Mikayla Drummond

Southern Utah University

Research Mentor: Brian Fadely and Molly McCormley

Project: Quantifying Researcher Disturbance of Endangered Steller Sea Lions from Remote Camera Imagery

Aster Ellsworth

Michigan State University

Research Mentor: T.J. Fudge

Project: Improving Ice Core Dating in High Accumulation Regions of Antarctica with ERA5 Verification

Lauren Frake

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Mentor: Aaron Levine

Project: Evaluating Seasonal Forecast Skill for ENSO-Driven Precipitation Variability in NOAA's SFS-Beta v1 Model

Ryan Greenstreet

Virginia Tech

Research Mentor: Craig Norrie

Project: Examining Temperature Associated Oyster Valve Behavior in Diploid and Triploid Farmed Oysters

Will Gross

University of South Carolina

Research Mentor: Walter Torres

Project: Characterizing Nonlinear Internal Wave Trains

Carlos Hernandez Santiago

Bowdoin College

Research Mentor: Meghan Cronin, Dongxiao Zhang, and Kee Onn Fong

Project: Air-Sea Momentum Fluxes From a Direct Covariance Flux System at Ocean Station Papa (50°N 145°W)

Katherine Low

University of California Berkeley

Research Mentor: Sarah Chinn and Peter Mahoney

Project: Training Data Development and Bias Analysis for a Multi-Species Pinniped Identification Computer Vision Model

Ciera Mendoza

Sierra College

Research Mentor: Sunny Jardine

Project: Assessing Imperiled Species Dependence on Private Land in Washington State

Jaehyoung Park

Cornell University

Research Mentor: Daniel Schindler, Jackie Carter, and Chris Boatright

Project: Out-Migrating Smolt Size Predicts Sockeye Salmon Returns in the Wood River System

Hadley Weathers

Seattle Pacific University

Research Mentor: Rachelle Johnson, Jess Diallo, Tessa Code, and Lisa Wetzel

Project: Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Juvenile Sockeye Salmon

Amanda Blunt

Seattle University

Research Mentor: Lucia Upchurch

Project: Arctic aerosol trends at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory

Nico Davis

Colorado College

Research Mentor: Matt Luongo

Project: Exploring the Impact of Winds on Southern Ocean Temperature Trends in CESM2 Large Ensemble

Thomas Do

San Francisco University

Research Mentor: Xinyu Li

Project: The Influence of Seasonality on Anthropogenic Carbon on the U.S. West Coast

Eliana Gonzalez

Bowdoin College

Research Mentor: Georgy Manucharyan

Project: Floe Size Distribution in Lake Ice

Zoe Khan

Smith College

Research Mentor: Eric Ward

Project: Fishyplots: Visualizing Spatiotemporal Variation in Pacific Ocean Fisheries

Jingwen Liu

Johns Hopkins University

Research Mentor: Yolande Serra, Meghan Cronin, Liz McGeorge, Reka Domokos, Dongxiao Zhang

Project: Investigating Ecosystem Dynamics Near the "Eastern" Edge of the Warm Pool

Vanessa Martiny

Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Mentor: Aditya Khuller

Project: Snowball Earth: Surface Controls on Ice Thickness and Photosynthesis

Lydell Mitchell

Montana State University

Research Mentor: Shelley Johnson, Tessa Code, Lisa Wetzel

Project: Assessing the Vertical Distribution of Daphnia at Differing Levels of Light Pollution in Lake Washington

Rachel Mutti

University of Miami

Research Mentor: Sophie Nuber, Mo Walczak

Project: Planktonic Foraminifera as Indicators of Changing Ocean Conditions in the Santa Barbara Basin Across the Younger Dryas-Holocene Transition

Erin Novobilsky

Marist University

Research Mentor: Travis Mellett

Project: Assessing Changes in Iron Bioavailability Across a Natural Biogeochemical Gradient in the Northern Equatorial Pacific

Cailey Plainte

Simmons University

Research Mentor: Will Ballentine

Project: Biomechanics of Barnacle Larvae: Shapes, Forces, and Surface Interaction

Sirray Smith

Morgan State University

Research Mentor: T.J. Fudge

Project: Constraining Geothermal Flux in Antarctica Using an Ice-and-Heat Flow Model

