Lab Members

 

Jennifer Seavey- Assistant Director of Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory

Hannah Vander Zanden - Post Doc Fellow

Thomas Bohrmann - Ph.D. student

Christine Angelini - Ph.D. student

I am an experimental community ecologist currently focused on two related research topics: interactions among foundation species and their consequences of associated communities and mechanisms that underpin resilience of foundation species to climate change. 

James Clyde Nifong - Ph.D. student

I study the role of large-bodied top predators in community-level processes. Currently, I am studying the ecological role of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in coastal and near-shore marine ecosystems.

Liz Schrack - Ph.D. student

Top-down control of ecosystems generated by marine foundation species, particularly coral reefs, by consumer/grazer facilitation of microbial infection

Marc Hensel - M.S. Student

Food web dynamics with a focus on the importance of consumer functional diversity in ecosystem multifunctionality

Schuyler van Montfrans - M.S. student

I am currently investigating how the interaction between multiple consumers (top-down) and physical stress (bottom-up) affects primary productivity and community structure in marine communities.

 

Stephanie Buhler- Technician

Rebecca Atkins- Undergraduate Researcher (REU)

Kristin Briggs- Undergraduate Researcher (REU)

Hannah Nelson - Undergraduate Researcher (REU)