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Samuel Gurr 8/19/26 Samuel Gurr 8/19/26

Beyond the Average: Visualizing Extreme Water Quality Events

August 2026

My name is Katie Dammann, and I am going into my junior year at Oregon State University as an oceanography major. I have spent the last ten weeks working with the Gurr Lab to analyze and visualize extreme water quality events with a focus on hypoxia, acidification, warming, and freshening in Yaquina Bay as an intern in the OSU Branch Experiment Station internship program.

Samuel Gurr 6/6/26 Samuel Gurr 6/6/26

Pearls of Data: Predictive Phenotyping in Oysters

June 2026

My name is Reyna Ibarra, I am an URSA undergraduate research fellow in the Gurr Lab for winter and spring of 2026. In this blog post, I will summarize my experience where I participated in a USDA-funded research project measuring the metabolic activity of oyster larvae using resazurin.