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 Lucas!
The Global Change Research Group is happy to report that Postdoctoral Researcher Lucas da Cunha Godoy has joined the team! Lucas has a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Connecticut. His dissertation research focused on developing a new statistical
Postdoc position open in GCRG! Temporal population genomics
Update 1 September 2024: This position has now been filled. Postdoc in temporal population genomics and global change at the University of California Santa Cruz A two-year postdoctoral position is available in the Global Change Research Group in the
Malin joins National Nature Assessment (NNA) author team
Malin has joined the author team for the National Nature Assessment, the first federal synthesis of the state of the nation’s lands, waters, and wildlife, and the benefits they provide to our economy, health, climate, environmental justice, and national security.
Peter A. Larkin Award
The first inaugural Peter A. Larkin award recognizes Malin for his contributions to understanding the impacts of climate change on fisheries, and for efforts to foster more effective fisheries management in a changing climate. The award includes a public lecture
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
Maya Awarded NSF GRFP
Congratulations to GCRG PhD Student Maya Zeff for her outstanding accomplishment in being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Maya will be funded to investigate whether facilitation cascades (i.e., when one species promotes another with positive effects on
Shipping Day
It took some work but we got all the samples packed up at Rutgers and shipped to their new home at UCSC.