Ocean Climate Lab Group
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Information for prospective students and postdoctoral scholars can be found here!
Dr. Tessa Hill, Professor
Gwyneth Chilcoat, Ph.D. Student
My passion is conservation paleobiology: using the deep-time fossil record to support community-led conservation priorities. As an interdisciplinary advocate, scholar, and scientist, I believe that communities know their experience best, and the fossil record can provide powerful context for biological responses to climate change.
Former Lab Members
Esther Kennedy, now a postdoc at University of Alaska
Dr. Sara Hamilton, now at Oregon Kelp Alliance
Dr. Vero Padilla Vriesman, now Assistant Professor at Oberlin College
Dr. Alyssa Griffin, now Assistant Professor at UC Davis
Dr. Aurora Ricart, now Marie Curie Fellow, Spain
Dr. Maya Weeks
Dr. Cait Livsey, now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College
Dr. Hannah Palmer, now a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Davis
Lena Capece, M.S student; now Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Catherine Davis, now an Assistant Professor at NC State.
Dr. Rachel Ragnhild Carlson - Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
I apply geospatial technology like high-resolution remote sensing and field-based methods to understand ocean change and governance.
Elisabeth Sellinger Ph.D student
I graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as a minor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. I am now working on blue carbon storage in seagrass ecosystems along the California coast
Annika Frosch, visiting Law Student from European University Institute
Brady O’Donnell, now at the US Marine Mammal Commission
Sarah Merolla, now at the Marine Biological Laboratory
Jessica Hosfelt, now at Rioux Consulting
Dr. Sarah Myhre, Founder, Rowan Institute
Priya Shukla, Ph.D., now a consultant for Ocean Science Trust
Dr. Aaron Ninokawa, Ph.D., now an Assistant Professor at SUNY ESF
Dr. Annaliese Hettinger, now a Licensed Social Worker
Dr. Emily Rivest, now an Associate Professor at Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Meghan Zulian, Ph.D. Candidate
In my graduate research I study how fast or slow shell growth in abalone and pacific oysters trades off with other shell parameters that are important for their resilience. I then consider how these trade-offs will play out in a changing ocean, to give context and guidance for food sovereignty and conservation efforts.
Mazie Lewis, Jr Specialist
I work with the Hill lab and the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research group to support and facilitate research assessing the impacts of changing ocean conditions on marine organisms and communities.
Dr. Melissa Ward, Postdoctoral Scholar
Melissa was a Ph.D. student in the lab, and is now a Postdoc at San Diego State University and Oxford University. She continues to collaborate with the lab on understanding where along the coast are communities most vulnerable to impacts from ocean acidification, including how shellfish industries will manage OA stress, and can we use aquatic vegetative habitats such as seagrass meadows to ameliorate this stress?
Dr. Kristy Kroeker, now Full Professor at UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Seth Miller, now Assistant Professor at Anne Arundel Community College
Dr. Michele LaVigne, now Associate Professor at Bowdoin College
Sarah White, M.S.; Ph.D. in 2019 from UCSC
Sarah Flores, M.S., now at US State Department
Bart Critser, M.S., now in environmental consulting
Chris Myrvold, M.S., now in environmental consulting.
information for prospective students
Students interested in Fall 2023 admissions (for start of program in Fall 2024) can find more information here.