Brian P. Kinlan                                        

• 2008-Present: Assistant Project Scientist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
• 2008-2009: Fisheries Bioeconomic Consultant (concurrent with 100% appointment at UCSB), Eco-Analytics LLP, Goleta, CA
• 2007-2008: Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 2000-2007: Doctoral Student, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Dissertation: Quantitative Spatial Ecology of Benthic Ecosystems in Temperate Coastal Upwelling Zones. Adviser: Dr. Steven D. Gaines
• 1998-1999: Summer Research Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA & Undergraduate Thesis Research, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Project: Recruitment dynamics of microscopic stages of Macrocystis pyrifera. Advisers: Dr. Paul K. Dayton (SIO), Dr. James Hill (Yale)
• 1998: Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  Project: Benthic communities in flow-restricted, unrestricted, and restored salt marshes of Long Island Sound. Adviser: Dr. James Hill
• 1998: Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  Project: Morphological controls on the relative contribution of sexual and asexual reproduction in populations of a free-living fungiid coral. Adviser: Dr. Adolf Seilacher
• 1997: Summer Research Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA  Research on estuarine community structure along a nitrogen-loading gradient.  Supervisor: Dr. Ivan Valiela.
• 1996-1997: Research Assistant, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT. Research on anatomy and physiology of trees. Supervisor: Dr. Graeme Berlyn.  
  

• Lecturer, Spatial statistics for ecologists, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Core, UCSB, 2007-2008 (level: Graduate)
  
• Lecturer, Spatial statistics for ecologists, Experimental Design and Statistics, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Francisco State University, Moss Landing, CA, 2004 (level: Graduate)
• Teaching Assistant, Introductory Biology Laboratory, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2003-2004 (Professor: Dr. Deborah Kaska) (level: Undergraduate)
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Ecology, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2001-2002 (Professors: Dr. Sally Holbrook, Dr. Andy Brooks) (level: Undergraduate)
• Teaching Assistant, Coastal Ecotoxicology, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA, 2001 (Professors: Dr. Richard Ambrose, Dr. Peter Raimondi, Dr. Gary Cherr, Dr. Donald Crosby) (level: Graduate)
• Docent, Hollister Ranch Tidepool School Program, 2001-2009 (level: K-12) 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Caselle, J.E., B.P. Kinlan, and R.R. Warner. In press. Temporal and spatial scales of influence on near-shore fish settlement in the Southern California Bight. Bulletin of Marine Science [pdf of accepted manuscript]
2. Graham, M.H., B.P. Kinlan and R.K. Grosberg. 2009. Post-glacial redistribution and shifts in productivity of giant kelp forests.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Part B: Biological Sciences, doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1664 [pdf]
3. Blanchette, C.A., E.A. Wieters, B.R. Broitman, B.P. Kinlan, D.R. Schiel. 2009. Trophic structure and diversity in rocky intertidal upwelling ecosystems: A comparison of community patterns across California, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand. Progress in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.038 [pdf]
4. Graham, M.H., B.P. Kinlan, L.D. Druehl, L.E. Garske, and S. Banks. 2007. Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104(42):16576-16580. [pdf]
5. Lester, S.E., S.D. Gaines, and B.P. Kinlan. 2007. Reproduction on the edge: large-scale patterns of individual performance in a marine invertebrate. Ecology 88(9):2229-2239. [pdf]
6. Gaines, S.D., B. Gaylord, L.R. Gerber, A. Hastings, and B.P. Kinlan. 2007. Connecting places: the ecological consequences of dispersal in the sea. Oceanography 20(3):90-99. [pdf]
7. O’Connor, M.I., J.F. Bruno, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, S.E. Lester, B.P. Kinlan, and J.M. Weiss. 2007. Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104(4):1266-1271. [pdf]
8. Lester, S.E., B.I. Ruttenberg, S.D. Gaines, and B.P. Kinlan. 2007. The relationship between dispersal ability and geographic range size. Ecology Letters 10:745-758. [pdf]
9. Broitman, B.R. and B.P. Kinlan. 2006. Spatial scales of benthic and pelagic producer biomass in a coastal upwelling ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 327:15-25. [pdf]
10. Kinlan, B.P., S.D. Gaines and S.E. Lester. 2005. Propagule dispersal and the scales of marine community process.  Diversity & Distributions 11:139-148. [pdf]
11. Sax, D.F., B.P. Kinlan and K.F. Smith. 2005. A conceptual framework for comparing species assemblages in native and exotic habitats.  Oikos 108:457-464. [pdf]
12. Thornber, C.S., B.P. Kinlan, M.H. Graham, and J.J. Stachowicz. 2004. Population ecology of the invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida in California: environmental and biological controls on demography.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 268:69-80. [pdf]
13. Kinlan, B.P. and S.D. Gaines. 2003. Propagule dispersal in marine and terrestrial environments: a community perspective. Ecology 84(8):2007-2020. [pdf]
14. Siegel, D., B.P. Kinlan, B. Gaylord and S.D. Gaines. 2003. Lagrangian descriptions of marine larval dispersion. Marine Ecology Progress Series 260:83-96. [pdf]
15. Kinlan, B.P., M.H. Graham, E. Sala, and P.K. Dayton. 2003. Arrested development of embryonic sporophytes in the perennial giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyceae): a mechanism for delayed recruitment? Journal of Phycology 39(1):47-57. [pdf]
16. Kinlan, B. P., E. J. Duffy, J. Cebrian, J. Hauxwell, and I. Valiela.  1997.  Control of periphyton on Zostera marina by the Eastern Mudsnail, Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say), in a shallow temperate estuary. Biological Bulletin 193:286-287. [pdf]
17. Duffy, E. J., B.P. Kinlan, and I. Valiela. 1997. Influence of grazing and nitrogen loading on benthic microalgal biomass in estuaries of Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts. Biological Bulletin 193: 285-286. [pdf]

REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Gaines, S.D., S.E. Lester, G. Eckert, B.P. Kinlan, R. Sagarin and B. Gaylord. 2009. Dispersal and geographic ranges in the sea. Pp. 227-249 in Marine Macroecology (J. Witman and K. Roy, eds.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 448 pp. [pdf]
2. Reed, D.C., B.P. Kinlan, P. Raimondi, L. Washburn, B. Gaylord, and P. Drake.  2006. A metapopulation perspective on the patch dynamics of giant kelp in southern California.  Pp. 353-386 in Marine Metapopulations (J.P. Kritzer and P.F. Sale, eds.), Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA. 576 pp. [pdf]
3. Kinlan, B.P. and A.M. Hastings. 2005. Rates of population spread and geographic range expansion: what exotic species tell us. Pp. 381-419 in Species Invasions: Insights to Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography (D.F. Sax, S.D. Gaines and J.J. Staichowicz, eds.), Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. 495 pp. [pdf]

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Kinlan, B.P. and R.R. Warner. 2010. Multi-scale phenomena in coastal marine ecosystems. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Mathematics and Biology, Okinawa, Japan, 4-6 November 2008 (R.M. Sinclair and K.M. Stiefel, eds.) AIP Conference Proceedings, Mathematical and Statistical Phsyics, vol. 1167, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 132 pp. [pdf (slides only)]
2. Kinlan, B.P., M.H. Graham and J.M. Erlandson. 2005. Late Quaternary change in the size and shape of the California Channel Islands: implications for marine subsidies to terrestrial communities.  In Proceedings of the 6th California Islands Symposium (D.K. Garcelon and C.A. Schwemm, eds.), Institute for Wildlife Studies, Arcata, CA, pp. 119-130. [pdf]
3. Graham, M.H. and B.P. Kinlan. 2004. Effects of climate change on kelp distributions and productivity. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Construction of Seaweed Forests (N. Kim and G.H. Kim, eds.), The Korean Society of Phycology, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 22-26. [pdf]

