Graduate Student

School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Box 355020
Seattle, WA 98195-5020

Anna is an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student working at the intersection of fisheries, marine policy and oceanography. She received her Bachelors’ in Oceanography and in French from the University of Washington. Anna worked with Dr.Dee Boersma at the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels where she studied the relationship foraging patterns of breeding Magellanic penguins and large scale oceanographic events in Punta Tombo, Argentina. Anna continued on to a Master’s in Policy Studies at UW where she specialized in marine policy and law. Here research focused on exploring the interaction of international legislation (UNCLOS) and indigenous rights in international straits. As PhD student, Anna aims to bring these different skills together. Her research focused on expanding a climate-enhanced age-based model with temperature-specific trophic linkages and energetics (CEATTLE) to include Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus Ursinus) bioenergetics and population dynamics. These additions will allow for exploration of management trade offs under future ocean conditions given the importance of the predator-prey interactions between Northern Fur Seals and commercially important fish like Walleye Pollock (Gadus Chalcogrammus).