The Global Change Research Group welcomes two incoming PhD students, Rae Fadlovich and Mikaela Salvador!
After finishing her master’s at Utah State University, as part of the Quantitative Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology Lab, Rae will be joining the GCRG and the Munch lab (NMFS) in fall 2024. She will be coming in with a UCSC Chancellor’s fellowship and a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Her focus will be understanding the global ecological impacts of marine heatwaves using dynamic modeling, machine learning, statistical ecology, and fisheries science.
Mikaela will be graduating from Stanford this spring with a masters in Earth Systems and will also be joining the GCRG in fall 2024. She will be coming in with a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship, which will support her training and research on how coral reefs in the Philippines respond to climate change and other anthropogenic stressors. She will be working as a part of the Albatross Re-Collection project conducting whole-genome sequencing to study whether and how fishes have evolved over the last century of rapid warming and intensifying fishing.
