Personnel

Graduate Students

	Affiliation	Areas of Research	Advisor	Email
Noam Altman-Kurosaki	Georgia Institute of Technology	Marine ecology, coral reef ecology, herbivory	Mark Hay	Email
Jill Ashey	The University of Rhode Island	Examining the molecular mechanisms of coral acclimatization and development.		Email
Danielle Becker	University of Rhode Island	Impacts of local and global anthropogenic stressors on coral reef resilience.	Hollie Putnam	Email
Stephanie Bilodeau	Georgia Institute of Technology	Species interactions and the ways that small-scale chemical ecology and behavior shape community structure and create large-scale patterns across landscapes and seascapes.	Mark Hay	Email
Noe Castenada	UC Santa Barbara	Morphological and behavioral variation in feeding interactions of reef fishes	Deron Burkepile	Email
Adrian Cheh	CSU Northridge	Coral ecology and eco-physiology	Peter Edmunds	Email
Dennis Conetta	University of Rhode Island	Coral ecology	Hollie Putnam	Email
Adelaide Dahl	UC Santa Barbara	Coral ecology	Adrian Stier	Email
Zoe Dellaert	The University of Rhode Island	Tropical corals and their resilience to climate change and warming oceans	Hollie Putnam	Email
Autumn "Raine" Detmer	UC Santa Barbara	Using models to better understand species interactions in marine communities and how these interactions may be affected by environmental stressors	Holly Moeller	Email
Laurel Diaz	CSU Northridge	Coral ecology	Nyssa Silbiger	Email
Olivia Diehl	CSU Northridge	Investigating the interactive effects of herbivory and water flow on the morphology and metabolic rates of noncalcifying marine macroalgae.	Robert Carpenter	Email
Alexandra Dubel	Florida State University	Novel ecosystems and human-coupled systems	Andrew Rassweiler	Email
Lauren Enright	UC Santa Barbara	How a gradient of grazing pressure interacts with nutrient enrichment to influence algal patch dynamics.	Deron Burkepile	Email
Florence Fields	The University of Rhode Island	Coral physiological and morphological characteristics and transgenerational epigenetic effects in response to their environmental stressors	Hollie Putnam	Email
Jordan Gallagher	UC Santa Barbara	Effects of anthropogenic nutrients on macroalgal performance and reef resilience	Sally Holbrook	Email
Olivia Isbell	UC Santa Barbara	Understanding the ecological impacts of severe disturbances on coral reefs ecosystems and the drivers for recovery	Deron Burkepile	Email
Nicholas Jeffress	Duke University	Moorea/Tetiaroa circulation and wave modeling	Jim Hench	Email
Carly Karrick	UC Berkeley	Coral microbial symbioses in the context of global change, with a particular interest in the role of endosymbionts in influencing coral response to climate-related stressors		Email
Mackenzie Kawahara	UC Santa Barbara	Coral reef microbiomes in Mo’orea, French Polynesia	Rebecca Vega-Thurber	Email
Savanah Leidholt	Oregon State University	Puffy Snout Syndrome (PSS)	Rebecca Vega-Thurber	Email
Cannon Mallory	CSU Northridge	Development of remote molecular ecology protocols with special interest in omic based approaches	Cherie Briggs	Email
Rayna McClintock	University of Hawai'i at Mānoa	Coastal oceanography and microbial community ecology	Craig Nelson	Email
Hannah Merges	CSU Northridge	Coral ecology	Nyssa Silbiger	Email
Nury Molina	UC Santa Barbara	Role of herbivorous fish in promoting coral reef resilience.	Deron Burkepile	Email
Catherine Mullenmeister	UC San Diego	Coral ecology	Linda Wegley Kelly	Email
Ninah Munk	UC Santa Barbara	Coral ecology	Holly Moeller	Email
Shannon Nelson-Maney	California State University San Diego	Coral reef restoration in Moorea French Polynesia		Email
Kara Noonan	Rice University	Relationship between reef fish communities and coral disease	Adrienne Correa	Email
Alexander Primo	University of Georgia	Coral ecology	Craig Osenberg	Email
Julianna Renzi	UC Santa Barbara	How coral-associated biodiversity mediates coral resistance to climate stress.	Deron Burkepile	Email
Kacie Ring	UC Santa Barbara	Disease ecology, host-parasite interactions, tick-borne pathogens, community ecology, transcriptomics	Cherie Briggs	Email
Keanu Rochette-Ys Tsuen	University of Hawai'i at Mānoa	Coral ecology		Email
Emily Schmeltzer	Oregon State University	Coral microbial ecology	Rebecca Vega-Thurber	Email
Wesley Sparagon	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	The interaction between benthic organisms on coral reefs and bacterial communities in the surrounding sea water, how these interactions are altered by climate change, and how this in turn changes the coral reef ecosystem	Craig Nelson	Email
Sean Swift	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	How microbes eat different organic compounds and also how they might use them to communicate with host organisms, like terrestrial plants, algae, and coral	Craig Nelson	Email
Kara Titus	Rice University	How coral health influences reef fish communities	Adrienne Correa	Email
Alex Vompe	Oregon State University	The association between environmental stressors and phase shifts in corals and their microbiomes	Rebecca Vega-Thurber	Email
Taylor Walker	Rice University	Coral reef ecology	Adrienne Correa	Email
Madeleine Ward	UC Santa Barbara	Combining observational and molecular data to study the trophic partitioning of herbivorous fish in tropical coral reefs across space, time and gradients of human disturbance		Email
Joyah Watkins	Rice University	The role of ocean viruses in coral health and disease (e.g., Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease)	Adrienne Correa	Email
Madison Willert	Georgia Institute of Technology	Coral reef biology, climate change, ecology	Mark Hay	Email
Lauren Zane	The University of Rhode Island	Coral physiology in response to climate change induced stress (shifting phenology, rising ocean temperatures, deoxygenation)		Email
Lily Zhao	UC Santa Barbara	Coral ecology	Holly Moeller	Email