Rev. Michael Abram

Among the officials working on the event is Oxnard College's very own biology instructor, Dr. Michael Abram who is serving on the task force in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

For More information or inquiries on the event, contact Dr. Abram at mabram@vcccd.edu

Instructor: Rev. Michael Abram

Professor Mike Abram and his students wrapped ribbons around trees on campus in support of American troops overseas, particularly deployed OC students.

Please contact Dr. Michael Abram at mabram@vcccd.edu for more information.

Inside a warehouse Wednesday at the Channel Islands Marine Resource Institute in Port Hueneme, Oxnard College professor Michael Abram helped student Chris Lopez wrangle dozens of white sea bass.

Lopez snaked a large black net around the inside of a fish tank and began scooping out sea bass and water into blue buckets.

You're a sea bass cowboy!Woo-ha!"Abram yelled to Lopez as other students eagerly looked on.

About 200 fish were later released into Port Hueneme Harbor as part of a sea bass enhancement program at the marine institute.Abram said the white sea bass is highly sought after by sportfishing enthusiasts, and the program is designed to restore its population.The students who participated in Wednesday's release are enrolled in Oxnard College's marine studies program.

Abram and fellow Oxnard College professor Tom O'Neil run the marine institute as a research, restoration and educational facility.
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Abram and several students then hauled each 200-plus-pound bucket down the rocky shore.Wearing wet suits, Abram and Lopez took the buckets one by one out into the surf and upended them, dumping the sea bass into the channel.

Abram said the newly freed bass will help strengthen the genetic diversity of the population.

"It feels so good," Abram said.

Michael Abram
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One of the new faces in the Middle School Science Department will be that of Michael Abram.Mike has most recently been teaching at the junior college level, where he was a colleague of Terri Frantz's husband, Joe.Mike's undergraduate degree is from UC Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies and he is also a Doctor of Chiropractic.He has, in fact, served as the chiropractor for the U.S. Ski Team and is a licensed CPR and First Aid instructor.He's also a sailor, scuba diver, skier and surfer.

> After four years of weekly commuting from Los Angeles to Oxnard, Michael Abram has settled down as a full-time professor at Oxnard College.Abram grew up in the San Fernando Valley and attended Grant High School, where he claims he wasn't a science geek or a jock, but a rock-and-roller known as a "metal head".Not only was he into mosh pitts, but he also was a surfer at heart who would ditch first period with his friends to go surfing.At the age of 18, Abram served as a CPR instructor for the Boy Scouts, setting a great example for many of the young members.While attending Los Angeles Valley Community College as an art major, he realized what an important impact his professors were making in his education."It was a wonderful springboard for my education," Abram commented.Two years later, he transferred to UC Santa Barbara where he met his wife Victoria; a "very popular Anthropology professor at Moorpark College", Abram said.Victoria volunteers at OC's ESPIGA and Matriculation offices, where she aims to help those who need a guide in their education.Abram continued his chain of degrees and earned his doctor of chiropractic at Cleveland Chiropractic College.Yes, he knows how to adjust sore muscles, but before trying to schedule an appointment, his services are only once a week, to family and old patients.An avid outdoorsman, Abram loves any water activities including fishing, scuba diving, hunting underwater, and kayaking.His favorite morning activity is walking the dog with his wife on the shores of his home, Silverstrand beach.He confessed of a healthy rivalry between other OC professors as to which beach has the best waves, Silverstrand or Hollywood Beach.He says it's Silverstrand.Abram is really happy to be a full time professor at OC."My roots are set and I hope they do nothing but grow and flourish.I really like it here," said Abram.His classes have no tests or essays; they are full of outdoors activities for example, beach cleanups, bird habitat restoration and indigenous flower planting.Next semester he will co-teach BIO 170 and GEOL 178, a two-unit class that includes weekend fieldtrips and exiting experiences." I promise my students that they will have fun," Abram said.

Oxnard College student Chris Lopez, left, and professor Michael Abram dump a bucketful of white sea bass into Port Hueneme Harbor on Wednesday as part of a program aimed at restoring the population of the fish.
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Inside a warehouse Wednesday at the Channel Islands Marine Resource Institute in Port Hueneme, Oxnard College professor Michael Abram helped student Chris Lopez wrangle dozens of white sea bass.
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Abram yelled to Lopez as other students eagerly looked on.
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Abram said the white sea bass is highly sought after by sportfishing enthusiasts, and the program is designed to restore its population.The students who participated in Wednesday's release are enrolled in Oxnard College's marine studies program.

Abram and fellow Oxnard College professor Tom O'Neil run the marine institute as a research, restoration and educational facility.
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Abram and several students then hauled each 200-plus-pound bucket down the rocky shore.Wearing wet suits, Abram and Lopez took the buckets one by one out into the surf and upended them, dumping the sea bass into the channel.
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Abram said the newly freed bass will help strengthen the genetic diversity of the population.

"It feels so good," Abram said.

Instructor: Rev. Michael Abram

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