School of Marine and Environmental Affairs student Catalina Burch ’23 was awarded a competitive Graduate Student Research Award from the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB). “To encourage students to pursue scientific and scholarly research addressing ecosystem and fisheries management issues”, is what NPRB aims to accomplish with their graduate student funding. Since 2008, NPRB has funded 68 students through the program.

The award will fund Catalina’s thesis research, titled “Temperature-driven shifts in Gulf of Alaska food webs: Insights from network models and applications to management.” Burch is a student in Dr. Anne Beaudreau’s Coastal Fisheries Ecology Lab.