Ryan Crim
Ryan investigated the effects of temperature and ocean acidification on marine invertebrates, particularly endangered abalone. His work ranged from climate change impacts on fertilization to larval development to adult growth and performance, and is showing that important non-additive effects emerge when temperature and carbon dioxide are manipulated simultaneously.
Rebecca Gooding
Becca’s research focuses on the impacts of climate change on a predator-prey interaction: the sea star Pisaster and the mussel Mytilus. She has shown the sea stars actually grow faster in future climate conditions. She is now working on the problem from the mussel’s point of view.
Jennifer Jorve
Jenn is interested in the effects of climate change on marine algae, particularly kelp. She is studying the ability of seaweeds to adapt to climate stress. She is co-supervised by Patrick Martone.
Rebecca Kordas
Becca is studying the ecological impacts of climate warming by experimentally increasing temperature in the field. She is interested in the effects of global warming on interspecific interactions such as competition, facilitation, and herbivory, and on ecological processes such as succession. She is co-supervised by Ladd Johnson.
Sarah Nienhuis
Sarah studied the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying marine invertebrates. Her research has examined the effects of OA on sea urchin growth, consumption, and population dynamics, and the effects of OA on calcification in dogwhelks.
Gerald Singh
Gerald studied the productivity and diversity of intertidal communities, particularly mussel beds, in the context of sea otter reintroduction to areas they were formerly extirpated. He sought to provide policy relevant results that can help resolve disputes between resource extraction and species conservation. Gerald is now working on his PhD at UBC with Kai Chan.
Penny White
Penny studied edible seaweeds in the genus Porphyra. She characterized the seaweed’s genetic population structure in British Columbia, and investigated the use of Porphyra by First Nations peoples. She was co-supervised by Sandra Lindstrom.
Graduate students
Jocelyn Nelson
Jocelyn studies invasive tunicates in the framework of multiple stressors. She has deployed settlement plates throughout British Columbia and as far south as California. She will combine her field data with laboratory experiments to determine the factors that facilitate or limit the spread and impact of these invasive species.
Undergraduate students
Theraesa Coyle
Theraesa is a USRA / honors student who is studying the effects of regional variation in salinity on plant-herbivore interactions. She combines field manipulations in West Vancouver, Lions Bay, and the Gulf Islands with laboratory studies on the physiological tolerances of limpets, snails, and seaweeds.
Rebecca Martone
Rebecca specializes in marine ecology and conservation biology, with particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem-based management. She is co-coordinating an interdisciplinary project (BCCES) examining ecosystem service production in nearshore coastal ecosystems in response to sea otter reintroduction. Her work is focused on the productivity, diversity, and stability of subtidal communities in response to trophic cascades in kelp forest ecosystems. Rebecca is also working with Dr. Kai Chan examining multiple human impacts to coastal ecosystem services.
Postdoctoral fellows
Former students
Kat Anderson
Kat joined the lab in the fall of 2010. She is interested in the effects of anthropogenic stressors, particularly ocean acidification, on plant-herbivore interactions.
Jessie Clasen
Jessie’s research interests in include the diversity and functioning of microbial communities, and how these communities are related to other components of nearshore ecosystems (e.g., kelp beds). Her work compliments ongoing work on the re-establishment of sea otters in British Columbia (BCCES).
Kyle Demes
Kyle works on seaweeds - particularly kelps - at the intersection of biomechanics, ecology, and evolution. His work includes studies of evolutionary context of variation in morphology and material properties across taxa, and on kelp phenotypic plasticity, growth, and survival in the field.
Manon Picard
Manon is investigating the impacts of ocean acidification on the early life stages of invertebrates, particularly those that are important for aquaculture in British Columbia. Much of her research is based in situ at the Island Scallops aquaculture facility on Vancouver Island.
