Young Scientist
Webinar Series
The Young Scientists Webinar Series aims to support and engage young scientists conducting ocean research with a variety of exciting specialties. With our network of strategic partners, we’ve organized a series of webinars to support and empower graduate and postdoc students in their research around the ocean.
The webinars are scheduled for the second Tuesday every month, October – April. Click here for upcoming events.
Replays from past presentations:
Young WaveMakers: Kelp Me Please, a conversation with the filmamakers
Kelp Me Please is a short film made by students at an OMSI summer camp in collaboration with Northwest Documentary. Students worked together to create 4 short films centered around Sea Otters and the Oregon coast. One of these films is called Kelp Me Please....
Individual behavioral specializations in gray whales documented through drone-based observation
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONThe Pacific Coast Feeding Group (PCFG) gray whales spend their summers feeding...
Uncovering the impacts of environmental identities and worldviews (EID) on early adolescents’ perceptions and awareness on local marine issues
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONEnvironmental Identity is an important concept in current research on...
Traveling Tuna: Using genetic approaches to understand stock structure of Pacific Albacore
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONAlbacore tuna are found throughout the Pacific Ocean and support valuable...
Thinking pink: Investigating the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on larval Oregon pink shrimp
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONThe Oregon pink shrimp (Pandalus jordani) fishery is Oregon’s second most...
Marine Mammals Before Extirpation: Using Archaeology to Understand Native American Use of Sea Otters in Oregon Prior to European Contact
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONWhen Euro-American explorers and traders made contact with Indigenous...
Northern California Current zooplankton indiscriminately internalize microplastics
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONPlastic pollution continues to rise with millions of tons entering the oceans...
An Analysis of Community Perceptions and Policy Responses to Ocean Acidification and other marine stressors on the West Coast
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONOcean acidification disrupts the carbonate chemistry of coastal ecosystems,...
“You are what you eat:” Understanding the Relationship Between Commercial Fishing and the Feeding Ecology of Dungeness Crabs Using Isotopic and Gut Content Analysis
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONDuring this presentation, Toby Harbison will explore a mystery that has puzzled...
A Small Piece of a Large Puzzle: Investigating the Foraging Ecology of Gray Whales on the Oregon Coast
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONGray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) along the west coast of the United States...
Mortality Gauntlet: The Early Life Stages of Cabezon
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONIn marine fishes, upwards of 99% of fish eggs produced do not survive to...
Tiny But Mighty: Can Two Small Predator Species Compensate for the Loss of Ochre Stars in the Rocky Intertidal After Sea Star Wasting?
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONAn outbreak of Sea Star Wasting (SSW) syndrome on the Oregon Coast in 2014...
Under the Cover of Darkness: Tracking Oregon’s Marbled Murrelets
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONDuring this presentation, Lindsay will provide an overview of the research...
Interaction of Climate & Human-driven Changes in PNW Estuaries: Perspectives From Seagrass and Macroalgae
This presentation is part of the Young Scientist Webinar Series, hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative featuring graduate students and postdocs sharing their ocean research. DESCRIPTIONSeagrass and macroalgae provide many important services to coastal communities....
