RECENT ARTICLES
  • ​1. Vox.com. Scientists want to bring back one of the ocean’s most unexpected predators. Jenny Adler. July 7, 2024.https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/356756/down-to-earth-restoring-the-functionally-extinct-sunflower-sea-star 
  • 2. The Oregonian. Oregon’s underwater forests are vanishing. Can they be saved? Gosia Wozniacka. Jul 23, 2024. https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2024/07/oregons-underwater-forests-are-vanishing-can-they-be-saved.html 
  • 3. All The Big Little Things SubStack. Looking Below The Waves: On The Animals Living On The Oregon Coast. By Cole Hershey. May 8 2024. https://biglittlethings.substack.com/p/looking-below-the-waves 
  • 4. AZA Newsletter. AZA Members and Sunflower Star Lab Partner To Help Sunflower Sea Stars. Jan 1 2024. https://www.aza.org/connect-stories/stories/aza-members-and-sunflower-star-lab-partner-to-help-sunflower-sea-stars 
  • 5. Cambridge University Press. New IUCN Species Survival Commission Marine Star Specialist Group. 11 December 2023. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/new-iucn-species-survival-commission-marine-star-specialist-group/C875DDED21814EE3B34716969AA436ED
  • 6. Alaska Science Forum. Sea stars, urchins and kelp forests. Ned Rozell. Oct 05, 2023. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/sea-stars-urchins-and-kelp-forests
  • 7. Oregon Public Broadcasting. By Tom Banse.  March 6 2023. Struggling Northwest kelp forests sending out an SOS. Help is coming. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/03/06/struggling-northwest-kelp-forests-sending-out-an-sos-help-is-coming/ 
  • 8. Washington Post. By Dino Grandoni. March 5 2023. A key starfish is now under threat of extinction, Government says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/15/sunflower-sea-star-endangered-threatened/
  • 9. KUOW NPR Station Puget Sound. By Tom Banse. Feb 28 2023. Struggling Northwest kelp forests sending out an SOS. Help is coming. https://kuow.org/stories/struggling-northwest-kelp-forests-sending-out-an-sos-help-is-coming 
  • 10. Popular Science. By Jack Izzo. Feb 24, 2023. These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels. https://www.popsci.com/environment/sea-stars-urchin-kelp-forest/ 
  • 11. KTVZ Oregon-Northwest. February 23, 2023 Study: Sea stars can consume kelp-eating urchins fast enough to protect kelp forests. https://ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest/2023/02/23/study-sea-stars-can-consume-kelp-eating-urchins-fast-enough-to-protect-kelp-forests/ 
  • 12. KGW8 Portland. Kale Williams. Feb 22, 2023.  Sea star die-off has had cascading ripple effects on Oregon marine ecosystem, study finds. https://www.kgw.com/article/tech/science/environment/sea-star-die-off-urchins-impact-kelp/283-56fee93c-3d51-474d-a78f-817062c852eb 
  • 13. Earth.com. By Alison Bosman. Feb 22, 2023. Sunflower sea stars could help save kelp forests. https://www.earth.com/news/sunflower-sea-stars-could-help-save-kelp-forests/ 
  • 14. OSU Newsroom. By Steve Lundeberg. Feb 22, 2023. Sea stars able to consume kelp-eating urchins fast enough to protect kelp forests, research shows. https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/sea-stars-able-consume-kelp-eating-urchins-fast-enough-protect-kelp-forests-research-shows 
  • 15. OPB’s Think Out Loud. How the Oregon Kelp Alliance is working to restore Oregon’s kelp forests. By Gemma DiCarlo. Oct 7, 2022 https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/05/how-the-oregon-kelp-alliance-is-working-to-restore-oregons-kelp-forests/
  • 16. Travel Oregon. Traveler’s Guide To Climate Resilience In Oregon: Water: How to help preserve the coastline, lakes and rivers. By Katherine Kornei. April 20, 2022. https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/trip-ideas/sustainable-travel/travelers-guide-to-climate-resilience-in-oregon-water/
  • 17. The Oregonian. Subtle tidepool changes could signal bigger problems. By Kale Williams. Jan 18, 2022 https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2022/01/subtle-ecological-changes-in-oregon-tide-pools-could-signal-bigger-problems-osu-researchers-find.html
