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MS and PhD in Aquatic and Fisheries Science

Graduate degrees.

The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) offers two graduate degrees with an optional additional credential in data sciences:

Master of Science in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (MS)

The following courses are required for all students in the SAFS graduate program.

• QSCI 482 , Statistical Inference in Applied Research, 5 credits
• FISH Current Topics aka “5-TEENS” (FISH 510-514), minimum of 2 courses/4 credits , Current Topics series, 2-5 credits
• FISH 521 , Research Proposal Writing, 4 credits
• FISH 522 , Hot Topics in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences 2 credits

SAFS M.S. students need a minimum of 45 credits to graduate, which will include a combination of courses, seminars, and thesis credits.

More information: https://fish.uw.edu/students/advising/forms-guidelines-handbooks/

UW Graduate School Degree Policies & Procedures: https://grad.uw.edu/policies-procedures/

Doctor of Philosophy in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (PhD)

SAFS PhD students need a minimum of 90 credits to graduate, which will include a combination of courses, seminars, and thesis credits.

Data Science Option in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Data Science Option (SAFS DSO) curriculum at the Master’s (M.S.) and Doctorate (Ph. D.) levels is designed to provide the breadth and depth of knowledge needed for a successful career at the interface of applied aquatic sciences and data science. The primary learning outcome for the SAFS DSO is for students to have professional working proficiency – gained through coursework – in data management, data visualization, software engineering (data focused), and statistical modeling.

Students complete courses from three out of four of the following areas. Each area lists current courses offered within SAFS and other departments on the UW Seattle campus that will satisfy the requirement in that area.

A minimum of 11 credits is required as follows

• 9 credits from courses in 3 of 4 topic areas below
• 2 credits of eScience seminar – minimum 2 quarters, 1 credit each

The 11 total credits for the DSO may be counted toward the minimum of 45 credits required for the SAFS MS degree or the 90 credits for the SAFS PhD degree. The 11+ data science option credits are not explicit requirements of the standard SAFS MS or PhD program.

DATA SCIENCE TOPIC AREAS:

Software Development for Data Science

• FISH 549 (3cr) Introduction to Environmental Data Science ( FISH 497A, WIN2021 will also apply )
• CSE 583 (4cr) Software Development for Data Scientists
• CHEM E 546 (3cr) Software Engineering for Molecular Data Scientists
• AMATH 583 (5cr) High Performance Scientific Computing
• M E 574 (3cr) Introduction to Applied Parallel Computing for Engineers

Data Management and/or Data Visualization

• FISH 554 (2cr) Beautiful Graphics in R
• FISH 546 (3cr) Bioinformatics for Environmental Sciences
• CSE 412 (4cr) Introduction to Data Visualization
• CSE 414 (4cr) Introduction to Database Systems
• CSE 544 (4cr) Principles of Database Systems
• HCDE 411/511 (4cr) Information Visualization

Department-Specific Course Options Related to Data Science

• FISH 558 (5cr) Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management
• FISH 559 (5cr) Numerical Computing for the Natural Resources
• FISH 576 (2-5cr) Applied Stock Assessment I
• FISH 577 (2-5cr) Applied Stock Assessment II
• GENOME 569 (1.5cr) Bioinformatics Workflows for High-Throughput Sequencing Experiment

Advanced Statistics and/or Statistical Modeling

• FISH 458 (5cr) Advanced Ecological Modeling
• FISH 556 (5cr) Spatio-temporal Models for Ecologists
• FISH 560 (4cr) Applied Multivariate Statistics for Ecologists
• QERM 514 (4cr) Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data I
• FISH 550 (4cr) Applied Time Series Analysis
• FISH 551 (4cr) Data and Resource-limited Methods in Fisheries Management
• FISH 555 (4cr) Age-Structured Models in Fisheries Stock Assessment
• FISH 557 (4cr) Demographic Estimation & Modeling
• ATM S 552 (3cr) Objective Analysis
• AMATH 582 (5cr) Computational Methods for Data Analysis
• AMATH 563 (5cr) Inferring Structure of Complex Systems
• AMATH 515 (5cr) Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications
• CSE/STAT 416 (4cr) Introduction to Machine Learning
• STAT 435 (4cr) Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning
• CSE 546 (4cr) Machine Learning
• STAT 535 (3cr) Statistical Learning: Modeling, Prediction, and Computing
• M E/E E 578 (4cr) Convex Optimization
• M E 599 (1-5cr) Special Topics: Machine Learning Control
• CSE 599 (1-5cr) Special Topics: Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Genome 559 (3cr) Introduction to Statistical and Computational Genomics

Research-Focussed Program

Students often begin their research project in the first quarter. Required coursework is minimal to allow for a self-designed plan of study tailored to support the research project. Most MS students complete the program with at least one publication and most PhD students graduate with multiple publications. 

Faculty Adviser

Faculty review all applicants to the graduate program and offer admission to work in their lab. On occasion, an applicant might receive an offer of admission to two different labs and would therefore get to choose. Faculty track student progress and provide mentorship. The adviser assists the student in planning initial coursework and may aid the development of a research program. The faculty adviser usually becomes the chairperson of the student’s supervisory committee or may assist in finding another appropriate faculty member who can supervise the student’s research.

Our current admissions cycle is for an Autumn Quarter start, and we begin accepting applications each year on September 1. The application submission deadline is November 15 for both domestic and international applicants.

Applicants are encouraged to contact potential advisers in the Fall, and definitely no later than February. You can review the online faculty profiles to determine whether your research background, interests, and objectives fit with one (or more) of the SAFS faculty and contact them accordingly. You do not need to have a specific research project in mind when you apply. However, you should have a clear idea of the type of research that you’d like to pursue and which SAFS faculty members are best suited to supervise your prospective research.

Please learn more about the admission process.

View more information about the Graduate School’s admissions policies and procedures at UW Office of Graduate Admissions . Admission and enrollment statistics can be found at Graduate School Statistics and Reports .

Funding is a critical aspect of admission. All of our graduate students are funded through four possible avenues: 1. research or teaching assistantships, 2. employer support, 3. other forms of aid (e.g., governmental sponsorship) or 4. SAFS fellowships.  Please learn more about how graduate students are funded in our program.

Degree Options

We hold MS and PhD students to the same standards – both are valuable; therefore, we have a unique structure allowing students that do not already hold a masters to seamlessly expand their thesis to a PhD with committee support. If you do not already hold a master’s by the time you begin the program, we ask that you apply through the UW Graduate School’s MS application portal but note on your application your intent to complete a PhD. 

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The Program is full-time, consisting of courses and research, designed to train marine and freshwater scientists in basic and applied research that will help foster healthy marine and freshwater ecosystems and sustainable resource use. The Program draws on the broad and extensive expertise of faculty associated with the Institute and responds to the emerging need for expertise to manage fisheries and other resource use activities on Canada’s coastlines, marine territory and inland waterbodies. Ph.D. candidates deepen their interdisciplinary expertise and acquire professional experience in areas including fisheries science, aquatic ecology, environmental physiology, natural resource economics, marine governance, and climate change. In the process, the program fosters cutting-edge research on marine and freshwater systems, and addresses national and global priorities in environmental science and technologies, and natural resources and energy.

For specific program requirements, please refer to the departmental program website

What makes the program unique?

Faculty members hold joint appointments with Zoology, Anthropology, Geography, History, Statistics, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, the UBC Policy School, and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. This integration of natural and applied management and sustainability graduate training streams differentiates the program from all other related programs in the province and is a key strength of the program.

The Program builds on a proven record of accomplishment where the core faculty of the former UBC Fisheries Centre has supervised several hundred graduate students through Zoology and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (RES) graduate programs. This program will bring together components of the natural science-type graduate programs (i.e., the Zoology Graduate Program and Oceanography Graduate Program) with the applied management and sustainability-type programs (i.e., Resources and Environmental Sustainability Graduate Program) and build on their collective strengths.

Quick Facts

Program enquiries, admission information & requirements, program instructions.

Please consult this webpage for full details on how to apply:  https://oceans.ubc.ca/graduate-program/prospective-students/admissions/  

1) Check Eligibility

Minimum academic requirements.

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies establishes the minimum admission requirements common to all applicants, usually a minimum overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC). The graduate program that you are applying to may have additional requirements. Please review the specific requirements for applicants with credentials from institutions in:

• Canada or the United States
• International countries other than the United States

Each program may set higher academic minimum requirements. Please review the program website carefully to understand the program requirements. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission as it is a competitive process.

English Language Test

Applicants from a university outside Canada in which English is not the primary language of instruction must provide results of an English language proficiency examination as part of their application. Tests must have been taken within the last 24 months at the time of submission of your application.

Minimum requirements for the two most common English language proficiency tests to apply to this program are listed below:

TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language - internet-based

Overall score requirement : 100

IELTS: International English Language Testing System

Overall score requirement : 7.0

Other Test Scores

Some programs require additional test scores such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Test (GMAT). The requirements for this program are:

The GRE is not required.

Prior degree, course and other requirements

Course requirements.

A Master's degree (or equivalent) from an approved institution with clear evidence of research ability or potential.

