Graduate Students
Matt Pierce (PhD)
Matt is interested in the relationships between the biotic and abiotic factors in coastal salt marshes. He is currently focused on how organisms move within and between wetlands and their interactions with Spartina alterniflora. His previous work focused on zooplankton community composition and cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in freshwater reservoirs.
Eliot Hall (PhD)
Eliot’s research interests include how behavioral and ecological mechanisms influence population and community dynamics. She uses integrative approaches to study marine and estuary systems.
Margaret Staller (PhD)
Margaret is interested in marine community ecology; more specifically, how parasites interact with their hosts, and in turn, how their hosts’ behavior affects the surrounding environment, especially in the context of climate change. She has previously worked in a rocky intertidal ecosystem, studying the effects of multiple extinctions on community composition.
Addie Band (PhD)
Addie is broadly interested in the impact of disturbances on coastal ecosystems, with a specific focus on ecosystem engineering species and how their resiliency, functional roles, and legacies are affected post-disturbance. Her prior work focused on nutrient and hydrologic dynamics in coastal mangrove systems.