Brendan at ICCB in Brisbane
Brendan attended the International Congress of Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Brisbane, Australia at the end of his term as chair of the Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity committee for the Society for Conservation Biology North America (SCBNA). Along with panelists from
Meaghan at Evolution meeting!
GCRG postdoc Meaghan Clark recently traveled to the Evolution meeting in Athens, Georgia to present a poster on ongoing kelp genomics work in the GCRG. She shared our plans to develop genomic resources for giant kelp throughout California and across
Maya speaks at the Explorers Club!

Maya was recently selected to present at The Explorers Club’s Next Generation Symposium, highlighting her research on how submarine groundwater shapes coral reef ecosystems. Her work reveals how underwater springs create ecological cascades affecting reef metabolism, biodiversity, and fish behavior.
GCRG at ASN 2025!
GCRG members Malin Pinsky, Brendan Reid, and collaborator Isaac Overcast organized a symposium on genomic time series data on January 4 at the American Society of Naturalists Meeting in Pacific Grove, CA. This symposium drew together researchers from the Stanford,
More Summer Talks!
GCRG @ Ecological Society of America 2024!
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
ASN Asilomar 2023 Conference
Members of the lab had the opportunity to attend and present at the American Society of Naturalists’ Asilomar 2023 Conference from January 6th to 9th at Pacific Grove, California. Strong storms were braved and massive swells were overcome to discuss
Lab members attend FishGlob: a worldwide assessment from scientific trawl surveys
This past week Alexa Fredston (Postdoctoral Researcher), Zoë Kitchel (Ph.D. Candidate), and Malin met with a group of international researchers as a part of the FishGlob project hosted by the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity based in