Graduate Students

The current graduate students in the Grosholz Lab share a variety of interests in estuarine and marine ecology.

Click on a photo or name for more information about that person.

Christy Bowles

Ph.D. student (entered 2004)

Research interests: Soft-sediment communities, intertidal invertebrates, conservation

Project: Alternative community states mediated by Boccardia proboscidea.

cmbowles@ucdavis.edu

Brian Cheng

Ph.D. student (entered 2008)

Research interests: invasion resistance, estuarine gradients, climate change, oceanography, biogeography, species interactions, community ecology, food webs, statistics, synthesis

Project: Climate change effects on native and invasive species interactions

bscheng@ucdavis.edu

Betsy Wells

Ph.D. student (entered 2005)

Research interests: biological invasions, parasites, estuaries.

Project: tba.

ehwells@ucdavis.edu

Heidi Weiskel

Ph.D. student (entered 2003)

Research interests: biological invasions, disturbance, estuaries, community ecology

Project: Understanding the impacts of nutrient pollution on species interactions and biological invasions in marine habitats.

hwweiskel@ucdavis.edu

Megan Kelso

Ph.D. student (entered 2010)

Research interests: climate change, biological invasions, estuarine plant communities.

Project: Effects of flooding related to sea-level rise and consequences for changing salinity regimes and marsh plant invasions.

megankelso@gmail.com

Holly Long

M.S. student (entered 2010)

Research interests: marine invasions, climate change, marine community ecology

Project: The effects on invasive tunicates and climate driven temperature increases on eelgrass communities.

halong@ucdavis.edu

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