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Arkoosh, Mary. Assistant Professor (Courtesy), Microbiology. Determine the impact of human and natural activities on immune function and
disease dynamics of wild fish, especially Pacific salmon and marine fish.

Auyong, Jan. Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Coastal resource management, marine protected areas, nature-based tourism and recreation.

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Banks, Michael. Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Application of population genetic principles towards furthering basic knowledge and understanding of marine population processes. Genetic characterization of
natural populations, fishery subjects and aquacultural species. Methods for
resolving hybridized, admixed, or recently diverged populations, and statistical
methods for determining component estimates for mixtures of such populations.
Evaluating the information content of alternate genetic marker types and resolving links between genetic loci and life history variance expressed within species.

 

Black, Bryan . Assistant Professor (Senior Research) HMSC; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Science. Linkages between marine and terrestrial ecosystems; Applications of dendrochronology to growth increments of marine organisms; Forest disturbance ecology; Dendroclimatology.

Boehlert, George. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Director, Hatfield Marine Science Center. Fisheries oceanography, ecology of marine fishes, particularly early life history stages; Pelagic habitats; seamount ecology; age, growth and reproduction of fishes.

Bottom, Daniel. Faculty Research Assistant (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Estuarine ecology with emphasis on the life history and habitat associations of juvenile salmon and the ecological effects of restoring tidal wetlands.

Brodeur, Richard. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences and F&W. Determine food web linkages in continental shelf ecosystems and how these are affected by environmental conditions and in turn how they affect fish recruitment.

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Chadwick, William. Assistant Professor (Senior Research) (Adjunct), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Research interests are active volcanoes and recent eruptions on the seafloor, using sonar mapping systems, monitoring instruments, submersibles, and remotely operated vehicles.

Chapman, John. Research Associate, Fisheries & Wildlife. Human and nonindigenous species impacts on eastern Pacific aquatic ecosystems and gammaridean amphipod systematics.

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Davis, Michael. Research Associate (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Research in fisheries behavioral ecology of commercially important fish species; principles of fish bycatch discard mortality.

D'Andrea, Anthony F. Assistant Professor, Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Benthic ecology and sediment biogeochemistry of estuarine and coastal systems; Benthic-pelagic coupling; Ecological role of burrowing shrimp in Pacific Northwest estuaries.

DeWitt, Theodore. Associate Professor (Courtesy), Marine Resource Management, Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Natural and anthropogenic stressors in estuarine ecosystems, effects of benthic organisms on sediment and water-column properties; remote sensing to map benthic populations; marine and estuarine toxicity.

Dziak, Robert. Associate Professor (Adjunct), COAS and Geosciences.
Seismotectonics, volcanic seismicity, and hydroacoustics

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Embley, Robert. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Geology of seafloor hydrothermal systems and neotectonics of plate boundaries.

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Good, James. Professor, Marine Resource Management, Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Coastal natural hazards management, urban waterfront development and revitalization; wetlands restoration and management.

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Hacker, Sally. Associate Professor, Zoology. Marine community ecology, especially natural and managed rocky shores, dunes, and estuarine communities; species interactions, diversity, and invasions.

Hammond, Stephen. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Seafloor spreading center hydrothermal and volcanic activity.

Hanna, Susan. Professor, Ag & Resource Economics. Economics of fisheries, fishery management and policy, institutional design, property rights and natural resources.

Hansen, Gayle. Associate Professor (Senior Research), Botany. A marine phycologist interested in the taxonomy, floristics, distribution and life histories of macrobenthic marine algae (seaweeds) occurring from Alaska to Oregon.

Hanshumaker, William. Instructor, Fisheries & Wildlife. How people learn in nonformal science centers; Evaluating strategies for disseminating the results of marine research.

Heppell, Scott. Assistant Professor (Senior Research), Fisheries & Wildlife. Fish physiology, with an emphasis on the reproductive biology of fish. Life history/habitat interactions and impacts of exploitation on the fitness of fish.

Heppell, Selina. Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Marine fish ecology, population dynamics, food web models, fish life history and response to exploitation, and exotic species.

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Kent, Michael. Professor, Microbiology. Fish diseases.

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Langdon, Christopher. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Research interests include: selection of Pacific oyster broodstock for increased yields, polyculture of abalone and seaweed, development of microparticulate diets for marine fish and shellfish, estuarine ecology.

Lupton, John. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Chemical and thermal fluxes from submarine hydrothermal systems with special emphasis on dissolved gases; mapping of water column hydrothermal plumes as applied to studies of deep ocean circulation

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Malouf, Robert. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Director, Oregon Sea Grant.

Markham, John. Research Associate (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Systematics and zoogeography of Isopoda Bopyridae, parasites of decapod Crustacea on a world-wide basis. Identification of specimens,
descriptions of new species, resolution of classification problems, consideration of evolution and distribution of genera and species and their correlation with evolutionary histories of host taxa. Maintaining and making
available a bibliography of the Bopyridae as complete as possible.

