This program is available at the following location:

• Corvallis

The Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences offers graduate work leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees (and participation in the MAIS degree program) with majors in fisheries science.

Fisheries research in graduate studies involves quantitative analyses of marine and freshwater fish populations, water quality, fish systematics, fish and invertebrate physiology, stream ecology, modeling of aquatic ecosystems, land use interactions, endangered species, conservation biology, and aquaculture.

The Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit has active research programs funded in part by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Geological Survey. The Agricultural Experiment Station, the Sea Grant program, Forest Science Laboratory and other organizations fund major research projects. The department maintains extensive collections of vertebrate species, maintained by Peter Konstantinidis as curator of vertebrates, with emphasis on larval fishes.

Contact Information

For more information, visit the website or email fw.gradadvising@oregonstate.edu

Major Code: 1300

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

MS

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Produce a well written thesis that placed their work in proper context and used correct style and grammar to effectively communicate major findings.
• Deliver a well-organized and easy to follow defense seminar.
• Demonstrate good oral communications skills during the closed defense with their committee.
• Display evidence of critical thinking skills during the oral defense.

PhD

• Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly activities in an ethical manner.
• Produce a well written thesis that placed their work in proper context and used correct style and grammar to effectively communicate major findings.
• Deliver a well-organized and easy to follow defense seminar.
• Demonstrate good oral communications skills during the closed defense with their committee.
• Display evidence of critical thinking skills during the oral defense.

Major Code: 1300