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Graduate Students

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Kirsty Ballard	Contact person by email
Madison Bargas	Contact person by email
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... Master of Science, Fisheries Science Major Professor: Taylor Chapple
Reilly Boyt	Contact person by email
Margaret Campbell Graduate Student	Contact person by email	I will be working in Dr. Will White's lab - project specifics TBD. MS Fisheries Science Major Professor: Will White
Marcus Chatfield	Contact person by email	Master of Science, Fisheries Science, PhD: Botany Major Professor: Christopher Langdon , Major Professor: Allen Milligan
Savannah Clax Graduate Fellow	Contact person by email	Major Professor: Jessica Miller
Elaine English	Contact person by email
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	Contact person by email
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
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 Academic Wage-Hourly	Contact person by email
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	Contact person by email
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 incorporate shark predators into fisheries... 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
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 Student

Person	Contact Information	Specialty Area
Samuel Arriola	Contact person by email
Natalie Donato 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...
Kyra Kappos Undergraduate Student Volunteer	Contact person by email
Christopher Rowe Hourly Student Employee	Contact person by email

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