Completed Research
Living Marine Ecosystems
- Developing Genomic Biomarkers for Assessing Fish Reproductive Health (Young)
- Populations and Spatial Dynamics of Endangered Baleen Whales in the North Pacific (VanBlaricom)
- Geochemical and Ecological Consequences of Disturbances Associated with Geoduck Aquaculture Operations in Washington (VanBlaricom)
- Cultured-Wild Geoduck Interactions (Friedman)
- Resilience of Soft-Sediment Communities after Geoduck Harvest in Samish Bay, Washington (Ruesink)
- Climate-Change Effects on Steelhead in North Pacific Marine Ecosystems (Myers)
- Non-Invasive Physiological Monitoring of Southern Resident Killer Whales (Wasser)
- Recovery and Performance of Complex Marine Exopolymers in the Cold (Deming)
- Evaluating Stock Assessment Methods and Management Strategies for Spatially Heterogeneous Fish Stocks (Hilborn)
- Evaluating Pacific Groundfish Schooling Behavior and Untrawlable Refuges Using Multi-Species Mixture Models and Data from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Punt)
- Estimating Population Growth and Interspecies Interaction Parameters with Spatial Replication (Ruesink)
- An Individual-Based, Quantitative Genetic Model for Investigating Local Adaptation and Population Viability in Connected Populations of Sockeye Salmon (Hauser)
- Glass Sponge Reef Habitat in the Pacific Northwest (Johnson)
- Environmental Time Series in Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Models (Brandon)
- Re-colonization of the Upper Cedar River by Anadromous Salmonids (Quinn)
- Evaluation of the Impact of Marine Protected Areas on Stock Assessment-Based Fisheries Management (Punt)
- A Spatially Explicit, Multi-Species Assessment of Bering Sea Walleye Pollock (Murphy
- Larval Rockfish Dispersal Rates from Oceanography, Genetics, and Otolith Markers (Hauser)
- Culturing Native Marine Shellfish: Effect of Geoduck Life History Parameters on Sustainability (Friedman)
- Pilot-scale Assessment of a Water Depuration Process for Vibrio in Gulf Coast Oysters (Cheney)
- Understanding Pathogenesis and Transmission Dynamics of Oyster Herpes Virus (Friedman)
- Tools to Remediate Summer Mortality Disease Losses in Pacific Oysters (Friedman)
- Locating the Genomic Regions Underlying Adaptive Divergence in Chinook Salmon Life History Traits (Naish)
Ocean and Coastal Environmental Health
- HAB Formation by a Motile Alga in Dynamic Estuarine Environments (Grunbaum)
- Slick-forming Algae: Growth, Genetics and Toxicity (Cattolico)
- Scales of Residence-Time Variation in Northwest Estuaries (Ruesink)
- Effect of Salmon Omega-3 Fatty Acids on PBDE Toxicity (Gallagher)
- Use of F+ RNA Coliphage to Determine Fecal Source Type in Oakland Bay (Meschke)
- Habitat Modification Due to Sediment Gravity Flows: Elwha Dam Removal Baseline Study (Ogston)
- Puget Sound Ambient Noise and its Relation to the Ecology of Marine Mammals (Dahl)
- Integrating Intertidal Habitat Into Seattle Waterfront Seawalls (Simenstad)
- Context-Dependent Impacts of an Invasive Predator on a Threatened Native Oyster (Ruesink)
- Optimizing the Effectiveness of a Biocontrol Agent Against Spartina Species in Washington (Grevstad)
- Novel DNA-based Larval Quantification Assay for Olympia Oysters (Friedman)
Changing Oceans and Coastal Communities
- Projections of Ocean Properties Along the Washington Coast Related to Environmental Health (Bond)
- Regional Marine Research and Information Plan for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
- Coastal Community Development (Granger)
Ocean Literacy and Workforce Capacity
- SoundCitizen: Students and Citizens Working Together to Evaluate Sources and Fates of Emerging Pollutants in Puget Sound (Keil)
- K-12 Watershed and Estuary Education Project (Stevens)
- New Models for Solving Future Policy and Management Challenges in the Nearshore and Estuarine Environments (Leschine)
- Understanding Lummi Perspectives of Marine Resource Management and Marine Protected Areas (Christie)