Undergrad Researchers:
Gain research experience
Undergraduates receive hands on training in community-relevant research while also engaging with the community. Student researchers Reese Tolbert and Ripley Wholecheese perform a dissection on the species, Berryteuthis magister, at the UAS Open House, 2025.
Ruby Kresge (2025- )
Undergraduate Researcher, NOAA Hollings Scholar (24-26), Chancellor’s List (F25, S25, F24), Dean’s List (S24, F23)
Project Title: “Preliminary analysis of schoolmaster gonatid squid (Berryteuthis magister) population dynamics in Southeast Alaska”
Reese Tolbert (2025- )
Undergraduate Researcher, UAS Fisheries Scholar (S26)
Project titles: F25: Preliminary analysis of schoolmaster gonatid squid (Berryteuthis magister) population dynamics in Southeast Alaska. S26: Recreating a plankton kreisel for hatching Berryteuthis magister eggs.
Ripley Wholecheese (2025- )
Undergraduate Researcher, UAS Fisheries Scholar (25), UAS AK STEM Scholar (24), UAS NSF Scholar (24), UAS Chancellor Awardee (24), Doyon Foundation STEM Scholar (24), UAS Dean’s list F25, S25, F24
Project Title: Berryteuthis magister
Lab Alumni:
Hunter Kaufman (2022-2025), Hollings, BLaST, Hollings PPP, URECA, Dean’s List Scholar, Project title, “Berryteuthis magister”
Cameron Mauldin (2024), BLaST, Dean’s List Scholar, Project title, “Biogenenic carbonate assessment towards their use to infer the age and health of Apostichopus californicus.”
Charlotte Springer (2022-2023), INBRE (2x), BLaST, and URECA Scholar, Projects (3) on Berryteuthis magister, the armhook squid.
Emma Roloff (2022-2023), AK SpaceGrant, BLaST, and URECA Scholar, Project title, “Berryteuthis magister (armhook squid) demographics”
Lance Chauhan (Spring 2023), Undergraduate Researcher, Project title, “Auke Bay squid investigation.”
Preslee Chase (Spring 2023), URECA Scholar, Project title, “Ocean Expedition.”
Elizabeth Friday (2022), Project Title, “Berryteuthis magister (commander squid) demographics in SE Alaska.”
Mike Flunker (Spring 2022), URECA Scholar, Project Title, “Zooplankton interactions with Pleurobrachia bachei: Placing ctenophores in the local food web.”
Natalya Opsahl (Spring 2022), Project Title, “Fjord Hydrography.”
Yeraldy Valera (Spring 2022), INBRE Scholar, Project Title, “Environmental DNA and Hydrography for biological community surveys in SE Alaska.”
Masaki Hara (Fall 2021), Project Title, “Inside Passage Hydrography.”
Molly Ekstrom (2018-2021), Undergraduate Researcher and BLaST, DIPAC and Dean’s List Scholar, Project Title, “Ageing market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) using statolith structures.”
Dillon Quealey (2018-2021), PEP NOAA Scholar, Lab Scientific Diver
Mikayla Clark (2019-2021), URECA Scholar, Project Title, “Spatiotemporal environmental variation in epipelagic zone of a Southeast Alaskan fjord.”
Dawn Wehde (2017-2018), URECA Scholar, Project Title, "Pilot investigation into the age structure of market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens, in the Gulf of Alaska."
Vasily Sekerak (2017-2018), URECA Scholar, Project Title, "Investigation of salinity effects on the otolith microstructure of Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii."
Nicole Barbour (2015-2017), Project Title, "Spatial and temporal variability of a biological guild on the Monterey Bay sandy continental shelf during the 2015-2016 El Niño.”
Jesirae Collins, CSUMB UROC and Dean’s List Scholar (2015-2016), Project Title, "Rippled scour depressions (RSDs) and their impacts on a dominant marine organism of the continental shelf.”
Chelsea Burgess, NSF REU Scholar (2015), Project title, "Novel bat star, Patiria miniata, habitat associations.”
Veronica Larwood, NSF Research Technician (2015), Project title, "Laser-Video Quadrat - Simple Method for Rapid Data Acquisition Using SCUBA.”
Madison Heard (2015)