NOAA/ Sea Grant Database

Search for impacts and accomplishments of Oregon Sea Grant-funded projects using PIER - the NOAA and National Sea Grant project database.

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  • Improved delivery of water-soluble nutrients to marine fish larvae to promote expansion of US commercial aquaculture.
    PI:
    Chris Langdon, OSU Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (2017-20) 
    Feature Story: Jan. 2018
    Peer-Reviewed Article: Marine Ecology Progress Series 2019
  • Improving the safety of shellfish consumption with probiotic-supplemented depuration and improved diagnostics.
    PI: Claudia Häse, OSU College of Veterinary Medicine (2017-19)
  • Gooseneck barnacles (Pollicipes polymerus) on the Oregon coast; Population description, feasibility of a fishery, fishery enhancement, and aquaculture.
    PI:
    Alan Shanks, UO Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
  • Envisioning a resilient Oregon coast: Co-developing alternative futures for adaptation planning and decision-making.
    PI:
    Peter Ruggiero, OSU CEOAS
  • Retrodicting earthquake source characteristics from tsunami inundation along the Oregon coast
    PI:
    Andrew Meigs, OSU CEOAS
  • The value of Oregon's deep-sea habitat to Oregonians
    PI:
    Andrew Thurber, OSU CEOAS 
    Read story, Journal article
  • Integrating local students into coastal ecology research in Port Orford, Oregon
    PI:
    Leigh Torres, Oregon Sea Grant/OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Marine Mammal Institute
  • Evaluation of essential knowledge, skills and experience required for veterinarians practicing aquatic medicine
    PI:
    Tim Miller-Morgan, Oregon Sea Grant/Aquatic Animal Health Program
    Journal article, Read story
  • European green crab control methods: Sex pheromones as novel tools for monitoring and control
    PI:
    Sylvia Yamada, OSU, Integrative Biology
  • Diet, energy budget and predation impact of early-juvenile coastal Pacific hake in the Northern California current
    PI:
    Kim Bernard, OSU, CEOAS
  • A portable deep core for quantitatively sampling burrowing macroinvertebrates at greater than 1-meter depths
    PI:
    John Chapman, OSU, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 
    Read story
  • Microplastics in our food? – Providing a baseline for microplastic concentrations in the tissues of Oregon’s commercially and recreationally important Pacific oysters and razor clams
    PI:
    Elise Granek, PSU, Environmental Science & Management 
    See video, Read story  Read impact statement, Journal of Interpretation Research 2021, Dissertation
  • Sustainable fisheries workshop (AKA Fins, Fishes, and Fisheries)
    PI:
    Tracy Crews, Oregon Sea Grant
  • Engaging Collaborative College Pathways for Native American Youth in Coastal Tribes
    PI:
    Guillermo Giannico, Oregon Sea Grant/OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Students as Citizen Scientists: Research and Learning Aboard the R/V Pacific Storm
    PI:
    Tracy Crews, Oregon Sea Grant 
    Read story
  • Collaborative Problem Solving and Prevention for Oregon’s Entangled Whales: Creating Oregon’s Cetacean Entanglement Community of Interest (COI) Group
    PI:
    Amanda Gladics, Oregon Sea Grant Extension Fisheries Management
  • Building Community Resilience Using Tsunami Quests to Enhance Public Hazards Preparedness and Awareness
    PI:
    Caitlin Goodwin, Oregon Sea Grant STEM Communication and Quests 
    See video
  • Indexing the Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Marine Shellfish to Combined Stressors of Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia
    PI:
    Francis Chan, OSU, Integrative Biology
  • Does Ocean Productivity Contribute to Dune Ecosystem Function? Connecting Wrack Subsidies to Oregon Dune Coastal Protection and Conservation Services
    PI:
    Sally Hacker, OSU Integrative Biology
  • Distribution and Degradation of the Antidiabetic Drug, Metformin, and its Breakdown Product, Guanylurea, in the Columbia River Basin
    PI:
    Tawnya Peterson, OHSU, Institute of Environmental Health
  • Utilizing U/Ca Ratios to Determine Best Management Practices for Shell Planting and Oyster Culture to Mitigate Ocean Acidification Impacts
    PI:
    Alyssa Shiel, OSU CEOAS 
    See video, See photo album, Dissertation
  • Improving Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Visualization through Collaboration in Discovery, Learning, and Practice
    PI:
    Ted Strub, OSU CEOAS
    Read story
  • Predatory Impacts of Large Medusae on Ichthyoplankton in the Northern California Current
    PI:
    Kelly Sutherland, University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
  • Evaluating the Vulnerability of Oregon Seagrass Beds to Eutrophication
    PI:
    Fiona Tomas Nash, OSU, Fisheries and Wildlife
    See video
  • Competing Effects of Relative Sea-Level Rise and Fluvial Inputs on Blue Carbon Sequestration in Oregon Salt Marshes
    PI:
    Robert Wheatcroft, OSU, CEOAS 
    Read story, Journal article
  • Development of a Sustainable Gooseneck Barnacle Fishery; Initial Investigations
    PI:
    Alan Shanks, University of Oregon Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
    Read story
  • Research development for coastal flood monitoring using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
    PI:
    Jihye Park, OSU, School of Civil and Construction Engineering Read Impact Statement
  • Evaluation of marine science quiz bowls (Salmon Bowl/National Ocean Science Bowl [SB/NOSB]): What role does it play in recruiting talent to land/sea grant universities and thus achieve their mission?
    PI:
    Flaxen Conway, OSU, Oregon Sea Grant and School of Public Policy

