ACE Lab News

Bria Bleil was awarded the 2024 NERI McGowan grant for her project on microplastics 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"