Hatfield Research Seminar Series

HMSC Research Seminars are every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 at the HMSC campus in Newport, Oregon. Check the HMSC Events Calendar on the home page, or the OSU calendar for the latest scheduled events.

Topics range the scientific spectrum but are focused around marine and coastal research from leading investigators at HMSC and from around the globe. Our weekly seminars are in the HMSC Library seminar room, which holds about 50 people. Seminars are broadcast and recorded for our distant students, as well. The audience is a diverse mix of HMSC researchers and students from OSU, EPA, USFWS, USDA, NOAA, ODFW, and are open to members of the public. For the live broadcast of the Thursday Seminar via Zoom.

If you would like to speak in the series, contact Cinamon.moffett@oregonstate.edu.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made to Cinamon Moffett or 541-867-0126.

Past Seminar Titles and Authors:

2021

Max Nielsen-Pincus, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University and Kaegan Scully-Engelmeyer, PhD Student, School of the Environment, Portland State University

Public perceptions of coastal resources and marine protected areas: Exploring drivers of support and values for Oregon’s Marine Reserves

Thursday, April 15, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

James Watson, Socio-Environmental Analysis (SEA) Lab, CEOAS, Oregon State University

Living With Non-stationary Climate Change: Risk Management for Social-Ecological Resilience

Thursday, April 8, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Ryan Mueller, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University

Partitioning of Phytoplankton Organic Matter by the Marine Microbial Loop

Thursday, April 1, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Solène Derville, GEMM lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University

Combining aerial and boat-based surveys to model large whale habitat year-round in Oregon (OPAL project)

Thursday, March 25, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Samreen Siddiqui, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brander Lab, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station (COMES) at Oregon State University

Contaminants of emerging concern in surface water (including marine or coastal) ecosystems with possible climate change impacts

Thursday, March 18, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Zoe Almeida, Postdoctoral Scholar, COMES, Oregon State University

Legacies of early-life experiences on individual, cohort, and population performance of Lake Erie Walleye

Thursday, March 11, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jack Barth, Marine Studies Initiative, Oregon State University

The Western Flyer Rises Again: The Iconic Vessel of Steinbeck and Ricketts Fame

Wednesday, March 11, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Stephen Pacella, Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch, US EPA Office of Research and Development

Observations and drivers of coastal acidification in Pacific Northwest estuaries

Thursday, March 4, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Shawn Rowe, College of Education, Oregon State University

Public Science Communication in a Virtual World: Honing your story for virtual tours, exhibits and talks

Thursday, February 25, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Lindsay Aylesworth, Research Project Leader, Marine Reserves Program, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Taking a Deeper Dive: The ODFW Marine Reserves Data Dashboard

Thursday, February 18, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap- Charlie Plybon, Michael Moses and Andy Lanier, Rocky Habitat Working Group

Life on the Rocks: Updating Oregon's Rocky Habitat Strategy

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Samuel Starko, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow University of Victoria

Kelp forests in a changing ocean

Thursday, February 11, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

David Thomson, Restoration Specialists, USFWS Ecological Services, the Siuslaw NF & Oregon Coast NWRC

Learning by Watching the Grass Grow. Lessons from a decade of applied restoration research.

Thursday, February 4, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Robin W. Baird, Cascadia Research Collective

Science and management of an endangered species: false killer whales around the main Hawaiian Islands

Thursday, January 28, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

John Durban, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University and Senior Scientist, North Gulf Oceanic Society

Survival of the fattest: integrating photogrammetry measures of health into population assessments for killer whales- Video Pending

Thursday, January 21, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Lunch and Learn: Laura Ireland, Director of the Lincoln County Animal Shelter

Post Disaster Animal Care

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Sylvia Yamada, Dept of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University

European Green Crabs in Oregon: are they now established?

