Advisor: Dave Checkley
Degree: 2013
Thesis: Interannual-to-Decadal Changes in Phytoplankton Phenology, Fish Spawning Habitat, and Larval Fish Phenology
Institution: Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
rasch@princeton.edu

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2017
Thesis: The distribution of suspended microplastics and nanoplastics in the Northeast Pacific and their effects on zooplankton consumers
Institution: Birch Aquarium at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
Position: Price Postdoctoral Fellow
jabrandon@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Todd Martz
Degree: 2015
Thesis: Novel Marine Inorganic Carbon Sensors for the Anthropocene
Institution: San Francisco Estuary Institute
Position: Environmental Scientist
pbresnah@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Kathy Barbeau
Degree: 2014
Thesis: Iron and copper organic complexation in marine systems: Detection of multiple ligand classes via electrochemistry
Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
rbundy@whoi.edu

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2012
Thesis: Laboratory and In Situ Investigations of Factors Affecting the Growth and Survivorship of the Scyphozoan Jellyfish Aurelia sp1
Institution: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Position: Citizen Science Coordinator
alison.cawood@gmail.com

Advisor: Dave Checkley
Degree: 2011
Thesis: The export of carbon mediated by mesopelagic fishes in the northeast Pacific Ocean
Institution: Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
pdavison@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2011
Thesis: Mesozooplankton trophic variability in a changing ocean
Institution: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington New Zealand
Position: Zooplankton Ecologist
moira.decima@niwa.co.nz

Advisor: Kathy Barbeau
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Physiological, ecological, and evolutionary studies of trace metal homeostasis in marine microbes, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, 2008
Institution: J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)
Position: Assistant Professor
cdupont@jcvi.org

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2017
Thesis: Plankton community composition and grazing dynamics in upwelling regions of the Pacific Ocean
Institution: U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
Position: Fellow - Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Portland, OR
ali.freibott@gmail.com

Advisor: Dave Checkley
Degree: 2009
Thesis: Foraging ecology of North Pacific albacore in the California Current System, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, CA, 2009
Institution: University of Denver - Korbel School of Intl Studies
Position: Fisheries ecologist
sarah.glaser@du.edu

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2012
Thesis: Abundance and ecological implications of microplastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Institution: Center for American Progress
Position: Director of Ocean Policy
miriam.goldstein@gmail.com

Advisor: Lihini Aluwihare
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Microbial metabolism in the deep ocean, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, CA, 2008
Institution: Univ. of Vienna - Dept. of Marine Biology
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
rhansman@gmail.com

Advisor: Kathy Barbeau
Degree: 2007
Thesis: Oceanographic and ecological consequences of iron localization in phytoplankton photosystems, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2007
Institution: University of Georgia
Position: Assistant Professor
bmhopkin@uga.edu

Advisor: Mark Ohman and George Sugihara
Degree: 2006
Thesis: Separating environmental effects from fishing impacts on the dynamics of fish populations of the Southern California region, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2006.
Institution: Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
Position: Professor
chsieh@ntu.edu.tw

Advisor: Mark Ohman and Richard Norris
Degree: 2010
Thesis: Macroevolutionary patterns in planktonic foraminifera and the recovery of pelagic ecosystems from the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Institution: Yale University
Position: Assistant Professor
pincelli.hull@yale.edu

Advisor: Peter Franks
Degree: 2010
Thesis: The foraging sorties hypothesis: Evaluating the effect of gut dynamics on copepod foraging behavior
Institution: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Position: Senior Application Engineer
erdem.m.karakoylu@nasa.gov

Advisor: Art Miller
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Physical-biological climate changes in the Southern California Bight, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2008.
Institution: SIO
Position: Programmer/Analyst
hjkim@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Kathy Barbeau
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Iron distribution and phytoplankton iron limitation in the southern California Current System, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2008.
Institution: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Milford, CT
Position: Research Ecologist
andrew.king@gmail.com

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2016
Thesis: Responses of mesopelagic fish assemblages to environmental disturbance: ocean deoxygenation and oceanic fronts
Institution: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Position: NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellow in Ocean Exploration
amanda.netburn@noaa.gov

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2017
Thesis: The co-location of blue whales and their euphausiid prey across multiple spatial scales
Institution: Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
cnickels@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2013
Thesis: Marine Protists: Distributions, Diversity and Dynamics
Institution: Cal Poly/SLO
Position: Postdoc
apasulka@calpoly.edu

