Current University Students

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Lubchenco-Menge Lab, 2025-2026 (L to R) Prof. Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Prof Jane Lubchenco, Travel Coord. Katherine Simpson, Prof Bruce Menge, PhD cand. Maya Feezell, PhD cand. Megan Davis, grad student Laura Edwards, grad student Emily Parker, Postdoc Kaitlyn Tonra, Lab Manager Audrey Vinton, grad student Augie Kalytiak-Davis, PhD candidate Sarah Sellke, Admin Mgr. Leann de Souza (photo-grad student Delaney Chabot). Missing: Research Assoc. Dr. Jenna Sullivan-Stack

​Current Policy Student Mentees
  • Megan Davis
    ​Ph.D. candidate 
    (Bruce Menge Advisor) 
  • Sarah Sellke
    Ph.D. candidate     ​
    ​(Bruce Menge, Advisor)     
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A.Kalytiak-Davis, K. Grorud-Colvert, J. Sullivan-Stack, J. Lubchenco, K. Tonra, A. Vincent celebrating the High Seas Treaty, 2026

​Recent Policy Student Mentees and Current Positions
  • Dr. Allison K. Barner – Assistant Professor, Colby College
  • Dr. Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman – Policy Manager, Ocean Conservancy
  • Jessie Reimer – Policy Analyst, Western States Water Council
  • Dr. Vanessa Constant -  Associate Director for Resilience, Adrienne Arsht Community-Based Resilience Solutions Initiative at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  • Rev. Emily Boring - a priest in the Episcopal Church, Associate Rector at All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley, CA.
  • ​Laurel Field​ - Ph.D. Candidate, Florida State University
  • Silke Bachhuber - Ph.D. Student (Bruce Menge, Advisor)
  • Dr. Heather Fulton-Bennett - Station Biologist, NOAA Alaska Fisheries
  • Dr. Maya Feezell - Oregon Ocean Data Fellow, OR Dept of Land Conservation and Development (through OR Sea Grant)
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​Past Postdoctoral Policy Scholars
  • Dr. Jenna Sullivan-Stack 
  • Dr. Katie Dzeidzic
  • Dr. Vanessa Constant
  • Dr. Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman
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Silke Bachhuber, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Heather Fulton-Bennett, and Vanessa Constant

Past OSU Students and Mentees

Co-Sponsor for Assistant Professor, Senior Research, joint with B.A. Menge

  • Gary Allison  2000-2001
  • Brian Grantham 2001-2003
  • Francis Chan 2004-2009; 2013-2021
  • Allen Milligan 2004-2006
  • Gil Rilov 2007-2008
  • Kristen Milligan 2009-2009
  • Kirsten Grorud-Colvert 2018
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Jane and student Erin Richmond doing rocky seashore research
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2000 Field crew
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2019 LubMenge lab retreat

