Jennifer Brandon
Zooplankton gut contents in the California Current Ecosystem
Differences in zooplankton and phytoplankton abundance across oceanic fronts
Jessica Carrière-Garwood
Plankton transport by nonlinear internal waves
Physical-biological interactions of plankton and in sediment
Tyler Coale
Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Metatranscriptomic response of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton communities to iron and light. Mechanisms of iron uptake in diatoms.
Jeff Ellen
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Classification & Clustering within large data sets
Alice Harada
Physiological and genetic basis of evolved thermal tolerance
Monitoring fish spawning activity using DNA barcoding
Thomas Kelly
Developing synoptic understandings of carbon export
Quantifying mechanisms controlling export efficiency within an ecosystem
Laura Lilly (CCE grad student representative)
Zooplankton transports in the CCS in response to El Niño events
Mesozooplankton-mediated carbon export
Lauren Manck
Microbial community composition as related to iron availability in the CCE
Mechanisms used by the microbial community for obtaining sufficient iron in low-iron environments
Maitreyi Nagarkar
Using environmental molecular methods to characterize marine microbial communities
Understanding cyanobacterial-grazer interactions
Catherine Nickels
Zooplankton ecology
Food web interactions between zooplankton and balaenopterid predators
Angel Ruacho
Cycling of iron in the CCE
Cycling of organic metal binding ligands
Sara Rivera
Microbial nutrient cycling
Temporal and spatial changes of heterotropic bacterial contributions to the CCE/CaCOFI region
Sarah Schwenck
Microbial ecology
Phytoplankton, bacteria, and virus interactions as well as microbial nutrient cycling
Anne Simonis
Acoustic ecology
Echolocation behavior of odontocetes
Brandon Stephens
The persistence and contribution of organic carbon pools into and exported from the CCE/CalCOFI region
Long-term trends of organic carbon stocks in the context of climate forcing
Bellineth Valencia
Zooplankton Ecology
Zooplankton-phytoplankton trophic interactions in the CCE
Ben Whitmore
Developing optical imaging systems for use on the Spray Glider
Identifying zooplankton size compositions
Nathalí Cordero-Quiro
El Niño - Southern Oscillation Events
Analysis of the predictability of ENSO events in the CCS
