Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey, CA.
Youth Ocean Advocates Lightning Talk at the Seattle Aquarium (Dec. 29, 2015)
LMU Spring Research Symposium (April 2017)
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Ecological & evolutionary physiology of the environmental stress response:Our focus is on the interactions among physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution in animals that occupy constantly changing inter-tidal zones. These dynamic habitats require animals to cope with an extreme and rapidly fluctuating set of environmental conditions, which include dramatic spatial and temporal variation in biotic and, especially, abiotic conditions such as dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity. Coastal habitats such as the intertidal zone are also some of the most likely to be impacted by anthropogenic global change, and both the frequency and severity of environmental stress events are predicted to increase. Therefore, extreme events and the capacities of organisms to cope with them (or not!) are likely to play a significant role in driving ecological and evolutionary patterns in these habitats.
Basically, when a constantly changing ocean provides stress for animals, we want to investigate how those animals react and if they are able to evolve to survive in those conditions (Climate Change!). |
California Mussel
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Intertidal Copepods
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Dr. Wes Dowd, Ph.DAssociate Professor at Washington State University (previously LMU)
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Dr. Lani Gleason, Ph.DAssistant Professor at Sacramento State University (previously postdoctoral fellow at LMU)
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Brian HizonUndergraduate Biology Major at Loyola Marymount University
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