Maya Wins UCSC Activating Innovative Graduate Research Award!
The award provides $7,000 for her metabarcoding research in the Galapagos. Congratulations Maya!!!
Maya Returns From Summer Field Work in the Galapagos!
Maya returned from six weeks in the Galapagos Islands, where she was studying how reef fish shift their diets across temperature-productivity gradients in collaboration with Dr. Robert Lamb at the University of Florida. Their research team completed several expeditions to
More Summer Talks!
GCRG @ Ecological Society of America 2024!
Jaelyn Returns From Summer Fieldwork!
Jaelyn has returned to the US from three months in northern Mozambique, where she studies genetic variation in corals in collaboration with Lurio University! She and her dive partner, Antumane Árabe, collected more than two hundred samples of Acropora divaricata
Welcome Rae and Mikaela!
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
How the Philippines PIRE project navigates parachute science
Global Change Research Group member Roy Roberts recently presented a poster (below) at the UCSC Genomics Institute’s “Reclaiming the Lab Coat” Symposium on April 5, 2025. The poster highlights a few ways that the PIRE project (aka, the Albatross Re-Collection
Shipping Day
It took some work but we got all the samples packed up at Rutgers and shipped to their new home at UCSC.
Jaelyn passes quals!
Global Change Research Group celebrates Jaelyn Bos defending her preliminary dissertation proposal and giving a wonderful public talk on plans to study local adaptation to microclimates on coral reefs!
FISHGLOB_data Published!
After three years of work, we’re excited to share a data paper integrating 29 open source scientific bottom trawl surveys sampling >2,000 fish taxa in space and time over some of the most productive marine ecosystems of the world’s oceans.