Document Requirements

• Three Reference Letters. Ideally, the referees should be faculty members who have supervised your studies and/or research directly.
• Curriculum Vitae. 
• Statement of Intent outlining your research experience, proposed research project (or ideas), and explaining your interest in working with the particular faculty member(s).
• Scanned copies of up-to-date unofficial transcripts of marks from all post-secondary institutions attended. Official copies of transcripts will need to be mailed in order to register for courses.

Other Requirements

Firm commitment from a faculty member to fund and act as supervisor is required in order to be considered.

Please review list of faculty here:  https://oceans.ubc.ca/people/  

2) Meet Deadlines

3) prepare application, transcripts.

All applicants have to submit transcripts from all past post-secondary study. Document submission requirements depend on whether your institution of study is within Canada or outside of Canada.

Letters of Reference

A minimum of three references are required for application to graduate programs at UBC. References should be requested from individuals who are prepared to provide a report on your academic ability and qualifications.

Statement of Interest

Many programs require a statement of interest , sometimes called a "statement of intent", "description of research interests" or something similar.

• Supervision

Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.

Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for Doctor of Philosophy in Oceans and Fisheries (PhD)

Contact by email. Listing is here:  https://oceans.ubc.ca/people/

Citizenship Verification

Permanent Residents of Canada must provide a clear photocopy of both sides of the Permanent Resident card.

4) Apply Online

All applicants must complete an online application form and pay the application fee to be considered for admission to UBC.

Research Information

Research highlights.

The impacts of the Institute’s research on aquatic issues extend far beyond our academic home at UBC. Our research has influenced public policy concerning the management of fisheries, the establishment of marine protected areas, industrial fishing practices, and the economic structure of fisheries. We also undertake a wide variety of educational and public outreach initiatives, in Canada and beyond.

Visit our research impacts page to read about topics and initiatives such as:

Toward Sustainable Chinese Medicine

UBC’s Blue Whale Project

Research Focus

Our research themes are:

Ecology and Biology: From viruses and microbes to phyto-plankton and zooplankton. From seahorses to whales. From freshwater to the high seas. Our researchers cover the world examining species ecology, animal behaviour and movement, and their interactions with humans, as indicators of ecosystem change.

Ecosystem Modelling: Ecosystem modelling approaches and tools, such as Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE), decision-support software tools, manage-ment strategy evaluations, dynamic population models and Bayesian statistical methods, species distribution models and habitat modelling, and statistical analyses of fisheries and fisheries ecosystems help us understand the past, present and future of our shared marine resources.

Human, Social and Economic Dimensions: Our oceans and freshwater systems are a powerful part of our human conscious-ness. We know that human impacts have, for the most part been destructive; how do we change that so that the marine ecosystems that feed us, employ us, and support us can be sustained in an equitable, restorative, and resilient way.

Sustainability and Policy: We only have one Earth: how can we sustain it? Analyzing and predicting climate change impacts, advancing marine conservation, offering mitigation and adaptation solutions, conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research and resource management, and seeking practical solutions in local, regional, and global policy forums.

Research Facilities

The IOF is housed in the Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), an $8.9-million facility offering 55,000 square feet for research, collaboration and teaching. A four-storey open atrium connects interdisciplinary research groups throughout the building. Adjacent to the atrium, social spaces promote a sense of community and encourage interaction between students, faculty and staff. Large public rooms on the ground floor provide a welcoming environment for academic and social events. The upper floors house offices, digital laboratories and a variety of meeting spaces, such as the Hakai Node.

Tuition & Financial Support

Financial Support

Applicants to UBC have access to a variety of funding options, including merit-based (i.e. based on your academic performance) and need-based (i.e. based on your financial situation) opportunities.

Program Funding Packages

The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) has a funding policy that guarantees a minimum level of support to all Ocean and Fisheries (OCF) students. The minimum level of support is intended to assist with various aspects of student life including the cost of living and tuition, and may change yearly to account for changes in these costs, see below for the exact amount.

Please consult this page for detailed funding information:  https://oceans.ubc.ca/graduate-program/funding/  

Average Funding

Based on the criteria outlined below, 21 students within this program were included in this study because they received funding through UBC in the form of teaching, research, academic assistantships or internal or external awards averaging $33,929 .

• 6 students received Teaching Assistantships. Average TA funding based on 6 students was $6,969.
• 17 students received Research Assistantships. Average RA funding based on 17 students was $23,183.
• 6 students received Academic Assistantships. Average AA funding based on 6 students was $3,147.
• 21 students received internal awards. Average internal award funding based on 21 students was $9,605.
• 2 students received external awards. Average external award funding based on 2 students was $28,000.

Scholarships & awards (merit-based funding)

All applicants are encouraged to review the awards listing to identify potential opportunities to fund their graduate education. The database lists merit-based scholarships and awards and allows for filtering by various criteria, such as domestic vs. international or degree level.

Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA)

Many professors are able to provide Research Assistantships (GRA) from their research grants to support full-time graduate students studying under their supervision. The duties constitute part of the student's graduate degree requirements. A Graduate Research Assistantship is considered a form of fellowship for a period of graduate study and is therefore not covered by a collective agreement. Stipends vary widely, and are dependent on the field of study and the type of research grant from which the assistantship is being funded.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA)

Graduate programs may have Teaching Assistantships available for registered full-time graduate students. Full teaching assistantships involve 12 hours work per week in preparation, lecturing, or laboratory instruction although many graduate programs offer partial TA appointments at less than 12 hours per week. Teaching assistantship rates are set by collective bargaining between the University and the Teaching Assistants' Union .

Graduate Academic Assistantships (GAA)

Academic Assistantships are employment opportunities to perform work that is relevant to the university or to an individual faculty member, but not to support the student’s graduate research and thesis. Wages are considered regular earnings and when paid monthly, include vacation pay.

Financial aid (need-based funding)

Canadian and US applicants may qualify for governmental loans to finance their studies. Please review eligibility and types of loans .

All students may be able to access private sector or bank loans.

Foreign government scholarships

Many foreign governments provide support to their citizens in pursuing education abroad. International applicants should check the various governmental resources in their home country, such as the Department of Education, for available scholarships.

Working while studying

The possibility to pursue work to supplement income may depend on the demands the program has on students. It should be carefully weighed if work leads to prolonged program durations or whether work placements can be meaningfully embedded into a program.

International students enrolled as full-time students with a valid study permit can work on campus for unlimited hours and work off-campus for no more than 20 hours a week.

A good starting point to explore student jobs is the UBC Work Learn program or a Co-Op placement .

Tax credits and RRSP withdrawals

Students with taxable income in Canada may be able to claim federal or provincial tax credits.

Canadian residents with RRSP accounts may be able to use the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) which allows students to withdraw amounts from their registered retirement savings plan (RRSPs) to finance full-time training or education for themselves or their partner.

Please review Filing taxes in Canada on the student services website for more information.

Cost Estimator

Applicants have access to the cost estimator to develop a financial plan that takes into account various income sources and expenses.

Career Outcomes

Career options.

The Program produces research scientists with the research capacity and knowledge translation skills necessary for influential careers in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Ph.D. candidates gain exposure to potential future careers and develop professional connections through cooperation and interaction with a diverse partner group in industry (e.g., United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union), consulting (e.g., LGL limited), government (e.g., Fisheries and Oceans Canada, B.C. Ministry of the Environment), and non-governmental organizations (e.g., Suzuki Foundation, Hakai Institute).

Enrolment, Duration & Other Stats

These statistics show data for the Doctor of Philosophy in Oceans and Fisheries (PhD). Data are separated for each degree program combination. You may view data for other degree options in the respective program profile.

ENROLMENT DATA

Admissions data refer to all UBC Vancouver applications, offers, new registrants for each registration year, May to April, e.g. data for 2022 refers to programs starting in 2022 Summer and 2022 Winter session, i.e. May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023. Data on total enrolment reflects enrolment in Winter Session Term 1 and are based on snapshots taken on November 1 of each registration year. Program completion data are only provided for datasets comprised of more than 4 individuals. Graduation rates exclude students who transfer out of their programs. Rates and times of completion depend on a number of variables (e.g. curriculum requirements, student funding), some of which may have changed in recent years for some programs.

Upcoming Doctoral Exams

Thursday, 12 september 2024 - 1:00pm - 107, aquatic ecosystems research lab, 2202 main mall.

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Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors

These videos contain some general advice from faculty across UBC on finding and reaching out to a supervisor. They are not program specific.

This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.

