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Creator:: Merrill, Julianne
Abstract:: As the global demand for seafood increases each year, there is a growing need to expand sustainable aquaculture in the interests of food security and resilience of coastal communities. Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, are grown in West coast estuaries - where cultures often overlap with the federally protected native eelgrass,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . George Waldbusser for spending many hours patiently answering my statistics and biogeochemistry

Creator:: Haugen, Brianna I.
Abstract:: The complex challenges that Oregon’s commercial fishing community faces are mainly driven by four sources of change: climate change, change in management regulations, societal shifts, and market trends. Challenges include increasing competition for ocean use, management decisions that prioritize economic efficiency over community values, and an increasingly uncertain environment. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: exacerbating inequalities (Acheson et al., 2015; Lowe, 2008; Carothers, 2013; Olson 2011; Clay et al., 2010

Creator:: Katz, Brian G.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of shellfish stakeholders in the Pacific Northwest who are adapting to ocean acidification (OA). This study developed a geovisualization tool of existing environmental data for assessing species-specific risk profiles to OA (based on their exposure and sensitivity),...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Jessamyn A. Johnson and George G. Waldbusser compiled the biological response

Creator:: Cerny-Chipman, Elizabeth B.
Abstract:: The multifaceted role of the environment in regulating the structure and dynamics of biological communities has long fascinated ecologists and motivated much debate and research. Now, in a time of accelerated global changes due to human impacts, the need to understand how the environment shapes communities has gained new urgency....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of predator-prey interactions. George Waldbusser was so knowledgeable, always let our meetings run

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