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Fisheries Management Graduate Certificate - Online

Instructors

The online Fisheries Management Graduate Certificate thrives on the expertise of many OSU faculty in a wide-reaching span of relevant disciplines to prepare students to handle fisheries management issues from a range of perspectives.

Program leader

Michael Harte - Professor, Marine Resource Management
Interests include: coastal and marine policy development, collaborative fisheries management, developing human capacity for fisheries management, comparative risk assessment and decision support systems. Served as commercial fisheries and economic policy advisor for the Falkland Island Government and General Manager, Policy and Science for the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council.
Courses taught: MRM 506, MRM 535

Additional instructors

The following faculty are involved in the Graduate Certificate in Fisheries Management.

Lori Cramer - Associate Professor, Sociology
Specialties include: natural resource sociology, environmental sociology, social impact assessment and rural sociology. Research focuses on resource use and social change in Oregon communities, including challenges in Pacific Northwest fishing communities.
Courses taught: SOC 580, SOC 581

Scott Heppell - Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife
Specialty in physiological and behavioral ecology. Research interests include the physiological ecology of marine fishes, in particular how physiology, behavior and life history traits affect the interactions between marine fish stocks and their respective fisheries.
Scott's professional website
Courses taught: FW 554

Selina Heppell - Associate Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife
Expertise in population ecology, marine fisheries ecology, conservation biology and life history evolution. Research includes computer modeling and simulation to understand how marine animals respond to human impacts and climate change.
Selina's professional website
Courses taught: FW 520

Richard Hildreth - Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
Co-director of the Ocean and Coastal Law Center. Expertise in ocean and coastal law, water law and sustainable development. Instructed Ocean Law and Coastal Law via teleconference to OSU for several years.
Courses taught: MRM 525

Robert Lackey - Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife and Adjunct Professor, Political Science
Expertise includes: ecological policy, salmon restoration, biological resource management, fisheries and wildlife management, environmental protection and ecological risk assessment.
Robert's professional website
Courses taught: FW 620

David Sampson - Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife
Expertise includes: marine fisheries science, population dynamics and stock assessment. Research includes: development of models of fishermen's behavior with regard to choices for fishing location and fishing technology, bioeconomic models of the fish stock-fishermen system and methods for assessing the status of fish stocks.
David's professional website
Courses taught: FW 531

Brent Steel - Professor, Political Science
Director of the Master of Public Policy Program. Expertise in environmental and natural resource policy issues from a domestic and international perspective. Fisheries-related research explores knowledge and values and how these shape attitudes towards and development of marine policy.
Brent's professional website
Courses taught: PS 577

Bryan Tilt - Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Research interests are environmental anthropology, anthropology of work, rural development, risk assessment and perception and marine resource management.
Courses taught: ANTH 581

Jenna Tilt - Instructor, Anthropology
Research interests include: land use planning, environmental psychology, natural resource decision making, urban ecology and marine resource management.
Courses taught: ANTH 581

Gregg Walker - Professor, Speech Communication
Research interests include: conflict resolution and natural resource management.
Courses taught: COMM 546