Karen Cogliati Dr.

Past Interests: Karen's work at ABEL focused on the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics, parentage analyses, and ecological correlates of parental care and reproduction in the plainfin midshipman fish.

Current Position: Karen currently manages a project rearing Chinook salmon and steelhead trout from eggs to juveniles using altered hatchery protocols to produce fish that possess phenotypic traits that emulate their wild counterparts for outside researchers. This is a large federally funded project in the USA, which she coordinates and collaborates closely with state and federal researchers from several agencies (e.g. US Army Corps of Engineers, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Geological Survey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and other national and international academic institutions who use their reared fish for research. As the project manager,  she is also responsible for writing funding and research proposals, quarterly and annual reports, directing the areas of research, analyzing and managing data, preparing manuscripts, and presenting findings.