“Fish in rum” project highlighted in Science
Our NSF-funded Albatross Re-Collection project got written up in a nice piece by Erik Stokstad here!
Congratulations to Dr. Kyra Fitz!
On Monday, Kyra eloquently defended her Ph.D. dissertation, “Conservation genomics of marine fish populations,” and passed with flying colors! Her committee included Drs. Kristen Ruegg, Julie Lockwood, Christina Bergey, and Malin. Chapters 1 is published (Fitz et al. 2022 Evolutionary
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
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
Lab members in the Philippines for fieldwork and a workshop
After a 2-year hiatus, the Pinsky lab finally made it back to the Philippines! Brendan, René, Kyra, Marial & Allison recently returned from a trip to Dumaguete, Negros Oriental where they engaged in research and education endeavors as part of
A visitor! The lab welcomes Jem Baldisimo.
The Pinsky Lab is very excited to host Jem Baldisimo this week! Jem is a PhD student in Kent Carpenter’s lab at Old Dominion and part of the Phillipines PIRE project. She’s visiting as part of an RCN for Evolution
Postdoc available in population genomics and global change
A three-year postdoctoral position is available in the Global Change Ecology & Evolution Lab at Rutgers University. The postdoc will join a NSF PIRE-funded project to study micro-evolutionary responses to a century of habitat degradation and intensive exploitation in Southeast
Ocean currents shape the geography of life in the Coral Triangle
In a new paper published online today in Progress in Oceanography, Diane Thompson and collaborators (including Malin) show how ocean currents transport coral larvae throughout the western Tropical Pacific, and how the barriers posed by these currents have helped shape
Catching clownfish
Diving is well underway here in the Philippines – we (Michelle, Joyce, and Allison) are back for another season studying metapopulation dynamics of reef fish. So far we’ve been visiting the northern sites in our study area in the Albuera