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Genoa Sullaway

She/her

Ph.D. Student

Fisheries


17101 Point Lena Loop Rd.
Juneau, Alaska 99801
gsullaway@alaska.edu

 
Education

MS Ecology
San Diego State University

B.S. Marine Biology and Fisheries
California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo

 

 

Selected Publications

Tolimieri NT, AO Shelton, JF Samhouri, C Harvey, B Feist, G Williams, K Andrews, K Frick, SI Lonhart, GH Sullaway, O Liu, H Berry, J Waddell. (In review: Marine Ecology Progress Series). Response of kelp forest communities along the coast of Washington, USA to the 2014-2016 marine heatwave and sea star wasting syndrome.

Francis, TB, GH Sullaway, BE Feist, AO Shelton, E Chui, C Daley, KE Frick, N Tolimieri, GD Williams, and JF Samhouri. 2022. Equivocal associations between small‐scale shoreline restoration and subtidal fishes in an urban estuary. Restoration
Ecology.

Sullaway GH, AO Shelton & JS Samhouri. 2021. Synchrony erodes spatial portfolios of an anadromous fish and alters availability for resource users” Journal of Animal Ecology
90(11), 2692-2703.

Wade PR, K Long, T Francis, AE Punt, P Hammond, D Heinemann, J Moore, R Reeves, M Sepulveda, GH Sullaway, GM Sigurðsson, M Siple, GA Víkingsson, R Williams & AN
Zerbini. 2021. Best Practices for Assessing and Managing Bycatch of Marine Mammals Frontiers in Marine Science.


Shelton, AO, GH Sullaway, E Ward, K Somers, V Tuttle, J Watson & W Satterthwaite. Redistribution of salmon populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean in response to climate. Fish and Fisheries 22.3 (2021): 503-517.

Sullaway, GH and M Edwards. 2020. Impacts of the non-native algae, Sargassum horneri, on benthic primary production in a California kelp forest. (Marine Ecology Progress Series).

Edwards, M, B Konar, JK Kim, S, Gabara, GH Sullaway, T McHugh, M Spector, S Small. 2020. Net primary productivity fails to capture complexities of widespread marine deforestation (PLOS One).

 

Specialties

  • Fisheries Ecology
  • Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management

 

Research Overview

I am using lower trophic level information to inform fisheries management and fish ecology. My first chapter is comparing the ROMS-NPZ Bering 10k model with empirical zooplankton field data to understand if this large computer simulation model can enhance lower trophic level distribution models. Second, I plan to use ROMS-NPZ zooplankton forecasts to understand how cumulative marine heatwaves may impact zooplankton spatio-temporal distributions in the Eastern Bering Sea. This work will inform how abundance and distribution of zooplankton prey for fish species, like juvenile pollock, may respond to climate change. Finally, I will utilize zooplankton prey information to understand how marine prey availability impacts juvenile Chinook salmon survival and return abundance in Western Alaska.

 

Current Research Projects

  • ROMS NPZ Bering 10k Model:

 

Certifications

  • AAUS Scientific Diver
  • NOAA Small Boat Certified

 

Awards/Honors

  • NOAA NMFS 2022 Sea Grant Population Dynamics Fellow
  • Vice Chancellor Research Fellowship - University of Alaska 2021-2022

 

Affiliations

  • NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
  • ECOFOCI

 

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