State Fisheries Genomics Lab @OregonState@HatfieldMSC 🐠🦀🎣 Led by Kathleen O'Malley. Using genetics to assist freshwater and marine fisheries and conservation
We are HIRING a post-doctoral Research Associate!
Responsibilities include population genomic analyses in Chinook salmon and steelhead.
Come work with us in Newport, Oregon.
See the full position description:
👉jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting…
We recently had the pleasure of hosting author/journalist Tom Alkire!
Check out his blog post about meeting with us and our lab within @HatfieldMSC !
👉 tomalkire.com/blog/f/cutting…
Hatchery origin Chinook salmon that reproduce in the wild have similar relative reproductive success as wild fish, suggesting that a single generation in the wild increases the fitness of hatchery-reared salmon.
doi.org/10.1111/eva.13678
Marine Science Day!
SFGL participated in another successful MSD at @HatfieldMSC. With over 1900 visitors, we fielded lots of great questions (Dr. O'Malley & Dr. @k_olsen_ecoevo )! Can't wait for next year April 12, 2025!
📷cred: Dr. @JMillerOSU
SFGL M.S. student Ben Wiley presented the key question driving his thesis research on monitoring Bull Trout at the ORAFS annual meeting!
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is often used to evaluate presence/absence, but is it effective at quantifying relative abundance of target species??
Hot off the press! Do "half pounders" return as early-, late-summer, or winter run steelhead? SFGL and ODFW found that in Oregon's Rogue River half pounders are a mixed assemblage from all three adult runs.
Photo: P. Samarin
link.springer.com/article/10…
New paper! Leaders in salmonid research, including SFGL’s Dr. Kathleen O’Malley, collaborate in “Implications of Large-Effect Loci for Conservation: A Review and Case Study with Pacific Salmon.” doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab0…
Implications of Large-Effect Loci for Conservation: A Review and Case Study with Pacific Salmon. Just published in #JHereddoi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab0… Freely available! By Robin Waples, @dpscruz @charrgirl @martykardos and a slew of Pacific fish folk.
Love researching hatchery fish? Wish you had an entire hatchery devoted to research? @OregonState is seeking a new tenured professor / Director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting…
Applications are due TOMORROW for the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. Women in the first 1–3 years (January 2019–December 2021) of an independent faculty position are eligible to apply.
Poachers robbed spawning fish from traps near Powers, threatening steelhead populations - @OSP_Fish investigating, contact the TIP line with info. dfw.state.or.us/news/2021/05…
Also really excited that our paper is published in the same issue as my @HatfieldMSC office mate @ekbors's awesome research:
An epigenetic clock to estimate the age of living beluga whales
doi.org/10.1111/eva.13195#hatfieldspecialissue