The Benthic Ecology Lab at Oregon State University

Hatfield Marine Science Center

Mission

Research focused on how benthic species, communities, and ecosystems respond to anthropogenic stressors and other environmental change.

Marine Renewable Energy

We survey habitats, organisms, and artificial structure to assess potential ecological effects of offshore renewable energy installations.

Habitat Modeling

We use benthic species distributions to define habitat types and use habitat suitability modeling to investigate potential new areas of distribution for species of interest in response to ocean changes.

Anthropogenic Noise

We tagged rockfish, lingcod, and Dungeness crab to assess their response to a seismic survey in summer 2021


Benthic Processes

Everything else!