• Auger-Methe, Marie (Fisheries sciences; Statistics; Zoology; Animal movement; Polar ecology; Statistical Ecology)
• Cheung, Wai Lung (Global change biology; Ecological impacts of climate change; climate change; Marine Ecosystems; sustainability; biodiversity; Interdisciplinary)
• Christensen, Villy (Fisheries management; Global change biology; Ecosystem function)
• Donner, Simon (Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Science; climate change impacts; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Climate modelling and prediction; Science communication; Net-zero emissions; Coral reefs)
• Harley, Christopher (Fisheries sciences; Zoology; climate change; community ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; marine algae; marine invertebrates)
• Hunt, Brian (Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biological oceanography; Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Ecological impacts of climate change; Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); marine food webs; ecosystem oceanography; plankton dynamics; open ocean; Coastal Ecosystems; climate change impacts on the ocean; salmon ecology; food web nutrition; microplastics; stable isotopes; forage fish; zooplankton; Urban oceans; Thiamine defficiency; Stormwater)
• McAllister, Murdoch (Statistical methods for fisheries risk assessment, estimation, decision analysis and management strategy evaluation)
• Pakhomov, Yevhenii (Feeding ecophysiology of aquatic invertebrates and fishes, Antarctic ecology, Antarctic krill biology, Tunicate biology, Fishery ecology, Stable isotope ecology)
• Pauly, Daniel (World fisheries; Marine life; Global catch; Management of fisheries; Fish growth and ecophysiology)
• Reid, Andrea (Fisheries sciences; Culturally significant fish and fisheries)
• Rosen, David (Animal physiology; Physiology, behaviour, and ecology of marine mammals;; Bioenergetics; Nutrition; Conservation physiology)
• Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (Bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries)
• Suttle, Curtis (Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses)
• Trites, Andrew (marine mammals, seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, fisheries competition, population biology, ecology, Marine mamals research centre, biology of marine mammals, population dynamics, bioenergetics, fisheries)
• Vincent, Amanda (Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biodiversity; Natural environment sustainability studies; Natural resource management; Wildlife and habitat management; marine conservation; threatened marine species, especially seahorses and their relatives; bottom trawling and other nonselective fisheries; wildlife trade; marine protected areas; Small-scale fisheries; community-based conservation; citizen/community science; multilateral environmental agreements; .)

Doctoral Citations

Sample Thesis Submissions

• The effects of trophic interactions and climate change on the space use of an Arctic marine mesopredator
• The de facto protection of Marine Protected Areas

Related Programs

Same specialization.

• Master of Science in Oceans and Fisheries (MSc)

Further Information

Specialization.

Within Oceans and Fisheries marine and freshwater scientists train to undertake basic and applied research that will help foster healthy marine and freshwater ecosystems and sustainable resource use. Students will deepen and broaden their interdisciplinary expertise by acquiring in-depth training in fisheries science, aquatic ecology, environmental physiology, natural resource economics, marine governance, and climate change.

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Texas A&M University Catalogs

Doctor of philosophy in rangeland, wildlife and fisheries management.

The Doctor of Philosophy degree in Rangeland, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management is designed primarily for students pursuing an academic or research career in natural resource management and ecology, with an emphasis in wildlife, fisheries, rangelands, or human dimensions and policy. The RWFM curriculum aims to provide students with a multi-disciplinary toolkit grounded in cutting-edge science to address an array of questions confronting the management of natural resources in Texas, the nation, and beyond. With the goal of conserving our natural legacy in a dynamic and fluid social-ecological system, students are provided an educational foundation that equips them to address complexity across multiple social-ecological systems and scales. This program involves intensive research, guided coursework, and a resulting dissertation demonstrating superior knowledge and understanding of the subject area.

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Degree Plan

Transfer of credit, research proposal, preliminary examination, preliminary examination format, preliminary examination scheduling, preliminary examination grading, failure of the preliminary examination, retake of failed preliminary examination, final examination, final examination grading, dissertation, student’s advisory committee.

After receiving admission to graduate studies and enrolling, the student will consult with the head of their major or administrative department (or chair of the intercollegiate faculty) concerning appointment of the chair of the advisory committee. The student’s advisory committee will consist of  no fewer than four members of the graduate faculty  representative of the student’s several fields of study and research, where the chair or co-chair must be from the student’s department (or intercollegiate faculty, if applicable), and  at least one or more of the members must have an appointment to a department other than the student’s major department . The outside member for a student in an interdisciplinary degree program must be from a department different from the chair of the student’s committee.

The chair, in consultation with the student, will select the remainder of the advisory committee. Only graduate faculty members located on Texas A&M University campuses may serve as chair of a student’s advisory committee. Other Texas A&M University graduate faculty members located off-campus may serve as a member or co-chair (but not chair), with a member as the chair.

If the chair of a student’s advisory committee voluntarily leaves the University and the student is near completion of the degree and wants the chair to continue to serve in this role, the student is responsible for securing a current member of the University Graduate Faculty, from the student’s academic program and located near the Texas A&M University campus site, to serve as the co-chair of the committee. The Department Head or Chair of Intercollegiate faculty may request in writing to the Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate and Professional School that a faculty member who is on an approved leave of absence or has voluntarily separated from the university, be allowed to continue to serve in the role of chair of a student’s advisory committee without a co-chair for up to one year. The students should be near completion of the degree. Extensions beyond the one year period can be granted with additional approval of the Dean.

The committee members’ signatures on the degree plan indicate their willingness to accept the responsibility for guiding and directing the entire academic program of the student and for initiating all academic actions concerning the student. Although individual committee members may be replaced by petition for valid reasons, a committee cannot resign  en masse . The chair of the committee, who usually has immediate supervision of the student’s research and dissertation or record of study, has the responsibility for calling all meetings of the committee. The duties of the committee include responsibility for the proposed degree plan, the research proposal, the preliminary examination, the dissertation or record of study and the final examination. In addition, the committee, as a group and as individual members, is responsible for counseling the student on academic matters, and, in the case of academic deficiency, initiating recommendations to the Graduate and Professional School.

The student’s advisory committee will evaluate the student’s previous education and degree objectives. The committee, in consultation with the student, will develop a proposed degree plan and outline a research problem which, when completed, as indicated by the dissertation (or its equivalent for the degree of Doctor of Education or the degree of Doctor of Engineering), will constitute the basic requirements for the degree. The degree plan must be filed with the Graduate and Professional School prior to the deadline imposed by the student’s college and no later than 90 days prior to the preliminary examination.

This proposed degree plan should be submitted through the online Document Processing Submission System located on the website  http://ogsdpss.tamu.edu . A minimum of 64 hours is required on the degree plan for the Doctor of Philosophy for a student who has completed a master’s degree. A student who has completed a DDS/DMD, DVM or a MD at a U.S. institution is also required to complete a minimum of 64 hours. A student who has completed a baccalaureate degree but not a master’s degree will be required to complete a 96-hour degree plan. Completion of a DDS/DMD, DVM or MD degree at a foreign institution requires completion of a minimum of 96 hours for the Doctor of Philosophy. A field of study may be primarily in one department or in a combination of departments. A degree plan must carry a reasonable amount of 691 (Research). A maximum of 9 hours of 400-level undergraduate courses may be used toward meeting credit-hour requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy.

Additional coursework may be added by petition to the approved degree plan by the student’s advisory committee if it is deemed necessary to correct deficiencies in the student’s academic preparation. No changes can be made to the degree plan once the student’s Request for Final Examination is approved by the Graduate and Professional School.

Approval to enroll in any professional course (900-level) should be obtained from the head of the department (or Chair of the intercollegiate faculty, if applicable) in which the course will be offered before including such a course on a degree plan.

No credit may be obtained by correspondence study, by extension or for any course of fewer than three weeks duration.

For non-distance degree programs, no more than 50 percent of the non-research credit hours required for the program may be completed through distance education courses.

To receive a graduate degree from Texas A&M University, students must earn one-third or more of the credits through the institution’s own direct instruction. This limitation also applies to joint degree programs. 

Courses for which transfer credits are sought must have been completed with a grade of B or greater and must be approved by the student’s advisory committee and the Graduate and Professional School. These courses must not have been used previously for another degree. Except for officially approved cooperative doctoral programs, credit for thesis or dissertation research or the equivalent is not transferable. Credit for “internship” coursework in any form is not transferable. Courses taken in residence at an accredited U.S. institution or approved international institution with a final grade of B or greater will be considered for transfer credit if, at the time the courses were completed, the courses would be accepted for credit toward a similar degree for a student in degree-seeking status at the host institution. Credit for coursework taken by extension is not transferable. Coursework  in which no formal grades are given or in which grades other than letter grades (A or B) are earned (for example, CR, P, S, U, H, etc.) is not accepted for transfer credit . Credit for coursework submitted for transfer from any college or university must be shown in semester credit hours, or equated to semester credit hours.

Courses used toward a degree at another institution may not be applied for graduate credit. If the course to be transferred was taken prior to the conferral of a degree at the transfer institution, a letter from the registrar at that institution stating that the course was not applied for credit toward the degree must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School.

Grades for courses completed at other institutions are not included in computing the GPA. An official transcript from the university at which transfer courses are taken must be sent directly to the Office of Admissions.

The general field of research to be used for the dissertation should be agreed on by the student and the advisory committee at their first meeting, as a basis for selecting the proper courses to support the proposed research.

As soon thereafter as the research project can be outlined in reasonable detail, the dissertation research proposal should be completed. The research proposal should be approved at a meeting of the student’s advisory committee, at which time the feasibility of the proposed research and the adequacy of available facilities should be reviewed. The approved proposal, signed by all members of the student’s advisory committee, the head of the student’s major department (or chair of the intercollegiate faculty, if applicable), must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School at least 20 working days prior to the submission of the Request for the Final Examination.

Compliance issues must be addressed if a graduate student is performing research involving human subjects, animals, infectious biohazards and recombinant DNA. A student involved in these types of research should check with the Office of Research Compliance and Biosafety at (979) 458-1467 to address questions about all research compliance responsibilities. Additional information can also be obtained on the website  http:// rcb.tamu.edu .

Examinations

The student’s major department (or chair of the interdisciplinary degree program faculty, if applicable) and their advisory committee may require qualifying, cumulative or other types of examinations at any time deemed desirable. These examinations are entirely at the discretion of the department and the student’s advisory committee.