  • 18. Daily Astorian. By Abbey MacDonald. Study finds coastal ecosystem under stress. Jan 18 2022. https://www.dailyastorian.com/news/local/study-finds-coastal-ecosystem-under-stress/article_5d7bdee2-78a4-11ec-b926-a7d71333a592.html
  • 19. The Jefferson Exchange. How climate change reduces resilience in the natural world. Jan 13 2022. https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2022-01-13/fri-8-30-how-climate-change-reduces-resilience-in-the-natural-world
  • 20. The Jefferson Exchange. Coastal Sea Stars Teeter On Edge Of Extinction. Jan 12 2022. https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2021-01-12/wed-8-30-coastal-sea-stars-teeter-on-edge-of-extinction
  • 21. OPB. Climate change degrading Oregon coastal ecosystems, study suggests. By Bradley Parks. Jan 11 2022. https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/11/tidepools-oregon-climate-change/
  • 22. CNS Nevada Climate change destabilizing ecosystems along Oregon coast Nate MacKay. January 10, 2022 https://www.courthousenews.com/climate-change-is-destabilizing-coastal-ecosystems-along-the-oregon-coast-study-finds/
  • 23. Sitka Nature Show Podcast.  #248 – Sarah Gravem. October 24, 2021 by Matt Goff. https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/2021/10/24/sitka-nature-show-248-sarah-gravem/
  • 24. KTOO – Sitka. Sea stars shed light on kelp forests’ decline. August 1, 2021 by Tash Kimmell. https://www.ktoo.org/2021/08/01/sea-stars-shed-light-on-kelp-forests-decline/
  • 25. KCAW – Sitka. Sea stars shed light on kelp forests’ decline. August 1, 2021 by Tash Kimmell. https://www.kcaw.org/2021/07/30/sea-star-shines-in-study-to-reverse-kelp-forest-decline-in-pacific-northwest/
  • 26. OPB. Purple sea urchin's delicious explosion -Superabundant S1 E2. Jun 17, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=413_BZRI9ik
  • 27. KATU. A sea star, once common in Oregon, nears extinction; here's how scientists plan to save it. by Steve Benham. February 25th 2021. https://katu.com/news/local/sunflower-sea-star-captive-breeding-university-of-washington-friday-harbor-labs-jason-hodin
  • 28. Jefferson Public Radio. Saving Oregon's Rocky Coast: Checking In On The Sea Stars. By Kate Kaye. February 22, 2021. https://www.ijpr.org/environment-energy-and-transportation/2021-02-21/saving-oregons-rocky-coast-checking-in-on-the-sea-stars
  • 29. Bellevue Reporter. Research suggests warmer oceans are killing sea stars in Puget Sound.  By Cameron Sheppard Saturday, January 30, 2021. https://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/research-suggests-warmer-oceans-are-killing-sea-stars-in-puget-sound/
  • 30. The Jefferson Exchange. Coastal Sea Stars Teeter On Edge Of Extinction. January 12, 2021 https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2021-01-12/wed-8-30-coastal-sea-stars-teeter-on-edge-of-extinction
  • 31. The Science Times. Sunflower Seastar Now Listed as Critically Endangered. Tiziana Celine Dec 14, 2020 https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/28640/20201214/sunflower-seastar-now-listed-as-critically-endangered.htm
  • 32. OPB. Sunflower sea stars declared critically endangered on West Coast. Monica Samayoa (OPB) Dec. 11, 2020. https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/11/sunflower-sea-stars-critically-endangered-species/
  • 33. Forbes Sunflower Sea Star Deemed ‘Critically Endangered’ After Disease Claims 90% Of The Population. Dec 13 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2020/12/12/sunflower-sea-star-deemed-critically-endangered-after-disease-claims-90-of-the-population/?sh=5ea50f867f2e 
  • 34. Oregon Public Broadcasting https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/11/sunflower-sea-stars-critically-endangered-species/
Undergraduate Mentorship Award
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A Hope for Sea Stars
Recovery from Sea Star Wasting and the Formation of the PRIMED Network
Asteroids! (from the sea, not space)
Sea star anatomy lecture ​series
Seasick
A documentary film by Aliyah Kovner and Patrick Kennedy
Wasted Sea Star Purple Pale Ale 
by Rouge Brewing and benefitting the PISCO Lab at Oregon State