Current Graduate Students

The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife offers graduate work leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with majors in fisheries or wildlife science. The Department participates in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Natural Resource Management.

Students interested in marine conservation can choose to spend one term at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, an extended campus facility located in Newport, where we have courses emphasizing the marine environment.

"I like that my project has a balance between being outside in the field and inside working computer simulations; it is the best of both worlds."

I want to live a balanced, full life with my family and doing what I enjoy. Fishes are what I desire to know more about. I am interested in understanding individual fish condition, growth, mortality, immigration, and emigration and how individual changes affect an entire population. I will apply individual-based model simulations (inSTREAM modeling software) to ascertain how those populations will respond to changes in physical conditions, biotic conditions, land-use/land-cover (forestry management practices) and global climate change and the linkages or interactions between these responses. I will be working in experimental channels at the Alsea Hatchery to confirm results from model simulations and the field.

My research is part of a large watershed study on the Trask River watershed (Northern Oregon Coast Range) looking at changes in the aquatic environment at the watershed level. I will focus on coastal cutthroat trout in the headwater streams.

Brooke Penaluna, Ph.D. student
Jason Dunham's Lab

Attention Students!!

If you are a current graduate student in Fisheries & Wildlife and would like to have your project highlighted in the Current Graduate Student Highlights section, please submit a short description of your project, what you like best about it, and a picture or two of you performing activities related to your project. Send your submission via email to us at nancy.allen@oregonstate.edu.

Please visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) webpage for additional information.

The Departmental Graduate Student Guide is now available in PDF format for either downloading or viewing. This document spells out the guidelines that our graduate students adhere to.

Please visit the Fisheries and Wildlife Graduate Student Organization homepage.

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