Victoria Poulton joined the WEST staff in 2004. Previously, she was a research assistant at South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in southern Oregon where she studied the effects of oyster culture on estuarine communities. Tory received her M.S. degree in Zoology and Physiology, with a minor in statistics, from the University of Wyoming. For her M.S. degree, Tory studied the behavior of scaup ducks (Aythya marila, A. affinis) in response to benthic invertebrate community characteristics in northern San Francisco Bay, CA. She has also worked for Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife in California, Oregon, and Hawaii.
Tory's main areas of expertise are avian behavior and ecology, estuarine benthic ecology, shellfish biology, and seagrass ecology. She is also trained in wetland delineation techniques, survey techniques for a number of sensitive species, and has excellent mapping and technical editing skills. |