The preliminary examination is required. The preliminary examination for a doctoral student shall be given no earlier than a date at which the student is within 6 credit hours of completion of the formal coursework on the degree plan (i.e., all coursework on the degree plan except 681, 684, 691 or other graduate courses specifically designated as S/U in the course catalog). The student should complete the Preliminary Examination no later than the end of the semester following the completion of the formal coursework on the degree plan.

The objective of preliminary examination is to evaluate whether the student has demonstrated the following qualifications:

a.     a mastery of the subject matter of all fields in the program;

b.     an adequate knowledge of the literature in these fields and an ability to carry out bibliographical research;

c.     an understanding of the research problem and the appropriate methodological approaches.

The format of the preliminary examination shall be determined by the student’s department (or interdisciplinary degree program, if applicable) and advisory committee, and communicated to the student in advance of the examination. The exam may consist of a written component, oral component, or combination of written and oral components.

The preliminary exam may be administered by the advisory committee or a departmental committee; herein referred to as the examination committee.

Regardless of exam format, a student will receive an overall preliminary exam result of pass or fail. The department (or interdisciplinary degree program, if applicable) will determine how the overall pass or fail result is determined based on the exam structure and internal department procedures. If the exam is administered by the advisory committee, each advisory committee member will provide a pass or fail evaluation decision.

Only one advisory committee substitution is allowed to provide an evaluation decision for a student’s preliminary exam, and it cannot be the committee chair.

If a student is required to take, as a part of the preliminary examination, a written component administered by a department or interdisciplinary degree program, the department or interdisciplinary degree program faculty must:

a.     offer the examination at least once every six months. The departmental or interdisciplinary degree program examination should be announced at least 30 days prior to the scheduled examination date.

b.     assume the responsibility for marking the examination satisfactory or unsatisfactory, or otherwise graded, and in the case of unsatisfactory, stating specifically the reasons for such a mark.

c.     forward the marked examination to the chair of the student’s advisory committee within one week after the examination.

Students are eligible for to schedule the preliminary examination in the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS) if they meet the following list of eligibility requirements:

Student is registered at Texas A&M University for a minimum of one semester credit hour in the long semester or summer term during which any component of the preliminary examination is held. If the entire examination is held between semesters, then the student must be registered for the term immediately preceding the examination.

An approved degree plan is on file with the Graduate and Professional School prior to commencing the first component of the examination.

Student’s cumulative GPA is at least 3.000.

Student’s degree plan GPA is at least 3.000.

At the end of the semester in which at least the first component of the exam is given, there are no more than 6 hours of coursework remaining on the degree plan (except 681, 684, 691 or other graduate courses specifically designated as S/U in the course catalog). The head of the student’s department (or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Degree Program, if applicable) has the authority to approve a waiver of this criterion.

Credit for the preliminary examination is not transferable in cases where a student changes degree programs after passing a preliminary exam.

If a written component precedes an oral component of the preliminary exam, the chair of the student’s examination committee is responsible for making all written examinations available to all members of the committee. A positive evaluation of the preliminary exam by all members of a student’s examination committee with at most one dissension is required to pass a student on their preliminary exam.

The student’s department will promptly report the results of the Preliminary Examination to the Graduate and Professional School via the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS) within 10 working days of completion of the preliminary examination.

If an approved examination committee member substitution (one only) has been made, their approval must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School via ARCS. The approval of the designated department approver is also required on the request.

After passing the required preliminary oral and written examinations for a doctoral degree, the student must complete the final examination within four years of the semester in which the preliminary exam is taken. Exams taken in between terms will expire at the end of the term that ended prior to the exam. For example, a preliminary exam taken and passed during the Fall 2023 semester will expire at the end of the Fall 2027 semester. A preliminary exam taken in the time between the Summer and Fall 2023 semesters will expire at the end of the Summer 2027 semester.

First Failure

Upon approval of a student’s examination committee (with no more than one member dissenting), and approval of the Department and Graduate and Professional School, a student who has failed a preliminary examination may be given one re-examination. In accordance with Student Rule 12.5, the student’s department head or designee, intercollegiate faculty, or graduate advisory committee should make a recommendation to the student regarding their scholastic deficiency.

Second Failure

Upon failing the preliminary exam twice in a doctoral program, a student is no longer eligible to continue to pursue the PhD in that program/major. In accordance with Student Rule 12.5.3 and/or 12.5.4, the student will be notified of the action being taken by the department as a result of the second failure of the preliminary examination.

Adequate time must be given to permit a student to address inadequacies emerging from the first preliminary examination. The examination committee must agree upon and communicate to the student, in writing, an adequate time-frame from the first examination (normally six months) to retest, as well as a detailed explanation of the inadequacies emerging from the examination. The student and committee should jointly negotiate a mutually acceptable date for this retest.  When providing feedback on inadequacies, the committee should clearly document expected improvements that the student must be able to exhibit in order to retake the exam.  The examination committee will document and communicate the time-frame and feedback within 10 working days of the exam that was not passed.

Candidates for the doctoral degrees must pass a final examination by deadline dates announced in the  Graduate and Professional School Calendar  each semester. A doctoral student is allowed only one opportunity to take the final examination.

No unabsolved grades of D, F, or U for any course can be listed on the degree plan. The student must be registered for any remaining hours of 681, 684, 691 or other graduate courses specifically designated as S/U in the course catalog during the semester of the final exam. No student may be given a final examination until they have been admitted to candidacy and their current official cumulative and degree plan GPAs are 3.00 or better.

Refer to the  Admission to Candidacy  section of the graduate catalog for candidacy requirements.

A request to schedule the final examination must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School via ARCS a minimum of 10 working days in advance of the scheduled date. Any changes to the degree plan must be approved by the Graduate and Professional School prior to the submission of the request for final examination.

The student’s advisory committee will conduct this examination. Only one committee member substitution is allowed with the approval of the Graduate and Professional School. If the substitution is for the sole external member of the advisory committee - with an appointment to a department other than the student's major department - then the substitute must also be external to the student's major department. In extenuating circumstances, with the approval of the Graduate and Professional School, an exception to this requirement may be granted.

The final examination is not to be administered until the dissertation or record of study is available in substantially final form to the student’s advisory committee, and all concerned have had adequate time to review the document.  Whereas the final examination may cover the broad field of the candidate’s training, it is presumed that the major portion of the time will be devoted to the dissertation and closely allied topics. Persons other than members of the graduate faculty may, with mutual consent of the candidate and the chair of the advisory committee, be invited to attend a final examination for an advanced degree. A positive vote by all members of the graduate committee with at most one dissension is required to pass a student on their exam. A department can have a stricter requirement provided there is consistency within all degree programs within a department. Upon completion of the questioning of the candidate, all visitors must excuse themselves from the proceedings.

The student’s department will promptly report the results of the Final Examination to the Graduate and Professional School via the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS) within 10 working days of completion of the final examination. The Graduate and Professional School will be automatically notified via ARCS of any cancellations.

A positive evaluation of the final exam by all members of a student’s advisory committee with at most one dissension is required to pass a student on their final exam. If an approved committee member substitution (1 only) has been made, their approval must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School via ARCS.

The dissertation,  which must be a candidate's original work demonstrates the ability to perform independent research . Whereas acceptance of the dissertation is based primarily on its scholarly merit, it must also exhibit creditable literary workmanship. Dissertation formatting must be acceptable to the Graduate and Professional School as outlined in the Guidelines for Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study.

After successful defense and approval by the student’s advisory committee and the head of the student’s major department (or chair of intercollegiate faculty, if applicable), a student must submit the dissertation in electronic format as a single PDF file to https://etd.tamu.edu/ . Additionally, a dissertation approval form with original signatures must be received by the Graduate and Professional School through the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS). Both the PDF file and the completed ARCS approval form must be received by the deadline.

Deadline dates for submitting are announced each semester or summer term in the Graduate and Professional School Calendar (see Time Limit statement). These dates also can be accessed via the  Graduate and Professional School website .

Each student who submits a document for review is assessed a one-time thesis/dissertation processing fee through Student Business Services. This processing fee is for the thesis/dissertation services provided. After commencement, dissertations are digitally stored and made available through the Texas A&M Libraries.

A dissertation that is deemed unacceptable by the Graduate and Professional School because of excessive corrections will be returned to the student’s department head or chair of the intercollegiate faculty . The manuscript must be resubmitted as a new document, and the entire review process must begin anew. All original submittal deadlines must be met during the resubmittal process to graduate.

Additional Requirements

Continuous registration, admission to candidacy.

• 99-Hour Cap on Doctoral Degree

Application for Degree

A student who enters the doctoral degree program with a baccalaureate degree must spend one academic year plus one semester in resident study at Texas A&M University. A student who holds master’s degree when they enter a doctoral degree program must spend one academic year in resident study. One academic year may include two adjacent regular semesters or one regular semester and one adjacent 10-week summer semester. The third semester is not required to be adjacent to the one year. Enrollment for each semester must be a minimum of 9 credit hours each to satisfy the residence requirement. A minimum of 1 credit hour must be in a non-distance education delivery mode. Semesters in which the student is enrolled in all distance education coursework will not count toward fulfillment of the residence requirement.