WHITE PAPERS 

1. C. Costello, S.D. Gaines, B.P. Kinlan and J. Lynham. 2008. Bio-economic rapid assessment tool for fisheries reform in the Gulf of California, Mexico.  Technical report.  August 15, 2008. Eco-Analytics LLP, Goleta, CA. 69 pp. [pdf]
2. Kinlan, B.P., S.E. Lester, C. Costello, and S.D. Gaines. 2009. Bio-economic modeling of management reform and value increases in the New England sea scallop fishery.  Technical report.  September 1, 2009. Eco-Analytics LLP, Goleta, CA. 133 pp. [pdf (abridged)]

CONTRIBUTIONS TO POPULAR/OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS

1. Kinlan, B.P. Changes in kelp forest habitats in and around the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas. Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas: First 5 Years of Monitoring: 2003–2008, symposium and public report issued by California Department of Fish and Game, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, and Channel Islands National Park, 2008. [public handout] / [report excerpt] / [read more about 5-year evaluation of Channel Islands MPA's]
2. Kinlan, B.P. Effects of marine reserves beyond their borders. In The Science of Marine Reserves, 2nd edition, educational booklet, Parternship for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), 2007, p. 12. [pdf]
3. Kinlan, B.P. Long-term changes in kelp forests. In PISCO Coastal Connections, Mar 2006, vol 5, pp 10-11. [pdf]
4. Kinlan, B.P. Predicting El Nino’s Effect on Kelp Forests. In PISCO Coastal Connections, Feb 2004, vol 3, p 7. [pdf]
5. Kinlan, B.P. Extreme variation in dispersal.  In PISCO Coastal Connections, Feb 2003, vol 2, p 12. [pdf]
6. Kinlan, B.P. Export: dispersal of young from reserves. In The Science of Marine Reserves, educational booklet, Parternship for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), 2002, p. 9. [pdf]

