ACE Lab News

Jazmine Compton was selected for the [ internship] and will be working on sea turtles in Costa Rica this summer.

Congratulations, Jazmine!

Bria Bleil was awarded the 2024 NERI McGowan grant for her project on pesticides in coastal sea anemones. 

Congratulations, Bria!

Allie Tissot recently published a blog in UW's Tide Bite newsletter describing her time at Friday Harbor Laboratories where she ran an experiment exposing Pycnopodia to pesticides and microfibers. 

Here is the link: https://fhl.uw.edu/about/news-and-events/2023/05/31/tide-bite-june-2023/ 

2022 Edward and Olive Bushby Scholarship:

Keir Allison-Bourne, Corinne Heath, Amanda Gannon, and Josè Aparicio-Castillo

2023-2024 Chen Endowed Fellowship in Science and Mathematics Entrepreneurship:

Alexandra Tissot

Kaegan Scully-Engelmeyer's final dissertation chapter was published in Jan 2023 in Hydrobiologia: 

Freshwater mussel populations in Pacific Coast Watersheds (Oregon, USA): occurrence, condition, habitat, and fish species overlap

Here is the link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-022-05127-w

ACE Lab members Summer Traylor, Allie Tissot, Rosie Wood, and Paul Hurst led by Dr. Elise Granek and OSU colleague Dr. Susanne Brander, published a book chapter entitled Clothes encounters of the microfibre kind: The effects of natural and synthetic textiles on organisms. This chapter covers the volume of literature on how microfiber pollution from textiles affects marine organisms.

Kaegan Scully-Engelmeyer was awarded the Dissertation of the Year- Natural Sciences for his dissertation "Exploring Linkages between Landscape Patterns and Freshwater and Estuarine Bivalves in the Coast Range of Oregon"