ALIYA JAMIL
Aliya is a PhD student in the CEOAS Ocean Ecology & Biogeochemistry program at OSU. She is interested in how basin- and regional-scale ocean circulation patterns influence marine ecosystem structure and function. She is currently looking at how North Pacific Gyre circulation and coastal upwelling in the Northern California Current influence seascape boundaries and lower trophic level community structure over the shelf. The research utilizes remote sensing data to detect and track spatiotemporal variability of oceanic fronts and multivariate seascapes. She will also be analyzing the spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton size distribution as a means of tracking ecosystem responses to variability in coastal upwelling. When she’s not staring at a computer screen, Aliya enjoys exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest through hiking, backpacking, diving, and painting.
IAN BLACK
Ian is a graduate student seeking a PhD in the Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences program at Oregon State University. He is interested in open-source oceanography, big data, and developing tools that will engage and aid the next generation of scientists. For his first year, Ian was partly funded under the Link Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship to begin development of an open-source flow camera for capturing images of plankton in a low-cost format. A challenge of this project will be to incorporate computer vision and machine learning to enable the autonomous identification of objects of interest in association with environmental variables from nearby sources of data. In his free time, Ian enjoys the outdoors, tinkering, and walking around hardware stores.
ALEXANDER BAILESS
Alexander is a researcher and teacher studying how energy propagates in the marine environment. He received a BS in Biology and Earth Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he worked with the McCarthy and Kudela labs studying stable isotopes and phytoplankton. Upon graduation, he continued to study phytoplankton in the Cloern lab at U.S.G.S. and the Chavez lab at M.B.A.R.I. – where he began to study optics. Now at O.S.U., he continues to research phytoplankton-light interactions, as well as instrument development, and kelp forest ecology. If not in the lab you can catch him swimming, diving, or deep in the woods.
TAYLOR WOOD
Taylor is originally from Chicago but moved to the Oregon coast after graduating from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Zoology. Her work with the central coast conservation community led her to OSU to pursue a M.S. in Marine Resource Management. In the Seascape Ecology Lab, she is studying the dynamics of harmful algal blooms along the Oregon coast through a cooperative fisheries research network. Through collaboration with local fishing communities, she is working towards developing an early warning system for toxic blooms. Outside of the lab, you can find Taylor surfing local breaks, foraging in the Coast Range, and making stained glass art.
JAMON JORDAN
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