2020

Photo of bridge in Coos Bay, Oregon.
This thesis looks at how work in the seafood processing industry in Coos County, Oregon creates a sense of place.
Students deploy equipment
This thesis looks at promising practices in data literacy education and research shipboard outreach that are also culturally responsive.
Oregon Sea Grant logo
This research applies fisheries' connectivity network analysis to characterize the harvest portfolios and timing of landings of dozens of small-scale fisheries in the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

2019

Oregon Sea Grant logo
This dissertation investigates the role of marine subsidies to dune ecosystem functions from local to meta-ecosystem scales along the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast.
hand holding hundreds of small Pacific oyster larvae
This project evaluates the use of a habitat model, developed using geospatial raster layers of salinity, substrate, and elevation, in Yaquina Bay, Oregon to predict locations of Olympia oyster presence.
Dozens of boats in Newport's commercial fishing port
By better defining what has impacted Oregon’s small nearshore fleet members, this thesis explores whether the collective experiences of fishermen in the nearshore sector may contribute local ecological knowledge of other groundfish fishery habitatats.

Pages