Team
Who does what across the project
The project brings together investigators at seven institutions on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, each leading one or more of the hatchery, field, mechanistic, phenotyping, economics, and extension components. Coordination happens through an Executive Committee that meets quarterly.
Project Team
Chris Anderson
University of Washington
Leads the Economics and Decision Tools team: the portfolio-optimization dashboard and regional cost–benefit analyses under Objective 3, plus the aquaculture-economics curriculum.
Mackenzie Gavery
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Co-leads the predictive-phenotyping cross-cutting team and physiological assay development. Manages the Pacific Hybreed co-production partnership at NOAA Manchester.
Samuel Gurr
Oregon State University / USDA ARS
Leads resazurin metabolic profiling and thermal performance curves for Objective 2, and serves as supervisory lead for four hatchery-based research assistants.
Chris Hollenbeck
Texas A&M / CMAQ
Directs Gulf-coast research. Leads Objective 1 experiments on C. virginica low-salinity tolerance and resilience, Gulf field deployments, and extension in coordination with Texas Sea Grant.
Ariana Huffmyer
University of Washington
Supports the predictive-phenotyping cross-cutting team, contributing physiological and molecular assay development and analysis across Objective 2 sites.
Joseph Matt
Texas A&M
Leads Gulf Objective 1 execution: priming treatments, acute stress challenges, and field performance monitoring.
Louis Plough
USDA ARS / POGS
Directs Pacific-coast research. Leads Objective 1 experiments on C. gigas POMS/OsHV-1 resistance using POGS families, Oregon and Washington field deployments, and Oregon Sea Grant extension.
David Portnoy
Texas A&M
Leads the high-throughput genotyping behind Gulf Objective 1, including family assignment and the population-genomic analyses that support it.
Steven Roberts
University of Washington
Coordinates project-wide administration and reporting, chairs the Executive Committee, and serves as primary NIFA liaison. Leads machine-learning modeling and cross-site data integration, the PRISM Portal, and Pacific-coast co-production partnerships.
Hamish Small
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Leads work on the mechanisms of environmental memory, including the role of DNA methylation in priming and the duration of signaling, embedded in ABC breeding-program sampling.
Jessica Small
Virginia Institute of Marine Science / ABC
Directs Atlantic-coast hatchery operations and leads Objective 1 G×E×P experiments in C. virginica. Integrates project findings into VIMS coursework and workforce training.
William Walton
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Leads extension across the project. Runs Objective 1 field trials and Objective 2 activities on the Atlantic, and coordinates Virginia and North Carolina grow-out partners and mid-Atlantic producer engagement.
Trainees
The project supports nine graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with cross-institutional rotations, and engages more than 20 undergraduates over the award period.
Kate Laboda
University of Washington
Graduate student.
Graduate and postdoctoral positions are opening across partner institutions during Year 1. Get in touch if you are interested.