To satisfy the residence requirement, the student must complete a minimum of 9 credit hours per semester or 10-week summer semester in resident study at Texas A&M University for the required period. A student who enters a doctoral degree program with a baccalaureate degree may fulfill residence requirements in excess of one academic year (18 credit hours) by registration during summer sessions or by completion of a less-than-full course load (in this context a full course load is considered 9 credit hours per semester).

Students who are employed full-time while completing their degree may fulfill total residence requirements by completion of less-than-full time course loads each semester. In order to be considered for this, the student is required to submit a Petition for Waivers and Exceptions along with verification of employment to the Graduate and Professional School. An employee should submit verification of employment at the time they submit the degree plan. See  Registration .

See  Residence Requirements .

All requirements for doctoral degrees must be completed within a period of ten consecutive calendar years for the degree to be granted.   A course will be considered valid until 10 years after the end of the semester in which it is taken. Graduate credit for coursework more than ten calendar years old at the time of the final oral examination may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.

After passing the required preliminary oral and written examinations for a doctoral degree, the student must complete the final examination within four years of the semester in which the preliminary exam is taken. Exams taken in between terms will expire at the end of the term that ended prior to the exam. For example, a preliminary exam taken and passed during the fall 2019 semester will expire at the end of the fall 2023 semester. A preliminary exam taken in the time between the summer and fall 2019 semesters will expire at the end of the summer 2023 semester.

A final corrected version of the dissertation or record of study in electronic format as a single PDF file must be cleared by the Graduate and Professional School within one year of the semester in which the final exam is taken. Exams taken in between terms will expire at the end of the term that ended prior to the exam. For example, a final exam taken and passed during the fall 2022 semester will expire at the end of the fall 2023 semester. A final exam taken in the time between the summer and fall 2022 semesters will expire at the end of the summer 2023 semester. Failure to do so will result in the degree not being awarded.

A student in a program leading to a Doctor of Philosophy who has completed all coursework on a degree plan other than 691 (research) are required to be in continuous registration until all requirements for the degree have been completed. See  Continuous Registration Requirements .

To be admitted to candidacy for a doctoral degree, a student must have:

• completed all formal coursework on the degree plan with the exception of any remaining 681, 684, 690 and 691, or 791.
• a 3.0 Graduate GPA and a Degree Plan GPA of at least 3.0 with no grade lower than C in any course on the degree plan,
• passed the preliminary examination (written and oral portions),
• submitted an approved dissertation proposal,
• met the residence requirements. The final examination will not be authorized for any doctoral student who has not been admitted to candidacy.

A student is required to possess a competent command of English. For English language proficiency requirements, see the Admissions section of this catalog. The doctoral (PhD) foreign language requirement at Texas A&M University is a departmental option, to be administered and monitored by the individual departments of academic instruction.

99-Hour Cap on Doctoral Degrees

In Texas, public colleges and universities are funded by the state according to the number of students enrolled. In accordance with legislation passed by the Texas Legislature, the number of hours for which state universities may receive subvention funding at the doctoral rate for any individual is limited to 99 hours. Texas A&M and other universities will not receive subvention for hours in excess of the limit.

Institutions of higher education are allowed to charge the equivalent of non-resident tuition to a resident doctoral student who has enrolled in 100 or more semester credit hours of doctoral coursework.

Doctoral students at Texas A&M have seven years to complete their degree before being charged out-of-state tuition. A doctoral student who, after seven years of study, has accumulated 100 or more doctoral hours will be charged tuition at a rate equivalent to out-of-state tuition. Please note that the tuition increases will apply to Texas residents as well as students from other states and countries who are currently charged tuition at the resident rate. This includes those doctoral students who hold GAT, GANT, and GAR appointments or recipients of competitive fellowships who receive more than $1,000 per semester. Doctoral students who have not accumulated 100 hours after seven years of study are eligible to pay in-state tuition if otherwise eligible.

Doctoral students who exceed the credit limit will receive notification from the Graduate and Professional School during the semester in which they are enrolled and exceeding the limit in their current degree program. The notification will explain that the State of Texas does not provide funding for any additional hours in which a student is enrolled in excess of 99 hours. Texas A&M University will recover the lost funds by requiring students in excess of 99 hours to pay tuition at the non-funded, non-resident rate. This non-funded, non-resident tuition rate status will be updated for the following semester and in all subsequent semesters until receipt of a doctoral degree. Please see the  Tuition Calculator  at the non-resident rate for an example of potential charges.

The following majors are exempt from the 99-Hour Cap on Doctoral Degrees and have a limit of 130 doctoral hours:

• Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
• Biomedical Sciences
• Clinical Psychology
• Counseling Psychology
• Epidemiology and Environmental Health
• Genetics and Genomics
• Health Services Research
• Medical Sciences
• Microbiology
• Neurosciences (College of Medicine)
• Oral and Craniofacial Biomedical Sciences
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Public Health Sciences
• School Psychology

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University of Florida

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Program information.

Director: T. “Red” Baker III Graduate Coordinator: D. Behringer

Since 1937 the Change to School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences has prepared students for professional careers caring for natural resources. We emphasize the role of people in managing both terrestrial and aquatic systems, to produce the myriad of benefits and services they provide. Our faculty have a broad range of interests, including ecology, economics/policy, and recreation/education, and are united by an interest in environmental resources, rather than by traditional academic discipline. The School is composed of three programmatic areas: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Forest Resources and Conservation, and Geomatics. Combined, these programs offer seven different degree options (including two professional masters degrees), as well as concentrations and certificates in a diversity of specific areas.

The School’s program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences leads to the Master of Science, Master of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (nonthesis), and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with a program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Minimum requirements for these degrees are given in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

The Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences program also offers a combination bachelor’s/master’s degree program. Contact the academic coordinator for information.

The School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences conducts research, teaching, and extension programs in four broad areas:

• Sustainable fisheries
• Aquaculture
• Aquatic animal health
• Conservation and management of aquatic environments

Faculty encompass both freshwater and marine environments, as well as managed aquaculture systems. Collaborators include the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, National Biological Survey, National Marine Fisheries Service, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Mote Marine Laboratory, the US Geologic Survey, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and others. Academic programs are structured to emphasize direct engagement of students with faculty. Further information, including specific degree options, faculty biographies, and information on the admissions process, is available at https://ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu .

Degrees Offered with a Major in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

• without a concentration
• concentration in Ecological Restoration
• concentration in Geographic Information Systems
• concentration in Natural Resource Policy and Administration
• concentration in Wetland Sciences
• concentration in Geographic Information Systems

Requirements for these degrees are given in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

School of Forest Resources and Conservation Courses

Geomatics departmental courses.

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program Courses

Forest Resources and Conservation Program Courses

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Courses

Fisheries & Aquatic sciences (PHD)

SLO 1     Knowledge         Describe and explain key concepts, theories and information in their discipline.

SLO 2     Knowledge         Apply the scientific method and the appropriate methodologies to the generation of new knowledge.

SLO 3     Skills      Communicate effectively in both written and oral form.

SLO 4     Skills      Develop and execute proper experimental or sampling designs.

SLO 5     Skills      Utilize critical thinking to evaluate spoken and written communications.

SLO 6     Professional Behavior    Work in teams with peers; interact honestly, ethically and with cultural sensitivity; translate skills, knowledge and motivation into observable behaviors related to success in specific situations.

Fisheries & Aquatic sciences (MFAS)

SLO 2     Knowledge         Apply the appropriate methodologies to the synthesis of existing knowledge.

SLO 4     Skills      Develop and execute proper project design.

fisheries & Aquatic Sciences (MS)

SLO 1     Knowledge         Describe and explain key concepts, theories and information into their discipline.

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Fisheries Biology

Graduate Student Research Topics

Current students.

Jason Shaffer Thesis: Comparing environmental DNA and snorkel surveys to determine the spatial distribution of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Smith River Basin, California Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Alex Juan Thesis: Evaluating the Use of a Trojan Y Chromosome Strategy to Eradicate Invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow in the Eel River to Aid Recovery of Threatened Salmonids Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Claire Stuart Thesis: Monitoring and evaluating rocky-reef marine protected areas in Northern California Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Gavin B. Bandy Thesis: A Technique to Calibrate eDNA Surveys for Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Dylan J. Keel Thesis: Quantification of the variability of Ceratonova shasta DNA concentrations in Klamath River water samples Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Noah Angell Thesis: Describing Population Status of Redtail Surfperch and Silver Surfperch in Sandy Beach Surf Zones in Northern California Including Marine Protected Areas Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Sarah Moreau Thesis: Factors that attract Yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, to fixed fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Galapagos Islands Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Olivia Boeberitz Thesis: Green sturgeon Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Z Zenobia Thesis: Status of Spirinchus starksi (Night Smelt) in Northern California in 2021 Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Daniel Montoya Thesis: Surf smelt Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Lily Olmo Thesis: Using fish to study the trophic food chain of artificial wetlands in the Arcata Marsh, CA Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Jacqueline Bridegum Thesis: Advisor:

Summer 2022

Cory Dick Thesis: Comparing molecular methods to estimate fish stomach contents and gastric evacuation rates: Implications for measuring the impacts of predation on Central Valley Chinook salmon Advisor:

Spring 2022

Katie Terhaar Thesis: Sandy Beach Surf zone Fish Communities and Marine Protected Areas in Northern California Advisor: Jose Marin Jarrin, Ph.D.

