Funded Graduate Students

These students are working on Alaska Sea Grant-funded research projects.

researchers holding a rockfish
Photo courtesy of Matt Callahan.
woman in hat holding electronic device

Elizabeth Mik'aq Lindley PhD fisheries
Pink Arctic: patterns, processes, and consequences of increasing Pacific Salmon in the high north

Zach Stamplis MS fisheries
A transformative approach to rapidly assess critical life history and energetic responses of fish to environmental change

Elena Eberhardt MS fisheries
Quantifying the influence of environmental conditions on potential trophic interactions and growth of juvenile sockeye salmon and threespine stickleback within Iliamna Lake

George Payne MS civil engineering
Nature-based and community-engaged Arctic coastal protection

Maeghan Connor MS wildlife biology and conservation
Integrating emerging technologies with community-based observations to assess spotted seal ecology at terrestrial haul-outs in Arctic Alaska

Sof Fox MS fisheries
Evolutionary underpinnings of stress response in Pacific oysters

Benjamin Peterson MS biology
Too big to ignore: Foraging strategies and competition between marine top predators in a rapidly changing Bering Sea

Riley O'Neil MS marine biology
Do mariculture farms improve habitat for sea otter prey?

Claudia Berry MS environmental and marine sciences
Development of a non-lethal genetic-based method for aging pacific halibut