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Tidepooling, May 2023. Karla Buitrago-Yepes, Arie Dash, Caleb Hernandez, Dominic Villareal, Cheryl Logan & Dailyn Jones

Current Masters students:

Madison Sandquist
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2023 - Present

Ava Besecker
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2023 - Present

Dailyn Jones 
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2022 - Present
Epigenetic responses to upwelling stress in rockfish


Katrina Giambertone
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2021 - Present
Mechanisms of heat and cold tolerance in Galápagos corals

Nicholas Kolasa-Lenarz
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2021 - Present
Experimental evolution in rockfish under high pCO2 and hypoxia

Arie Dash
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2020 - Present
Rockfish comparative transcriptomics

Current Undergraduate Researchers:

Matthias Milton, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Mahlon Rosenberg, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Mackenzie Caprino, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Skye Cardoza, Apple Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Karla Buitrago-Yepes, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Jasmin Juarez-Gonzalez, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major

Caleb Hernandez, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
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Dominic Villareal, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
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Alma Leon, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major

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Previous MS Students: 

Caroline Rodriguez
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2019 - 2022
Thesis: Measuring the Impact of Thermal Stress on Coral Resilience in Hawai'i Using Large-Area Imagery
Current: Caroline completed a NOAA Knauss Fellowship and is currently employed at NOAA

Juliana Cornett
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2019 - 2022
Thesis: Physiological responses to hypoxia in flatfishes 
Current: Juliana is an Alaska Seagrant fellow at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, AK

Melissa Naugle
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2019 - 2021
Thesis: Effects of land based sources of pollution on coral thermal tolerance
Current: Melissa is a PhD student at Southern Cross University in Dr. Emily Howells lab

Holly Doerr
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2018 - 2021
Thesis: Species-specific transcriptomic responses of juvenile rockfish (Sebastes) to simulated future upwelling conditions 
Current: Holly is a Research Technician at UNC Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Dr. Joel Fodrie's lab

Jacoby Baker
CSUMB/MLML MS student, 2017 - 2020
Thesis: Gene Expression Responses of Larval Gopher (Sebastes carnatus) and Blue (S. mystinus) Rockfish to Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia
Current: Jacoby is a Research Assistant in the the Biological Oceanography lab at MBARI

Andrew 'Jake' Cline
CSUMB/AMWS MS student, 2014 - 2018
Thesis: Acute Effects of Elevated pCO2 and Hypoxia on Blue Rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) Gene Expression and Metabolic Enzyme Activity
Current: Jake is the Manufacturing Manager at ClaretBio

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Previous Undergraduate Researchers: 

Paris Kellogg, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Current: Paris is interning at the Monterey County Health Department Laboratory 

Christopher Shenoy, NSF GeoBridges Researcher
CSUMB Marine Science major '22
Current: Chris is research technician in the Jue lab at CSUMB

Matt Biermann, REU Student
CSUMB Ocean Sciences REU Program

Hannah Kim, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Current: Hannah is MS student at Eastern Washington University

Amalia Siegel, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Symbiont Shuffle: Endosymbiont Communities Affect Coral Thermal Tolerance in American Samoa
Current: Amalia is research technician in the Alter lab at CSUMB

Jade Betancourt, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Effects of hypoxia on flatfish ventilation rates
Current: Jade is an MS student at CSU Long Beach 

Kaiku Kaholoaa, McNair Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Spatial and Demographic Differences of the Hawaiian Coral Species: Porites lichen
Current: Kaiku is a PhD student at Stanford with Dr. Steve Palumbi

Melissa Vezard, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Estimating Vital Rates Across Coral Species in Maui, Hawai’i Before and After Bleaching Events
Current: Melissa an MS student at the UCSB Bren School of Environment

Silvia Vasquez, McNair Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Coral-Symbiont Fidelity in American Samoa

Jennifer Grossman, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Extreme arm flexibility enables complex behaviors by octopus in tropical habitats (with Dr. Roger Hanlon)

Leta Dawson, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
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Using Repeated Photomosaics to Measure Coral Vital Rates in Hawaii

​Lauren Kashiwabara, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Acute effects of ocean acidification and hypoxia on rockfish ventilation rates
Current: Lauren completed her MS at University of the Pacific

