Poster Hall 2: Climate, Environment, & Ecology
Carter Loftus: The collective dynamics of decision-making and sleep
I study how baboons fulfill their need for sleep in the wild.
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James Fahlbusch: Investigating the Drivers of Cetacean Movement Across Temporal and Spatial Scales
My research focuses on leveraging novel technologies at the intersection of biologging, hydroacoustics, and remote sensing.
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Regina Spranger: The Future of North American Amphibians: A Story of Ecophysiology, Acclimation Potential, and Conservation
I study how salamander physiology, specifically acclimation potential within and between generations, will be affected by climate change.
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Joseph Novak: Fire’s Role in Ecosystem Change: Lessons from Lake Baikal
I am characterizing molecular fossils from Lake Baikal (southeastern Siberia) to learn how climate, fire regime, and regional ...
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Pooneh Kalhori: Climate Change Response in the Galápagos Yellow Warbler
For my project I am studying the response of the Galapagos Yellow Warbler to climate change.
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Shea Grady: Determining the Link Between Organic Alkalinity and Acid-Buffering Potential in Shallow Estuarine Habitats
Coastal and estuarine environments are under heightened threat from localized acidity events as global climate change and urbanization ...
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Amy Wong: Using High-Throughput Sequencing to Determine the Diets of the Copepod Eurytemora Carolleeae and Pseudodiaptomus Forbesi in the San Francisco Estuary
Emerging research shows that the shortage of food is an influential driver for the rapid decline in abundance of the San Francisco ...
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Justin Luong: California Grassland Restoration is Successful but Needs More Funding and Coordination to Prevent Regional Species Loss
Understanding current ecological restoration outcomes is important to determine how rapidly changing climates will influence management
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Laura Clark: Dispersion of Microplastics in Wavy Flows
Motivated by the problem of microplastics in the ocean, my most recent experiment investigates how small particles of different shapes ...
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Caroline Famiglietti: Prescribing Parameter–Environment Relationships Improves Prediction of Net Biome Exchange
My research focuses on improving our ability to predict the future of the land carbon sink, which directly controls how quickly CO2 ...
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Carly Hawkins: Elucidating the complexities of social monogamy and alternative mating tactics in songbirds using bioacoustics
In socially monogamous (but sexually promiscuous) songbirds, many mating tradeoffs are rooted in vocal communication, wherein females ...
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Alison Ke: Habitat Conversion to Agriculture Reduces Avian Reproductive Behavior in Northwest Costa Rica
Alison Ke is broadly interested in how global changes, such as climate and land-use change, affect tropical bird communities.
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