1. Kinlan, B.P., S.E. Koch, D.A. Zacherl, R.R. Warner. 2010. Empirical estimation of larval connectivity across a species range from multivariate natural tag-recapture data.  ASLO/AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR 22-26 Feb 2010. [abstract]
2. Kinlan, B.P. and S.E. Koch. A novel statistical method to pinpoint larval origins and estimate range-wide connectivity in open coast marine populations. Western Society of Naturalists 90th Annual Meeting, Seaside, CA 12-15 Nov 2009. [abstract]
3. Kinlan, B.P. Quantifying the local influence of upwelling along coastlines.  Western Society of Naturalists 89th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada 7-10 Nov 2008. [abstract] / [slides]
4. Kinlan, B.P. Changes in kelp forest habitats in and around the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas.  California Islands Symposium, Special Symposium on Monitoring of the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas, Oxnard, CA, 9 Feb 2008. [one-page handout] / [slides]
5. Kinlan, B.P., D. McArdle, S.D. Gaines, and K. Emery. Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of the Spiny Lobster fishery in California. Western Society of Naturalists 88th Annual Meeting, Ventura, CA, 8-11 Nov 2007. [abstract] / [slides]
6. Cavanaugh, K., B.P. Kinlan, et al. Remote sensing of giant kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel using SPOT imagery. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 4-9 Feb 2007.  [abstract] / [poster]
7. Kinlan, B.P., S.D. Gaines and D.A. Siegel. Do observed self-recruitment rates require special behavioral and oceanographic features? Western Society of Naturalists 87th Annual Meeting, Redmond, WA, 9-12 Nov 2006. [abstract] / [slides]
8. Kinlan, B.P. and B.R. Broitman. Predictability in intertidal ecosystems: scale-dependent coupling of coastal geomorphology, oceanography, and benthic community structure. 7th International Temperate Reef Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA, 26-30 Jun 2006. [abstract] / [slides]
9. Cavanaugh, K., B.P. Kinlan, et al. Remote sensing of kelp forest canopy dynamics in southern California using SPOT imagery. AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 20-24 Feb 2006. [abstract] / [poster]
10. Kinlan, B.P. Predictability in intertidal ecosystems: scale-dependent coupling of coastal geomorphology, oceanography, and benthic community structure. Western Society of Naturalists 86th Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, 7-11 Nov 2005. [abstract] / [slides]
11. Kinlan, B.P. Topographic effects on coupling of nearshore ecological and oceanographic processes: a framework for improved prediction of coastal ecosystem dynamics. Mellon Ecosystem Dynamics Consortium Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, 27-30 August 2005. [slides]
12. Kinlan, B.P., S.D. Gaines, and D.A. Siegel. Do observed rates of self-recruitment require special behavioural and oceanographic features? Using null models to evaluate the evidence for alternative hypotheses.  2005 TOS International Ocean Research Conference, Special Session on Connectivity in Marine Populations, UNESCO, Paris, France, 5-9 June, 2005. [abstract] / [slides]
13. Kinlan, B.P. Scaling and forecasting the spatio-temporal dynamics of coastal ecosystems. Hertz Foundation Research Symposium: Catalyzing the Future, San Jose, CA, 18-20 March 2005. [abstract] / [poster]
14. Kinlan, B.P.  Integral-difference simulations for inference of marine population histories under non-equilibrium climatic conditions.  Flow, Fish & Fishing Biocomplexity Working Group, Santa Barbara, CA, 29 January 2005. [slides]
15. Kinlan, B.P., D.C. Reed, P.T. Raimondi, L. Washburn, B. Gaylord, and P.T. Drake.  The metapopulation ecology of giant kelp in southern California.  Western Society of Naturalists, 85th Annual Meeting, Rohnert Park, CA, 11-14 November 2004. [abstract] / [slides]
16. Kinlan, B.P. and B.R. Broitman. A coupled spatial pattern of benthic and pelagic ecosystem structure in coastal upwelling regions. 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Portland, OR, 26-30 January 2004. [abstract] / [slides]
17. Kinlan, B.P., D.A. Siegel, B. Gaylord and S.D. Gaines. Marine larval dispersion and prediction in coastal fisheries science. 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting, American Geophysical Union, Portland, OR, 26-30 January 2004. [abstract] / [slides]
18. Kinlan, B.P. and B.R. Broitman. A coupled spatial pattern of benthic and pelagic ecosystem structure in coastal upwelling regions.  Western Society of Naturalists, 84th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, 7-10 November 2003. [abstract] / [slides]
19. Kinlan, B.P. and S.D. Gaines. Consequences of life history and larval duration for the scale of larval transport.  East Pacific Ocean Conference, Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina, CA, 24-27 September 2003. [abstract] / [slides]
20. Kinlan, B.P. Physical forcing of kelp forest community dynamics in the Northeast Pacific.  East Pacific Ocean Conference, Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina, CA, 24-27 September 2003. [abstract] / [poster]
21. Broitman, B.R. and B.P. Kinlan. A coupled spatial pattern of benthic and pelagic ecosystem structure in a coastal upwelling system.  East Pacific Ocean Conference, Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina, CA, 24-27 September 2003. [abstract] / [slides]
22. Kinlan, B.P.  Spatial and temporal variability of kelp forest habitat structure in the northeast Pacific.  6th International Temperate Reef Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand, 12-17 January 2003. [abstract] / [slides] 
23. Kinlan, B.P. and S.D. Gaines. Consequences of life history and larval duration for the scale of larval transport.  Larval Ecology Meetings, Vigo, Spain, 15-20 September 2002. [abstract] / [slides] 
24. Kinlan, B.P. and S.D. Gaines. A comparative analysis of dispersal scale in marine and terrestrial systems.  Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, 4-9 August 2002. [abstract] / [slides]
25. Kinlan, B.P. and S.D. Gaines. A comparative analysis of dispersal scale in marine and terrestrial systems.  British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 17-19 April 2002. [abstract] / [poster]
26. Thornber, C.S., B.P. Kinlan, M.H. Graham and J.J. Staichowicz.  Reproductive ecology of the  invasive Japanese kelp Undaria pinnatifida along the California coast.  31st Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 22-24 March 2002. [abstract] / [slides]
27. Kinlan, B.P.  Persisting in an unpredictable world: arrested development of microscopic sporophytes as a mechanism for delayed recruitment in Macrocystis.  Western Society of Naturalists, 82nd Annual Meeting, Ventura, CA, 11-13 November 2001. [abstract] / [slides]
28. Kinlan, B. P., E. J. Duffy, J. Cebrian, J. Hauxwell, and I. Valiela.  Control of periphyton on Zostera marina by the Eastern Mudsnail, Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say), in a shallow temperate estuary.  General Scientific Meetings of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, August, 1997 [paper]