Margaret Veatch

Colby College

Research Mentor: Daniel Schindler, Jackie Carter

Project: Responses of Juvenile Sockeye Habitat Migration Timing to Warming Climate

Enqi Yang

Johns Hopkins University

Research Mentor: Daniel Schindler, Curry Cunningham

Project: Quantifying the Influence of Wind Direction and Speed on Sockeye Salmon Migration Travel Time

Jaeda Woodruff

Princeton University

Research Mentor: Ernesto Guerrero-Fernández

Project: Hydrodynamic influence of sediment transport in tsunami waves

Jordan Simons

Lawrence University

Research Mentor: Walter Torres

Project: Coastal ocean circulation and larval dispersal around rocky headlands

Brianna Padilla

Hamilton College

Research Mentor: Daniel Schindler

Project: Is Climate Warming Changing the Date of Habitat Migration in Juvenile Sockeye Salmon?

Liam Schiffer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Mentor: Hongwei Sun

Project: Using Data-Driven Methods to Estimate Cloud Radiative Effects

Ivy Jaguzny

Harvey Mudd College

Research Mentor: Jannes Koelling

Project: The effect of El Niño on ocean biogeochemistry and air-sea fluxes of oxygen

Malik Hall

Texas A&M University

Research Mentor: Aaron Levine

Project: Understanding Poor El Niño Predictions in Seasonal Forecast Models

Luke Valelli

University of Maine

Research Mentor: Dave Beauchamp

Project: Impacts of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on Salmon Predation

Ladanijirah Lightner

State University of New York

Research Mentor: Dargan Frierson

Project: Are Low Emission Scenarios Consistent with Climate Justice?

Chelsea Hurtado

St. Olaf College

Research Mentor: Steve Rubin and Eric Grossman

Project: Fish Behavior in Skagit Bay: Influence of Eelgrass Presence

Riley Dunklin

Cypress College

Research Mentor: David Wiener

Project: Broad Algicidal Effect of A. macleodii Strain

Hannah Simmonds

Bates College

Research Mentor: Craig Norrie

Project: Differences in Respiration Rates and Survival in Pacific Oysters

Kamber Lovill

North Carolina State University

Research Mentor: Jodi Young

Project: Growth and RubisCO Primer Design at Different Temperatures in Chemolithoautotrophic Bacteria

Erik Duarte

University of California San Diego

Research Mentor: Mariela White

Project: Validated Long Term Time Series Measurements Are Crucial for Detecting Environmental Trends

Micah Le-Masakela

University of Houston

Research Mentor: Dr. Esther Goldstein

Project: Rapid Determination of Walleye Pollock Maturity Using Spectroscopy

Hope Johnson

University at Buffalo

Research Mentor: Meghan Cronin, Elizabeth McGeorge, and Yolande Serra

Project: Comparisons of Air-Sea Fluxes in a Reanalysis Product to Saildrone Observations in the Equatorial Pacific

Lily Wu

Texas A&M University

Research Mentor: Ignatius Rigor

Project: Arctic Sea Ice Observations

Lashaun Jackson

University of Michigan

Research Mentor: Tyler Kukla

Project: Impact of the Green Sahara on Abrupt δ18O Shifts in East-Central China

Adelina Rodriguez

Wesleyan University

Research Mentor: Nick Bond & Karin Bumbaco

Project: Comparative Analysis of NASA GRACE-FO L4 and SMAP-L4 Soil Moisture Products in Washington

Marc Sailer

University of Washington

Research Mentor: T.J. Fudge

Project: Modeling atmospheric gas diffusion in ice to help locate the best climate history

Anna Gruchala

University of Alabama

Research Mentor: Daniel Schindler

Project: Juvenile coho Salmon in a river floodplain in Alaska: How do they respond to changes in seasonal hydrology?

