Marine Studies Initiative

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College of Agricultural Sciences

• Food From the Sea
• Sustainable Aquaculture graduate certificate
• Joint OSU-NOAA “Ocean Ecologist” faculty hire
• Ocean Stewards of Today and Tomorrow-  Taylor Chapple
• Ocean11- Collection Tours 
• Advancement Award
  • Looking through the lens: Combing community science and photography to gain insight on the diets of tufted puffins and other marine birds on the Oregon Coast- Rachael Orben
  • Incorporating Indigenous Youth into Knowledge of Apex Predator Ecology- Jessica Shulte
• MMI-MSI supported hires 
• Eder Family Dungeness Crab Research Fund:
  • Researching to improve our ability to forecast landings based on pre-season crab surveys, improving the economic health of the fishery- Will White, Sarah Henkel, and Francis Chan

  • Observing the presence of harmful algae on Heceta Bank, Oregon and its relation with domoic acid- Xiuning Du

• OSU Provost MSI faculty hire- Marine and Coastal Economics and Ecosystems, Steve Dundas

• MSI partner faculty hire:

  • Marine Pollution, Susanne Brander

  • Shark Ecologist, Taylor Chapple

  • Cetacean Ecologist, Mauricio Cantor

  • Cetacean Ecologist, Kate Stafford 

• Courses at the Coast:

  • Seminar: Marine Science (FW 407)

  • Natural History of Whales and Whaling (FW 419)

  • Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (FW 426/526)

  • Marine Conservation Biology (FW 464)

  • Methods in Physiology and Behavior of Marine Megafauna (FW 469/569)

  • Introduction to Marine Life in the Sea: Marine Birds and Mammals (FW 113)

  • Biology and Conservation of Marine Mammals (FW 302)

  • Phycology (BOT 417/517)

  • Food From the Sea (FW 324)

  • Field Techniques for Marine Mammal Conservation (FW 301)

  • Ecology of Marine and Estuarine Birds (FW 331)