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Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Kirsty Ballard Graduate Student	Contact person by email	I am working in Dr. James Sulikowski's Big Fish Lab studying reproductive physiology and ecology of elasmobranchs. Ph.D., Fisheries Science Major Professor: James Sulikowski
Madison Bargas Graduate Student	Contact person by email	Thesis: Spatial variation in life history traits of Black Rockfish from CA to AK M.S., Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Science Major Professor: Cheryl Barnes
Olivia Boisen	Contact person by email	Olivia is a current master’s student in Fisheries Science, studying the spatial and temporal trends of microplastic ingestion by myctophids off the West Coast. Myctophids, or lanternfishes, are an abundant forage fish and their diel vertical migrations bridge pelagic and mesopelagic foodwebs... Master of Science, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Scott Heppell , Major Professor: Susanne Brander
Joshua Bowman	Contact person by email	I am investigating physiological and behavioral stress responses to chemical cues in sharks, skates, and rays with Dr. Taylor Chapple's Big Fish Lab. As a Master’s student in the Big Fish Lab, Josh is investigating the physiology and behavior of sharks as they relate to predator-prey dynamics. As large predatory fish, sharks have few natural predators and therefore are... Ph.D, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Reilly Boyt Graduate Student	Contact person by email	M.S., Fisheries Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Margaret Campbell Graduate Student	Contact person by email	I am a master's student in Will White's Fisheries Oceanography and Population Dynamics lab. My project is modeling the impacts of offshore wind farms coming to the coast of Oregon. MS Fisheries Science Major Professor: Will White
Savannah Clax Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	Major Professor: Jessica Miller
Maddie English Graduate Student	Contact person by email	As a master's student in Dr. Taylor Chapple's ... M.S., Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Jennifer Fisher	Contact person by email	PhD, Fisheries, PhD Major Professor: Will White
Henry Fleener	Contact person by email	Developing a high-density flow-through system for rearing Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) larvae. M.S. Fisheries Science Major Professor: Christopher Langdon
Peri Gerson Graduate Student	Contact person by email	Thesis: Predators as samplers: using food habits data to inform climate- and community-driven shifts in marine species distributions M.S., Fisheries Science Major Professor: Cheryl Barnes
MacKenna Hainey	Contact person by email	I am a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine. I study marine invertebrate disease, particularly the role microplastics may have in disease development and larvae growth. Biomedical Sciences
Lauren Horstmyer Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	My research involves studying the effects of climate change and associated events on reproductive traits in shark species. Reproduction is the key to species-wide survival, and recent climate anomalies suggest that this... Ph.D., Fisheries Science Major Professor: James Sulikowski
Woojae Jung Ph.D. Food Science and Technology	Contact person by email	Research, analyze and evaluate efficacy of marine bioactive compounds. Ph.D. Food Science and Technology Major Professor: Jung Kwon
Lauren Kashiwabara Graduate Student	Contact person by email	I am researching plastic pollution in Oregon gray whales and their prey, mysid shrimp, in the Brander Lab. Ph.D. in Wildlife Sciences Major Professor: Susanne Brander
Alexander Langley Graduate Student	Contact person by email	M.S., Fisheries Science Major Professor: Michael Banks
Scott Lewis	Contact person by email	I am conducting research on coastal steelhead and rainbow trout in the Ventura River of Southern California. The focus of my research is genetic population structure, landscape genetics, smoltification patterns, and migration of juvenile O. mykiss. PhD, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Michael Banks
Ethan Personius Graduate Student	Contact person by email	M.S., Fisheries Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Victoria Quennessen Graduate Fellow	541-737-4531 Contact person by email	Using quantitative models to assess marine protected areas off the Oregon coast and inform conservation management and policy for black rockfish. PhD, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Will White
Trenton Reed M.S Food Science and Technology	Contact person by email	M.S Food Science and Technology Major Professor: Jung Kwon
Grace Roa Graduate Student	Contact person by email	I am working with Will White and Brett Dumbauld (USDA-ARS) studying the host-parasitic energetics relationship between native mud shrimp and non-native isopod. MS Fisheries Science Major Professor: Will White
Jessica Schulte	Contact person by email	As part of Dr. Taylor Chapple's Big Fish Lab, I am researching the movement and foraging ecology of a top coastal predator - the Broadnose Sevengill Shark - within the Northern California Coastal Current to eventually... Despite their often significant roles in local ecosystems though, large sharks have been conspicuously absent from management efforts in the Northern California Current System. Using techniques such as bio-logging, stable isotopes, and stomach content analysis, Jess’s research will provide... PhD, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Sagarika Shahriar M.S Food Science and Technology	Contact person by email	M.S Food Science and Technology Major Professor: Jung Kwon
Hillary Thalmann	Contact person by email	Effects of thermal variability on Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus) foraging, growth, and metabolism in the Gulf of Alaska. PhD, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Jessica Miller
Jenna Travers Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	I am studying and comparing the genetic, socioeconomic, and cultural impacts of two bioinvasive populations of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.) in polar latitudes: one in Chile and the Falkland Islands driven by escaped... M.S., Marine Resource Management
Benjamin Wiley Graduate Student	Contact person by email	Ben is pursuing a M.S. degree as a member of the State Fisheries Genomics Lab. Within the SFGL, he will be using eDNA to investigate occupancy, distribution, and abundance metrics of Bull Trout (Salvelinus... MS Fisheries Science Major Professor: Kathleen O Malley

Undergraduate Students

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Arriola, Samuel	Contact person by email
Donato, Natalie URSA Engage Student	Contact person by email	I'm working with Research Associate Dr. Kyle Newton in Dr. Taylor Chapple's Big Fish Lab to investigate how skates respond to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Through understanding the skates’ potential navigational behaviors when exposed to different EMFs that simulate the Earth’s magnetic...
Kappos, Kyra Undergraduate Student Volunteer	Contact person by email

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