Current research group
- Dr. Matt Kaylor, postdoctoral researcher
Matt is funded by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission to explore factors influencing the growth rates of age-0 Chinook Salmon in the Grand Ronde Basin, Oregon. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Seth White.
- Hannah Barrett, graduate student
Hannah is an NSF fellow and NW CASC fellow studying how coastal cutthroat trout integrate across riverscape level patterns of habitat heterogeneity in the Willamette Basin. She is especially interested in how fish exploit dynamic floodplain habitat features such as coldwater alcoves, and how they balance trade-offs between temperature and dissolved oxygen. This work is funded by the USGS NW CASC and is in collaboration with Stan Gregory, Randy Wildman, Joe Ebersole and others.
- Megan Brady, graduate student
Megan is an NSF fellow studying how invasive plants affect terrestrial subsidies to streams and the seasonal foraging opportunities of salmonids. Megan is working in tributaries of the Hood Canal, Washington. A portion of Megan’s research is funded by the Puget Sound Angler’s Club.
- Patrick Carilli, graduate student
Patrick is an NSF fellow with a background in physiological ecology. Patrick is evaluating the effects of multiple stressors (temperature and oxygen) on the growth of juvenile lamprey and linking experimental results to patterns of water quality in the wild. Patrick is also a member of the Heppel Lab.
- Nick Hahlbeck, graduate student
Nick studies the seasonal movements of redband trout in the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon. In collaboration with ODFW, Nick is radio-tracking these uniquely large-bodied fish to document their movements and understand how they link together complimentary habitats spread across a large riverscape. Nick is supported by the USGS NW CASC. Trout Unlimited, The Klamath Tribes, and The Wild Salmon Center are partners on this project.
- Jeremy Jennings, graduate student
Jeremy is studying the effects of Stage-zero restoration on the food web productivity of the South Fork McKenzie River. This work is funded by the US Forest Service and is in collaboration with Dr. Ryan Bellmore and others.
- Jordan Ortega, graduate student
Jordan is an NSF fellow studying redband trout and endemic lamprey in the Upper Klamath Basin in collaboration with ODFW and The Klamath Tribes. Jordan’s undergraduate research explored how thermal refuge use by adult redband trout correlated with levels of lamprey parasitism. Jordan’s graduate work is elucidating life-histories of Klamath redband trout and how they relate to landscape heterogeneity in hydrology. Follow Jordan’s adventures on Instagram.
- Logan Breshears, graduate student
Logan is an ODFW biologist using acoustic telemetry to track migration patterns of adult steelhead in the John Day and Columbia Rivers. He is tracking tagged fish to reveal how they use thermal refuges along migration routes and to better understand why a fraction of the population strays upriver before returning to their natal river basin. His research is co-supervised by Guillermo Giannico and Ian Tatum.
- Shahnie Lynn Clark, undergraduate intern
Shahnie Lynn is a Klamath Tribes member funded by the Klamath Tribes and the OSU College of Agriculture to assist with research on redband trout.
- Nathan Edwards, undergraduate
Nathan assists with cutthroat trout and Pacific lamprey research projects on the Willamette River and is a Ford Foundation Scholar. Nathan’s independent research is characterizing size-at-age in cutthroat trout using otoliths.
Recent lab members
- Dr. Will Deacy, postdoctoral researcher (now an ecologist for the National Park Service in Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Dr. David Crook, visiting Fulbright Scholar and Dr. Alison King, visiting scholar
- Brittany Beebe, Master’s thesis: Evaluating Fish Rescue as a Drought Adaptation Strategy for Imperiled Coho Salmon: A Life-Cycle Modeling Approach, R-Shiny Application
- Bastiaan van Ravenhorst, visiting graduate student