1. Eco-Mechanics Working Group (Invited Speaker/Participant), Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA, Sept 9-13 2009. [details]
2. Analytic Innovations in Minimum Information Fisheries Management Workshop (Invited Speaker/Participant), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, June 8-10 2009. [details]
3. Multi-Scale Phenomena in Biology (Invited Speaker on Multi-Scale Phenomena in Coastal Marine Ecosystems), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, Nov 4-7 2008. [slides]
4. International Workshop: Fostering scientific and academic linkages between Chile and California (Invited Delegate), Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile, August 2008.
5. International Consortium for Research on Upwelling Marine Biological Areas (ICORUMBA) Working Group (Invited Participant), Valparaiso, Chile, December 2007.
6. PISCO Science Symposium (Invited Participant), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, December 2007. [slides]
7. Results From the First Five Years of Monitoring at the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas (Invited Participant), NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA, 2007-2008. [summary of findings]
8. Property Rights and Fisheries Working Group (Invited Participant), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 2007.
9. Metrics for Properties & Performance of Existing Reserve Networks Working Group (Invited Participant), Imperial College, London, UK, 2006-2007.
10. Larval Temperature Dependence Working Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005-2007.
11. Practical Tools for the Design of Marine Reserves (Participant), Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 2002-2005.
12. Conservation Planning for Coupled Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems (Participant), Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003-2004.
13. Advances in Archeology of the California Channel Islands (Invited Symposium Presenter on Late Quaternary Change in the Size and Shape of the California Channel Islands: Implications For Marine Subsidies to Terrestrial Communities), 6th California Islands Symposium, Ventura, CA, 1-3 December 2003. [abstract] / [slides]
14. Five-Year Review of Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (Invited Presenter on Large-scale, Long-term Studies of Coastal Ecosystem Structure in the Northeast Pacific), 20-21 October 2003. [slides]
15. Symposium: Linking Algae, Oceanography, and Marine Ecology (Invited Presenter on Linking environmental forcing, kelp forest habitat dynamics, and community structure in the NE Pacific), Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting, Gleneden Beach, OR, 14-19 June 2003. [abstract] / [slides]
16. Santa Barbara Coastal LTER Interim Review (Invited Presenter on Linking environmental forcing, kelp forest dynamics, and community structure in the NE Pacific), 2-3 June 2003. [poster]
17. Historical Perspectives on Natural History and Ecology (Symposium Organizer), Western Society of Naturalists 83rd Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, 8-11 November 2002. [info] 
18. PISCO Public Symposium (Poster Presenter on Genetic estimates of larval dispersal: patterns and implications for management of marine communities), Monterey, CA, 10 March 2002. [poster]
19. Workshop on Modeling of Larval Dispersal (Participant), Santa Barbara, CA, 10-13 January 2002.  Organizers: Frederic Guichard, Simon Levin.
20. ESA Special Workshop: Biocomplexity and Ecoinformatics (Invited Presenter on Analysis and synthesis of long-term, large-scale datasets: a graduate student perspective), Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 6 August 2001. [slides]
21. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity Working Group (Participant), Topic: What is the observed relationship between diversity and productivity? National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 10-15 May 2001.

