Rose Dodgen

Rose Dodgen will earn a master's degree in biological sciences with an emphasis in fisheries biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2020. Her thesis work focuses on patterns of abundance and length distribution of three rockfish species from fisheries-independent and fisheries-dependent hook-and-line surveys on the central coast of California. Dodgen is collaborating with a scientist on the stock assessment team at Santa Cruz's National Marine Fisheries Service office to determine how best to potentially implement fisheries-independent data into stock assessments of rockfish. 

Dodgen will be working with the California Fish and Game Commission on their Coastal Fishing Communities Project.