Here are the independent projects from students who took the class in prior years.
Here are the topics of the students’ final projects from years past.
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., and 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
Smits, A.P., Ruffing, C.M., Royer, T.V., Appling, A.P., Griffiths, N.A., Bellmore, R., et al. 2019. Detecting signals of large-scale climate phenomena in discharge and nutrient loads in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3791–3801. 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
Elmstrom, E.J., Holtgrieve, G.W., Scheuerell, M.D., Schauer, A.J., and K. Leazer. 2024. Climate and landform interact to control the source and transport of nitrate in Pacific Northwest rivers. Commun Earth Environ 5, 90. Link to article
Rand, Z.R., Ward, E.J., Zamon, J.E., Good, T.P., and Harvey, C.J. 2024. Using Hidden Markov Models to develop ecosystem indicators from non-stationary time series. Ecological Modelling, Volume 495. Link to article