Capstone Project Examples
Abstracts
The following titles, which link to abstracts of papers written in fulfillment of the Capstone Project, provide a small sample of the breadth and scope of topics students have chosen for their research subject. (Undergraduate are listed first and in italics.)
- Comparing Diet and Prey Availability of Atka Mackerel (Pleurogrammus monopteryguis) between Kiska and Seguam Islands (R Freyer)
- Spatial and Temporal Variation in Lateral Plate Morphology of Threespine Stickleback in the Chignik Lake System, Alaska (A Johnson)
- Efficacy of Acetic Acid and Chlorine to Control Bivalve Epibionts in Aquaculture Facilities in Western Washington (B Lane, R Saito, C Friedman)
- Toxicity of an ARSENAL® herbicide and AGRI-DEX® Tank Mix to Juvenile Rainbow Trout (D Sowle)
- The Abundance of Herbivorous and Predatory Fishes in Relation to Diadema antillarum Along the West Coast of Dominica (K McDonald)
- Assimilation Efficiency of Kelp Crab, Pugettia producta, Feeding on Egregia and Nereocystis (T Huynh)
- Don’t Tread on Me: A Pilot Study of Red Rock Crab, Cancer productus, Habitat Use in Cultured Oyster Beds (AW Amundsen, KK Holsman, PS McDonald, and GC Jensen)
- Avoidance of Herbicide Tank Mixes by Juvenile Salmonids (CC Curran, JM Grassley, and CE Grue)
- Ichthyoplankton of the Southeast Bering Sea Species Composition, Egg, and Larval Abundances During Summer 2000 (AM Lind)
- Immune Response of the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas: Phagocytosis and Chemotaxis Assays (Y Saito)
- Attitudes Toward Current and Alternative Management Styles in Alaska's Limited Entry Roe Herring Fisheries (G Stearns, D Huppert)
- Fishes Associated with Drift Habitats in the San Juan Islands, Washington (K Blackhart, B Miller)
- Identification of the Spatial Distributions of Sockeye Salmon Based on Characteristic Age Compositions: An Analysis of the Port Moller Test Fishery in Bristol Bay (L Flynn, T Quinn, R Hilborn)
- Genetic Identification of “Banded” Juvenile Rockfish (Sebastes babcocki & S. nigrocinctus) and Associated Feeding Ecology in Drift Habitats off the Washington Coast (K Avery, B Miller, L Hauser)
- Toxicity of the Surfactant AGRI-DEX® to Juvenile Rainbow Trout: Has the Formulation Changed? (JLK Wong, JM Grassley, CE Grue)
Honors Students Posters
COFS Honors Program students are required to present a poster of their Capstone Project at the SAFS Quarterly Undergraduate Symposium. Several of these presentations are available via the below links (formats vary from PowerPoint to HTML to PDF).
- Avoidance Response of Herbicide Tank Mixes by Juvenile Salmonids (CC Curran, M Grassley, CE Grue)
- Dall’s Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli): The Difference Between the Subspecies (K Genther)
- Comparison of a Terrestrial Fertilizer and an Inorganic Algal Medium on Phytoplankton Production (J Lowry, FB Taub)
- Attitudes Toward Current and Alternative Management Styles in Alaska's Limited Entry Roe Herring Fisheries (G Stearns, D Huppert)
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