| Name |
Faculty Advisor |
Dissertation Title |
First Position |
| Antonio Beaumord |
Scott Cooper
John Melack |
The Ecology and Ecomorphology of Fish Assemblages of the Parana-Paraguay River Basin in Brazil |
Assistant Professor, CTTMAR-UNIVALI |
| Cheryl Briggs |
William Murdoch |
The Effect of Multiple Parasitoid Species on the Gall-Forming Midge, Rhopalomyia californica |
Postdoc, Imperial College of London |
| Susan Christopher |
Sam Sweet |
Interactions between California red-legged frogs and introduced predators |
Base Biologist, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, CA |
| Terence Evens |
David Chapman |
Photoprotective Capabilities of Marine Microalgae: Xanthophyll-cycle Pigment and Photosystem II Fluorescense Responses Under Static and Dynamic Irradiance Regimes |
Plant Physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Res. Div.(USDA-ARS) |
| Chris Farmer |
Stephen Rothstein |
Factors Influencing the Distribution and Abundance of Brown-Headed Cowbirds |
Staff Research Assoc., EEMB, UCSB |
| Clifford Fontenot |
Sam Sweet |
Ecological Implications of Secondary Contact at the Terminal Ends of a Ring Distribution in the Garter Snakes Thamnophis atratus and T. hammondii |
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana U. |
| Corey Garza |
Sally Holbrook
Russell Schmitt |
Variable Prey Settlement and the Impact of Predators in Rocky Intertidal Communities |
Ecologist |
| Steven Haddock |
James Case |
Bioluminescence in the Deep-Sea and Open Ocean: Gelatinous Zooplankton and Marine Snow |
Postdoc, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
| Timothy Hovanec |
John Melack |
Characterization of the Nitrifying Bacteria in Aquaria and Mono Lake, California, Using Molecular Methods |
Res. Scientist, Aquaria Inc. , Moorpark CA |
| Mullica Jirotkul |
John Endler |
Effects of Social Environment on Sexual Selection in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) |
Professor, Walailuk University (Thailand) |
| Roland Knapp |
Robert Warner |
Female mate choice in the bicolor damselfish, Stegastes partitus: direct and indirect assessment of male and nest quality |
Postdoc, MSI, UCSB |
| Randy Kochevar |
James Childress |
Carbonic anhydrase in the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila Jones and other deep-sea chemoautotrophic symbioses |
Postdoc, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| Kevin Lafferty |
Armand Kuris |
Effects of parasitic castration on the salt marsh snail, Cerithidea californica |
Postdoc, MSI, UCSB |
| David Lohse |
Joseph Connell |
Interactions between a marine mussel and its epibionts: influences on population dynamics and community structure |
Post Grad Res, MSI, UCSB |
| Robert Moore |
Peter Collins |
The Physiological Basis of Gestation in a Model Viviparous Teleost, the Grass Rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger). |
NIH Postodoctoral Fellow (w/Dr. Shunichi Shimasaki) |
| Norman Nelson |
Barbara Prézelin |
Light Absorption and Utilization by Phytoplankton |
Postdoc, Bermuda biol Station for Res., Bermuda |
| Erik Noonburg |
Roger Nisbet
William Murdoch |
Resource Allocation, Foraging Activity, and Life History Optimization in a Variable Environment |
Postdoc. U. of Toronto |
| Jeffrey Shima |
Russell Schmitt |
An Evaluation of Processes that Influence Variability in Abundance of a Coral Reef Fish |
Postdoc, UCSB (Dr. Gaines) |
| Sean Watts |
James Reichman |
The ecological and evolutionary influences of belowground herbivory on plant defense and community structure |
Santa Clara University |
| Danielle Zacherl |
Steve Gaines |
Dispersal of Larval Invertebrates: Use of Natural Tags to Identify Natal Origins |
Postdoc, UCLA |