Natasha Ficzycz Thesis: Inferring exposure to harmful pseudo-nitzschia blooms from ocean-to-estuary gradients in domoic acid concentrations in Humboldt Bay bivalves Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Braden Herman Thesis: Use of foreign eDNA tracers to resolve site- and time-specific eDNA distributions in natural streams Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Leon Davis Thesis: Assessing abundance, presence, and length, and marine protected area effectiveness for three key rocky reef species along the Northern California Coast Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Max Grezlik Thesis: Evaluating the effects of Atlantic Menhaden management and environmental change on the Northwest Atlantic Ocean Ecosystem Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Doyle J. Coyne Thesis: Comparison of standard and environmental DNA methods for estimating Chinook salmon smolt abundance in the Klamath River, California Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Christopher O'Keefe Thesis: Do beaver dam analogues act as passage barriers to juvenile coho salmon and juvenile steelhead trout? Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Roxanne Robertson Thesis: Resolving variability in size structure in an individual-based model for the North Pacific krill, Euphausia pacifica Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Blair M. Winnacott Thesis: Response of coastal ichthyoplankton assemblages off northern California to seasonal oceanographic and climate variability Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Nick Van Vleet Thesis: Effects of large wood restoration on coho salmon in a northern California watershed: a before-after-control-impact experiment Advisor:

Natalie Okun Thesis: Effects of large wood restoration on coho salmon in a northern California watershed: a before-after-control-impact experiment Advisor:

Nissa Kreidler Thesis: Species distribution models for three deep-sea coral and sponge taxa in the southern California Bight Advisor: Andre Buchheister, Ph.D.

Steven R. Fong Thesis: Spatial and temporal genetic structure of winter-run steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) returning to the Mad River, California Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Max Ramos Thesis: Recolonization potential for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in tributaries to the Klamath River after dam removal Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Madison Halloran Thesis: Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) dispersal and life history variations among Humboldt Bay watersheds Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Nissa Kreidler Thesis: Species distribution models for three deep-sea coral and sponge taxa in the Southern California Bight Advisor:

Emerson Kanawi Thesis: Comparing environmental DNA and traditional monitoring approaches to assess the abundance of outmigrating coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in California coastal streams Advisor:

Chad M. Martel Thesis: Using environmental DNA and occupancy modeling to estimate rangewide metapopulation dynamics of the endangered tidewater goby eucyclogobius spp. Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Grace Ghrist Thesis: Freshwater and marine survival of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) as a function of juvenile life history Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Laura Solinger Thesis: Spatial variability in recruitment of Chilipepper rockfish (sebastes goodei) in the California current system Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Chris Loomis Thesis: Density and distribution of piscivorous fishes in the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta Advisor:

John Deibner-Hanson Thesis: Overwinter survival and movement of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in relation to large woody debris and low-velocity habitat in Northern California streams Advisor:

Hannah Coe Thesis: Effects of longline oyster aquaculture on benthic invertebrate communities in Humboldt Bay, California Advisor:

Emily Chen Thesis: Contribution of juvenile estuarine residency in a bar-built estuary to recruitment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Advisor:

Keith Parker Thesis: Evidence for the genetic basis and inheritance of ocean and river-maturing ecotypes of Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) in the Klamath River, California. Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Michael Sutter Thesis: Rangewide tidewater goby occupancy survey using environmental DNA Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Kevin Hinterman Thesis: Baseline monitoring and characterization of rocky intertidal fish communities in Northern California Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Cori Flannery Thesis: The effects of ocean acidification and reduced oxygen on the behavior and physiology of juvenile rockfish Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Gabriel Scheer Thesis: A population model for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in Freshwater Creek: Evaluating the effects of life history variation and habitat restoration Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Justin Alvarez Thesis: Abundance, growth and predation by non-native brown trout in the Trinity River, CA Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Ryann Whitemore Thesis: Evaluation of parameter estimation and field application of transgenerational genetic mark-recapture Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Molly Gorman Thesis: Juvenile survival and adult return as a function of freshwater rearing life history for Coho Salmon in the Klamath River basin Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Michelle Krall Thesis: The influence of habitat characteristics on abundance and growth of juvenile Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in constructed habitats in the middle Klamath River basin Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Conrad Newell Thesis: Development of captive culture methods for the endangered tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi) Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Molly Schmelzle Thesis: Monitoring endangered tidewater goby using environmental DNA in water samples Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Sean Cochran Thesis: Marine survival of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) from small coastal watersheds in Northern California Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Jesse Wiesenfeld Thesis: Riverscape genetics identifies cryptic lineages of speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) in the Klamath-Trinity basin Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Shari Witmore Thesis: Seasonal growth retention and movement of juvenile coho salmon in natural and constructed habitats of the mid-Klamath River Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Christine Roddam Thesis: Residency, growth, and outmigration size of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), across rearing locations in the Shasta River, California Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Kathryn Crane Thesis: Environmental effects on growth of early life history stages of rockfishes (Sebastes) off Central California based on analysis of otolith growth patterns. Advisor: Eric Bjorkstedt, Ph.D.

Jennifer Hauer Thesis: Overwinter survival and growth of juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, in Freshwater, California Advisor: Darren Ward, Ph.D.

Michael Hellmair Thesis: Life history variation, genetic diversity and extinction risk in the endangered tidewater goby (Eucyclogobius newberryi) Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

Melissa Reneski Thesis: Temporal genetic analyses reveal divergence of hatchery steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) via drift Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

James Hearsey Thesis: Reproductive traits of sympatric spring and fall Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and their hybrids Advisor: Andrew Kinziger, Ph.D.

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Professor in Fisheries biology, group leader

On general level, I am interested about the role of science in solving environmental societal problems. An interesting narrative about biology may create motivation to solve the problems, but solution needs also the identification of cost-effective management options that are practically applicable. Decision analysis is a way to identify the most justified solutions, and to estimate how likely it is that the desired aims are actually achieved. I am favoring the Bayesian approach to risk assessment and decision analysis, because to me it Is a scientific description of a learning process: the posterior distributions of one study could, and should, be the prior probabilities of the next study. Such learning chains can be effective tools to focus the science on most essential policy questions.

I am interested in:

· Bayesian risk and decision analysis

· Interdisciplinary probabilistic modeling

· Fish stock assessment and fisheries management

· Fisheries and environmental management problems

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I am teaching on the following courses: ECGS 014 Diagnosis of environmental problems in aquatic ecosystems, ECGS-151 Introduction to decision analysis and probabilistic integrated modelling ECGS-017 Fisheries management, 519111 Writing of a scientific proposals

Postdoctoral researcher, PhD in Environmental sciences

My background is in aquatic sciences: I have MSc in limnology and fisheries science from the University of Helsinki (2007). During my PhD I studied Bayesian methods and risk and decision analysis. The PhD thesis, titled as "Bayesian network applications for environmental risk assessment " (2014), draws together the risk and decision analytic work I have conducted around the eutrophication (Lehikoinen et al. 2014 ) and oil spill risks (Lehikoinen et al. 2013 and 2015 , Jolma et al. 2014 ) of the Gulf of Finland, using Bayesian Networks as the analytical tool and platform for knowledge integration. In 2015 - 2016 I was working as a post doc in the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Institute of Coastal Research. There I focused on machine learning, applying Bayesian network classifiers for heterogeneous ecological and environmental data to identify key factors determining the status of two coastal fish indicators of the Baltic Sea (Lehikoinen et al. 2019 ). After returning to FEM group in the end of the year 2016 I have been involved in the projects 30MILES (principal investigator), GOHERR and COMPLETE. Currently my main project is WISE where, with a multidisciplinary consortium, we analyze the resilience of the Finnish society against divergent “wicked” (lacking a clear optimal solution) social-environmental disruptions and develop instruments to improve the resilience.

As the result of working all these years as part of two highly multidisciplinary research communities: the FEM group and the Kotka Maritime Research Center (where my office is located), my world view have been influenced by many other scientific disciplines such as sociology, engineering, environmental economy, geography etc. I could say cross-disciplinary communication is one of my special skills. In our projects I have also had the possibility to work with stakeholders representing different sectors, which have been extremely useful and educative. My perspective to integrative modelling has widened from the data and model coupling only to also the social aspects of knowledge integration, covering for example the elicitation of stakeholders’ values (Laurila-Pant et al., a submitted manuscript) and thinking about problem structuring (Parviainen et al. 2019 ).

I am the 1st supervisor of three PhD students, Mirka Laurila-Pant, Emilia Luoma, and Lauri Ronkainen and teach on the courses Introduction to decision analysis and Bayesian inference and Diagnosis of environmental problems in aquatic ecosystems .

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• Risk governance
• Shipping and corporate social responsibility
• Bayesian analysis

Tuuli is working as a researcher in CEARCTIC project

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Doctoral student, MSc Aquatic Sciences

• Participatory modelling
• Environmental valuation
• Fish stock assessment

My research takes a probabilistic view on how to set the management objectives and the role of valuation in environmental management problems. As the environmental management aims to improve the ecosystem health and promote sustainable use of natural resources, we need to measure the state as well as to define the desirable and undesirable status of the system. However it is not always straightforward how and in which perspective the impacts on the environment should be valued, therefore I am developing a probabilistic Bayesian approaches to quantify the uncertainty about the management objectives as we as the methods used for measuring the prevailing status of the system.

