Past to Present Lecture Series - Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish Commission

"From Sensors to Salmon: The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission's CMOP Ocean and Estuary Research Program with Charles Seaton and Rosie Gradoville"
Dr. Rosie Gradoville is Lead Oceanographer for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission’s CMOP program. She earned a BA in Biology from Barnard College in 2010 and a PhD in Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry from Oregon State University in 2017, and now leads the CMOP observatory, a long-term program based in Astoria that monitors the coastal ocean and the Columbia River estuary. Her team studies how physical, chemical, and ecological processes shape the estuary and nearby coastal waters, providing information that supports salmon restoration and other tribal priorities.
Charles Seaton is the Lead Modeler for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission’s CMOP program. He has a BS in botany from the University of Massachusetts -Amherst, and an MS in Environmental Science and Engineering from Oregon Health & Science University. His team focuses on modeling the physical processes of the Columbia River estuary, coastal ocean. and the full Pacific Ocean. He has worked on the Columbia River estuary at CMOP for 25 years, across three different institutions.