Faculty

I support research endeavors through the OSU Marine Team, instruct several courses and assist in departmental operations.

My past research has included work on cephalopod population dynamics, behavior and neurobiology.

I integrate animal behavior, physiology, and landscape ecology to better understand how fish and wildlife interact with their environment. My research employs observational study, field experiments, and simulation modeling.

Our research focuses on the pathogens that affect the health of wild Pacific salmon populations, particularly myxozoan parasites, which have a complex life cycle, requiring both a fish and annelid host.

Salmon diseases, host resistance mechanisms, parasite evolution.

Current research interests include

•land-ocean interactions and human influences on coastal water quality and biodiversity (including climate impacts, and land-based pollution)

• Restoring wetland and riparian areas to proper functioning condition, primarily in eastern Oregon.
• Improving communication among all stakeholders to ensure effective natural resource management.
• Helping students understand the right way to restore ecosystems and communicate e

Evaluating population level responses of gallinaceous birds to large scale conservation effort and/or habitat perturbations, whether they be natural (e.g., wildfire) or anthropogenic. 

Research Areas: Marine ecology, fisheries science, otolith chemistry, mixing and migration, early life history

Research Areas: Fisheries genetics and genomics, fisheries conservation and management.

My research has focused primarily on the ecology of animal and plant interactions, particularly trophic cascade effects involving large herbivores and top predators

Behavioral Ecology, Herpetology, Introduced Species

I teach the Ecampus sections of the FWCS Human Dimensions courses. I also practice and research fisheries communication and social science. I use both to understand the social impacts of fisheries management and engage in the challenging conversations they can create.

I study the impacts of anthropogenic activities (e.g. eutrophication, climate change, overfishing, invasive species) on the functioning of marine benthic communities.

Modeling of fish distributions and population dynamics, juvenile salmonid ecology, climate impacts to freshwater biodiversity, and fisheries as a social ecological system.

My research interests are on the ecology and management of birds with a particular focus on rare and uncommon raptors and passerines in managed landscapes.

Systematics of fishes, zoogeography of northwest fishes, endangered species recovery, early life history ecology of fishes, and ichthyology.