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Doctoral student, MSSc in Sociology

• Ecosystem approach to fisheries
• Environmental governance
• Science, technology, and society studies

Suvi works as a researcher in  BONUS GOHERR project

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• Ecological risk assessment
• Causal networks
• Marine minerals

My PhD research focuses on the environmental impacts of seabed mineral extraction, and understanding how seafloor exploitation affects marine ecosystems. I am interested in how adverse effects of human activities may be estimated prior to disturbance, and how impact assessments may be improved using a causal approach.

In my work, I am using Bayesian networks to examine the ecological risks of seabed mining, and the magnitude of the potential impacts. My work uses shallow water mineral concretions in the Baltic Sea as a case study to examine the impacts of seabed mining. As these minerals consitute an understudied habitat type, I am also examining the ecological role of mineral concretions in order to infer the potential impacts of their removal. In addition, I am interested in how we perceive the impacts to remote environments, such as the deep sea, and how our values for these environments guide decision-making in natural resource governance.

Laura works as a researcher in Smartsea project

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Doctoral student, MSc Geography

· Baltic Sea Environment

· Bayesian Networks

· Stakeholder Involvement

· Sustainable Decision Making

My PhD is about stakeholder involvement and decision making in the environmental problem solving in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is a unique and vulnerable ecosystem facing various environmental threats and my PhD focuses on biofouling management of the ships, sustainable boating, and oil spills. When trying to solve complex environmental problems, interdisciplinary research is highly needed and thus used in my thesis as well. I use Bayesian networks as a method because they are visual, easy to use and can contain both qualitative and quantitative data from different sources. Therefore they are usable in solving complex interdisciplinary problems.

The stakeholder involvement is important in decision making to make sustainable and fair decisions. However, it is not always easy to know how the stakeholders should be involved. My thesis will tackle this problem and show some approaches to involve stakeholders. Finally, the Bayesian models formed here can be used to better understand these complex environmental problems and ideally, in the future, the models can be used in the decision making as well.

Emilia works as a reseracher in the COMPLETE project.

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Doctoral student, MSc in Fisheries science

•  Aquatic ecology
• Environmental management
• Systems analysis
• Bayesian networks

Social and ecological problems are complex per se , not to mention when these two are combined together in one analysis. Humans pose direct and indirect impact on ecosystems, such as fishing, which creates feedbacks. But how do we react to these feedbacks? Social-ecological systems can be seen as a large network, consisting of variables describing the behavior of the system. If we modify the state of one variable in the network or make a decision about the other, what are the causal consequences? My interest is in exploring these networks, by slicing them into smaller sub-systems and trying to figure it out how they work. With relevant indicators, I aim to assess the most critical parts of the system and discuss the dos and don’ts on the management perspective.

Lauri works as a researcher in the COMPLETE project.

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• Marine resource management
• Fisheries, Marine Spatial Planning
• Baltic Sea & Arctic

Magnus is working on his Master's thesis titled Fisheries management, social dimensions of the Individual Transferable Quota system.

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My Masters thesis aims to build a Bayesian model to analyze biomass fluctuation correlations between biologically similar fish species and stocks in the northern Atlantic, which, if functional, could be used to estimate several stock biomasses by observing and analyzing one stock. This could, in turn, lower the costs and resources needed for future stock assessments. In my bachelors degree in aquatic sciences, mainly fisheries and fish biology, I focused on both biological and anthropogenic factors that contribute to fish stock collapses and slow recovery of collapsed stocks.

My Master’s thesis focuses on selection of target species that are potentially harmful alien species in the Baltic Sea invading via ship ballast water. I'm using the Bayesian approach, which reveals the amount of uncertainty concerning the correct classification based on the criteria currently in use. This study may be helpful in the management of ship ballast water.

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Inari Helle

Post-doctoral researcher, Environmental and Ecological Statistics Group, Univeristy of Helsinki

I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental and Ecological Statistics group at the University of Helsinki.

My background is in ecology and environmental engineering, and I have a PhD in Aquatic sciences. I am interested in the interactions between humans and ecosystems: What kinds of impacts human activities have on ecosystems and what we can do to mitigate these impacts. I have studied these topics especially from the environmental risk assessment and decision analysis perspective in the Baltic Sea by using Bayesian methods. Currently, I study oil spill risks in the Arctic with my HELSUS Fellow funding . I also work with non-indigenous species and biofouling issues in the COMPLETE project .

I am interested in inter- and transdisciplinary research, and I aim at producing knowledge that is relevant for the society and can be used to support decision-making.

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Marine Risk Governance Research Group

MARISK is a newly founded research group within the Ecosystems and Environment Research Group led by professor Päivi Haapasaari. The group works in close collaboraton with FEM researchers, specializing on the risk governance issues of e.g.  fisheries and shipping.

Interaction between hatchery and wild Pacific salmon in the Far East of Russia: A review

• Published: 08 June 2005
• Volume 14 , pages 305–319, ( 2004 )

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We review studies of interactions between hatchery and wild Pacific salmon in the Russian Far East. This includes the role of hatchery practices that result in premature migration to the sea and increased mortality, and data on feeding and territorial competition between juveniles of hatchery and wild origin. In the course of downstream migration many juvenile hatchery salmon are eliminated by wild salmon predation. During the marine period, Japanese hatchery chum salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta ) distribution overlaps the distribution of Russian wild salmon. Consequently, replacement of wild populations by hatchery fishes, as a result of abundant juvenile hatchery releases combined with extensive poaching in spawning grounds, is apparent in some Russian rivers. Interactions between the populations occur in all habitats. The importance of conservation of wild salmon populations requires a more detailed study of the consequences of interactions between natural and artificially reared fishes.

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PHD IN AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

GRADUATE PROFILE

A PhD graduate in Aquaculture and Fisheries management will be able to:

• Teach aquaculture and fisheries courses in universities and other institutions.
• Provide advisory/ consultancy works to policy makers, investors and other relevant stakeholders in aquaculture and fisheries
• Devise management plans to meet national needs of using aquatic resources in a sustainable manner
• Apply appropriate technologies for the efficient and sustainable utilization of fisheries resources 
• Adapt the contemporary scientific knowledge on aquaculture and fisheries practices to ensure sustainable utilization of fisheries resources
• Facilitate the link between higher institutions, communities, and other stakeholders towards the common goals of fighting community problems and for sustainable utilization of the fisheries and other aquatic resources
• Develop and implement aquaculture projects and business ventures

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Admissions to the program are competitive based on the following criteria:

• Applicants need to have Master Degree in Aquaculture and/or Fisheries, Biology, Animal Sciences, Wetlands Management, Environmental Sciences and other related fields which will be determined by the Department Graduate Committee (DGC) of Department of Biology
• Applicants need to have an MSc cumulative grade point average (cGPA) of 3.00 and above from accredited higher learning institution
• Submit a preliminary synopsis of planned PhD research for review and approval, and admission depends on availability and consent of advisor
• Successful performance (i.e. a minimum of 50 %) in the aptitude examination that encompass basic knowledge on subject matter, language test, basic computer skills, research ethics and others. The purpose of the examination is to ascertain whether a candidate is capable of the independent and thoughtful research required for the PhD program.
• Having publication(s) in (a) reputable journal(s) is an added advantage
• Based on the DGC assessment, candidates whose MSc background are not directly or related to Fisheries and Aquaculture will be required to take the bridge courses from the MSc program in Aquaculture and Fisheries before becoming eligible to register for the PhD courses proper (see Section 16).

DURATION OF THE STUDY PROGRAM

Duration of the study is 4 years. A candidate who fails to complete within the set schedule must present an acceptable justification in consultation with his/her research supervisor(s) for possible extension as per the existing JU regulation pertaining to the case.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

A candidate must fulfill the following requirements of the School of Graduate studies (SGS) of Jimma University (JU) for graduation:

• A candidate should have a minimum course work of 12 credit hours and dissertation work of 12 credit hours.
• A Cumulative Grade Point Average (cGPA) of 3.00 must be obtained in the course works 
• No less than “B” grade(s) in any course(s) taken
• If there is a chance to link a candidate’s project to foreign universities a candidate in the sandwich scheme is required to spend at least 1 ½ years at the Department, Jimma University. Six credit hours of the 12 required graduate courses may be completed by residence courses taken at an accredited University or institute other than Jimma University. However, the equivalence of the courses taken abroad will be evaluated against the course list of the launched program.
• The Doctoral Dissertation shall constitute individual effort in academic pursuits to identify and analyze problems by applying sound methodology. A Doctoral Dissertation shall constitute the partial fulfillment of the requirement to the PhD Degree program. To be eligible for graduation, a candidate should:
• Publish at least one article in reputable peer reviewed journals.
• Submit at least one manuscript to a publisher and produce evidence of submission from editorial board
• Make oral paper presentation at one national or international level
• Present a compiled monograph for final open public defense of his/her Doctoral Dissertation.
• However, special cases can be entertained to permit a candidate to defend the Doctoral Dissertation by getting approval/advice from the candidate’s advisory board in consultation with respective supervisor(s) regardless of the criteria listed in a & b above.
• A candidate must successfully defend his/her Dissertation. If the student’s dissertation is rated “Fail”, he/she may be allowed to re-correct his/her work in a maximum duration of 6 months grace period.
• The result of the Dissertation evaluation will be an average of one external examiner (hereafter defined as a relevant professional outside Jimma University, either from Ethiopia or abroad) and one internal examiner (hereafter defined as a relevant professional from within Jimma University). A student must first submit the thesis, in an acceptable form, to the Advisor, who will return it, with comments, within six weeks. The revised Doctoral thesis may then be passed to the Advisory Committee which will then determine whether the Thesis is ready for submission.  The student’s advisor(s) in consultation with the Advisory Committee recommend potential external and internal examiners. The public oral defense of the thesis is arranged by the Department and conducted according to rules and regulations of Jimma University.

