Here are the independent projects from students who took the class in
prior years.
Presentation topics
Here are the topics of the students’ final projects from years
past.
2021
- “Heat-Related Mortality in the Greater Seattle Area (1980 -
2018)”
- “Modeling spatio-temporal dynamics of mountain pine beetle activity
in the Southern Rockies”
- “Quantifying the success of invasive green sunfish eradication from
McGee Wash, Arizona”
- “Recovery of the California brown pelican following DDT
contamination in the Southern California Bight”
- “Mobile technologies reveal human activity across urban lakes”
- “Population viability analysis of marbled murrelets reveal long-term
decline in the Salish Sea”
- “Using removal data to estimate rusty crayfish population growth and
spread in the John Day River”
- “Synchronous dynamics in marine fishes in the Southern California
Bight”
2019
- “A century of stable isotope data demonstrates robust trophic
ecology and ecosystem productivity from archival bone of a generalist
predator”
- “Estimating common trends in bull trout life history
strategies”
- “Assessing spatial covariance among time series of river discharge
across western North America”
- “Timing and abundance of juvenile spring Chinook emigrants from the
Chiwawa River”
- “Cetacean Strandings in the Pacific Northwest”
2017
- “Trends and shortcomings in midwinter waterfowl surveys along the
Pacific Flyway: a multivariate state-space modeling approach”
- “Cyclic dominance of alternative male phenotypes in an introduced
sockeye salmon population”
- “An application of arima model to study the association between
particulate matters and hospital admission for respiratory disease”
- “Time resolved exposures of mice to cadmium: hair as a biomarker of
exposure”
- “Characterizing temporal variability in pelagic communities for
biological monitoring at marine renewable energy sites”
- “Lake size and watershed characteristics mediate the effect of
climate on lake water levels in the Puget Sound Lowlands”
- “Determining multi-scale controls on river temperature: a time
series approach”
2015
- “Modeling domoic acid in Pacific razor clams (Siliqua
patula) at Long Beach, WA, USA using autoregressive integrated
moving average and generalized linear models”
- “Synthesis of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon genetic data improves
understanding of migration patterns to inform commercial fisheries
management”
- “Behavior of depth selection in lake trout (Salvelinus
namaycush) morphotypes in northern Lake Superior”
- “Extracting time-varying climate-driven growth index for use in
stock assessment models”
- “A comparison of statistical models applicable for environmental
assessments of marine renewable energy sites”
- “A method of reconstructing the daily growth of large wildfires with
state space models”
- “Modeling and forecasting multispecies catches in the Uruguayan
longline fishery”
- “Chinook salmon jack rate in the Columbia River basin: are jacks
trending?”
- “Spatial asynchrony in juvenile sockeye salmon growth driven by
competition in a changing climate”
2013
- “Can distinct sub-populations within the Prince William Sound be
classified by differing responses in male fecundity and do oceanographic
conditions affect surveys of male fecundity?”
- “Scales of variability in forage fish stocks”
- “Extreme weather incidents and prey availability affect Magellanic
penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) reproductive success”
- “Environment drives changes in recruitment for most marine
fisheries”
- “Initial exploration of modeling options for an environmental driver
of sardine abundance”
- “Demographic structure of Puget Sound Pacific herring stocks”
- “Common trends in spawning stock biomass of northeast pacific marine
stocks”
- “Describing variability of fish and macrozooplankton density at
marine hydrokinetic energy sites”
- “Lake specific variation in juvenile sockeye salmon growth driven by
competition in a changing climate”
- “Environmental and phenological variability: match-mismatch effects
of lake conditions and entry timing on sockeye salmon survival and
growth”
Publications
Siple, M. C. and Francis, T. B. 2016. Population diversity in Pacific
herring of Puget Sound, USA. Oecologia 180: 111-125.Link to article
Linder, H.L., Horne, J.K. and E.J. Ward. 2017. Modeling baseline
conditions of ecological indicators: Marine renewable energy
environmental monitoring, Ecological Indicators, Volume 83: 178-191 Link to
article
Gonzalez, S., Horne, J. K., & Ward, E.J. 2019. Does temporal
variability limit standardized biological monitoring at wave and tidal
energy sites?. International Marine Energy Journal, 2(1 (Nov), 15–28. Link to article
Arnold, L., Scheuerell , M.D., Busch Isaksen 2022. T. Mortality
Associated with Extreme Heat in Washington State: The Historical and
Projected Public Health Burden. Atmosphere, 13, 1392. Link to article