Lab alumni

Past Graduate Students

PhD Student: Joey Bernhardt (she/her)
​Thesis: The thermal ecology of populations and ecosystem services in a changing world. 
2018
​Currently: ​Nereus Postdoctoral Fellow. ​ Check out Joey's website.

PhD Student: Matt Siegel
​Thesis: "Heat wave impacts across scales in the splash pool copepod, Tigriopus californicus". Co-supervised by Rick Taylor.
2017
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PhD Student: Dana Haggarty
​Thesis: "Community structure and availability of primary producers to herbivores along a temperature gradient"
​2015
Currently: Inshore Rockfish and Lingcod Program Head, Fisheries and Oceans Canada​

MSc Student: Natalie Caulk
​Thesis: "An evaluation of the effectiveness of rockfish conservation areas in British Columbia, Canada". Co-supervised by Jon Shurin.
2015
​Currently: Associate Director at California Coastkeeper Alliance

MSc Student: Natalie Stafl
​Thesis: "Quantifying the effect of hiking disturbance on the American pika (Ochtona princeps) foraging behaviour". 
2013
Currently: Executive Director for the Columbia-Shuswap Invasive Species Society.

MSc Student: Ross Whippo
​Thesis: "Seagrass epifaunal communities of Barkley Sound: Epifaunal diversity varies across small spatial and temporal scales". 
2013
Currently: Biologist at the Smithsonian, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, MarineGEO. Check out Ross' website here.

Past Visiting Students

Visiting Undergraduate Student: Dominik Bahlburg
University of Oldenburg
2016

Visiting PhD Student: Jessica Garzke
IMF-GEOMAR; Kiel, Germany
2012

Visiting Scientific Illustrator and Undergraduate Student: Frances Ratcliffe
Pippa Moore's group in Wales
Check out Frances' website here.
2012

Past Postdoctoral Researchers

Sarah Joy Bittick

Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow 
Project title: Identifying nutrient thresholds for sustainable management of British Columbia seagrass beds

2017-2019

​Currently: Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Seaver College of Science and Engineering, Department of Biology 

Sarah Joy's website

Jennifer Sunday (2015-2017)

​Currently: Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar. 

Robin Elahi (2014-2015)

​Currently: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Hopkins Marine Station. 

Adrian Stier (2012-2013)

​Currently: Assistant Professor and PI of the Ocean Recoveries Lab at UC Santa Barbara 

Past Research Assistants

Michelle Tseng, PhD

Currently: Assistant Professor at UBC

Devin Lyons, PhD

Currently with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maritimes

Past Undergraduate Students

Cori-Anne Huisman, BSc. Honours (2016)

Gwendolyn Griffiths, BSc. Honours (2016) and Field Assistant

Thesis: "From red to green: Controls of Smithora naiadum colonization of Zostera marina meadows"

Nicole Knight, BSc. Honours (2014) and Lab Assistant

Thesis: "The variable impacts of predation on seagrass mesograzer communities in Trevor Channel, British Columbia"
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Currently: PhD student in Frederic Guichard's lab at McGill University

Jemma Titheridge, BSc. Honours (2014-2015)

Carolyn Prentice, BSc. Honours (2011-2012)

Thesis: "The relative impacts of three mesograzer species on eelgrass (Zostera marina) epiphyte abundance in Barkley Sound, B.C."
Currently: Nearshore Research Technician at Hakai Institute

Sarah Amundrud, BSc. Honours (2011-2012)

Thesis: "The relative importance of predators and nutrients on eelgrass benthic food webs in British Columbia. Ecology and Environmental Biology".
Currently: PhD Student in Diane Srivastava's lab at UBC
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Past Directed Studies Students

Zander Chila (2016-2017)
Amir Gohari (2016-2017)
Scott Brydle (2015-2016)
Sachiko Ouchi​ (2015-2016)
Theodore Back (2015-2016)
Melanie Overhill (2013-2014)
Stephanie Connor (2011-2012)
David Xiao Song (2012-2013)
Andrew Huang (2011-2012)
Coreen Forbes (2010-2011)
Patricia Sun (2010-2011)

Past Lab Techs and Volunteers

Marcus Campbell (2016-2017)
William Ou (2016-2017)
Allison Dennert (2015-2016)
Melinda Yogendran (2014-2015)​
John Cristiani (2012-2013)
Winnie Cheung
Nick Uthaikhaifar (2011-2012)
Sanjna Hothi (2012)
Boaz Hung (2011)