News

Elizabeth Forbes just had a paper synthesizing the effects of large herbivores on ecosystem function accepted at Functional Ecology. Fellow graduate student Maggie Klope and Dr. Young are coauthors.

The lab received a new NSF grant in collaboration with the Swei lab at San Francisco State University. 

Dr. Young collaborated on a new paper out in Coral Reefs looking at the effects of fish excretion of the world's largest parrotfish - the Bumphead Parrotfish - on water chemistry in pristine reef ecosystems.

Graduate student Ana Miller-Ter Kuile was awarded an NSF AGEP grant to increase representation of traditionally underrepresented groups in the Academy.

Postdoctoral student John Schroeder receives a Smithsonian postdoctoral fellowship. 

Graduate student Michelle Lee and undergraduate, Tiger Lao, received a Schmidt Family Foundation Research Mentorship grant. 

Georgia Titcomb is the lead author of a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Elizabeth Forbes was awarded a Schmidt family foundation Research Accelerator grant.

Michelle Lee received a Coastal Fund grant to further last year's project with undergraduate, Megan Oza.

March 2019 - A new paper out in Microbial Ecology, which Dr. Young coauthored, explores the drivers of variation in microbial communities on western gulls across their California range, including from the local Channel Island gull community.