Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist, Managing Director of Marine Invasions Research Lab
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Specialty
Community Ecology, Macroecology, Invasion Ecology Research Labs
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Dr. Amy Freestone joined SERC as the Managing Director of the Marine Invasions Research Lab in May of 2024, after 15 years as faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 2020-2024, she was the founding director of the Temple Amber Field Station, a platform for field-based research and education. She completed her PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis and was a postdoctoral fellow at SERC.