Thursday, January 12, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap: Sara Hamilton, Dept of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University

Going, Going.... Gone? Conservation outlook for the Sunflower Star

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

2020

Daniel Gomez-Uchida Associate Professor, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, , Universidad de Concepción Concepción, Chile

Identifying knowledge gaps and key management goals associated with salmonid invasions in Chile

Thursday, December 17, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

M. Renee Bellinger, Hawai'i Cooperative Studies Unit, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Hilo

From here to there and back again: how do animals know their way?- video pending

Thursday, December 10, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Eric Archer, Leader Marine Mammal Genetics Program, Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Making lemons out of lemonade: Sorting out the taxonomy of South Asian river dolphins (Platanista spp.) from multiple lines of evidence.

Thursday, December 3, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Bob Cowen, Mark Farley, Cinamon Moffett and Jim Lewis, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University

Ramp up the Safety: Learn about the life safety features of the new vertical evacuation building in Newport Oregon

Thursday, November 19, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jess Hopf, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Oregon State University

Marine protected areas in a dynamic and changing world

Thursday, November 19, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Bill Chadwick, CIMRS, Oregon State University

When will Axial Seamount erupt next?

Thursday, November 12, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jasmin Grahm, MarSci_LACE Grant Project Coordinator at Mote Marine Lab

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Bizarre Chondrichthyans

Thursday, November 5, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Christa Colway and Kate Richerson, Observer Program, NOAA

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center Observer Program: What is it and how does it work?

Thursday, October 29, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Mike Behrenfeld, Professor, Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University

Building toward a new Lidar Era in satellite oceanography

Thursday, October 22, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap: Bob Pitman, Marine Mammal Institute, HMSC, OSU

The Family That Preys Together: Killer Whale Studies in Antarctic Waters

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

HMSC Research Summit

Plenary Speakers and Rapid Talks

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Rachael Orben, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, MMI Affiliate Faculty, Oregon State University

Developing and employing biologging tags to sample the seabird’s ocean environment.

Thursday, October 15, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Alex Davis, PhD, Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Developing spatially explicit tools to minimize costs and maximize the benefits of ongoing marine invasive species control

Thursday, October 1, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Eric Wade, Ph.D. Candidate, Fisheries Science, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University

Fishing Under Risk and Uncertainty: Unlocking the Motivations and Drivers of Fishing Strategy Decisions in the Caribbean

Thursday, September 24, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Kami Ellingson, Watershed Program Manager, Forest Service, Siuslaw National Forest

Valuing Water: Learning from the past to add resilience to our future

Thursday, September 10, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Carmel Finley, Historian of Science, Oregon State University

Bell Shimada's Journey, 1922-1958

Thursday, August 27, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science in Tap: Julia Parrish, Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Associate Dean, College of the Environment, University of Washington

COVID Clouds and Silver Linings: The Value of Citizen Science in a Pandemic

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Diana Melville, PhD Student & Eric Mijts, Faculty, University of Aruba

Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in Small Island States through Science and Technology Research and Education

Thursday, August 13, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Laurie Weitkamp, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

All things lamprey: biology, conservation, and brand new information on Pacific lamprey marine ecology

Thursday, August 6, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Kiva Oken, Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis

Implications of ecological and technical interactions among fish populations in the California Current and across the Northern Hemisphere

Thursday, July 23, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap: Sheanna Steingass, Marine Mammal Program Leader, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Courtesy Faculty, OSU Fisheries and Wildlife

Science on Ice: Humans, walrus, and the health of communities in a changing Arctic

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Athena Rycyk, Assistant Professor of Biology and Marine Science at New College of Florida

Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) Hearing and Boat Collisions: Integration of Laboratory and Field Studies

Thursday, July 16, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Fabio Prior Caltabellotta, Postdoctoral Research Associate, COMES, Oregon State University

Life history of elasmobranch fishes: How can we inform data-deficient species?

Thursday, July 9, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Dan Ovando, Postdoc, University of Washington

Assessing the Population-level Conservation Effects of Marine Protected Areas

Thursday, July 2, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap: Angee Doerr, Extension Marine Fisheries Specialist, Oregon Sea Grant

Walking the Docks, Virtually

Thursday, June 25, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Rebecca Mostow, NSF Graduate Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University

A new kid on the dune: the unlikely hybridization between two non-native beachgrass species in the Pacific Northwest.

