1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. I was the TA for the green and brown algae groups in Dr. John Pearse's intertidal organisms field course . University of California, Santa Cruz.
Research involves conducting subtidal experiments and surveys.
Work included larval culture of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite and kelp spore sinking rate experiments. Soft bottom feeding ecology of the California sea otter, Enhydra lutris , in Elkhorn Slough . Participated in the 1996 Spring and Fall segments of a California sea grant intertidal survey, lead by Dr. John Pearse, which compared the species composition of sites along the central California coast with that recorded in 1971-1973. Specific personal focus was on the Chlorophyta and Phaeophyta. The research included scuba diving, underwater sampling techniques, and underwater photography.