Sustainable Fisheries Group/Sustainable Fisheries Project (SFG/SFP)
Flow, Fish, and Fishing (F3)
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (SBC-LTER)
International Consortium for Research on Upwelling Marine Biogeographic Areas (ICORUMBA)
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

• 2007-2010: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sustainable Fisheries Project, UCSB Marine Science Institute ($150,000 / 3y)
• 2007-2010: NASA Interdisciplinary Science Grant, UCSB, “Remote assessment of giant kelp dynamics-engineer of California’s nearshore ecosystems” ($780,000 / 3y)  (contributing author; PI: D.A. Siegel).
• 2006: NOAA Ecological Forecasting Grant, UCSB, “EcoFore 06: Forecasting Kelp Forest Ecosystem Dynamics in Coastal California” ($1,900,000 / 5y)  (awarded in competitive review; funds not appropriated)  (Co-author with S.D. Gaines; collaborative, multi-institution proposal).
• 2003-2007: Hertz Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($150,000 / 4y)
• 2005: Worster Family Fund Research Grant ($7500)
• 2005: Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research Award ($1900)
• 2003-2005: UCSB Graduate Science and Engineering Research Fellowships ($4000)
• 2004-2005: Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid of Research ($1500)
• 2004: Storke Fellowship for outstanding graduate academic and research ($4200)
• 2004: UCSB Graduate Student Travel Grant ($1400)
• 2003-2004: Shoreline Preservation Fund Research Grant ($2200)
• 2002-2004: Phycological Society of America Grants-in-aid of Research ($2000)
• 2000-2003: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($100,000 / 3y)
• 2000-2002: UC-Santa Barbara Research Grant for NSF Fellows ($4500)
• 2000-2001: PISCO Graduate Research Grant ($3500)
• 1998: Summer REU Fellowship, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA ($3000; Supervisor: Dr. Paul K. Dayton)
• 1997: Summer REU Fellowship, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA ($3000; Supervisor: Dr. Ivan Valiela)

Amounts in parentheses indicate approximate total size of each award or contract including institutional overhead, where applicable.  Amounts over $50,000 rounded to nearest $10,000.

AWARDS

• Best Student Talk, International Ocean Research Conference, Paris, France, 2005
• Storke Fellowship for outstanding graduate academic and research, 2004
• Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded 2003
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded 1999
• Phi Beta Kappa, Yale College Chapter, elected 1999
• First Place, International Science and Engineering Fair, 1994
• IEEE Award for Excellence in Computer Science and Engineering Research, 1995
• United Technologies Corporation Award for Excellence in Computer Science, 1994

Special Courses and Training

• Summer Institute on Ecological Forecasting, Duke University, Durham, NC, 7-19 June 2004
• Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Theoretical Ecology, 2001-2002, Professor: Dr. Roger Nisbet
• Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Population and Community Ecology, 2000-2001, Professors: Dr. Sally Holbrook and Dr. Steven D. Gaines
• Biomechanics and Ecophysiology of Intertidal Communities, 2001, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, Professors: Dr. Mark Denny and Dr. George Somero
• AAUS Research Dive Training and Certification, 2001, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Dive Safety Officers: Dennis Divins and Eric Hessell
• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity Graduate Seminar: Ecological Data and Metadata, 2001, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, Taught by NCEAS Bioinformatics Staff & Visiting Professors
• Coastal Ecotoxicology, 2000, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA, Professors: Dr. Gary Cherr, Dr. Donald Crosby, Dr. Richard Ambrose, Dr. Peter Raimondi

Other Skills

• Programming: Matlab, C/C++, R, FORTRAN, IDL, Pascal, Python, VisualBasic, JMP/SAS, WinBUGS, shell scripts
• Operating environments: PC/Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX
• Lab: light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy, histology, immunostaining/blotting, PCR, gel electrophoresis, flow cytometry, spectrophotometry, gas exchange, lipid analysis, C:H:N, nutrient chemistry, etc.
• Wet Lab: dissection, gut content analysis, algal and larval culture, flowing seawater and self-contained aquaria, filtration, centrifugation, drying oven and muffle furnace gravimetric analysis, voucher specimen preservation, etc.
• Field: AAUS research dive certification, small boat operation, intertidal and subtidal field survey and experimental methods and species identification, tidal elevation mapping with differential GPS and traditional surveying, field thermal and photophysiology, etc.
• Languages: English, Spanish