Elicitation of Antibiotic Natural Products in Multispecies Cultures of Deep-Sea Vent-Derived Microorganisms

PI: Kerry McPhail, Oregon State University, Pharmacy
Impact statement: search PIER using title above.

Enhancing Razor Clam Management Using Molecular Probes for Pathogen Detection

PI: Jeremy Weisz, Linfield College Biology
Impact statement: search PIER using title above

Evaluating the Population Genetic Structure and Diversity of Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister)

PI: Kathleen O'Malley, OSU Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station
Impact statement: search PIER using title above. Read feature story, Journal article, Journal article

Exploring Albacore Stock Structure in the North Pacific with Radionuclide Tracers.

PI: Lorenzo Ciannelli, OSU CEOAS
Impact Statement: search PIER using title above

Preparing for Climate Change in Oregon Estuaries: Flooding, Ecological Impacts, and an Integrated Approach toward Adaptive Management.

PI: David Hill, OSU Civil and Construction Engineering
Impact Statement: search PIER using title above

Resistance of Pacific Oyster Larvae and Juveniles to the Effects of Ocean Acidification.

PI: Chris Langdon, OSU COMES
Impact Statement: search PIER using title above

Sea Grass as Possible Ocean Acidification Refugia for Shellfish in a High CO2 World.

PI: George Waldbusser, OSU/CEOAS
Thesis dissertation

Understanding Oceanic and Terrestrial Controls on Dissolved Oxygen Variability in the Coos Bay Estuary.

PI: David Sutherland, University of Oregon Geological Sciences
Read 2016 feature story; Journal article; Thesis dissertation; Read 2019 story, Read feature story

The Old(er) Men of the Sea: Graying of the fishing industry and its impact on local community resiliency

PI: Lori Cramer, Oregon State University
Impact Statement: search PIER using title above
RESULTS: Sixty-three interviews and oral histories were completed in the two research communities. Initial results indicate that commercial fishing family members, more so than community leaders, perceive graying as a threat. This threat was specifically related to changing fisheries regulations that affect consolidation, as well as to shifting intergenerational motivations to fish and dynamic social influences that increase barriers to entry for young people. Such changes may have implications for resilience, should they diminish the amount of financial, cultural, and human capital in these coastal communities. Findings were presented at the national Society for Applied Anthropology conference and the local State of the Coast conference, where one of the students received a poster award for effective science communication to a general audience. The researchers leveraged this Oregon Sea Grant funding and received a NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant to expand and extend their research to other communities along the coast.
 

After the Wave: Testing Pre-Tsunami Disaster Recovery Planning on the Oregon Coast

PI: Connie Ozawa, Portland State University
Impact Statement: search PIER using title above
RESULTS: The research team showed that communities prioritize immediate quality of life over investing scarce resources on future events. Communities need resource investments that simultaneously address today’s needs and mitigate against future harms, and that include disaster preparedness in collaborative planning projects. Local residents and emergency responders were interested in implementing these best practices in under-resourced communities. Finally, survey results found that visitors and residents alike were willing to pay for resilience improvements within communities they reside in or visit. Progress continues through collaboration with academics, legal experts, and planners to examine whether social benefits in relationships and communication between and among local actors is improved by dialogue. Planning for a FEMA workshop in the Nehalem Bay area is also underway.

