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PhD Students

ASCH, Rebecca
BEN-ADERET, NOAH
BOCKMON, Emily
CIE, Damien
DE VERNEIL, Alain
EDDEBBAR, Yassir
FENG, Justin
FLEMING, Alyson (Aly)

FREEMAN  Lauren
FREEMAN, Simon
FRIED,Stephie
FURBY, Kate
GALLO, Natasha
GEL-REDMAN, Micah
GRUPE, Ben
HARRIS, Jill
HARTMANN, Aaron
INMAN, Bryce
JACOBSON, Erien
JOHNSON, Emma
JOHNSON, Jacob
JOHNSON, Maggie
KEENAN, Elizabeth (Rady School)
KELLY, Emily
LESLIE, Matt
LEWIS, Levi
LINSMAYER, Lauren
MARKOWITZ, Jonathan (Political Science)
MARTIN, Summer

MILLER-SISSON, Misha (Anthropology)
MORRISON, Rachel
NAVARRO, Michael
NEAL, Ben
NETBURN, Amanda
OBRADOVICH, Nick
PIERCE, Nuri "Tessa"

PARKER, Ian
RAY, Tim  (Memoriam)
ROCKWOOD, Cotton
ROSERO, Ivan (Communications)
ROTHTRAN, Brigitte (Economics)
RUBIO-CISNEROS, Nadia
SANCHEZ,Sara
SATO, Kirk
SEGER, Kerri
SHELDON, Tamara
SOMERVILLE, Andrew (Anthropology)
SUMMERS, Mindy
TIRSHFIELD, Jeff (Sociology)
VANCISE, Amy
WHALEN, Caitlin
WHITTY, Tara
ZGLIZYNSKI, Brian

PHD Graduates

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

Blankenship-Williams, Lesley
:
Assistant Professor of Life Sciences, Palomar College
PhD November 2005.
Thesis: Ecology of the Hadal Zone: Inferences from Scavenging Amphipods from the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches

Bonin Carolina:
PhD November 2012
Thesis: "Population genetics and mating system of Antarctic fur seals at Livingston Island, Antarctica"

Cramer, Katie:  NOAA - Knauss Fellow
PhD January 2011
Thesis: "Historical Change in Coral Reef Communities in Caribbean Panama"

Cook, Geoff: Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematical Ecology at McGill University
PhD 2011
Thesis: "Rocky Reef Fish Connectivity: Patterns, Processes and Population Dynamics."

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:  Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
PhD  May 2008
Thesis: Reproductive Biology and Evolution of Groups Sea Basses and Related Fishes

Fissel, Ben: NOAA- NWFSC Seattle
PhD  January 2011
Thesis: "Modeling and Estimation of Financial and Bioconomic Settings in a Dynamic Environment"

FORREST, Matt

Galland, Grant: Knauss Fellowship
Ph.D. December 2012
Thesis:  Conservation and Ecology of Cryptobenthic Fishes on Rock Reefs n the Gulf of California, Mexico

Garren, Melissa:  Postdoctoral Research at MIT
PhD 2011
Thesis: "Microbial Responses and Coral Reef Resilience to organic Matter Inputs"

Gilbert, Ben: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramaie
PhD 2011
Thesis:  Essays on Institutions and Innovation in Natural Resource Industries

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

Goldstein, Miriam:  Knauss Policy Fellow
Ph.D. November 2012
Thesis: Abundance and ecological implications of microplastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

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

Hatch, Marco
PhD May 2012
Thesis: The Sclerochronology of Donax gouldii and Chione undatella: Environmmental Archives of the Pasta and Present Southern California Bight

Karkoylu (Hanson), Kate
American Museum of Natural History (NYC) Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
PhD 2011
Thesis: Planktivorous Fishes link Coral Reef and Oceanic Food Webs: Causes and Consequences of Landscape-Level Patterns in Fish Behavior, Diet and Growth. 

KONOTCHICK, Talina

Hull, Pincelli Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
PhD March 2010
Thesis "Macroevolutionary Patterns in Planktonic Foraminifera and the Recovery of Pelagic Ecosystems from the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction"        

Johnson, Ayana: NOAA - Knauss Fellow
PhD January 2011
Thesis:  Fish, Fishing, Diving and the Management of Coral Reefs

Kline, David: Research Scientist Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 PhD January 2005
Thesis:  Effects of Anthropogenic Stress on the Coral Holobiont: New Insights into Coral Disease

Leonard Pingle, Jill
Thesis:  Change in Neogene Caribbean benthic community tructure after closure of the Central America Seaway

Marhaver, Kristen: Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Merced
Defended:  December 2010
Thesis:  The Ecology of Coral-Microbe Interactions

Mckenna Megan: Marine Mammal Commission
PhD  May 2011
Thesis:  Blue Whale Response to Underwater Noise from Commercial Ships.

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   

Hardt, Marah: Researcher, Environmental Writer and Creative Consultant
 PhD February 2007
Thesis: Human Impacts on Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems
http://www.marahhardt.org
http://www.oceanlorax.wordpress.org

Moseman-Valtierra, 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"

Nosal, Andrew: Postdoctoral Researcher Scripps Institution of Oceanography
PhD December 2012
Thesis: "Demography, Movement Patterns, and Mating System of Leopard Sharks Aggregating along the Open Coast of Southern California, USA"

Nunes, Flavia: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution, University of Geneva
PhD, July 2009
Thesis: " Biodiversity and connectivity in peripheral populations of corals of the South and Eastern Atlantic"
 
O'Hara, Jeff:
Economist, Union of Concerned Scientists
PhD January 2007
Thesis: Water Resources Planning Under Climate Change and Variability   

Paredes, Gustavo:

PhD  December 2007
Thesis: Degradation and Recovery of Caribbean Coral Reefs
 
Roth, Melissa: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
PhD  June 2010
Thesis: Coral Fluorescence and Symbiosis:Photoacclimation, Thermal Shock, Life History Changes, and Implications for Reef Monitoring

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 : Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Chapel Hill, NC)
PhD  August 2006
Thesis: Ecology and Environments of an Extreme Faunal Turnover in Topical American Scallops 

Vardi, Tali; NOAA Fisheries
Ph.D. December 2011
Thesis: Population Dynamics and Policy Implications of the threatened Atlantic Elkhorn Coral

Walsh, Sheila:  Ecosystem Service Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, Central Science Program
PhD 2009
Thesis:  Linking Coral Reef Health and Human Welfare

Wescott Jeff (Anthropology): Waitt Foundation (Washington, DC)
Ph.D. June 2012
Thesis: The Good Lake, The Possible Sea: Ethics and Enviornment in Northern Vanuatu

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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