Students
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Rattlesnake responses to pursuit-deterrent signals from California ground squirrels
- Interests
- Predator-prey interactions between rattlesnakes and ground squirrels
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Reef fish population dynamics
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- Importance of Lateral Carbon Flux to the Carbon Budget of a Larrea/Cardn Ecosystem near La Paz BCS, Mexico
- Interests
- Vertical and lateral carbon flux in desert ecosystems
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Influence of the harvesting process on the community ecology and alginate quality of kelps in California and Chile: implications for a sustainable resource
- Interests
- Sustainable harvesting of kelp in Southern California and Chile
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- Lab
- Lipson
- Thesis
- Impacts of invasive plant species on nitrogen cycling and soil microbial communities in coastal sage scrub
- Interests
- Plant invasions and plant-microbial interactions
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- Lab
- Deutschman
- Thesis
- selective seed predation and its effects on the interaction between native and exotic plants in coastal sage scrub communities in San Diego county
- Interests
- conservation ecology
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- The effects of ocean acidification on coralline algae
- Interests
- climate change, kelp forest ecology
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Disturbance and resilience of eelgrass ecosystems
- Interests
- Community ecology of marine ecosystems; marine reserves
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- spatial distribution, reproductive behavior, and dispersal processes of pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata) and their potential for recovery and the optimization of restoration techniques in southern California
- Interests
- marine population dynamics, dispersal
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Marine fish larval connectivity and population dynamics
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- Lab
- Williams
- Thesis
- Thorne's hairstreak butterfly relationship with its host plant (Cupressus forbesii)
- Interests
- larval biology of butterflies
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- Lab
- Long
- Thesis
- Chemically-mediated tritrophic interactions in Southern California Subtidal Communuties
- Interests
- chemical ecology, consumer-prey interactions, trait mediated indirect interactions (TMIIs), intertidal ecology, kelp forest ecology
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- LaKenya Evans
- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Bioaccumulation of pollutants in marine algae and its effects on trophic interactions
- Interests
- marine plants and algae, effects of pollutants in marine systems
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Sea Turtle Conservation Ecology, specifically pertaining to hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the eastern Pacific Ocean
- Interests
- conservation and ecology of sea turtles
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Microhabitat selection of desert tortoises post translocation
- Interests
- Conservation of desert tortoises and desert habitat
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Kelp community dynamics in response to climate shifts
- Interests
- climate change, marine algae
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Maternal attendance of young in rattlesnakes: costs, benefits, and underlying physiological mechanisms
- Interests
- Ecology and evolutionary biology of reptiles and amphibians
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- Lab
- Oechel
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Biogeographic variation in top-down control of community structure in temperate subtidal reefs
- Interests
- Marine community ecology, biogeography, predation ecology
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Disease and Fire in an Urbanizing Chapparral Ecosystem: exploring linkages in bobcat populations
- Interests
- Applied conservation, carnivore ecology, fire ecology
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- Lab
- Long
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Marine community ecology, algal-herbivore interactions
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- Lab
- Lewison and Bohonak
- Thesis
- Population dynamics of two pelagic shark species (short fin mako and common thresher): a molecular and mathematical approach
- Interests
- conservation of pelagic ecosystems and the effects of human impacts on oceanic predators
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- Lab
- Long
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Marine community ecology, chemical ecology, predator-prey interactions
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Benthic invertebrates, water clearance and filtration by these organisms, water flow dynamics, anthropogenic impact
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- Lab
- Lewison
- Thesis
- Thermal ecology of east Pacific green sea turtles in San Diego Bay
- Interests
- Sea turtle ecology, spatial ecology
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- In-situ growth rates of the interface-feeding polychaete Polydora cornuta in the Tijuana estuary
- Interests
- Influence of hydrodynamics, tidal elevation, and Spartina on polychaete growth rates
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- Lab
- Deutschman
- Thesis
- Habitat conservation in a management context (tentative)
- Interests
- plant community ecology, restoration ecology, effects of exotic grass cover on coastal sage scrub habitat quality
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- Lab
- Lai/Lipson
- Thesis
- Methane cycling dynamics in Alaskan Arctic wetlands
- Interests
- carbon cycling, wetlands, Arctic ecosystems, stable isotopes, freshwater anaerobic methanotrophy
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Predator-prey relationships and factors influencing recruitment of fishes
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- Lab
- Edwards
- Thesis
- Ocean acidification and the physiological response of non-calcifying macroalgae in kelp forest systems
- Interests
- climate change, phycology, ecophysiology, community ecology
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Animal behavior and physiology, predator-prey interactions between rattlesnakes and ground squirrels
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Importance of structure to nursery habitat function for juvenile California halibut
- Interests
- Early life-histories of marine organisms, marine conservation ecology
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- Lab
- Hentschel
- Thesis
- Biomagnification of toxins from plastic pollution in marine organisms
- Interests
- effects of pollutants on marine organisms
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- Lab
- Clark
- Thesis
- Thermoregulatory behavior of the Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog
- Interests
- conservation ecology and animal behavior
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- Lab
- Clark and Bohonak
- Thesis
- Management of the endangered San Diego fairy shrimp (Branchinecta sandiegonensis) populations facing the threat of hybridization with the Versatile Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lindahli).
- Interests
- conservation ecology, vernal pools
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- Lab
- Lipson/Dinsdale
- Thesis
- TBD
- Interests
- Microbial ecology, plant ecology, community ecology, ecosystems and landscape ecology, host - pathogen interactions
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- Carbon dioxide and methane flux in arctic Alaska
- Interests
- climate change and greenhouse gases
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- Lab
- Hovel
- Thesis
- Effects of seagrass habitat structure on predator-prey interactions in seagrass habitat
- Interests
- predator-prey interactions, ecology of marine habitats
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- Guillermo Torres
- Lab
- Edwards
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- Recruitment variation and larval condition of rockfish (Sebastes spp)
- Interests
- Marine Fish Population Dynamics
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- Lab
- Anderson
- Thesis
- TBD (Granite Night Lizards (Xantusia henshawi))
- Interests
- Territorial interactions between conspecifics with reduced agression between kin and neighbors
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- Lab
- Oechel
- Thesis
- TBD