Improving Juvenile Oyster Survival through Adaptation and Screening of Ocean Acidification Impacts.

PI: George Waldbusser, Oregon State University

Oregon Sea Grant is funding three projects in response to a special call for social science and human dimension research:

Building resilient coastal communities: A social assessment of mobile technology for tsunami evacuation planning.

PI: Lori Cramer, Oregon State University Sociology/School of Public Policy

Operationalizing Ecosystem Services Benefit Assessment Techniques for Marine Reserve Sites.

PI: Michael Harte, Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Implementing Ecosystem Based Management: Connecting Caretakers of the Oregon Coast with Transformative and Practical Legal Tools.

PI: Richard Hildreth, University of Oregon School of Law/Ocean & Coastal Law Center

Four west coast Sea Grant Programs (Oregon, Washington, California, and the University of Southern California) jointly fund coordinated projects bringing together west coast researchers to address issues of regional priorities. Current projects focus on the social sciences.

Scaling Up Cost-Efficient Community Engagement in Coastal Resource Management (2014-16).

PI: Julia Parrish, University of Washington; Shawn Rowe, Oregon Sea Grant; Heidi Ballard, University of California Davis.

Role of Fluvial Phytoplankton in Emerging Contaminant Exposure Pathways within Columbia River Food Webs.

PI: Tawnya Peterson, Oregon Health & Science University

Emerging Contaminants in Oregon Coastal Waters: Landscape Drivers and Synergistic Effects on Native Oysters.

PI: Elise Granek, Portland State University Environmental Science & Management.

  • An Integrated Engineering-Economic Vulnerability Assessment Tool to Increase Tsunami Preparedness in Rural Coastal Counties.
    PI: Young Chen, OSU Agricultural & Resource Economics
  • Understanding, Forecasting and Communicating the Linkages Between Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification in Oregon's Coastal Ocean.
    PI: Francis Chan, OSU Zoology
  • Developing Realistic Metrics of Acidification Stress for Commercially Important Bivalves in Variable Habitats.
    PI: George Waldbusser, OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS)
  • Sea Grant Professorship in Free-Choice Learning.
    PI: John Falk & Lynn Dierking, OSU Science and Math Education
  • Predicting Habitat Quality of Juvenile English Sole and Dungeness Crab in Coastal And Estuarine Nursery Grounds.
    PI: Lorenzo Ciannelli, OSU CEOAS
  • Taking Stock of Oregon’s Nearshore Fisheries: Development of Simple Assessment Tools for Better Management.
    PI: Selina Heppell, OSU Fisheries & Wildlife
  • Geomagnetic Imprinting and Homing in Salmon and Steelhead.
    PI: David Noakes, OSU Fisheries & Wildlife
  • Realized and Potential Larval Connectivity Along the Oregon Coast.
    PI: Harold Batchelder, OSU CEOAS
  • Modeling Myxozoan Disease in Pacific Salmon: Establishing Watershed Models for Predicting Effects of Climate Change.
    PI: Jerri Bartholomew, OSU Microbiology
  • Tides, Freshwater and Winds: Modeling the Impacts of Currents on the Oregon Inner Continental Shelf and Within Yaquina Bay Estuary.
    PI: James Lerczak, OSU CEOAS
  • Assessing the Socio-Political Context of Disaster Recovery in Coastal Oregon.
    PI: Lori Cramer, Oregon State University, Sociology
  • Toward Resilience and Sustainable Seafood Supply: Assessing Direct Marketing Approaches for the West Coast Fishing Communities.
    PIs: Barbara Walker, University of California-Santa Barbara. Oregon Sea Grant PIs are Jamie Doyle and Jeff Feldner.
    See Market Your Catch, an interactive website for fishermen that resulted from this project.
  • Successful Adaptation: Identifying Effective Process and Outcome Characteristics and Practice-Relevant Metrics.
    PIs: Pamela Matson, Stanford University. Oregon co-PI: Hannah Gosnell, OSU/CEOAS.