LATEST NEWS

Congratulations to Jacob Ruiz, on his EOS Center Scholarship for $2K to support his graduate work!!! (August 2021)

Congratulations, Taylor Pantiga, on your Pt Reyes National Seashore Association award of $2400 for your research on seagrass wasting disease!!! (June 2021)

Congratulations to Meredyth Duncan for a CSUPERB Covid graduate student research restart award of $7,000 to further her work on invasive bryozoans on our outer coasts!! (June 2021)

Welcome Summer 2021 CSU CeSAME STAR teacher researcher interns to the Cohen lab: Trenton Rubio and Kevin Myron are returning for their second year of STAR interning with us, and Lauren Dixon and Kai Atkinson are first year STAR interns. Grads Meredyth Duncan, Taylor Pantiga, and Michelle Kelley are mentoring and sharing their research projects with this group. (June 2021)

New report on REUs in the 2020 summer of Covid thanks to Erin Dolan's team at UGa and including our REU site program along with the other ~ 25 that ran last year, mostly in virtual programming -- available on BioRxiv now, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.17.443632v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=

Erickson O, Cole R, Isaacs J, Alvarez-Clare S, Arnold J, Augustus-Wallace A, Ayoob J, Berkowitz A, Branchaw J, Burgio K, Cannon C, Ceballos R, Cohen CS, Coller H, Disney J, Doze V, Eggers M, Farina S, Ferguson E, Gray J, Greenberg J, Hoffman A, Jensen-Ryan D, Kao R, Keene A, Kowalko J, Lopez S, Mathis C, Minkara M, Murren C, Ondrechen MJ, Ordonez P, Osano A, Padilla-Crespo E, Palchoudhury S, Qin H, Lugo JR, Reithel J, Shaw C, Smith A, Smith R, Summers A, Tsien F, and E Dolan. In review, May 2021. How do we do this at a distance? A descriptive study of remote undergraduate research programs during COVID-19. Life Sciences Education.

Congratulations, Taylor Pantiga, on your CSU COAST grad research award!!! (May 2021)

New paper, a collaboration with Marie Nydam and the Lemmon lab, featuring work by former grads Darragh Clancy and Cecilia Hernandez, and help from so many over the years -- including samples from the Cal Academy Verde Island Passage Expeditions

Nydam M.L., Lemmon A.R, Cherry J.R., Kortyna ML, Clancy DL*, Hernandez C*, Cohen CS. 2021. Phylogenomic and morphological relationships among the botryllid ascidians (Subphylum Tunicata, Class Ascidiacea, Family Styelidae). Scientific Reports,

11(1):8351.

doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87255-2.

Congratulations to Michelle Kelley and Taylor Pantiga for their awards from the Myers Trust to fund their work on seagrass disease and population variability and connectivity (Taylor) and sea star behavioral variation associated with microhabitat differences (Michelle). (April 2021)

The Myers Trust was established in 1987 by the estate of Ethel M. Myers, to honor the work of her late husband Dr. Earl H. Myers, an educator and expert on Foraminifera. The Trust exists primarily to support research in the marine sciences by graduate students in central California, with a focus on Monterey Bay.

Congratulations to Taylor Pantiga on winning $3,000 from the International Women’s Fishing Association, https://www.iwfa.org/scholarship, to support your graduate research on seagrass wasting disease and population connectivity. (April 2021)

New paper!! Work by Laura Melroy comparing sea star clade distributions across >100 years on the California coast...the punchline, lots of change! in our local brooding Leptasterias species

http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7283

Sarah attended the virtual NSF NCEAS workshop on the Future of Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Science, and also participated in Science Communication training in the COMPASS program (February 2021).

Welcome to our lab, grad Jacob Ruiz! Congratulations to Ernestina Ramirez and Emma Morgan for completing your undergraduate SFSU degrees!

Congratulations to Citlalli, Meredyth, Michelle,Taylor, and Geoffrey on your SFSU IRA awards to support supplies for your research projects! (December and January 2020/2021).

New paper in PLoS ONE! Graduate work on anemone symbioses and multistressor responses by Dan Hossfeld in collaboration with Dr Lori Ling of Stanford:

Hossfeld D*, Ling L, Cohen CS (2020) Experimental investigation of tidal and freshwater influence on Symbiodiniaceae abundance in Anthopleura elegantissima. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238361

A hearty welcome to our two new RIPTIDEs Graduate students, Michelle Kelley and Taylor Pantiga! Great to have you join us!

Meredyth Duncan presented a poster on work with 2019 NSF REU intern Jaden Stone and 2019 CSU STAR intern Kevin Myron on their work on invasive invertebrates on the outer coast of central California, at the national Ecological Society of America annual meeting, in their first virtual only format. August 2020.

The summer flew by in a blitz of virtual NSF REU (Tatiana Jimenez, Linnea Blaustein, Kat Jenkins-Brown, Elisa Prohoff, Nghia Tran) and CSU CeSAME STAR (Trenton Rubio) summer projects using archived databases, from NOAA, NSF LTER, LiMPETs, MARINe, PISCO, and our own and other published studies to compare environmental and biotic data using newly acquired skills in R coding, thanks to the SFSU SCIP workshops organized by Pleuni Pennings. More on these projects soon....

In a grad level blitz, three grads defended their Master's theses, Cecilia Hernandez, Margaret Johnson, and Gabrielle Rupert in late spring and summer. More on this soon as well..

Congratulations Citlalli Aquino and Meredyth Duncan for your Myer's Trust awards in support of your thesis research on mole crab parasite demography and ecological genetics (Citlalli) and invasive invertebrates on the outer coast (Meredyth)!!! (Spring 2020)

The Myers Trust was established in 1987 by the estate of Ethel M. Myers, to honor the work of her late husband Dr. Earl H. Myers, an educator and expert on Foraminifera. The Trust exists primarily to support research in the marine sciences by graduate students in central California, with a focus on Monterey Bay.

New pieces in Bay Nature, Mercury News, and Marin IJ on our work on sea star disappearances and more...

Welcome new international research intern, Charlotte David from the UK, here to work with us on molecular ecology and evolution this spring.

Congratulations to Natalie Avila for your undergraduate CSU COAST research award of $644 to work with Meredyth Duncan on invasive bryozoa!