Blair Paul Email & Phone Number

Skokomish, Wa

Seattle, Wa

Consult with industry to streamline algal production systems for biomass, biofuels, high value nutraceuticals, and fish feed applications.

Survey's of shellfish populations of the Hood Canal shellfish resources including intertidal and sub tidal organisms. Primarily focused on oysters, manila clams, and geoduck clams.

Centralia, Wa

Professor of intro collegiate course for Environmental Science

Shelton, Wa

Expanding Algae production in a Shellfish Hatchery as well as manage the work associated with raising Clams and Oysters for sale and to plant on the beach. Lot's of engineering work to re-work the seawater filtration system as well as setting up a 30' x 60' greenhouse for algal production from scratch. There is a team of 5 that work under me to manage the nursery systems as well as the Floating Upweller system.

Port Gamble, Wa

Shellfish population surveys to help set harvest limits, and shellfish enhancement of beaches that are traditional harvest beaches of the S'Klallam Tribe.

Seattle

Grant writing, establishing a phytoplankton index of biotic integrity (P-IBI) for Puget Sound.

Kailua-Kona, Hi

Lead of cultivation during initial start up followed by lead trainer for 3 years. Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for 8 instruments with as many as 20 users that focused on algal photophysiology, respiration, contamination monitoring, lipid detection, and seawater chemistry.

Bellingham, Wa

Completed thesis on plankton ecology, focusing on the grazing effects on microzooplankton by diatoms that produce a set of aldehyde compounds. Additionally, assisted teaching Marine Biogeochemistry and Phycology classes, and assisted with facility and boat maintenance for Shannon Point Marine Lab.

Seattle, Wa

Operated a glass column that separated carbon from seawater from around the world to monitor carbon sequestration into seawater by using different freezing and melting points for the separation of CO2 to run on a GC-MS.

San Juan Island, Wa

Guided multi-day kayak trips around the San Juan Island archipelago as a interpretive naturalist and marine educator to the general public.

Savaii Island, Western Samoa

Organized and taught a curriculum of basic science for up to 50 students in 9-12 grades that included Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology. Also implemented a marine science curriculum as part of a country-wide upgrade of the education system that included monitoring of marine protected areas in the country. Learned and used the Samoan language on a daily basis.

Master In Science, Marine And Estuary Science Program, Envn. Science Dept

Thesis title "Polyunsaturated aldehyde production by a temporally varying field assemblage of diatoms in the San Juan Archipelago: can.

Bachelor Of Science, Biochemistry