Stephanie Procopio

Luisiana State University

Research Mentor: Jessalyn Davis

Project: Manganese-mediated nitrogen transformation in suboxic Gulf of Mexico porewaters

Krista Matuska

University of Washington

Research Mentor: Georgy Manucharyan

Project: Modeling inertial oscillations of Arctic sea ice

Nick Burgos

University of California Los Angeles

Research Mentor: Steve Rubin

Project: Evaluating juvenile Salmon and forage fish use of eelgrass through video

Sophia Wagner

Haverford College

Research Mentor: Catherine Berchok

Project: Factors influencing North Pacific right whale calling behavior

Benny Adler

Bowdoin College

Research Mentor: Amy Wyeth

Project: Zooplankton Abundance Over Tidal Cycles in Padilla Bay NERR

Leila Fischer

Willamette University

Research Mentor: Emma Heitmann

Project: Reconstructing climate and topographic history of the Colorado Plateau using isotope geochemistry

Katie Jackson

University of South Carolina

Research Mentor: Craig Norrie

Project: Variation in farmed oyster respiration rates over space and time

Karla Jimenez

Florida International University

Research Mentor: Walter Torres & Melissa Moulton

Project: Reefs, rocks, and rips: A plankton's perspective

Phillip Telgen

Whitman College

Research Mentor: Julian Herndon

Project: Oregon coast upwelling effects on CO2 and shellfish

Audrey Casper

George Washington University

Research Mentor: Melissa Moulton

Project: Rip current hazard forecasting in Salt Creek Beach, CA

Esmeralda Chavelas

University of California San Diego

Research Mentor: Abby Swann

Project: Possible refugia in nearly enclosed bays during Snowball Earth

Andrea Emmanuelli

Florida State University

Research Mentor: Bonnie Chang

Project: Using shipboard observations of nitrous oxide to train a random forest algorithm

Sarothi Ghosh

University of Florida

Research Mentor: T.J. Fudge

Project: Exploring the δ18O response to WAIS collapse using simple isotope models

McKenna Ives

Eastern Washington University

Research Mentor: Colleen Hoffman

Project: Exploring iron-building ligands across active and inactive hydrothermal sites along the Escanaba Trough

Willow Jackson

Bellevue Community College

Research Mentor: Sarah Wise

Project: Diminishing salmon runs and effects on communities

Allison James

Middlebury College

Research Mentor: Stacie Hardy

Project: Interactive R Shiny app to display harbor seal abundance in Alaska

Vanessa Martinez

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Research Mentor: Becky Alexander

Project: Sulfur and oxygen isotope measurements during winter in Fairbanks, Alaska

Andrea Mendoza

Heritage University

Research Mentor: Jacqueline Padilla-Gamino

Project: Climate change affect on photosynthesis in coral and kelp

Bailee Porter

North Carolina State University

Research Mentor: Jodi Young

Project: Biosurfactant production by sea-ice algae collected from Arctic and Antarctic sea to combat oil spills

Darius Withrow

Washington State University

Research Mentor: Dave Beauchamp

Project: ALAN effects on predatory search volume within the Seattle ship canal

Owen Yazzie

Arizona State University

Research Mentor: Emily Norton

Project: Statistical models perform well at forecasting Dungeness crab meat quality, potentially informing pre-season monitoring strategies

Sydney Rivera

Texas State University

Research Mentor: Samantha Kreling

Project: Non-invasive insights to urban coyote ecology

Doris Carbajal

Washington State University

Research Mentor: Sarah Wise

Project: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Alaska's Fisheries

Theo Daniels

Howard University

Research Mentor: Bonnie Chang

Project: Temporal and Spatial Variability of Oxygen and Nitrous Oxide in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

Sara Dixon

Colorado College

Research Mentor: Yong Wei

Project: The Creation of High-Resolution Probabilistic Tsunami Design Zone Maps for Coastal Hawaii

Emily Evenson

Washington State University

Research Mentor: Jordan Hollarsmith

Project: Assessing Spatial Extent Change of Kelp in Southeast Alaska

Alexis Irvin

University of Florida

Research Mentor: T.J. Fudge

Project: Interannual Climate Variations at a Future Ice Core Site in Antarctica

Sarah Kilpatrick

New York University

Research Mentor: Andy Chiodi

Project: A Signal in the Snow

Cecelia Ngo

University of California, Riverside

Research Mentor: Chidong Zhang

Project: Observations and Forecasts of Arctic Sea Surface Energy Fluxes

Jas Ogiste

Oberlin College and Conservatory

Research Mentor: Abigail Swann

Project: Plant Physiological Responses to Increasing Atmospheric CO2

Jackson Parker

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Research Mentor: Joel Thornton

