Staff Profile
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Biography

Project Coordinator for National Fouling Survey of marine invertebrates

My role at SERC focuses around marine invertebrate taxonomy (with an emphasis on Tunicata), data management, and sample curation and management. My research interests include: Community and population ecology of marine invertebrates; Tropical-Temperate comparisons of species richness and diversity; Ecology of invasions. 

Other current SERC projects: Didemnum vexillum eradication, Nearshore Survey, Rhithropanopeus Survey. 

Education:

B.S. in Biology (2001) St. Mary's College of Maryland. 

 

 

Publications

  • Jewett, Elizabeth B. ; Lawson, Katherine N. ; Larson, Kristen J. ; Tracy, Brianna M. ; Altman, Safra ; Chang, Andrew L. ; Cowan, Scott ; Crooks, Jeffrey A. ; Huber, Tamar ; Wells, Elizabeth H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2022). [node:title] . Frontiers in Marine Science, 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.933405