Principal Investigator: Will White
I am a quantitative fisheries ecologist who links models to data to understand ecological mechanisms and inform management.
I began my career in graduate school at UC Santa Barbara as a field ecologist studying Caribbean reef fish behavior and population dynamics. As a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis I developed spatialpopulation models to advise the placement of California’s marine protected areas through my work with the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. Since then I have tended to blend empirical and theoretical research; I find that my experience in the field grounds my models in reality and improves the communication of my results, while my modeling expertise leads to creative analyses and new insights with field data. I am broadly interested in spatial fisheries management, the short-term dynamics of population responses to management, and the effects of climate variability and climate change on populations and fisheries.
I was on the faculty of UNC Wilmington from 2010-2017 before joining the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station in 2017. I am also a co-PI in the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans (PISCO).
email: will.white@oregonstate.edu
Will White Laboratory 