Advisor: Farooq Azam
Degree: 2014
Thesis: Bacterial Alteration and Removal of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Surface Ocean
Institution: Center for Microbial Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Position: Postdoctoral scholar
bpedler@gmail.com

Advisor: Mark Ohman
Degree: 2013
Thesis: Ocean fronts in the Southern California Current System and their role in structuring zooplankton distributions, diel vertical migration, and size composition
Institution: Maglev Strategies LLC
Position: Founder and President
jesse.exmachina@gmail.com

Advisor: Kenneth Smith, Jr.
Degree: 2006
Thesis: Climate and Food Supply Influences on Mobile Epibenthic Megafauna Populations in the Abyssal NE Pacific from 1989 to 2004, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2006
Institution: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Position: Project Manager
h.ruhl@noc.soton.ac.uk

Advisor: Dave Checkley
Degree: 2009
Thesis: Influence of Oceanographic Variability on the Planktonic Prey and Growth of Sardine and Anchovy in the California Current Ecosystem, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, CA, 2009
Institution: University of South Carolina - Dept. of Biological Sciences
Position: Assistant Professor
ryk@sc.edu

Advisor: Farooq Azam
Degree: 2012
Thesis: Microscale habitats and activities of bacteria and their ecological and biogeochemical significance in the ocean
Institution: University of Hawaii
Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
tsamo@hawaii.edu

Advisor: John Hildebrand
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Risso's and Pacific white-sided dolphins in the Southern California Bight: using echolocation clicks to study dolphin ecology, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, 2008
Institution: NOAA - Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Position: Researcher, Protected Resources & Biodiversity Division
melissa.soldevilla@noaa.gov

Advisor: Art Miller
Degree: 2011
Thesis: Sensitivity analysis, ocean state estimation and diagnostics in the California Current, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2011.
Institution: MIT
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
hajsong@mit.edu

Advisor: Lihini Aluwihare
Degree: 2018
Thesis: Nitrogen Cycling in the Euphotic Zone of the California Current
Institution: UC Santa Barbara - Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
bstephens@ucsb.edu

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2010
Thesis: Biological control of vertical carbon flux in the California Current and Equatorial Pacific
Institution: FSU
Position: Assistant Professor
mstukel@fsu.edu

Advisor: Art Miller
Degree: 2012
Thesis: Multiscale dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic variability in the climate system
Institution: SIO
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
acsubram@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Brian Palenick
Degree: 2009
Thesis: Diversity and dynamics of Synechococcus populations in the Southern California Bight
Institution: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
vera.tai@botany.ubc.ca

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2012
Thesis: Size structuring of planktonic communities: Biological rates and ecosystem dynamics
Institution: MIT, URI/GSO
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher - NOAA Climate and Global Change
datanigu@MIT.EDU

Advisor: Mike Landry
Degree: 2017
Thesis: Mesozooplankton responses to climate variability and contributions to microbial export
Institution: SIO
Position: N/A
bellival@ucsd.edu

Advisor: Ken Smith
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Deep-sea Bioturbation and the Role of the Sea Urchin Echinocrepis rostrata, Ph.D. thesis, University of California San Diego, CA, 2008;
Institution: College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State Univ.
Position: Assistant Professor
mvardaro@coas.oregonstate.edu

Advisor: Lihini Aluwihare
Degree: 2008
Thesis: Natural Abundance Radiocarbon Studies of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in the Marine Environment
Institution: Stonybrook University
Position: Lecturer, School of Marine & Atmos. Sciences
Roman.DeJesus@stonybrook.edu

Advisor: Peter Franks
Degree: 2015
Thesis: Phytoplankton in Surface Ocean Fronts: Resolving Biological Dynamics and Spatial Structure
Institution: Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Aix-Marseille Université
Position: Post-doctoral Researcher
alain.de-verneil@mio.osupytheas.fr

Institution: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Position: Assistant Scientist
kristen.buck@bios.edu

Institution: Rutgers University - Inst.of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Position: Assistant Professor
hfuchs@marine.rutgers.edu

Institution: SIO
Position:
handress2001@yahoo.es

Institution: SIO
Position:
fmalfatti@ucsd.edu

Institution: FSU
Position: Assistant Professor
mstukel@fsu.edu

Institution: SIO
Position: Postdoctoral scholar
rswalethorp@ucsd.edu