Project: Evaluating Regional and Global Trends in Lightning Stroke Density

Lucy Roussa

Eastern Washington University

Research Mentor: Julie Keister

Project: Measuring From the Sky: Methods to Quantify Moon Jellyfish Aggregations Using Areal Photographs

Elizabeth Warfield

Florida Gulf Coast University

Research Mentor: Yolande L. Serra

Project: Easterly Wave Modulation of Surface Meteorology of Costa Rica

Katline Barrows

University of Puget Sound

Research Mentor: Christy Sims

Project: Tracking Changes in Skin Condition of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales - A Method for Monitoring Individual Health?

Cassondra DeFoor

University of Nevada, Reno

Research Mentor: Lisa Eisner and Jens Nielsen

Project: Factors that Influence Phytoplankton Biomass and Productivity in the Chukchi Sea in 2017

Jesus Espinoza

University of California, Merced

Research Mentor: Randie Bundy

Project: The Impact of Heterotrophic Bacteria on Global Iron Cycling

Bria Goldade

North Dakota State University

Research Mentor: Yolande Serra

Project: Modulation of Meteorological Variables and Isotopes Over Costa Rica by Easterly Waves

Haley Staudmyer

University of Washington

Research Mentor: Tom Ackerman

Project: Cloud Occurrence Profiles in the Pacific from High-Resolution Models and Observations

Zoë Stroobosscher

Calvin University

Research Mentor: Kyla Drushka and Sabine Mecking

Project: Oxygen Variations in the North Pacific - An Argo Float Study

Victoria Trejo

California State University, Chico

Research Mentor: Peter Gaube

Project: The Effect of Mesoscale Eddies on the Diversity of Mesopelagic Fish in the North Atlantic

Mark Yamane

Eckerd College

Research Mentor: Mariona Claret

Project: Near-inertial Wave Interactions with Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Eddies in the Northwestern Mediterranean

Dina Zawadzki

Monterey Peninsula College

Research Mentor: Julie Keister

Project: Low Oxygen Levels Control the Vertical Distribution of Calanus Pacificus

Yoana Torres

Heritage University

Research Mentor: Jennifer Cahalan and Brian Mason

Project: Can Random Sampling Be Implemented in the Real World?

Ricky Wright

Walla Walla University

Research Mentor: Julie Keister

Project: Marine copepods show poor avoidance of hypoxic water

Jaya Muehlman

University of Utah

Research Mentor: Dave Beauchamp

Project: Trophic Ecology of Resident Chinook Salmon in Puget Sound

Shelby Gunnells

North Dakota State University

Research Mentor: Colleen Hoffman

Project: Exploring Organic Metal-Binding Ligands Within the Lost City Hydrothermal Vent

Delaney Kuehnel

University of Texas, El Paso

Research Mentor: Kate Richerson and Kayleigh Somers

Project: The Gear That Kept Going: Lost and Found Fishing Gear Along the West Coast

Isabelle Chan

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Research Mentor: Sophie Chu

Project: Increasing Accuracy in Ocean Acidification Data

Madeline Talebi

University of California, Irvine

Research Mentor: Meghan Cronin

Project: Ocean Weather Ship Papa: A Precipitation Time-Series

Chloe Hansum

Dordt College

Research Mentor: Alison Deary

Project: Using Fin Development to Determine Morphological Milestones in Arctic Cod

Michelle McCarthy

Navajo Technical University

Research Mentor: David Kimmel and Colleen Harpold

Project: Trends and Variability in Chlorophyll Concentrations in the Southeastern Bering Sea During Record Low Ice

Ellie Lee

Bryn Mawr College

Research Mentor: Carol Stepien

Project: A Dual Approach to Biodiversity Analysis in the Salish Sea: Multigene Metabarcoding in Concert with Morphology

Raymond Surya

University of Michigan

Research Mentor: John Horne

Project: Summarizing and Transmitting Data from Echosounders Deployed on Autonomous, Underwater Gliders

Amanda White

Ursinus College

Research Mentor: Olivia Hauser

Project: Protecting Historically Significant Wrecks

Winona Platt

Ithaca College

Research Mentor: Paul Chittaro

Project: Variability in the Growth Rate of Pacific Hake

Rachael Aber

University of Portland

Project: Fish Vertical Distribution and Marine Mammal Co-Occurrence off Cape Hatteras, NC

