ACE Lab News

Summer Traylor's paper on microplastic contamination in common PNW seafood species received attention from numerous media outlets:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/microplastics-are-common-in-salmon-other-iconic-pacific-northwest-fish-seafood/ar-AA1y3OKD?ocid=BingNewsSerp 

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2025/01/microplastics-are-common-in-salmon-other-iconic-pacific-northwest-fish-seafood.html 

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250109/Study-reveals-widespread-microplastic-contamination-in-US-West-Coast-fish-and-shellfish.aspx 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069590 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LlwAQKHNr0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLlnLPN3i2E 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxi3kxIKmC4 

Summer Traylor's work was published in December 2024 in Frontiers in Toxicology:

From the ocean to our kitchen table: anthropogenic particles in the edible tissue of U.S. West Coast seafood species

Here is the link: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology/articles/10.3389/ftox.2024.1469995/full 

Amanda works within the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Reserves program to help better understand the adaptive management planning process and how it can be applied to the context of the Oregon coast. As part of the Human Dimensions team, she works on a variety of projects that range from analyzing marine protected area enabling conditions to helping facilitate the development of socioeconomic indicators.

Bria Bleil was awarded the Professional Development Scholarship from Women in Science Portland

Congratulations, Bria!

Dr. Elise Granek, project lead, received the Oregon Sea Grant to address the main sources of microplastics from coastal tourism by developing washing machine, dishwasher, and clothes dryer filters and creating cost-effective air filtration devices. 

Read more at:

 https://seagrant.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BIL-Marine-Debris-Awards-List_2024_updated.pdf 

https://seagrant.noaa.gov/biden-harris-administration-invests-27-million-to-support-community-driven-marine-debris-solutions-through-investing-in-america-agenda/ 

https://www.pdx.edu/news/psu-awarded-19m-noaa-grant-address-microplastic-pollution-coastal-communities#:~:text=The%20project%20%E2%80%94%20formally%20titled%20%E2%80%9CBeyond,including%3A%20Oregon%20State%20University%2C%20University 

Geoff Szafranski's work was published in April 2024 in Environmental Advances: 

Contamination in mangrove ecosystems: A synthesis of literature reviews across multiple contaminant categories

Here is the link: https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/science/article/pii/S2666765723001175

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!

Geoff Szafranski's work was published in November 2023 in Marine Pollution Bulletin: 

Contamination in mangrove ecosystems: A synthesis of literature reviews across multiple contaminant categories

Here is the link: https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/science/article/pii/S0025326X23010305

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"