Fish 492
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship in:
Marine Fish Ecology & Habitat Mapping

Dr. Don Gunderson
email: dgun at u dot washington dot edu

Dr. Gary Greene
email: greene at mlml dot calstate dot edu

Don and Gary with students (and glacial erratic)

Research Assistants:

Eric Eisenhardt
Charlie Endris
Jo Smith

Jo and Charlie

Final Projects

• BLAINE, Jen - Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) present in the sandwave fielf of central San Juan Channel, WA: Abundance, density, maturity and sediment association
  
• CALVANESE, Tom - Temporal and spatial variation in the Puget Sound Rockfish Sebastes emphaeus (Starks, 1911): An indicator species for Marine Reserves?
  
• D'AMBROSIO, Debora Sabina - Diversity of bottomfish: Is it higher in marine protected areas than in unprotected areas in the San Juan Islands, WA?
• DAUBLE, Ali - Characterization of copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) habitat in marine protected areas in the San Juan Islands
• GAMELIN, Emily - Filling in the gaps: nearshore habitat classification in a marine protected area, San Juan Islands, WA
  
• HUGHES, Zachary - Ecological and Economic Assessment of Potential Eelgrass Expansion at Sucia Island, WA
• MAHONEY, Brenna - Temporal changes in the abundance and length of nearshore bottomfish in the Shaw Island Marine Preserve, WA
• RUDD, Courtney - Using Acoustic Telemetry to Investigate the Movement Patterns of Male Subadult Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) in a Marine Preserve