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I am an Adjunct Professor at Moss Landing Marine Labs. I do research, and mentor students in Benthic Ecology, which is the study of how seafloor animals interact. I am most interested in community ecology of soft bottom habitats – how organisms that live in mud and sand interact with each other - especially in extreme environments like the polar regions and the deep sea. For this project, I am the Principle Investigator, or PI. This means that I get blamed for everything J.
I explore disturbances and other processes that influence the organization of benthic invertebrate communities, particularly in sedimentary habitats or soft bottom ecosystems and often where human activities are major disturbances. We recently discovered the most diverse soft bottom community in the world at the shelf edge in Monterey Bay, and dramatic degradation of inner shelf communities from regional warming in the last 25 years. Both patterns are linked to food, which increases at the shelf break and decreases with warming water. I also work in freshwater benthic ecosystems, and coordinate a dozen habitat restoration projects in local sand dunes and wetlands in cooperation with the Watershed Institute at CSUMB.
Kathleen E. Conlan is a research scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature
in Ottowa, Canada. Her specialties are marine benthos and amphipod
crustaceans. Her research interests focus on natural and anthropogenic
disturbance effects on Arctic and Antarctic marine biota, and the
systematics, behavior, evolution and biogeography of crustaceans.
I am a Research Associate at Moss Landing Marine Labs. My research experience in the past has included studying fish life histories through otolith growth and chemistry, interactions between fish, algae and corals on tropical reefs, and the restoration and monitoring of giant kelp forests. Aside from assisting with the general questions of this field program, I am interested in studying the growth and survival of Antarctic sponges, and the interactions between these sponges and the sea stars and nudibranchs that feed on them.
My name is Aaron Carlisle and I am a third year graduate student in the ichthyology lab at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. My research at Moss Landing is on the habitat utilization and movements of leopard sharks in Elkhorn Slough, California. I normally limit my adventures to more temperate climes, but I who can resist the appeal of ice, wind, ozone holes, and of course.... penguins. Plus I hear there's a bowling alley in McMurdo.
I am a second year graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Labs. My interests lie in Benthic Ecology especially in Antarctic soft bottom ecosystems and how the food available in the water column is used by the benthic (or sea floor) food web. Other interests include sleep and Coffee and yes this is a self portrait.
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