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• Zach Vayder
• Margeaux Wayne
• Sydney Wilkinson
• Hannah Gerrish

PUBLICATIONS LIST HERE

• Trophic interactions and food web analysis
• Benthic diversity and communities
• Stable isotope analysis
• Phycology and invertebrate ecology
• Shallow water ecology and deep-sea biology
• Polar marine biology

My research is mainly centered around trophic interactions between organisms. This involves dietary composition, feeding habits and consumption rates of invertebrates, macroalgal-herbivore interactions, stable isotope analysis of food web structures, etc. It also involves chemical defenses of macroalgae and invertebrates against grazers and predators. I am generally interested in shallow water community diversity, dynamics and ecology, especially in both polar regions, and in deep-sea communities. Most of my shallow water work uses scientific diving as a research tool.

• The Chukchi Borderlands Unexplored Seafloor Communities
• RUSALCA Arctic Food Web Structure and Epibenthic Communities in a Climate Change Context
• Benthic lower trophic level food webs in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
• Arctic Kelp Beds in the Beaufort Sea: Detection of Long-Term Change (BOEM)
• Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON)
• Testing the use of unmanned aircraft systems for intertidal surveys - proof of concept
• Evaluation of nearshore communities and habitats- Ecological Processes in Lower Cook Inlet
• Long-term monitoring of ecological communities in Kachemak Bay