Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher - Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University
Specialty: Theoretical Ecology
Research Interests: My research interests embrace a vast array of topics in theoretical ecology and include modeling of biological systems and processes, spatial and temporal population and community dynamics, ecosystem ecology and evolutionary biology. My current projects focus on population dynamics of commercially exploited fish species in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and fisheries stock assessment, with the ultimate goal to improve current assessment techniques. I am exploring how environmental variability affects fish spatial dynamics and how we can incorporate fish behavior and distribution into stock assessment methods. I am also developing a stock assessment for the Longnose skate, Raja rhina.
FW320 Introductory Population Dynamics
FW499/599 Stock Assessment Species Topics course
Degrees:
1997 BS & MS (Magna Cum Laude), Biology & Scientific Education, Yaroslavl State University, Russia
2000 MS, Environmental Sciences & Policy, University of Manchester, UK/Central European Unversity, Hungary
2002 PhD, Forest Resources, Clemson University, USA
Personal Interests: Music (jazz, blues, rock music), sports, detective stories
