At the end of Wednesday’s meeting, Program Director Steve Brandt asked Extension and communications faculty to volunteer to work with Sea Grant-funded researchers over the next two years to help them develop and implement their outreach plans. Here are the projects, and their Sea Grant liaisons:

• A community-based framework for identifying, estimating and evaluating ecosystem services associated with Oregon’s proposed marine reserves (Harte, Sylvia and Heppell) – Flaxen Conway, Jeff Feldner
• Bioactive natural products from deep sea hydrothermal vent organisms (Zabriskie and McPhail) – Bill Hanshumaker, Sam Chan, Tracy Crews
• Response of marsh insects and benthic invertebrates to dike removal in the salmon river estuary: Follow-up, synthesis and education (Haberman and Baumgartner) – Nancee Hunter, Steve Roberts, Rob Emanuel, Frank Burris, Shawn Rowe
• A predictive approach to risk analysis and the economics of early detection and rapid response for aquatic invasive species (Gopinath, Harte and Chan) – Rob Emanuel, Frank Burris
• Nearshore wave predictions along the Oregon coast (Ozkan-Haller and Ruggiero) – Pat Corcoran, Eric Dickey
• Coastal effects of tsunamis (Yeh) – Pat Kight, Pat Corcoran, Eric Dickey
• Modeling Myxozoan disease in Pacific salmon: How will climate change affect parasite distribution and salmon survival? (Bartholomew) – Pat Kight, Megan Kleibacker, Sam Chan, Tim Miller-Morgan, Eric Dickey
• A cooperative effort to track the Humboldt squid invasion in Oregon (Heppell) – Bill Hanshumaker, Jamie Doyle, Shawn Rowe, Guillermo Giannico
• Drivers of ecosystem resilience: Toward a predictive understanding of hypoxia’s impact on near-shore fisheries (Chan, Milligan and Donnellan) – Jeff Feldner, Rob Emanuel
• Effect of Vibrio tubiashii on West Coast shellfish (Langdon and Hase) – Tim Miller-Morgan, Rob Emanuel
• Effects of hypoxia on ichtyoplankton and micronekton communities off the Oregon Coast (Cianelli and Brodeur) -  Bill Hanshumaker, Tracy Crews

Coastal Effects of Tsunamis

A cooperative effort to track the Humboldt squid invasion in Oregon