Extreme climate events and ocean food webs 

I am currently a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California Santa Cruz, co-advised by Dr. Malin Pinsky and Dr. John Bruno. My dissertation aims to answer the following questions using field experiments, molecular techniques, and global datasets, with most of my field work taking place in the Galapagos Islands:

How does the dietary niche breadth of reef fish shift along productivity-temperature gradients? Are there trophic asymmetries in sensitivity to resource variability?

How does rapid environmental change, such as El Niño and La Niña events, influence the structure of ocean food webs through time and space?