Thursday, June 25, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Mary Hunsicker (NWFSC) and Ben Laurel (AFSC), NOAA

Decadal changes in habitat suitability for Pacific cod larvae in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska

Thursday, June 18, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Kyle Neumann – PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara

The influence of terrestrial runoff on the health of reefs around Mo’orea, French Polynesia, and how doing things the hard way inspired the development of new research tools.

Thursday, June 11, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Craig Norrie, Postdoc Scholar, COMES, Oregon State University

Mussels, models, and microchemistry: Can larval spill-over from aquaculture assist with bivalve restoration efforts?

Thursday, June 4, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Caren Braby, ODFW, Kelly Corbett, ODFW, Amanda Gladics OR Sea Grant, and Leigh Torres, MMI OSU

Collaborative assessment of whale overlap with fishing gear informs fishery regulations in Oregon

Thursday, May 28, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Gordon Kruse, Professor Emeritus, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau, Alaska

Developing a placed-based participatory Integrated Ecosystem Assessment framework for coastal communities in the Gulf of Alaska

Thursday, May 21, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Science on Tap: Taylor Chapple, Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, COMES, Oregon State University

Who is JAWS? Separating Fact from Fiction

Thursday, May 19, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jessica Garzke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pelagic Ecosystem Lab, University of British Columbia

Running the trophic gauntlet – regional oceanographic variability drives growth and condition of juvenile sockeye salmon

Thursday, May 14, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Laurie Weitkamp, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA

Winter ecology of Pacific Salmon on the high sea: past, present, and future research

Thursday, March 19, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Dan Bottom, formally with NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Newport, OR

Reconnecting Estuarine Wetlands and Salmon Life Histories

Thursday, March 12, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Ed Dever, Ocean Observatories Initiative Endurance Array, CEOAS, Oregon State University

How to Access Multidisciplinary Time Series Data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative

Thursday, March 5, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Liz Perotti- Shellfish Program Assistant Project Leader, Marine Resources Program of ODFW, Newport & Pacific Estuarine Research Society President

Pacific Estuarine Research Society 2020: Science in the Face of Changing Ocean Conditions

Thursday, February 27, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Christopher Costello, Director and Sustainable Fisheries Group Co-Director, Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab), Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

New institutions for marine conservation

Thursday, February 20, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Taylor Chapple, Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, COMES, Oregon State University

Understanding the Coastal Behaviors of White Sharks

Thursday, February 13, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor of Biology Emeritus at the University of Montana

Population Genomics: Do We Still Need Theory? Yes.

Thursday, February 6, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Leif Rasmuson, Marine Fishery Research Project Leader, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife

Biology and ecology of the newly (relatively) described Deacon Rockfish

Thursday, January 23, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Sarah Henkel, Associate Professor, Sr. Research, HMSC, Oregon State University

Tracking crabs: A highly collaborative scientific and law enforcement adventure

Thursday, January 16, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Rick Brodeur, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Hatfield Marine Science Center

Causes and consequences of the great pyrosome bloom in the Northern California Current

Thursday, January 9, 2020 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

2019

M. Tim Tinker- Research Wildlife Biologist and Adjunct Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology with the University of California, Santa Cruz

The rise and fall of sea otter populations: a question of scale

Thursday, December 19, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Carla Schubiger, Assistant Professor Senior Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University

Aquaculture & the One Health Paradigm

Thursday, December 12, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Shawn Rowe, Associate Professor, Science and Mathematics Education, OSU

The Promise and Realities of the Use of Cyber Technologies for Promoting Research in Public STEM Museum Experiences

Thursday, December 5, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Alana Alexander, Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Otago

Ecological time-traveling via molecular ecology

Thursday, November 21, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jim Rivers, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, College of Forestry, Oregon State University

Uncovering the hidden world of a secretive seabird

Thursday, November 7, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Adam Kent, Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Advancement, interim Director, W.M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Mass Spectrometry CEAS, OSU

What will Oregon’s next volcanic eruption look like?

