Recruitment variability in southeast Bering Sea red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus): the roles of early juvenile habitat requirements, spatial population structure, and physical forcing mechanisms

If you want a copy of the dissertation, you have a few different options.  First, you can download all the parts below, as a combination of PDF and Microsoft Powerpoint files.  The majority of the document is contained within the (8) PDF files linked below, which represent (1) file for each chapter and (3) files containing the preliminary pages and the references and appendices.  It has been split into numerous files because this is very large document and a single file would be huge.  As it is, the PDF files range between ~2,300 - 9,200kb.  Yes, the pages are sometimes askew or seem to have an odd warp to them.  The feeder on the document scanner did not always align properly, and the optics warped the images slightly, sort of like a fish-eye lens but not so dramatic.  In addition to the PDF files, there are two Powerpoint files that contain the color graphics.

Note that the document is meant to be printed 2-sided.  The margins are set up to be wider on the left side of odd-numbered pages and the right side of even-numbered pages in order to accept a binding (or holes) on one side.  If you print it one-sided, the margins will be different on consecutive pages, and there will be unexplained blank pages scattered here and there.  Blank pages occur in the PDF files for three reasons:  1) In the preliminary section, some of the pages were actually only 1-sided, thus the back is blank.  2) Most chapters end on an odd-numbered page, but a 2-sided format ends with an even-numbered page.  Instead of ending the chapter with the first page of the next chapter, it is simply left blank.  Similarly, instead of starting such chapters with the last page of the previous chapter, they start with a blank page.  This will allow you to print the whole document 2-sided and still maintain a wide inside margin for binding or hole-punching.  3) The page contained a color graphic.  These have not been reproduced in black-and-white.  Likewise, if two pages contained color graphics back-to-back, the pages simply aren’t included at all, because they would just be double-blanks.  For the color pages, you’ll need to open the Powerpoint file and print from there.  The slides do contain the page numbers.  Print them on the blank pages in order to complete the document.

Note that Chapter 1 was included almost completely within a paper published in Reviews in Fisheries Science; Chapter 2 was published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, and the first half of Chapter 3 was published in Fishery Bulletin.  If you wish to cite information from the first half of the dissertation, you may find that the published manuscripts contain the pertinent material and will represent more accepted citations.  Later chapters are still in preparation for publication in  peer-reviewed journals.

For the most “exciting” conclusions of the dissertation in nutshell-format, please see the poster, “Spatial Recruitment Patterns in Bristol Bay (Alaska) Red King Crab: The Roles of Climate and Larval Advection”.
 

The files:

Preliminary Pages  (2,285kb)
Prologue and Chapter 1  (4,800kb)
Chapter 2  (3,465kb)
Chapter 3  (4,241kb)
Chapter 4  (9,171kb)
Chapter 5 and Epilogue  (6,805kb)
References and some Appendices  (5,661kb)
Remaining Appendices  (4,848kb)

Vertical Color Pages (Powerpoint file)
Horizontal Color Pages (Powerpoint file)

The Advection Model

Another way to obtain a copy is through UMI Dissertations Publishing.  This may theoretically be a higher-quality copy than the PDF versions placed here, but since I've never actually seen what they provide I can't say for sure.  They advertise that they fill orders within 14 days.  Do they really?  I actually don’t know, but that's presumably why I paid them.  If you make an attempt and either succeed or fail, let me know how it worked out so I can better advise people in the future.  They are located on the web at:

http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/hp/Support/DServices/products/referenc.htm

and in the physical world at:

UMI Dissertations Publishing
Bell and Howell Information and Learning
300 North Zeeb Road
PO Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI   48106-1346

Their website can be a bear to use, but to find my dissertation, click on the link titled “ProQuest Digital Dissertations”, and hopefully you will be able to access the abstracts database from there and determine the publication number.  However, the ProQuest page may be restricted to institutions and libraries that subscribe to that service (that is, who paid them $$), and individuals might be locked out.  Once you find the publication number, you actually order a copy of the dissertation using this page:

http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com/hp/Support/DServices/order/

When they provide me the publication number I’ll post it on this page; it didn't seem to exist when I wrote this.

Or, if the web isn't functionaing for you, try calling their real people: (800) 521-3042, within North America;  1 734-761-4700  ext. 2825, internationally.

Finally, if this is process is just too intimidating/annoying (I'm kinda bleary-eyed just writing about it) email a request to me and I'll snail-mail a spiral-bound copy to you .  But be warned, you'll still get the PDF version with the slightly skewed pages because printing the thing from it's native files is a bloody pain, and it may take a little while.  I have run out of original copies on hand and I’m just printing them when requested.  My access to a color printer is limited (we don't have one at IPHC), and you may get me at a busy time.  Still, I promise to send you a copy as soon as I can.