Graduate Student Research Topics

Current Students

Name	Thesis	Advisor
Gavin B. Bandy	A Technique to Calibrate eDNA Surveys for Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)	Andrew Kinziger
Olivia Boeberitz		Olivia Boeberitz
Noah Gabay	Redtail and Silver Surfperch in Mendocino and Humboldt county MPAs in Sandy Beach Surf Zones	Jose Marin Jarrin
Dylan J. Keel	Quantification of the variability of Ceratonova shasta DNA concentrations in Klamath River water samples	Andrew Kinziger
Daniel Montoya	Collaborating with Tribal Partners to Co-produce Knowledge on Surf Smelt Populations Across Humboldt and Del Norte County	Jose Marin Jarrin
Sarah Moreau	Factors that attract Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, to fixed fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Galapagos Islands	Jose Marin Jarrin
Lily Olmo	Using fish to study the trophic food chain of artificial wetlands in the Arcata Marsh, CA	Jose Marin Jarrin
Aris Ownsbey	Beyond response ratios: Analyzing fish population trends in California Marine Protected Areas and reference sites across species mobility categories	Andre Buchheister

Past Students

Name	Thesis	Graduation Year	Advisor
Claire Stuart	Environmental and spatial drivers of Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger) growth in the northeast Pacific Ocean from California to Alaska	2025	Andre Buchheister
Noah Angell	Describing Population Status of Redtail Surfperch and Silver Surfperch in Sandy Beach Surf Zones in Northern California Including Marine Protected Areas	2024	Jose Marin Jarrin
Alex Juan	Evaluating the Use of a Trojan Y Chromosome Strategy to Eradicate Invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow in the Eel River to Aid Recovery of Threatened Salmonids	2024	Andre Buchheister
Natasha Ficzycz	Inferring exposure to harmful pseudo-nitzschia blooms from ocean-to-estuary gradients in domoic acid concentrations in Humboldt Bay bivalves	2023	Eric Bjorkstedt
Braden Herman	Use of foreign eDNA tracers to resolve site- and time-specific eDNA distributions in natural streams	2023	Eric Bjorkstedt
Z Zenobia	Status of Spirinchus starksi (Night Smelt) in Northern California in 2021	2023	Jose Marin Jarrin
Leon Davis	Assessing abundance, presence, and length, and marine protected area effectiveness for three key rocky reef species along the Northern California Coast	2022	Andre Buchheister
Jason Shaffer	Comparing environmental DNA and snorkel surveys to determine the spatial distribution of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Smith River Basin, California	2022	Andre Buchheister
Katie Terhaar	Sandy Beach Surf zone Fish Communities and Marine Protected Areas in Northern California	2022	Jose Marin Jarrin
Max Grezlik	Evaluating the effects of Atlantic Menhaden management and environmental change on the Northwest Atlantic Ocean Ecosystem	2021	Andre Buchheister
Doyle J. Coyne	Comparison of standard and environmental DNA methods for estimating Chinook salmon smolt abundance in the Klamath River, California	2021	Andrew Kinziger
Christopher O'Keefe	Do beaver dam analogues act as passage barriers to juvenile coho salmon and juvenile steelhead trout?	2021	Darren Ward
Roxanne Robertson	Resolving variability in size structure in an individual-based model for the North Pacific krill, Euphausia pacifica	2021	Eric Bjorkstedt
Blair Winnacott	Response of coastal ichthyoplankton assemblages off northern California to seasonal oceanographic and climate variability	2021	Eric Bjorkstedt
Madison Halloran	Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) dispersal and life history variations among Humboldt Bay watersheds	2020	Darren Ward
Nissa Kreidler	Species distribution models for three deep-sea coral and sponge taxa in the southern California Bight	2020	Andre Buchheister
Steven R. Fong	Spatial and temporal genetic structure of winter-run steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) returning to the Mad River, California	2020	Andrew Kinziger
Max Ramos	Recolonization potential for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in tributaries to the Klamath River after dam removal	2020	Darren Ward
Grace Ghrist	Freshwater and marine survival of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) as a function of juvenile life history	2019	Darren Ward
Chad M. Martel	Using environmental DNA and occupancy modeling to estimate rangewide metapopulation dynamics of the endangered tidewater goby eucyclogobius spp.	2019	Andrew Kinziger
Laura Solinger	Spatial variability in recruitment of Chilipepper rockfish (sebastes goodei) in the California current system	2019	Eric Bjorkstedt
Cori Flannery	The effects of ocean acidification and reduced oxygen on the behavior and physiology of juvenile rockfish	2018	Eric Bjorkstedt
Kevin Hinterman	Baseline monitoring and characterization of rocky intertidal fish communities in Northern California	2018	Andrew Kinziger
Keith Parker	Evidence for the genetic basis and inheritance of ocean and river-maturing ecotypes of Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) in the Klamath River, California.	2018	Andrew Kinziger
Michael Sutter	Rangewide tidewater goby occupancy survey using environmental DNA	2018	Andrew Kinziger
Justin Alvarez	Abundance, growth and predation by non-native brown trout in the Trinity River, CA	2017	Darren Ward
Gabriel Scheer	A population model for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in Freshwater Creek: Evaluating the effects of life history variation and habitat restoration	2017	Darren Ward
Molly Gorman	Juvenile survival and adult return as a function of freshwater rearing life history for Coho Salmon in the Klamath River basin	2016	Darren Ward
Michelle Krall	The influence of habitat characteristics on abundance and growth of juvenile Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in constructed habitats in the middle Klamath River basin	2016	Darren Ward
Ryann Whitemore	Evaluation of parameter estimation and field application of transgenerational genetic mark-recapture	2016	Andrew Kinziger
Sean Cochran	Marine survival of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) from small coastal watersheds in Northern California	2015	Darren Ward
Conrad Newell	Development of captive culture methods for the endangered tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi)	2015	Andrew Kinziger
Molly Schmelzle	Monitoring endangered tidewater goby using environmental DNA in water samples	2015	Andrew Kinziger
Kathryn Crane	Environmental effects on growth of early life history stages of rockfishes (Sebastes) off Central California based on analysis of otolith growth patterns.	2014	Eric Bjorkstedt
Christine Roddam	Residency, growth, and outmigration size of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), across rearing locations in the Shasta River, California	2014	Darren Ward
Jesse Wiesenfeld	Riverscape genetics identifies cryptic lineages of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) in the Klamath-Trinity basin	2014	Andrew Kinziger

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