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Faculty: Fisheries Management Graduate Certificate - Online

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

Selina Heppell - Program Lead, Fisheries Management
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. Learn more about Selina and her involvement with the Heppell Lab.

Additional instructors

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

John Chapman - Courtesy Assistant Professor of Fisheries
Research includes the study of climate consequences for species invasions and diversity changes in marine coastal systems, the historical origin and mechanisms of marine invertebrate dispersal, the criteria for introduced species and the geographical impacts of humans on ecosystems, the processes of biological invasions and the systematics of marine peracaridan crustaceans, invertebrate ecology and systmatics.

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.

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 adviser for the Falkland Island Government and General Manager, Policy and Science for the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council.

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 website

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.

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 website

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 website

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 website

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

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

Gregg Walker - Professor, Speech Communication
Research interests include: conflict resolution and natural resource management.
Gregg's professional website