Graduate Students

Anjali's research examines how species interactions (both intra and inter) and physical forces interact to regulate the recovery of foundation species to environmental stressors. She aspires to develop novel ecosystem-based restoration and management practices to restore foundation species worldwide, while also working to ensure communities of color have equitable access to a healthy ocean.

Camille is interested in species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and environmental change, especially in tropical forests.

I think elephants are amazing in a hundred different ways. I want to understand how long term reintroductions of elephants have changed tropical forests relative to historic ecosystem states, with an eye towards evaluating whether rewilding ecosystem engineers can be employed as a quantitative and empirically supported tool in the conservation bat-belt. I also aim to conduct research that directly supports elephant conservation in SE Asia.

How does seed production help forests sustain themselves into the future? What can we learn about these forest dynamics from dramatic climate change of the past (Last Glacial Maximum to today)?

Greg's dissertation research is broadly focused on assessing the impacts of plastic pollution on the energy mobilization and thermoregulatory capacities of blubber in marine mammals. His previous work has focused on investigating maternal foraging behaviors of Alaskan northern fur seals in an effort to establish an effective and relatively inexpensive long-term monitoring index of foraging success and pup survival.

Endocrinology, parasitology, and social behavior in lemurs; Meerkat offspring behavioral development

My research focuses on the behavioral responses of humpback whales to approaching large ships in order to understand how they respond to ship approaches and what mitigation efforts might reduce ship strike mortality.

Interest in ecosystem effects on community function. Currently working on how the environment affects food web structure and nutrient cycling in the mutualistic aquatic communities within the fluid of pitcher plants