Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Our research focuses on the pathogens that affect the health of wild Pacific salmon populations, particularly myxozoan parasites, which have a complex life cycle, requiring both a fish and annelid host.

Salmon diseases, host resistance mechanisms, parasite evolution.

My research has focused on (1) the effects of agricultural and forestry land-use practices on stream and riparian habitats critical to native fish species, and (2) the development of land management practices that minimize degradation of stream and riparian functions important to aquatic species.

Current research interests include

•ecosystem-based management and the intersections of water and marine science and law and policy

•land-ocean interactions and human influences (including climate impacts, and pollution from land) on coastal water quality and biodiversity

My current research focuses on linking multiple values from diverse stakeholders to management actions to support more integrated conservation and restoration.

Fish ecology and conservation biology. Landscape ecology of aquatic ecosystems, conservation biology of focal species, ecology of natural disturbance, biological invasions, monitoring

Reproduction; Physiology

Clean Water Act Policy (esp. water quality standards)

I am interested in the ecology of early life stages of marine species and the constraints imposed by the environment. I am particularly interested in the pervasive influence on temperature variation on all aspects of physiology and ecology of ectotherms.

Presently the Kent lab is focusing on two major research areas; diseases of zebrafish in research facilities and impacts of pathogens on wild salmonid fishes. In both areas, we are focusing on the study of chronic infectious diseases.

Nutrition of oysters and other bivalves; microencapsulation; polyculture of abalone; genetic selection of oysters.

I am interested in the ecology and evolution of life history diversity in fishes and the development and maintenance of that diversity.  My research has focused on larval dispersal and transport, population connectivity and structure, and the use of estuaries by larval and juvenile marine and ana

Investigate how genetic and ecological factors interact to shape life history variation within and among populations of marine and freshwater fishes.

Bioeconomics, Population Dynamics, Stock Assessment Methods

I am researching the effect that climate change has on Pacific salmon.  Specifically, I statistically analyze how major climatic events (El Nino and La Nina) affect the respectively nutrient-rich and nutrient- poor oceanographic episodes (upwelling and downwelling).

My current research involves improving hatchery-origin fish to be more phenotypically similar to wild fish for tagging studies and reintroduction efforts.

I have broad research interests within the fields of aquatic ecology and fish ecology.  My current projects focus on (1) aquatic terrestrial linkages and the influence of riparian forest stand structure on stream ecosystem function; (2) Native trout distributions eastern Oregon and Northern Nevad

I study Pacific lamprey freshwater ecology