I am M.Sc. student in Marine Resource Management working with Dr. Selina Heppell as my advisor. I got my bachelor degree in Biology with a minor in Biodiversity and Biological Conservation at Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. I have been always interesting in ecology, biodiversity and oceanography. My main interest now is using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a tool to manage fisheries issues. I am developing my master project using GIS to identify areas where there is high probability of having bycatch events of marine sea turtles. I will use baycatch and record data of marine sea turtles combined with oceanographic variables to identify physical conditions in the ocean that increases the probability of bycatch events in areas where there is not information.

I am a M.Sc. student in Marine Resource Management working under Dr. Selina Heppell. Before graduate school I spent around five years working with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife within the Marine Resources Program working on a variety of projects ranging from black rockfish PIT tagging to shoreside Pacific whiting sampling. I am primarily interested in the ecology and management of marine species. The research for my M.Sc. thesis involves the evaluation of a novel video camera device developed by ODFW as a tool to survey demersal rockfish on high-relief nearshore rocky reef structures. My goal is to develop a fine scale understanding of habitat association and distribution of nearshore demersal rockfish which may aid in more comprehensive management and assessment of these species.

I am pursing a Masters Degree in Fisheries Science under Dr. Scott Heppell. I obtained my Wildlife Management, B.T. at the State University of New York at Cobleskill. Since that time I have worked in a variety of locations, primarily in Antarctica and Alaska, working with creatures from stiff-tailed penguins and California condors to salmon and amphibians. My main interests are the ecology, conservation and management of marine communities. I plan on studying movement and juvenile recruitment of rockfish.

I am a graduate student in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, conducting my research under the advisement of Dr. Scott Heppell. I am using acoustic telemetry to study the movement patterns of fish at Redfish Rocks on Oregon's south coast. Redfish Rocks is one of the first two marine reserves designated by the State of Oregon, and will be closed to fishing as of January 1, 2012. I am studying the movement patterns, home ranges, and habitat associations of six species of fish targetted by both the commercial live fish and recreational fisheries in Port Orford. My research aims to determine the potential impact this reserve may have on populations of different species of fish based on their movement patterns and home ranges relative to the reserve boundaries, and to help refine models of species habitat associations. I live in Port Orford, where I am conducting my field work, and working as a commercial diver in the sea urchin fishery. Please visit fishtracker.org to learn more about this fascinating project, including how you can help to support this research!

I am a PhD student working under Selina Heppell. My interests within the field of marine ecology include population ecology and conservation biology, community and species response to and recovery from disturbance, trophic interactions, impacts from climate change, and ecosystem health. I am interested in applying quantitative and empirical methods to better understand marine species and ecosystems and ultimately to improve our conservation and management of them. My experience in marine ecology ranges from studying the spatial distribution of juvenile queen conch off South Caicos, trophic dynamics of sand dollars in the Gulf of Mexico, studying fish diseases and fish kills at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, and performing data analysis for fisheries research for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. I received a MS in marine ecology from the University of South Florida and a BS in Ecology from the University and Minnesota. My first project will be working as the graduate student lead for the Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar, an NSF-funded project run concurrently at multiple universities in the US and internationally. The overarching goals of this project are to train early career biologists in collaborative science and to advance and synthesize knowledge of biodiversity science on a global scale. The OSU seminar will focus on biodiversity mapping of fishes and macroinvertebrates off the US West Coast.

Broadly, I am interested in the conservation and management of marine diversity and studying the effects of natural and human-induced impacts on marine communities. I am also interested in incorporating geographical information systems (GIS) as a tool to acquire, evaluate, visualize and communicate ecosystem interactions and the use of marine resources. I am pursuing a Msc in Marine Research Management under Dr. Selina Heppell. My current research involves collaborating with fisherman and scientists to document the historic distribution of Humboldt squid off of the Oregon coast. To better understand the sporadic northern range expansion of the Humboldt squid and potential correlations with oceanic conditions and hake abundance, GIS will be used to perform broad-scale spatial and temporal correlation analyses. An exhibit of the findings and a preserved squid will be on display at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR.

I am interested in the ecology and population dynamics of long-lived marine fishes, particularly through investigations and techniques that not only advance our understanding of a species, population, or community, but those which have direct relevance and application to improving conservation and management. My research has included studies of rockfish, sharks, and rays. Currently, I am examining the potential for naturally occurring elements deposited in the vertebrae of sharks and rays as they grow on their nursery grounds to distinguish their birth locations and am evaluating the potential for these markers to serve as tracers of movements, population connectivity, and critical nursery areas or habitat. Feel free to read about further details on this project and my past research on my web page.

My interests are currently focused on one aspect of reproductive failure of lake trout in the Laurentian Great Lakes, Thiamine Deficiency Complex (TDC). In the Great Lakes, lake trout eggs suffer from a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1). TDC results in fry mortality and is caused by adult female lake trout consuming prey fish with high levels of thiaminase, an enzyme that breaks down thiamine. I am identifying trophic pathways associated with high levels of thiaminase and potential sources of thiaminase in food webs. I am interested in determining the extent to which specific food web components are associated with high thiaminase activity and the degree to which the distribution of thiaminase in Great Lakes food webs is explained by trophic structure. The overarching goal is to use the results of this work to enhance lake trout restoration efforts.

I have a long standing recreational and academic interest in the ocean and fisheries. I have worked in a wide range of ecosystems for various fisheries research projects including the Florida Gulf coast, the Chesapeake Bay and associated rivers, freshwater streams in central Florida, and currently in the Gulf of Alaska. Broadly my interests are fisheries ecology and as my graduate career progresses I am drawn towards more quantitative methods. Since beginning at OSU I have been pursuing research on trophic interactions between Alaska's groundfish species and comparing ecosystem modelling approaches. More information about me and my research interests is available on my web page.

My research interests broadly involve the early life history of marine fish, the development of egg and larval stages pre-partum through settlement with a specific focus on the effect of maternal age and condition on egg and larval fitness characteristics. Previous research projects include a study of maternal effects in a deep-water rockfish species in the Gulf of Alaska and an experimental investigation into the combined influence of maternal effects and environmental stochasticity on anuran larvae. My current project is a bio-economic collaboration with funding from the Lenfest Oceans Program to evaluate so-called simple metrics for stock assessment. While maternal effects are not modeled explicitly, the simple metrics we are testing rely on the importance of age structure to the population dynamics of long-lived groundfish species. A project in development will combine experimentation with simulation modeling to quantify maternal effects at the individual level and the effect of age truncation at the population level under variable thermal regimes. With this project I plan to incorporate maternal effects and age structure into the larger ecological idea of resilience in order to model potential population response to the predictions of climate change.

Broadly, I am interested in working collaboratively with fishermen to promote sustainable fisheries and to better understand the human dimension of the marine ecosystem. Some of my previous work experience has been in modeling fishing gear selectivity, and conducting surveys to assess fish and invertebrate populations and to monitor marine protected areas. I have had the opportunity to work with organisms from bacteria to turtles, and to evaluate how the human population interacts with them. I'm currently in my first year (2010) of pursuing a PhD with Dr. Scott Heppell.