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PhD Students

ANDERSON, Christian
ASCH, Rebecca
BONIN, Carolina
CIE, Damien
COOK, Geoffrey
COORINGHAM, Tom
CRAMER, Katie
DE VERNEIL, Alain
FISSEL, Ben
FLEMING, Alison (Aly)

FORREST, Matt
FRANCK, Lauren
GALLAND, Grant
GARREN, Melissa
GILBERT, Ben
GOLDSTEIN, Miriam
HANSON, Kate
HARRIS, Jill
HARTMANN, Aaron
HATCH, Marco
HULL, Pincelli
JOHNSON, Ayana
JOHNSON, Emma
KELLY, Emily
KONOTCHICK, Talina
KNOWLES, Travis
LEONARD-PINGEL, Jill
LESLIE, Matt
LEWIS, Levi
MARHAVER, Kristen
MARTIN, Summer

MCKENNA, Megan
NAVARRO, Michael
NEAL, Ben
NOSAL, Andrew
ROCKWOOD, Cotton
ROSERO, Ivan
ROTH, Melissa
VARDI, Tali
WESCOTT, Jeff
WHITTY, Tara
ZGLIZYNSKI, Brian

PHD Graduates

Aburto-Oropeza, Marco Octavio: Postdoctoral researcher SIO
PhD March 2009
Thesis: The Role of Nursery Habitats and Climate Variability in Reef Fish Fisheries in the Gulf of California.

Blankenship, Lesley: Assistant Professor, Cascadia Community College (Washington)
PhD November 2005.
Thesis: Ecology of the Hadal Zone: Inferences from Scavenging Amphipods from the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches   

Damon, Maria: Professor NYU, Joint appointment: Environmental Studies Program and Wagner School of Public Service
PhD April 2007
Thesis: An Empirical Study of Environmental Policy and Technology Adoption: Phasing Out Toxic Antifouling Paints on Recreational Boats

Erisman Brad:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
PhD  May 2008
Thesis: Reproductive Biology and Evolution of Groups Sea Basses and Related Fishes

Sarah Glaser: Postdoctoral Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
PhD May 2008
Thesis: Food Web Ecology of Albacore Tuna in the California Current System                           

Gruenthal, Kristen: Postdoctoral Researcher, Hubbs Sea World Research Institute (California)
PhD  August 2007
Thesis:  Conservation Genetics of California Abalone Species

Kline, David: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Queensland (Australia)
 PhD January 2005
Thesis:  Effects of Anthropogenic Stress on the Coral Holobiont: New Insights into Coral Disease

McClenachan, Loren:  Postdoctoral Scholar in Historical Ecology at Florida State University
NSF International Fellowship to Simon Fraser University in British Columbia
PhD, August 2009
 Thesis: Historical Change in Marine Animal Populations and Coastal Ecosystems in the Caribbean and Florida Keys

Murray, Jason: Joint Faculty Appointment, University of South Carolina, Department of Economics and Moore School of Business and School for the Environment (South Carolina)
PhD  August 2007
Thesis: Constrained Marine Resource Management   

Newman, Marah Hardt: Science Writer
 PhD February 2007
Thesis: Human Impacts on Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems

Moseman, Serena: Postdoctoral Researcher Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
PhD  May 2008
Thesis:  "Diversity and function from the ground up: Microbial mediation of wetland plant structure and ecosystem function via nitrogen fixation"

Nunes, Flavia
PhD, July 2009
Thesis: " Biodiversity and connectivity in peripheral populations of corals of the South and Eastern Atlantic
 

O'Hara, Jeff: Economist, Chicago Climate Exchange (Chicago)
PhD January 2007
Thesis: Water Resources Planning Under Climate Change and Variability   

Paredes, Gustavo:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Defense (California)
PhD  December 2007

Sepulveda, Chugey:  Senior Research Biologist
Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research (California)
PhD  March 2005
Thesis: Aspects of the Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Regional Endothermy in Fishes   

Smith, Travis : Engineer/Geologist, Dudek Environmental Consulting (California)
PhD  August 2006
Thesis: Ecology and Environments of an Extreme Faunal Turnover in Topical American Scallops

Walsh, Sheila:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Economist, Brown University
PhD August 2009
Thesis:  Linking Coral Reef Health and Human Welfare

Whitcraft, Christine: Assistant Professor Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach
Christine teaches conservation biology, wetland and plant ecology and marine community ecology
Web:  http://www.csulb.edu/~cwhitcra 
PhD January 2007
Thesis: Wetland Plant Influence on Sediment Ecosystem Structure and Trophic Function

 

 

 


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