This technique has promise in revealing specific environmental signatures, which would allow us to specify the source of new recruits. This work is currently being carried out in St. Croix, with a new focus just beginning on the West Coast of the US and the Galapagos Islands. This will allow us to extend our studies of recruitment patterns along the West Coast, combining studies of connections between populations with an extensive set of physical measurements to determine the conditions under which recruitment occurs. I am willing to accept students in either of these areas of study, and I should be taking a student in Fall 2001. Ideally, a student should combine good quantitative, writing, and field skills.
Prior experience is a definite advantage.