Dr. Becca Selden spoke with WWNO’s Travis Lux on ocean warming and its impact on marine life and fisheries. The conversation is in response to Cheng et al.’s recent article in Science, which suggests that oceans are warming faster than
Becca will be joining the faculty as an assistant professor of marine biology at Wellesley College, a premier liberal arts college in Massachusetts, in September. Wellesley has a strong commitment to undergraduate research, and she hopes to launch the careers of
Ed Tekwa (postdoc in the lab) led a study just out in PNAS, “Path-dependent institutions drive alternative stable states in conservation.” We hear almost every day in the news about environmental disasters, but the world is also full of many
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Jude Kong to the lab! Jude brings a wealth of experience in mathematical modeling and applied math, including for diseases and aquatic ecosystems. He has his PhD from U. Alberta and will be working on
We wrapped up our annual writing retreat at Lacawac Sanctuary & Biological Field Station last week! We enjoyed the crisp air and the sounds of wildlife as we caught up on work and writing. We also had time to cook
Several lab members went off to scientific conferences this month to give talks, present posters, and meet others in the field! Becca, Allison, and Mike attended the American Fisheries Society’s annual meeting in Atlantic City, Allison and Lisa went to
Jennifer and Malin’s paper, Genomic signatures of environmental selection despite near‐panmixia in summer flounder, was released for early-view in Evolutionary Applications. The paper describes how summer flounder are a single population based on many genetic markers, yet the frequency of some genetic
Malin and Rene just came back from the Philippines where they participated in a 12-day bioinformatics and genomics workshop hosted at Silliman University. This annual workshop is part of a larger NSF-funded PIRE project investigating Centennial Genetic and Species Transformations
We went to School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science at University of Washington in Seattle to meet with collaborators on an NSF funded Coupled Natural Human Systems Grant looking at the Dynamics of Adaptation to Climate-Driven Variability in California Current
Katrina took a moment to chat with Rob Crystal-Ornelas on the ESA Student Section podcast, “Science in Progress”. In the episode, they discuss backyard ecology projects such as bee keeping, composting and brewing kombucha! You can listen here.