Mate, Bruce. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Marine mammals: distribution, feeding behavior, diving physiology, conservation. Particularly, satellite monitored radio tracking studies of endangered whale species and dolphins to determine critical habitat.

McCain, Bruce. Professor (Courtesy), Microbiology. The relationships among habitat characteristics and quality and the distribution and abundance of marine and anadromous fish species in coastal waters of the Pacific Coast.

Mellinger, David. Assistant Professor (Senior Research), Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies. Analysis of marine mammal sounds, especially methods for automatic call recognition and for acoustic measurement of populations.

Menge, Bruce. Professor, Zoology. Community ecology: study of patterns and causes of community structure in marine rocky intertidal habitats.

Miller-Morgan, Timothy. Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine. Extension Veterinarian, Ornamental Aquaculture, Sea Grant. Aquatic animal clinical medicine and the development of preventive medicine protocols for captive fish and aquatic invertebrates.

Mpitsos, George. Professor (Courtesy), Pharmacy. Dynamic/complex systems
studies. Cellular basis of learning in "simple systems". How learning takes place in small networks that can generate many different behaviors, where the functional identity of a given neuron emerges out of the context of activity in other neurons. The natural source of variation and how it affects, neurointegration, adaptive behavior and learning.

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Olla, Bori. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Collaborative research with the AFSC on the post-capture behavior, survival and mortality of selected species of economically important marine fish.

Olson, Robert. Professor Emeritus, Fisheries & Wildlife. Parasites and diseases of fishes and invertebrates.

Osis, Vicki. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Education programs for teachers and students K-12

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Parker, Steven. Assistant Professor (Courtesy), Fisheries & Wildlife. Research interests include studying the reproductive biology of rockfishes, and developing methods and data sources to improve the quality of West Coast stock assessments

Peterson, William. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Ecology of copepods and euphausiids; pelagic ecosystem response to climate variability and climate change

Power, James. Associate Professor (Courtesy), Fisheries & Wildlife. Estuarine fish ecology and quantitative ecology.

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Reimers, Clare. Professor, Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Sediment biogeochemistry, coastal chemical oceanography and chemical sensors.

Reno, Paul. Professor, Microbiology. Diseases and host responses to infectious agents of finfish and marine; Viral, bacteria, marine invertebrates, salmon.

Rogers, Jean. Assistant Professor (Courtesy), Fisheries & Wildlife. Research interests are U.S. West Coast groundfish stock assessments, catch assemblages, and fishing strategies

 

Rowe, Shawn. Assistant Professor, Science and Mathematics Education, Marine Education Learning Specialist, Sea Grant Extension. Oregon Sea Grant Free-Choice Learning Initiative. How individual and group learning occur during free-choice learning activities. How physical spaces, objects, and psychological tools mediate and shape learning activity.

Ryer, Clifford. Assistant Professor (Courtesy), Fisheries & Wildlife. Research interests involve all aspects of fish, with particular emphasis on social behavior, predator-prey interaction, and behavior of fish relative
to fishing gear.

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Sampson, David. Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife. Research interests are developing and evaluating methods for fish stock assessment, and modeling the dynamics of fishery systems, particularly the response of fishermen to changing conditions within the fisheries.

Sigleo, Anne. Associate Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. The biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen and carbon in coastal watersheds and estuaries.

Sylvia, Gilbert. Associate Professor, Ag and Resource Economics. Seafood marketing, fisheries policy, bioeconomic modeling, aquacultural business economics and aquaculture policy.

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Trowbridge, Cynthia. Research Assistant Professor, Zoology; GraduateTeaching Faculty, Botany. Marine invasive macroalgae; non-indigenous species (NIS); herbivore-plant interactions; marine specialist herbivores; sacoglossan opisthobranchs..

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Wakefield, Waldo. Associate Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Distribution and abundance of fishes and other mobile animals in the ocean; application of direct observation and advanced technology to the study of the distribution of demersal fishes and their habitat associations; incorporating ecosystem considerations into stock assessments and management advice.

Weber, Lavern. Professor Emeritus, Fisheries & Wildlife. Fish physiology, pharmacology and toxicology, particularly as these fields relate to the autonomic nervous and cardiovascular systems.

Webster, Janet. Associate Professor, Information Services. Current research interests include application of collaborative filtering to print and electronic collections, design of effective methods to deliver information to the seafood industry, and identification of classic works in marine science.

Weeks, Harold. Assistant Professor (Courtesy), Marine Resources Management and Fisheries & Wildlife. Marine fisheries, bycatch issues, habitat, and salmon.

Weis, Virginia. Associate Professor, Zoology. Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the establishment, maintenance and breakdown of mutualistic symbioses between cnidarians, such as corals and anemones, and their dinoflagellate endosymbionts.

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Young, David. Professor (Courtesy), Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Aerial photographic methods of mapping seagrass and green macroalgae distributions, and relationships between green macroalgae biomass and sediment dissolved sulfides, in the intertidal zone of Yaquina Bay estuary, Oregon.

 

Last updated 12/27/02