Lab Group

PELAGIC ECOLOGY LAB
Despite the apparent variety of the ongoing research projects in my lab, all of our research aims to understand the role of spatial and temporal patterns in ecological processes at spatial scales ranging from sub-meter to hundreds of kilometers, at temporal scales of minutes to years, and over a range of animal size from zooplankton to great whales.

Current Research Projects
	Factors Influencing the Acoustic Behavior and Nearsore Residence of the Gray Whale Along Their Migration Route
		Office of Naval Research Collaborators: Timothy Cowles & Dave Mellinger

	Physiological limits to vertical migrations of the pelagic, jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas, in the Gulf of California
		National Science Foundation Collaborators: William Gilly & Brad Seibel

	Patch Dynamics of Forage Fish
		Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program North Pacific Research Board Collaborator: Scott Heppell See NPRB's website for this program or our post-cruise update

	ROV-based System for Sampling Planktonic Thin Layers
		National Science Foundation Collaborators: Timothy Cowles & Mark Benfield

	Jumbo squid in the Gulf of California
		Packard Foundation Collaborator: William Gilly
		Read an article from NSF's LiveScience and OSU's Terra Magazine on this research

	Predator effects on dense zooplankton aggregations in the coastal ocean
		Young Investigator Program Office of Naval Research


Recently Completed Research Projects

	Novel acoustic techniques to measure schooling in pelagic fish in the context of an operational coastal ocean observatory
		National Oceanographic Partnership Program Collaborators: Oscar Schofield, Chris Jones, Simrad USA

	A novel technique to detect epipelagic fish and map their habitat
		National Oceanographic Partnership Program Collaborators: James Churnside, Evelyn Brown, John Horne

	Factors Influencing the Nearshore, Sound-Scattering Layer in Hawaiian Waters
		Office of Naval Research Collaborator: Margaret McManus

	The way to a whale’s habitat is through his stomach: Adding prey to sperm whale assessment
		Oregon State University Research Council Minerals Management Service Sperm Whale Seismic Study Collaborators: Bruce Mate, Ann Jochens, Doug Biggs, Aaron Thode

	Dusky dolphin foraging ecology
		National Geographic Foundation Collaborators: Bernd Wursig & Adrian Dahood