P., Schindler, D.E., and D. Young. 2018. Predicting developmental phenology in wild populations: a case study with western Alaska sockeye salmon. Indiana Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. 12-13 February, 2018. Lafayette, IN. February 2018
Sparks, M., Westley, P., Falke, J., and T. Quinn. 2016. Experimental tests for thermal local adaptation and heritable phenotypic plasticity in hatching timing by sockeye salmon using a common garden approach. Evolution 2016, Austin, TX. 17-21 June, 2016. June 2016
Sparks, M., Westley, P., Falke, J., and M. Adkison. 2016. Predicting Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) hatch timing by incorporating natural variability into an existing model. Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference. Dillingham, AK. 9-12 March 2016. March 2016
Falke, J., Sparks, M., Torvinen, E., and P. Westley. 2017. Climate vulnerability and salmonids in Alaska: hind- and forecasting freshwater growth and phenology across species and habitats. Western Division American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Missoula, Montana, 23-25 May, 2017. May 2017