Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station

My research focuses on utilizing the transcriptome of copepods as a genomic assay for the prediction of fishery yields.

Phylogeography of the Yelloweye Rockfish along the U.S. West Coast: isolation by distance, potential effects of biogeographic breaks and sites of larval retainage, and deme-level selective adaptation. 

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.

Assessing Chinook Salmon restoration efforts in the Columbia River Estuary

I am currently working on protease inhibition in Pacific whiting under Dr. DeWitt