OSG Publications

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Supporting Community Resiliency in the Face of Coastal Hazards and Natural Disasters

This article highlights a few of the programs and tools that Oregon Sea Grant has developed and challenges readers to join the effort to increase resilience throughout the nation.

Crab pots are stacked on a boat.

Whales exposure to entanglement risk in crab fishing gear in Oregon reveals patterns

Researchers' findings use fine-scale species distribution models to assess space-use conflicts in dynamic marine ecosystems and can be used to guide fisheries management to reduce entanglement risk in Oregon.

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A Framework for Evaluating Air-Breathing Fish for Sustainable Food Systems

This study assesses natural resource management actions within a social-ecological systems perspective to develop a conceptual framework for climate-smart aquaculture.

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Adaptive Potential of Coastal Invertebrates to Environmental Stressors and Climate Change

This dissertation studied ochre sea stars, Pacific oysters and red abalone.

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Importance of the Pacific Razor Clam Fishery for Oregon Coastal Communities

Interviews with stakeholders and socio-economic analysis finds the razor clam fishery is an important resource for Oregon communities and economy.

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Juvenile Dungeness crabs response in multi-stressor experiments

This paper reports on how juvenile Dungeness crab respond to foraging and sensing pH behavior experiments.