Fish and Wildlife Biologist IV · Coastal Shellfish Unit Lead
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
I study how climate change affects marine organisms, with an emphasis on commercially and ecologically important shellfish. My work combines physiological assays (metabolic rate, biomechanics, stress tolerance) with genomic and epigenomic approaches (RNA-seq, bisulfite sequencing, SNP analysis) and quantitative fisheries assessment to understand responses to ocean acidification, marine heatwaves, and hypoxia, and to turn that understanding into management advice.
14+ yrsin marine ecophysiology and genomics research
20peer-reviewed publications
16staff in the WDFW Coastal Shellfish Unit
$1.8Macross eight program budgets managed
What I work on
Fisheries science
Coastal shellfish fisheries in a changing ocean
Climate-driven recruitment of Pacific razor clams, Dungeness crab larval monitoring, and harvest estimation for Washington's coastal recreational fisheries.
Aquaculture
Climate resilience in Pacific oysters
How triploidy shapes stress responses, DNA methylation, and mortality during marine heatwaves, and how hatchery conditioning can improve seed survival.
Ecomechanics
Mussel attachment under ocean change
How acidification, warming, and hypoxia weaken the byssal threads mussels use to hold on, from adhesive chemistry to gene expression and raft aquaculture.
Open science
Open code, data, and lab notebook
Analysis pipelines in R, Stan, and Bash are public on GitHub, and day-to-day lab work is documented in an open online notebook.
Latest from the lab notebook
- USDA-SRGARP-gigas-carryover setup Part 1 Apr 2023
- USDA-NRSP-8-gigas-rDNA Analysis Part 2 Apr 2023
- gptstudio guide Apr 2023
- USDA-SRGARP-gigas-carryover pilot Part 3 Apr 2023
Contact
mattgeorgephd@gmail.com
0000-0003-1264-8667
Olympia, Washington, USA