Sajna Hussain

sajna.hussain@oregonstate.edu
I was born and brought up in Kerala situated on the southwest coast of India. I earned my Zoology Graduation and Post-Graduation degrees from Mahatma Gandhi University, followed by a PhD in Climate Change Impacts on Marine Fisheries from Mangalore University in India. Over a decade’s career, I held roles such as Senior Research Fellow in the National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (ICAR-CMFRI-NICRA), a Young Professional in the Food, Gender Equality, and Climate Impact project (ICAR-CIFT-University of Sterling) and as a Project Scientist at the Ministry of Earth Sciences – CMLRE, contributing to the Fishery Resources and Habitat Assessment project. All my previous works focused on climate change impacts on marine fisheries, ecosystems and societies. Currently, I’m a CICOES post-doc fellow at the Fishery Oceanography Lab, exploring size/stage specific distributional shifts of fish species in response to climate-induced Ecosystem changes through developing ontogenetic Species distribution models. My area of interest involves interdisciplinary research exploring the impacts of climate change on Marine Fishery and Ecology and understanding their broader implications in society through fishery resource management, enhancing resilience.

Faiçal Ounacer

ounacerf@oregonstate.edu
Born and raised in Agadir, Morocco, I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Biology and a Master’s in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. Currently, I am an associate scholar supported by the Fulbright Scholarship, jointly pursuing a PhD at Ibn Zohr University and Oregon State University. My research focuses on the impacts of upwelling on fish populations, with a particular emphasis on the Canary Current system. With a background in environmental engineering, I have worked on sustainable resource management and climate resilience initiatives. My work involves managing and analyzing data using R and Python, tools that help me explore environmental patterns and inform sustainable practices. I am committed to integrating research with practical approaches to enhance sustainable fisheries management.

Juan Gerardo Gutierrez Bravo

gutijuan@oregonstate.edu
I was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where I learned scuba diving at a young age and got interested in marine sciences. That inspired me to study a B.S. in Marine Biology in La Paz, Baja California Sur. During my studies, I was particularly interested in how seawater is full of microscopic organisms and how some of these tiny things eventually grow into the large marine animals that we care about so much, like fish, crab, and squid. Since then, my research has focused on the distribution of zooplankton and fish larvae in low-oxygen environments. While studying a M.S. at U. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, I incorporated isotopic techniques to infer what the fish and zooplankton eat. My research at OSU will focus on the diel and ontogenic vertical migrations of larvae and their relation to oxygen.

Haley Elizabeth Carlton

carltonh@oregonstate.edu
I grew up in central New Jersey and earned my B.S. in Environmental Science from Drexel University in Philly. While there, I was extensively involved with research through three co-ops and university labs studying both fisheries and coastal processes. Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I worked with the National Park Service at Lake Powell studying water quality and quagga mussels. My current research focuses on food web dynamics and community ecology of ichthyoplankton in fjords impacted by marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland. I am examining these processes through historical analyses, stable isotopes, and morphology of several ecologically and economically important fish species.  

Jake Marshall

marshjak@oregonstate.edu
I grew up in San Diego where I spent much of my free time surfing, fishing, and free diving. I earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a Minor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA and then went on to Oregon State University where I am in the process of attaining a M.S. in Marine Resource Management. My current work is focused on developing spatiotemporal models of Pacific hake along the coast of Oregon, Washington, and Canada. Using future predictive regional ocean modeling systems, these models have the capacity to predict hake distributions up to 8 months into the future. My goal is to develop and use these models to inform sustainable and equitable ecosystem based fisheries management.

Rhiannon Carlile

carliler@oregonstate.edu
Though I was born in Fresno, California I moved around in my childhood before my family settled in Omaha, Nebraska. I received a B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Water Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am currently pursuing a M.S. in Marine Resource Management at OSU where my research focuses on using beam trawl survey data and multiple statistical methods to analyze the spatial abundance and distribution of commercially important nearshore groundfish here in Oregon. My goal is to combine quantitative analysis with ecosystem-based management to prepare for future work in fisheries management.

Rebecca Howard

howardre@oregonstate.edu
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I’m originally from the Sacramento, California area and received my B.S. in Aquatic Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to beginning my graduate education at OSU, I worked as a North Pacific groundfish observer in Dutch Harbor, AK and completed a service year with AmeriCorps at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Santa Cruz, CA. I received my M.S. in Marine Resource Management in Fall 2020 and Ph.D. in Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences in Spring 2024. My research interests include spatiotemporal dynamics of commercially important fisheries, environment-biology relationships, and applications of fisheries research to policy and management. In my work, I explore relationships between nearshore groundfishes and ocean conditions through the use of fishery-independent and -dependent data along with oceanographic data.