The Nielsen Lab
Marine Ecology
Science of the salty, the slimy & the spineless in the sea
 
Lab Phone: 707.664.2370

Current Graduate Students

Jill Stokes

Jill
Project:

Physiological ecology of the intertidal kelp Saccharina sessile

email: stokesji@seawolf.sonoma.edu


Preston Malm

Preston
Project:

Trophic subsidies: links between rocky and sandy shore ecosystems

email: malm@seawolf.sonoma.edu


Adele Paquin

Adele
Project:

The green thread: seasonal- and event-scale forcing of phytoplankton abundance and community composition along an open-coast rocky shore

email: paquin@seawolf.sonoma.edu


Heather Knoll (California Sea Grant Trainee)

Heather
Project:

Postelsia palmaeformis in the face of human exploitation: mechanisms of population persistence.

email: hrknoll@gmail.com


 

Former Graduate Students


Marian Parker

Marian

M.S. Thesis: Reproductive output of Balanus glandula and Chthamalus spp.: evidence of oceanography’s potential to trump competitive exclusion

 


Megan Wood  (EPA STAR Fellow)

M.S. Thesis: Reproductive output of a keystone predator and its preferred prey: the differential influence of oceanographic regime and local habitat.

Current Position: California Sea Grant State Fellow, NOAA Coastal Services Center


Sarah Ann Thompson (California Sea Grant Trainee)

M.S. Thesis: Balancing conservation with commercial use: an experiment to guide sustainable exploitation of an ecologically vulnerable kelp.

Current Position: Staff Scientist & Database Manager - Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research

email:farlowia@gmail.com


Lab Technician


Megan Wood

 

(Former) Lab Technician


Adele Paquin

Lab Phone: 707.664.2370

 

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