Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

I'm interested in diverse research topics related to applied ecology and wildlife conservation, especially in the desert ecosystems of the Southwestern United States. Much of my work to date focuses on understanding human...

Stream Ecology. Stream and riparian zone ecology, including impacts of land use practices and restoration; role of large wood in streams; salmonid ecology; stream community dynamics; environmental history using GIS & remote sensing; stable isotope tracer studies of nitrogen dynamics and...

I am a quantitative ecologist working at the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. I am broadly interested in how animals respond to environmental heterogeneity, and how this leads to variation in the distribution and abundance of species at...

Dave is a Senior Faculty Research Assistant in the Marine Fisheries Genetics Lab at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR. He received his Bachelors of Science from The University of Nevada, Reno. Dave manages the lab, collects and analyzes data, assists graduate students and interns...

Kim Nelson is a Research Wildlife Biologist in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University.  The current focus of her research is on the ecology and habitat associations of seabirds, specifically using modeling and habitat data to better understand and help resolve...