Thursday, October 31, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Felix Vaux, Postdoctoral Research Associate, State Fisheries Genetics Lab, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University

Population structure in a highly migratory species, albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga)

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Laura Brophy, Director, Institute for Applied Ecology

Insights into estuary habitat loss in the western United States using a new method for mapping maximum extent of tidal wetlands

Thursday, October 24, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Steven Dundas, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, COMES, OSU

Hold the Line: Modeling private coastal adaptation through shoreline armoring decisions

Thursday, October 17, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Will White, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, COMES, Oregon State University

Linking models and data for adaptive management of Marine Protected Areas

Thursday, October 10, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Robert Ellis, Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK

Creating the Right Environment for an Aquaculture Dominated Future

Thursday, August 1, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Angee Doerr, Assistant Professor of Practice, OSU Extension Service, Oregon Sea Grant

Fishing for Community: Fisheries as Social-Ecological Systems

Thursday, July 25, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jack Barth, Executive Director, Marine Studies Initiative Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

Watching Beneath the Waves: Ocean Observing in the Northern California Current

Thursday, July 18, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Laurie Weitkamp, NOAA NWFSC Fisheries Biologist

The saga continues: ocean conditions and biological response in the NE Pacific Ocean since the Blob

Thursday, July 11, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Kreg Lindberg, Oregon State University – Cascades Campus, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society

Heterogeneity in coast resident preferences for, and in the well-being effects of, marine and forest reserve designation

Friday, June 13, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Matthew S. Edwards, Department of Biology, San Diego State University

Changes in Benthic Diversity and Ecosystem Production Following Widespread Kelp Loss in the Aleutian Archipelago

Thursday, June 6, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Brad Pettinger, Commercial Fisherman & PFMC Council Member Pacific Fishery Management Council

An industry perspective on West Coast groundfish or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Stock Synthesis

Thursday, May 30, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Nancy Steinberg, Science Communicator Research Publishing & Outreach, Oregon State University | College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

The Newport Hydrographic Line: Sixty years of learning from an imaginary line in Oregon’s ocean

Thursday, May 2, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Trevor Branch, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

The near eradication of blue whales, and their globally variable recovery

Thursday, March 21, 2019 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

2018

Shawn Rowe, College of Education, OSU

CERM 2018- Building Better Scientific Posters

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Ryan Tucker Jones, Associate Professor of History at University of Oregon

The Discovery of Extinction: Russians, Scientists, Sea Cows, and Sea Otters in the Fur-Trade North Pacific

Thursday, October 11, 2018 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Professor Dr. Konrad Ott from the University of Kiel, Germany

Ocean Ethics, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 and the Kiel Approach to Sustainability

Thursday, October 4, 2018 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Susanne Brander, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, OSU

From the benchtop to the beach: Assessing responses to environmental stress in marine and estuarine organisms

Thursday, February 22, 2018 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

2017

Aaron Galloway, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon

Combining traditional and novel approaches for observing trophic relationships in nearshore subtidal coastal zones

Thursday, December 7, 2017 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

David Sampson, Professor of Fisheries with COMES and the Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU

Changing perceptions of our West Coast stocks of groundfish

Thursday, September 21, 2017| OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Dawn Barlow, MSc Student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Marine Mammal Institute and Dr. Rachael Orben, Research Associate, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Documentation of a New Zealand blue whale population using multiple data sources. Ontogenetic changes in at-sea distributions of immature short-tailed albatrosses.

Thursday, August 17, 2017| OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Dan Cox, Civil & Construction Engineering, OSU and Lori Cramer, School of Public Policy, OSU

Comparing nearfield tsunami evacuation simulations with observations from an evacuation drill in south Newport, Oregon

Thursday, June 1, 2017 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

José R. Marín Jarrín, PhD Senior Fisheries Ecologist and Interim Science Coordinator Charles Darwin Foundation Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador

Marine Science Day Plenary: From Hatfield to the Charles Darwin Foundation: the importance of student research experiences

Saturday, April 8, 2017 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

José R. Marín Jarrín, PhD Senior Fisheries Ecologist and Interim Science Coordinator Charles Darwin Foundation Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador

Ecology, evaluation and management of Galapagos artisanal fisheries: steps towards sustainability

Thursday, April 6, 2017 | OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center

Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Director of OSU Environmental Arts and Humanities