​Former Graduate Students
Degrees Awarded to Students (advised jointly with B.A. Menge) (29 Ph.D.s; 10 MS.s awarded)
(Name, degree, date, current position):
  • William R. Rice, Ph.D. 1980, Professor; University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Dianna K. Padilla, M.S. 1981; Ph.D., University of Alberta; Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Kenneth R. Yates, M.S. 1982; Ph.D., 1989; Vice President of Husbandry and Life Support Systems, Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific; unknown
  • Teresa Turner, Ph.D. 1982; Dean, College of Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, V.I.
  • Steven D. Gaines, Ph.D. 1982; Professor, Dean, Bren School for the Environment, U.C. Santa Barbara
  • Carla M. D'Antonio, M.S. 1982; Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara; Professor, U.C. Berkeley; Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
  • Christopher P. Marsh, Ph.D. 1984; Director, Spring Island Trust, South Carolina
  • Alice F. Brown, M.S. 1985; Ph.D. Brown University; local activist
  • Annette M. Olson, M.S. 1985; Ph.D., 1992; Independent scientist
  • Lani West, Ph.D. 1986; Research Associate, University of Queensland
  • Terence M. Farrell, Ph.D.; 1987, Professor, Stetson University
  • Cynthia D. Trowbridge, Ph.D., 1989; Research Associate, Hatfield Marine Science Center, OSU
  • Denise Idler, M.S. 1992; Ph.D. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 2002, voluntarily unemployed
  • Peter van Tamelen, Ph.D., 1992; private consultant
  • Deborah R. Brosnan, Ph.D., 1994; Co-Founder and President, Sustainable Ecosystems Institute, Lake Oswego, Oregon, now private consultant
  • Carol A. Blanchette, Ph.D., 1994; Associate Professor, Research, U.C. Santa Barbara; Director, Sierra Nevada Agriculture Research Laboratory
  • Sergio A. Navarrete, Ph.D., 1994; Professor, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, and Director, Coastal Station of Marine Investigations (ECIM), Universidad Catolica, Las Cruces, Chile
  • Deirdre Roberts, M.S., 1995; middle school science teacher, Salinas, CA
  • Eric Berlow, Ph.D., 1995; Director, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Wawona Field Station, Yosemite National Park (UC Merced); TED Global Fellow
  • Gary Allison, Ph.D., 1997; Associate Professor-Research, Ohio State University
  • Karina Nielsen, Ph.D., 1998; Associate Professor Sonoma State University; Professor, San Francisco State University, Estuary and Ocean Science Center; Director, Oregon Sea Grant
  • Eric Sanford, Ph.D., 1999; Professor, University of California at Davis
  • Jen Burnaford, Ph.D., 2001; Professor, California State University at Fullerton
  • Tess Freidenberg, Ph.D. 2002; Senior Scientist, Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprises, Oakland, CA; Instructor, California State, East Bay
  • Matt Bracken, Ph.D., 2003; Assistant Professor, Northeastern University; Professor, University of California, Irvine
  • Heather Leslie, Ph.D. 2004; Assistant Professor, Brown University; Associate Professor and Director of Maine's Darling Center; Professor, University of Maine
  • Roly Russell, Ph. D. 2005; Independent Scholar; Canadian politician, Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development, British Columbia
  • Maria Kavanaugh, M.S. 2005; PhD 2012; Post-doc Scholar Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Associate Professor, Oregon State University
  • John Howieson, M.S. 2006, retired
  • Anne Guerry, Ph.D., 2006; Chief Strategy Officer and Lead Scientist, the Natural Capital Project's Marine Conservation Initiative, Stanford University, Woods Institute
  • Elise Granek, PhD., 2006, Professor, Portland State University
  • Chris Krenz, Ph.D., 2007, Staff Scientist, Oceana; Wildlife Science Coordinator, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  • Laura Petes, Ph.D., 2007, Ecosystem Science Advisor, Climate Program Office, NOAA; Chief of Staff, Climate and Environment Team, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Director, Climate Program, NOAA
  • A. Paulina Guarderas, M.S., 2007, Instituto NAZCA de Investigaciones Marinas (a marine NGO), Ecuador
  • Luis Vinueza, Ph.D. 2009, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Ecuador; tour guide, Galapagos Isl
  • Dafne Eerkes-Medrano, Ph.D., 2011, (Co-advised with Sally Hacker) Research Associate, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK; Zooplankton Ecologist at Ecology and Conservation Group, Marine Scotland, The Scottish Government
  • Joe Tyburczy, PhD. 2011, Knauss Sea Grant Fellow; PISCO Policy Coordinator, Oregon State University; Coastal Specialist, California Sea Grant Extension; Medical Assistant, Open Door Community Health Center
Graduate Students initially co-advised with B.A. Menge; then advised solely by B.A. Menge when Lubchenco was at NOAA (2009-2013): 
  • Alison Iles (NSERC Fellow), Ph.D. 2012 
  • Sara Close, (NSF Fellow), Ph.D. 2013: Officer, Lenfest Ocean Program; Program Director, Blue Converbence Fund
  • Jeremy Rose, (NSF Fellow), Ph.D. 2015: Lead Coordinator of the BI 20x Introductory Biology Series;
    Associate Professor (Teaching), Oregon State University
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Dr. Lubchenco showing girls from Girls Inc. how to dissect a squid, 2012
Former Postdoctoral Students
Advised jointly with Bruce Menge:
  • Elizabeth Dahlhoff, 1993-1995; Ph.D. Scripps Inst. of Oceanography; Mellon Post Doc; Professor University of Santa Clara
  • Cynthia Trowbridge, 1993-9; Ph.D., OSU; Research Faculty, Hatfield Marine Science Center, OSU
  • Sergio Navarrete, 1994-5; Ph.D. OSU; Professor and Director of Marine Laboratory, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile
  • Eric Berlow, 1995-96, Ph. D., OSU; Director, Wawona Filed Station, University of California Merced, TED Global Fellow; Founder and CEO of Vibrant Data Labs
  • Patricia Halpin, 1995-2001, Ph.D., Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles
  • Gary Allison, 1997-98, Ph.D. OSU; Ohio State University Research Faculty
  • Brian Grantham, 1997-2003, Ph.D., Stanford University; Coordinator, Aquatic Research-AQUATIC Research and Development Section, Natural Resources, Government of Ontario, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
  • George Leonard, 1998-1999; Ph. D., Brown University; Director, Aquaculture Program, Ocean Conservancy
  • Carl Schoch, Ph.D., Oregon State University; Affiliate Associate Research Professor, Alaska Ocean Observing System, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Karina Nielsen, 2000-2003; Ph. D., OSU; Associate Professor, Sonoma State University; Director, Oregon Sea Grant
  • Francis Chan, 2001-2004, Ph.D., Cornell University; Assistant Professor, Senior Research and Director, Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Resources Studies, OSU
  • Michael Webster, 2001-2004; Ph. D., OSU; Program Officer, Moore Foundation; Executive Director, The Coral Reef Alliance, Oakland, CA; Professor, New York University
  • Tess Friedenburg, 2002-2004; Ph. D., Senior Scientist, Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise, California Ocean Science Trust, Oakland CA; Instructor, California State University, East Bay
  • Kimberly Heiman, 2006-2008; Ph.D., Stanford; Senior Lecturer, Muhlenberg College
  • Gil Rilov, 2005-2007; PhD. Tel Aviv University; Senior Researcher, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
  • Karen McLeod 2003-2007; PhD. OSU; Director of Science, then Director of Leadership Programs, COMPASS; Director, Marine Resources Management Program, OSU, and Executive Leadership Coach
  • Sarah Dudas, 2005-2009; Ph.D.; Canada Research Chair, University of Vancouver Island, Nanaimo, BC; Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Kirsten Grorud-Colvert 2006-2010; Ph.D. University of Miami; Schmidt Research Vessel Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2012; Associate Professor, Senior Research and Director of Online Degree Programs, Dept. of Integrative Biology, OSU
  • Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman 2010-2016, Ph.D. OSU; Postdoctoral Scholar 2017-2018; Policy Manager, Ocean Conservancy
  • Katie Dziedzic Ph.D., 2019; Knauss Sea Grant Fellow 2020; Congressional Affairs Specialist, NOAA; Fisheries Program Coordination Officer, NOAA