DEGREE NOMENCLATURE

Upon successful completion of the program, the candidate will be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree in Biology (Aquaculture and Fisheries Management) ; In Amharic: የፍልስፍና ዶክትሬት ዲግሪ በስነ-ሕይወት (አኳካልቸር ና የዓሳ ሀብት አስተዳደር)

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COURSE BREAKDOWN

Based on the DGC assessment, candidates whose MSc background are not directly or related to Fisheries and Aquaculture will be required to take the following bridge courses from the MSc program in Aquaculture and Fisheries before becoming eligible to register for the PhD courses proper during Year I Semester I. Consequently, for such students the course work duration before proceeding to the PhD Dissertation will be one and half academic year. These courses are considered part of the student’s PhD training and thus appear on the student’s academic transcript. The course schedule for students taking bridge courses will accordingly extend from Year I Semester I through Year II Semester I i.e. one and half academic year.

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PhD Candidate in AI-powered Digital Monitoring Systems for Small-Scale Fisheries in East Africa

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This is NTNU

NTNU is a broad-based university with a technical-scientific profile and a focus in professional education. The university is located in three cities with headquarters in Trondheim.

At NTNU, 9,000 employees and 43,000 students work to create knowledge for a better world.

You will find more information about working at NTNU and the application process here.

About the job

Work package 1 of the Asia-Africa Blue Tech Superhighway (COAST) project aims to develop digital information systems for effective management of small-scale fisheries in Kenya, Zanzibar and Tanzania. These fisheries are multi-species, geographically dispersed and exhibit flexible and dynamic fishing patterns. This makes data collection, stock assessment and data-informed management difficult. To address this, a high resolution near real-time digital catch monitoring system will be designed and implemented, including trackers to be installed on a selection of fishing vessels. 

This PhD position will focus on improving the existing monitoring system, and develop dynamic maps of ocean conditions plus predictions of good fishing zones, based on catch and effort data plus partially simulated and partially measured oceanographic data. This system will furthermore be used to provide input to fisheries management though the use of AI methods and control theory.

The position reports to Associate Professor Morten Omholt Alver, [email protected] , who will be the main supervisor. Prof. Damiano Varagnolo will be co-supervisor.

Duties of the position

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree. 

The PhD candidate will work on a range of challenging and interesting tasks:

• Take part in an international and interdisciplinary consortium of researchers working towards the objectives of the COAST project.
• Combine ocean model data with fisheries monitoring data through data assimilation and machine learning methods to provide useful information for fishers and management.
• Make a contribution towards more efficient and sustainable small-scale fisheries.

Required selection criteria

• You must have a professionally relevant background in two or more of the listed subjects: machine learning, control engineering, estimation theory, oceanography, ocean modelling, numerical analysis or statistics.
• You should have experience in scientific computing within development environments such as Matlab and/or Python. 
• Your education must correspond to a five-year Norwegian degree program, where 120 credits are obtained at master's level.
• You must have a strong academic background from your previous studies and an average grade from the master's degree program, or equivalent education, which is equal to B or better compared with NTNU's grading scale. If you do not have letter grades from previous studies, you must have an equally good academic basis. If you have a weaker grade background, you may be assessed if you can document that you are particularly suitable for a PhD education.
• Master's students can apply, but the master's degree must be obtained and documented by the end of 2024.
• You must meet the requirements for admission to the faculty's doctoral program ( https://www.ntnu.edu/ie/research/phd ).

The appointment is to be made in accordance with  Regulations on terms of employment for positions such as postdoctoral fellow, Phd candidate, research assistant and specialist candidate and  Regulations concerning the degrees of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) and Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) in artistic research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU ).

Preferred selection criteria

Useful qualifications for candidates are:

•    Machine learning •    Numerical modelling •    Physical and biological oceanography •    Control engineering •    Estimation theory •    Statistics •    Programming (e.g. Python, Matlab) •    Good written and oral English language skills. 

Personal characteristics

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal suitability, as well as motivation, in terms of the qualification requirements specified in the advertisement. The following personal characteristics are desired:

•    Problem solver •    Focused on results •    Good communicator •    Willing to learn

• exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment
• an open and  inclusive work environment with dedicated colleagues
• favourable terms in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• employee benefits

Salary and conditions

As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you are normally paid from gross NOK 532 200 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The period of employment is 3 years. Appointment to a PhD position requires that you are admitted to the PhD programme in Engineering Cybernetics within three months of employment, and that you participate in an organized PhD programme during the employment period. 

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants , and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. 

After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution on a daily basis.

About the application

The application and supporting documentation to be used as the basis for the assessment must be in Norwegian or English.

Publications and other scientific work must follow the application. Please note that your application will be considered based solely on information submitted by the application deadline. You must therefore ensure that your application clearly demonstrates how your skills and experience fulfil the criteria specified above.

The application must include:

• CV and certificates 
• transcripts and diplomas for bachelor's and master's degrees. If you have not completed the master's degree, you must submit a confirmation that the master's thesis has been submitted.
• A copy of the master's thesis. If you recently have submitted your master's thesis, you can attach a draft of the thesis. Documentation of a completed master's degree must be presented before taking up the position.
• If you have publications or other relevant research work, include these.

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both bachelor's and master's education, in addition to other higher education. Description of the documentation required can be found  here . If you already have a statement from  Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills , please attach this as well.

We will take joint work into account. If it is difficult to identify your efforts in the joint work, you must enclose a short description of your participation.

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential will also count in the assessment of the candidates. 

NTNU is committed to following evaluation criteria for research quality according to The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - DORA .

General information

Working at NTNU

NTNU believes that inclusion and diversity is our strength. We want to recruit people with different competencies, educational backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives to contribute to solving our social responsibilities within education and research. We will facilitate for our employees’ needs.

NTNU is working actively to increase the number of women employed in scientific positions and has a number of resources to promote equality.  

The city of Trondheim is a modern European city with a rich cultural scene. Trondheim is the innovation capital of Norway with a population of 200,000. The Norwegian welfare state, including healthcare, schools, kindergartens and overall equality, is probably the best of its kind in the world. Professional subsidized day-care for children is easily available. Furthermore, Trondheim offers great opportunities for education (including international schools) and possibilities to enjoy nature, culture and family life and has low crime rates and clean air quality.

As an employee at NTNU, you must at all times adhere to the changes that the development in the subject entails and the organizational changes that are adopted.

A public list of applicants with name, age, job title and municipality of residence is prepared after the application deadline. If you want to reserve yourself from entry on the public applicant list, this must be justified. Assessment will be made in accordance with current legislation . You will be notified if the reservation is not accepted.

If you have any questions about the position, please Associate Professor Morten Omholt Alver,  email: [email protected] . If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact HR Consultant Berit Dahl, e-mail: [email protected] .

If you think this looks interesting and in line with your qualifications, please submit your application electronically via jobbnorge.no with your CV, diplomas and certificates attached. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered. Upon request, you must be able to obtain certified copies of your documentation.  

Application deadline: 20.08.2024.

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Engineering cybernetics is the study of automatic control and monitoring of dynamic systems. We develop the technologies of tomorrow through close cooperation with industry and academia, both in Norway and internationally. The Department contributes to the digitalization, automation and robotization of society. The Department of Engineering Cybernetics is one of seven departments in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering .

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Tourmaline from the Solnechnoe hydrothermal granitoid-related tin deposit in the Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East has been studied with electron microprobe, infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Tourmaline formed in three distinct stages with different types of chemical substitution. Tourmaline from the first unmineralised stage is classified as dravite or schorl, which could be enriched locally in Ca, the X -site vacancy and F. This tourmaline is characterised by the Fe ↔ Mg and X vacancy + Al ↔ Na + Fe substitutions. The second, molybdenum-stage tourmaline, is schorl–dravite and fluor-schorl–fluor-dravite enriched in Ca, and a few compositions belong to the calcic group. The predominant substitution is Ca + Mg ↔ Na + Al. The third, tin-stage tourmaline, is classified as schorl–dravite with some tourmalines being fluor-schorl, oxy-schorl, foitite and magnesio-foitite. The tin-stage tourmaline is characterised by the substitutions Fe 2+ ↔ Mg, Al tot + O 2– ↔ Fe 2+ + OH – , and Fe 3+ ↔ Al tot . An increase of the Fe 3+ /Fe tot value from 3–9% in the molybdenum stage to 12–16% in the tin-stage tourmalines indicates an increase in oxidation potential, which possibly contributed to cassiterite deposition. Comparison of tourmalines from greisen, porphyry and intrusion-related tin deposits worldwide shows they differ in primary chemical substitutions so can be characterised by this mechanism. The Fe 3+ /Fe tot value in tourmaline also appears to be one of the indications for the tin deposit type. The Fe 3+ /Fe tot value increases from <10% in greisen tourmaline through 15% in tourmaline from intrusion-related deposits to 20% in tourmaline from porphyry deposits.

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