Laurie Yokoyama Becker
Senior Instructor
Research Interests:
Water resources politics; Environmental conflict management; Work on hydropolitical database with research team: Treaty coding, Hydropolitical assessment, Desk research on water resources international relations
Kristen Buck
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Analyze archived samples for Ni, Cu speciation • Model metal-ligand laboratory experiments • Characterize metals in biological particles • Assess metals in clays used for HAB mediation
Lorenzo Ciannelli
Professor
Research Interests:
Ecology of fish early life history stages; Mathematical and statistical modeling of species range shifts; Field research of juvenile and larval fish; Modeling dispersal of fish eggs and larvae; Spatial distribution across life history stages; Effect of climate on fisheries population and communities; Climate change and fisheries management
Rick Colwell
Professor
Research Interests:
Investigates microbes in earth and ocean systems. Specific opportunity: Looking at the relationship between thiamine deficiency in fish and microbial communities.
Ed Dever
Professor
Research Interests:
Ocean Observatories Initiative: Data, Cruises, Instrumentation; Long term NSF-funded Observatory; Multidisciplinary ocean/met time series; Moorings, gliders, profilers; Working with OOI Data; Preparing instruments and moorings
Emily Eidam
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Instrumentation construction and applications (water-level and turbidity monitoring) Sedimentology analyses
Erica Fleishman
Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Professor
Research Interests:
Climate science and its effects on natural and human systems in Oregon and the Northwest; ecological responses to environmental change in the Intermountain West and California; Climate science and its diverse applications, including environmental equity.
Jonathan Fram
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
We (Ocean Observatories Initiative) hire undergraduate students to help us refurbish moorings, profilers, and gliders that we deploy off the coast of Oregon and Washington as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Endurance Array.
Matthew Goslin
Instructor
Research Interests:
Topo-bathymetric channel surveys Riparian plant surveys Remote sensing of key species expansion Monitoring of river restoration projects using aerial imagery & field sampling
Brian Katz
Faculty Research Assistant
Research Interests:
Creating interactive data explorer maps • Creating story maps • Conducting social science with mapping tools • Predicting effects of multiple stressors on livelihoods • Collecting and analyzing Twitter data for research
Jim Lerczak
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Research Interests:
International, Cross-cultural, Undergraduate Research on Estuarine Health; Research in Yaquina Bay estuary (physical oceanography, biogeochemistry, habitat health).
Pieter-Ewald Share
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Geophysical field data acquisition Analysis of seismic array data Joint inversions of diverse data ML-based earthquake detection
Frank Sousa
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Field projects in Oregon • Bayesian Monte Carlo Markov Chain inverse modeling of geologic data • 3D micro tomography of crystals
Joe Stoner
Professor
Research Interests:
Magnetic measurements in the P-Mag Lab; Sediment separations: How does the whole compare with the parts?; Scanning XRF (elemental) and other analyses; Climate History of the Pacific Northwest; Using Marine and Lake Sedimentary Archives
Pamela Sullivan
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Ecohydrology; Interactions of climate, vegetation, & geology; Collecting & analyzing soils in Oregon and Idaho; Analyzing roots from across the US; Working with stream water data across the US
Andrew Thurber
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Antarctic Biology; PNW Deep-Sea Biology; Coral Reef Functioning; Deep-Sea Ecosystem Services.
Jamon Van Den Hoek
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
My current research addresses the need for better information on where vulnerable people live and what their needs are. I map refugee camps using satellite imagery, and use machine learning to find settlements that haven’t been documented yet.; There are many opportunities for undergraduates to get involved with our ongoing refugee camp and IDP (internally displaced person) settlement mapping research. It’s a global project (>60 countries) with thousands of sites involved! Example opportunities include: 1. Contributing to global crowdsourced mapping efforts to document locations, boundaries, and environmental conditions at refugee camps and IDP sites. Having this information will help us answer questions about how refugees use and affect the land in/around their camps or the extent to which IDPs grow food in areas near war zones. 2. Interpreting satellite imagery and other mapping products to identify whether refugee camps or IDP sites are even visible in the imagery. It’s very difficult to train a computer to do this since refugee camps and IDP sites vary in size and appearance country to country, and some sites may only be occupied for a few months at a time.
George Waldbusser
Professor
Research Interests:
Controls on oyster growth in Yaquina Bay Alkalinity cycling in tidal sediments Shell lifetime, degradation, endobionts
Aaron Wolf
Professor
Research Interests:
Water resources politics; Environmental conflict management; Work on hydropolitical database with research team: Treaty coding, Hydropolitical assessment, Desk research on water resources international relations