We would like to welcome Dr. Mark Morales to the Global Change Research Group as our newest Post-Doctoral Researcher!
Mark recently completed his PhD here at the University of California Santa Cruz. His dissertation work leveraged long-term fisheries-independent survey datasets, state-of-the-art numerical oceanographic and biogeochemical models, and individual-based modeling to better understand the biophysical mechanisms of rockfish recruitment variability. Now as a postdoctoral scholar in the Global Change Research Group, Mark is constructing process-based species distribution models for Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) under the larger Center for Coastal Climate Resilience funded dungieHAB research project.
Connect with Mark at mamamora@ucsc.edu!