Steve Ryan
CSUMB/MLML MS student
Predicting anthropogenic effects on coral survival: A numerical model

Daniel Olivares, McNair Scholar, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Estimating coral bleaching intensity using photographic assessment of chlorophyll content
Current: Daniel is a PhD student at USC with Dr. Carly Kenkel

Wenda Ly, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Acute effects of ocean acidification and hypoxia on juvenile rockfish metabolic enzyme activity
Current: Wenda is an MS student at CSU Long Beach

Pauline Seto, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
How fluctuating vs static exposure to upwelling affect rockfish gene expression

Kaitlyn Beardshear, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Building a portable coral stress bleaching system

David Deering, UROC Researcher
CSUMB Undergraduate, Marine Science major
Species specific identification of rockfish (Sebastes spp.) by DNA sequencing

Melissa Meredith, UROC Scholar, NOAA EPP Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Effects of high pCO2 and hypoxia on protein-level expression of HSP70 and HIF-1a in larval rockfish (Sebastes carnatus and S. auriculatus)
Current: Melissa is a PhD student at UCSC

Jacob Green, UROC Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Acute effects of high pCO2 on aerobic metabolic capacity in blue and copper rockfish (Sebastes mytinus and S. caurinus)
Current: Jacob is currently a PhD student at URI

Devon Preyor, NOAA EPP Scholar
CSUMB Undergraduate, Biology major
Gill remodeling in rockfish in response to hypoxia and high pCO2

Madison Heard, Honors Capstone Student and UROC Scholar, 2016-2018
CSUMB Undergraduate
Investigating metabolic poise and maternal effects of projected upwelling conditions on larval gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) in the Monterey Bay
Current: Maddie is a PhD student at UCSB with Dr. Erika Eliason

Kirsten Boyer, UROC Scholar, 2014-2016
CSUMB Undergraduate
Maternal effects of ocean acidification and hypoxia on rockfish larvae

Sara Bear Magallanes, UROC Undergraduate Researcher, 2016
CSUMB Undergraduate
Acclimation capacity of thermal tolerance in the California sea mussel (Mytilus californianus)

Anita Khadka, MS, 2016
Research Technician
Ocean acidification and hypoxia effects on juvenile rockfish gene expression 

Maryanne Beckwith, NSF REU Researcher, 2016
UCSD Undergraduate
Effects of long-term hypoxia on aerobic metabolic capacity in copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)

Mackenzie Peck, Ocean Sciences REU Researcher, 2016
Millikin University Undergraduate
Maternal effects of ocean acidification and hypoxia on aerobic metabolic capacity in brown rockfish (Sebastes auriculatus)

Aimee Braddock, UROC Research Intern, 2014-2015
CSUMB undergraduate, Biology major
Ocean acidification effects on blood chemistry and immune health in juvenile rockfishes .

Julie Estrella, NSF Research Intern, 2015
CSUMB undergraduate, Marine Science major
Ocean acidification effects on aerobic and anaerobic enzyme activity in juvenile rockfishes 

April Makukhov, Honors Capstone Student, 2012-2015
CSUMB undergraduate, Biology major, McNair Scholar, NSF GFRP Fellow
Effects of ocean acidification on juvenile rockfish gene expression using RNAseq
Current: April completed her MS degree at U of Vermont

Lauren Tobosa, Honors Capstone Student, 2013-2014
CSUMB undergraduate, Marine Science major
Construction of a de novo transcriptome for Copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus)

Alexandria Blackwell, Honors Capstone Student, 2012-2013
CSUMB undergraduate, ESTP major
Acclimation capacity of cardiac function in the California sea mussel (Mytilus californianus) 
Current: Alex completed an MS degree at CSUMB

Carley Turner, Honors Capstone Student, 2012-2013
CSUMB undergraduate, Biology major 
Heat shock protein expression between two congener species of juvenile Porcelain crabs (Petrolisthes spp.)

Annette Verga-Lagier, Research Intern, 2012-2013
CSUMB postbac student
Fine scale genetic differences of California sea mussels (Mytilus californianus) 

Tiana Hanna, Honors Capstone Student, 2011-2012
CSUMB undergraduate, ESTP major
Environmental drivers of molt timing in the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)

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