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While my research is across taxa, it focuses on understanding natural processes and how they respond to different disturbances.

 

 

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RESEARCH

The timeline of images below highlights the work I have done to date:

2017-2019

-Graduated, MS in Biology at WWU:

  • SPERM MOTILITY

  • CRYOPRESERVATION

2017-2019

SPERM MOTILITY

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Developed parameters specific to pinto abalone to allow for automated tracking of sperm motility using Computer Automated Sperm Analysis (CASA) software. This technique was used in my MS thesis work described below.

CRYOPRESERVATION

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I developed methods of cryopreservation for sperm of male pinto abalone for conservation aquaculture and is a continuation of my work with Puget Sound Restoration Fund. This work is outlined in my Master's Thesis.

Graduated Spring 2019. 

 

2014-2016

  • OCEAN ACIDIFICAITON

  • PINTO ABALONE RESTORATION

2014-2016

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

 

Worked with Paul McElhaney, PhD, NOAA NWFSC,and his lab to understand the effects of high CO2 conditions on economically and ecologically important species such as Dungeness crabs and pteropods. 

In this lab, we conducted species response experiments where organisms are grown in seawater with controlled CO2 conditions, ecosystem modeling to evaluate effects of acidification on the food web and field measurement linking biological patterns to ocean carbon chemistry.

PINTO ABALONE RESTORATION

 

I work for Puget Sound Restoration Fund, alongside a highly collaborative partnership, to restore native pinto abalone population in Washington State through conservation aquaculture.

I researched and implemented methods to improve the production of hatchery-reared abalone

I assisted in efforts to optimize outplant strategies of juvenile and larval abalone

2011-2014

  • MONITORING GROUNDFISH POPULATIONS IN AK

  • SURVEYING MPAs IN CA

2011-2014

NORTH COAST GROUNDFISH OBSERVER PROGRAM 

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Worked as an Observer to collect and record target species and bycatch in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to inform fisheries management

NORTH COAST BASELINE COORDINATOR

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Worked alongside the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) and ReefCheck California to monitor fish, kelp, and invertebrate species in and out of Marine Protected Areas.

EARLIER

  • TROPICAL ECOLOGY STUDIES

  • ELEPHANT SEAL FIELD WORK

Earlier work

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Studied the diversity of fish and invertebrate species and their association with sea urchin aggregations, Diadema mexicanum

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Assisted Daniel P. Costa's, Ph.D., at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to study Northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris, breeding rookeries and their response to short-term environmental warming effects.

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