Our lab haiku
From lab meeting this week led by Jennifer Hoey, we developed a “sciku“: Genomes and climate Changing across land, sea, sky. Let’s discover why!
Becca’s research on Science Friday
Becca Selden teamed up with DataSpire’s Kristin Hunter-Thomson to develop an educational resource with Science Friday’s educational director Ariel Zych. The resource teaches 7-12th grade high school students to interpret the impacts of warming oceans on marine ecosystems. Lab members Katrina Catalano,
Becca interviewed on her new paper
Nice interview with Becca on her research showing that warming is transforming predator-prey interactions in the Northeast US: https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2017/09/22/as-cod-head-for-cooler-waters-new-englands-fisheries-face-upheaval
Six presentations at ESA and AFS!
Lots of great presentations this month: Jennifer presented 25 years of changes in population genetic patterns of summer flounder at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland, OR Sarah presented on genomic evidence for evolutionary rescue in little
Welcome, Dan!
Dan Forrest has joined us as a technician helping run eco-evolutionary models for coral reefs around the world. He just spent a year in Equatorial Guinea running a field station, and so has lots of good stories to tell!
Species numbers going UP in the coastal ocean
Ryan just published a paper in Ecology Letters showing that the number of species in many parts of the coastal ocean is going up, not down as many would expect. He spent the past few years trying to understand how marine
Filipino clownfish breed when it’s cold
Jordan Holtswarth joined our lab last summer as an REU student and did a wonderful job analyzing photos we had on clownfish reproduction in Leyte, Philippines. Her paper showing they breed November-May (the cold months) is just out in Bulletin
Welcome Allison Dedrick and Joyce Ong
Allison Dedrick and Joyce Ong have just joined the lab as postdocs, and we’re excited to have them here! Allison is coming from a Ph.D. with Marissa Baskett and Loo Botsford at UC Davis, and Joyce just finished her Ph.D.
New papers from the lab
Exciting news on the publication front: Jim’s paper on rapid responses of marine animals to winter temperature variability is now out in Global Change Biology. He found strong variation in how animals responded to a warm winter (higher or lower
Becca off to ICES Meeting in Korea
Becca is in Busan, South Korea this week at the ICES/PICES Early Career Scientist Conference on “Climate, Oceans, and Society.” She’s presenting her talk titled, “The role of warming in current and future piscivore dominance on the Northeast U.S. shelf.”