Ecology & Conservation — Ongoing Projects Evaluating the nursery function of Oregon’s estuaries for juvenile rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) Investigating the influence of multiple ecological factors on Kemp’s ridley sea turtle somatic growth and population dynamics Just going with the flow: oceanographic influences on the dispersal of larval rockfish (genus Sebastes spp.) from Marine Protected Areas in Oregon and Washington Temporal variability in juvenile fish communities in Yaquina Bay estuary, OR The role of maternal age and context-dependent maternal effects in the offspring provisioning of a long-lived marine teleost Understanding variation of functional diversity in fish assemblages as a metric to evaluate the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean