SMEA Thesis & Capstone Presentations
Please join SMEA on Friday, May 11 and Friday, May 18 in the Marine Studies Building (MAR 168) as our graduating students present their thesis and capstone projects. A reception featuring beer, wine, and appetizers will follow the last presentation on each day in the upstairs student lounge. We hope to see you there!
| May 11 | |||
| FRIDAY | Advisor/Committee | Title | |
| 10:00 AM | Charlene Vasquez | Nives Dolsak | Sea Level Rise Capstone |
| 10:20 AM | Brandon Ray | Nives Dolsak | Framing Arctic Renewable Energy |
| 10:40 AM | Kaitlin Lebon | Ryan Kelly | Tangled up and blue: evaluating alternatives to reduce whale entanglements in commercial Dungeness crab fishing gear |
| 11:00 AM | Danielle Edelman | Dave Fluharty | Regulatory barriers to native oyster restoration in Washington |
| 11:20 AM | Mackenzie Nelson | Terrie Klinger | If we build it, will they come? |
| 11:40 AM | Kayla Schommer | Terrie Klinger | Subsistence in the Copper River Basin and Prince William Sound, Alaska: A Statistical Analysis Determining the Effectiveness of Subsistence Resource Management for Chinook and Sockeye Salmon. |
| 1:00 PM | Brittany Flittner | Eddie Allison | Seattle’s Sustainable Seafood Landscape Capstone |
| 1:10 PM | Kadie McShirley | Eddie Allison | Seattle’s Sustainable Seafood Landscape Capstone |
| 1:20 PM | Henry Peterson | Eddie Allison | Seattle’s Sustainable Seafood Landscape Capstone |
| BREAK | |||
| 2:00 PM | Julie Ann Koehlinger | Terrie Klinger | Positive Temperature Anomalies in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary during Blob and El Nino years |
| 2:20 PM | Valerie Cleland | Mary Baker | Oil Exports Capstone |
| 2:35 PM | Ian Hanna | Mary Baker | Oil Exports Capstone |
| 3:00 PM | Emily Crigler | Eddie Allison | Subcontracting on the Sea: Charter Arrangements in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean |
| 3:20 PM | Karen Villeda | Eddie Allison | Towards an Inclusive FIP model |
| 3:40 PM | Thao Huynh | Eddie Allison | Improving the Sustainability of Sablefish Aquaculture via Testing Methodlogy for Reproductive Sterilization |
| 4:00 PM | Lily Zhao | Eddie Allison | Tracking the trade of octopus in East Africa and onto the global market |
| May 18 | |||
| FRIDAY | Advisor/Committee | Title | |
| 11:20 PM | Alex Gustafson | Cleo Woelfle-Erskine | Visualization and analysis of the Salmon Creek watershed for resource managers and community outreach |
| 1:00 PM | Allie Brown | Marc Miller | Conservation Communication and Photography: Conversations with Marine Conservation Photographers |
| 1:20 PM | Bryan Pelach | Marc Miller | Beach Town Tourism: The Smooth and Striated Dynamics of Pacific Beach, California |
| 1:40 PM | Kanae Komaki | Co-chairs. Dave Fluharty/John Delaney | Recommendations for the enviornmental monitoring system of deep seabed mining in the areas beyond national jurisdiction |
| 2:00 PM | Lange Solberg | Sunny Jardine | The effects of dual permit regulation on limited entry salmon permit prices in the Bristol Bay sockeye fishery |
| 2:20 PM | Diana Perry | Sunny Jardine | A Statistical Analysis of the Impacts of Management Decisions on Catch in the West Coast Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery |
| 2:40 PM | Kiersten Dallstream | Patrick Christie and Sunny Jardine | Preliminary Feasibility Assessment of the Economic Performance of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics at the Tulalip Tribe’s “Big Flats” Superfund Site |
| 3:00 PM | Nyssa Baechler | Ryan Kelly | Do smolt data improve adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) forecasting models in the Chignik Management Area? |