STUDENT PROJECTS
I am fortunate to work with some stellar young scientists. Check out their projects below.
DAVIANA BERKOWITZ-SKLAR
Yale '23
Capturing Local Ecological Knowledge for Fisheries Management in a Data Poor System: Developing a survey to capture fisher's knowledge of billfish ecology and population status in Costa Rica. Creating easy to understand tagging project reports to communicate updates to fisher collaborators.
ERIKA GUTIERREZ
NSF REU, CSUMB '21
Using Angler Surveys to Observe Changes in Billfish Catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Analyzed change in billfish CPUE and size captured by sportfishers reporting to the Billfish Angler Survey between 1969-2019.
ROBERT ROOSE
M.S. University of Delaware '21
The Sociality of Atlantic Sturgeon and Sand Tigers in an Estuarine Environment: Using social network analysis and permutation techniques to quantify sociality in a teleost and elasmobranch co-occuring in the coastal Mid-Atlantic Ocean.
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Manuscript in review in Animal Behavior.
ZEKE (ISSAC) TUSZYNSKI
CSUSB '17
Developing Visualization Tools for Movement Ecologists - Permissible Home Range Estimation Project: Currentlydeveloping R package in collaboration with Dr. Simon Dedman for mapping the home range of animals tracked incomplex and/or uneven habitats and testing it on satellite tag data from great hammerhead sharks.
KANOE AIU
IntroSems+ Intern, Stanford '23
Large-Scale Movement Ecology of a Shark Using Data from a Collaborative Acoustic Telemetry Network: Using an approximately 15-year long record of shark observations on the East Coast of the US has shown evidence for differential migration in the Sand Tiger (Carcharias taurus) shark population.
ANISSA FOSTER
Stanford Earth Systems Scholar, Stanford '22
A Fisherman’s Tale: Billfish catches and the lunar cycle in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Studied the effect of lunar phase on fish populations along the Eastern Tropical Pacific Coast. Engaged with the biocultural knowledge of the local fisherman to investigate trends in marine populations.
MERCEDES U.
Hugo Scholar, The Spence School '22
Comparing Social Network Analysis and Behavior between a Terrestrial and Marine Meso-Predator: Conducted an independent literature review to compare similarities and differences between social behavior research for two meso-predators, the North American Raccoon and Lemon Sharks.
JOCELYN V.
Marine Ecology Internship, Salinas High School '22
Using Footage from a Low-Cost ROV to Describe Prey at FADs: Analyzed underwater footage from a small and portable remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that that was deployed at Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and seamounts in Costa Rica. Identified species observed by the ROV.
CAMBELL R.
Hugo Scholar, 2020
Comparing the Spatial and Behavioral Ecology of Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Sailfish: Conducted a literature and popular media review researching the biology and ecology of two sub-species of Sailfish and the oceanographic conditions that affect their distributions.