Ellen Bradley

Gonzaga University

Project: Hot Spots of the Pteropod Limacina Helicina in Puget Sound

Brian Filipiak

University of Rochester

Project: Latitudinal and Anual Patterns of Somatic Growth for Pacific Hake Along the U.S. Pacific Coast

Telaina Henry

Fort Lewis College

Project: Annotation of Thermal and Color Imagery of Ice-Associated Seals

Brittany Hernandez

Bowdoin College

Project: Classification of Beluga Whale Vocalizations in Bristol Bay, AK

Alexis Hollander

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Project: Larval Identification of Two Sand Lance Species

Dakota Hunt

Carleton College

Project: Identifying Best Protocol for Preserving and Extracting Environmental DNA from Seawater

Ava Krahn

Beloit College

Project: Modeling Changes in NO2 C0ncentrations and the Effects on Mercury Oxidation, Transport, and Deposition

Leela Stevens

California State University, Long Beach

Project: Projecting Water Security for the Columbia River Basin. How Much Different Could Our Future Be?

Kelly Tingle

Berkeley City College

Project: Can Biological Productivity be Inferred from Oxygen at Depth?

Paige Hillen

California Polytechnic State University

Project: The Life Cycle and Net Radiative Effect of Tropical Anvil Clouds in 3D Cloud Resolving Models

Treasure Warren

University of California, Davis

Project: Water Column Ocean Acidification Along the California Coast and Biological Impacts Using CASE-BLING Model

Lillian Henderson

University of Rochester

Project: Forecasting the California Undercurrent for Hake Management

Carter Johnson

University of Washington

Project: Arctic Marine Mammal Abundance and Distribution Estimation

Anita Montero

Barnard College of Columbia University

Project: Metabolic Response of Euphausia Pacifica to Temperature and pH Exposure in Puget Sound

Karen Valladares

University of California, Irvine

Project: Measurement of δ17O, δ18O and 17O Excess In Tap Water Samples Collected from Varying Hydrological Conditions

Laura Moore

St. Olaf College

Project: Analysis of Ice Cores from the West Arctic Ice Sheet

Miranda Wittmond

Santa Clara University

Project: Energy Allocation of Chinook Salmon in Puget Sound

Peter Sumner

Fort Lewis College

Project: Google Earth Analysis of Soil Moisture and Landslide Risk in the Pacific Northwest

Stephen Maldonado

Ohio State University

Project: Ocean Mapping Application for External Source Data

Tai Koester

University of Colorado

Project: Factors Influencing PAN Enhancement in Northwest Wildfire Smoke Plumes

Tarenina Max

San Juan College

Project: Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Bowhead Whales

Will Christian

Michigan Technological University

Project: Dissolved Aluminum from Hydrothermal Sources

Nicola Paul

University of Miami

Project: Effect of Temperature on Diet Composition of Chinook Salmon in Puget Sound

Marcos Amezcua

Humboldt State University

Project: Relationship between Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities and Physicochemical Variables in the Tributaries of Lake Iliamna, AK

Iker Madera

Colorado School of Mines

Project: Software Assessment of Ocean Floor Modeling Through Variable Resolution Surface Algorithms

Grace Stonecipher

Yale University

Project: Environmental Impacts on Ichthyoplankton Densities in Puget Sound

Claire Buysse

College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University

Project: Sulfate Aerosols: Reconciling Ice-Core Records and Global Models

Alissa Luk

New York University

Project: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation History

Haila Schultz

University of Puget Sound

Project: Offshore Food Availability and Diet Composition of Subyearling Chinook Salmon in Puget Sound

Brittany Haily

Jackson State University

Project: Statistical Analysis of Watershed Data for USACE Climate-Vulnerability Assessment

Laura Migliaccio

Clark University

Project: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pteropods Off the Coast of Washington

Makie Matsumoto-Hervol

University of Wisconsin

Project: Southern Resident Killer Whale Scat Samples and Prey Availability

Delilah Dougi

Fort Lewis College

Project: Carbon Sequestration at USACE Reservoirs on the Upper Missouri River System