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Justine Albers
Graduate Student
Marine Biotech 2018
genomics & engineering non-model microbes to study biogeochemistry in extreme environments
Marine Organisms
Eleanor Arrington
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Microbial metabolisms relevant to oil biogeochemistry.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms
Billie Beckley
marine ecology, conservation, disturbance ecology, kelp forests, primary producers
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Ricky Brokaw
Graduate Student
5835 Ellison Hall
Investigating water mass sources and transport of materials to kelp forests
Luke Carberry
Graduate Student
Ellison 5838
Phytoplankton biophysics across time and space scales
Carbon & Climate
Marine Resources & Conservation
Jacqueline Comstock
Graduate Student
3125 MBL
My research focuses on linkages between dissolved organic carbon utilization and microbial community structure surrounding coral reefs.
Natalie Dornan
Graduate Student
Marine Biotechnology Laboratory 2018
kelp forest nutrient cycling
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Nathalie Eegholm
Graduate Student
Ellison 5843
Using remote sensing technology to aid in the development of net primary productivity and demographic models of kelp forests
Carbon & Climate
Marine Resources & Conservation
Kyle Emery
Graduate Student
My research focus is on how organic matter subsidies structure communities and regulate ecosystem functions on sandy beaches.
Chance English
Graduate Student
145 MBL
Graduate student researcher investigating DOM/bacterioplankton dynamics in the open and coastal ocean.
Carbon & Climate
Hayley Goss
Graduate Student
genetics of rock scallops
Marine Organisms
Ji Hyun Kim
Graduate Student
5840 Ellison Hall
Carbon uptake in the global ocean
Carbon & Climate
Sasha Kramer
Graduate Student
5841 Ellison Hall
Phytoplankton community structure in the surface ocean using in-water measurements and satellite remote sensing.
Carbon & Climate
Tanika Ladd
Graduate Student
1108 MBL
Biological oceanography, with focuses on anthropogenic influences on the physiology and community composition of marine phytoplankton.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms
Zhe Li
Graduate Student
4710 Ellison Hall
Polar climate change, ocean heat content, ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Na Liu
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Interactions between microbes and the environment.
Marine Organisms
Connor Love
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
I am studying oceanography, organism physiology and ecology across systems such as the open ocean and coral reefs.
Jessica Madden
Graduate Student
MSRB 1204
Coastal marine ecology, community ecology
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Katrina Malakhoff
Graduate Student
1206 MSRB
Sea urchin ecology, focusing on the impact of fishing and marine reserves on dominant urchin species in the Santa Barbara Chanel.
Michael Maniscalco
Graduate Student
3150 MBL
Marine Organisms
Sara Matsumura
Synthetic biology and genetic engineering to produce sustainable methods and alternatives to food, fuel, and materials.
Mary McElroy
Graduate Student
1208 MSRB
I develop molecular tools for marine conservation and management and use them to study human impacts on marine biodiversity.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Kristen Michaud
Graduate Student
1204 MSRB
Marine community ecology, invasion ecology, larval transport.
Karly Miller
Graduate Student
1208 MSRB
I study changes in marine socio-ecological systems that result from conservation and development initiatives. My current research focuses on the impacts of rural coastal tourism development on small-scale fisheries.
Marine Resources & Conservation
Michael Mongtomgery
Graduate Student
I am interested in coastal evolution, particularly as it pertains to California estuaries.
Kyle Neumann
Graduate Student
Michael Nowicki
Graduate Student
5837 Ellison Hall
Carbon export and biological pump modeling.
Nicola Paul
Graduate Student
Marine Biotechnology Laboratory 2018
particle-attached marine microbes
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms
Qianhui Qin
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Carbon Climate, Marine Organisms Genomics.
Elisa Romanelli
Graduate Student
5844 Ellison Hall
I am interested in the functioning and efficiency of the ocean’s biological carbon pump.
Carbon & Climate
Jacob Schmidt
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Offshore dumping of DDT insecticide and related waste near the Channel Islands.
Kateline Seeto
Graduate Student
West Campus, Bldg 7955, Rm 1001
fish and invertebrate communities associated with offshore energy, comparing survey methodology for subsea pipelines
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Jordan Snyder
Graduate Student
Coastal oceanography; remote sensing-based flux measurements of terrestrial materials in the inner shelf.
Michaela Sten
Graduate Student
Ellison Hall 5843
Population and community ecology
Marine Organisms
Carbon & Climate
Jonathan Tarn
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Jon loves looking at how microbes are adapted to low energy lifestyles and talking in the third person.
Marine Organisms
Cecily Tye
Graduate Student
5838 Ellison
physical oceanography
Carbon & Climate
Jose Valera
Graduate Student
Marine Organisms, Extremophiles, Nutrient cycling, Astrobiology, Carbon & Climate.
Alec Vallota-Eastman
Graduate Student
2029 Webb Hall
Accelerated evolution, biofuels, cyanobacteria, protein engineering, and synthetic biology.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation
Kana Yamamoto
Graduate Student
Ellison 5837
open ocean carbon cycle, biological pump, carbon modeling
Carbon & Climate