Current students
Esteban Agudo Alejandro (2019-2025) PhD student via the Biology Department, eagudo@live.unc.edu. Esteban worked on the influence of temperature on marine predation.
Savannah Ryburn (2019-2025) PhD student via E3P, sryburn@live.unc.edu. Savannah worked on the ecology of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks including their diet, movements, and habitat use.
Salome Jarmillo Gil (2022-2027) is a PhD in the Department of Biology. Salome is working on the ecology and conservation of sharks and rays.
Isabel Silva (2021-2026) PhD student via the Biology Department, isabelsr@ad.unc.edu. Isabel is working on the relative and interactive effects of temperature, herbivory, and nutrient flux in controlling benthic primary production in the Galapagos marine ecosystem.
Maya Zeff (2023-2028) a PhD student co-advised with the Pinksy Lab at UCSC working on marine food web and network ecology.
Current undergraduate students
Past graduate students
Haley Capone (2021-2023) was an MS student via the Biology Department. Haley worked on the interactive effects of temperature and nutrients on benthic primary production. She is a staff scientist at NOAA (until she gets laid off by Elon Musk).
Katelyn Gould (2017-2023) was a PhD student via the Biology Department. Kate worked on coral comparative physiological ecology and improving coral restoration. Kate is now the Director of restoration science at Coral Vita.
Laura Mudge (2015-2020) was a PhD student in the Biology Department. She is currently the director of data science at Blue Ventures.
Catie Alves (2015-2020) was a PhD student and is currently a scientist with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s Social Science Branch
Erin Spencer (2017- 2019) was an MS student in the Bruno Lab. Erin worked on red snapper fisheries. Among other honors she won the campus 3 minute thesis competition and received an Impact Award. Erin was a PhD student at FIU in the Papastamatiou lab, studying predator-prey interactions and she is currently a National Geographic Explorer and the Communications Manager for Restoration at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
Lindsey Carr, (2009-2015) PhD student via the Biology Department worked on subtidal ecology and shark fishing in the Galapagos Islands.
Courtney Cox, PhD student via the Biology Department (2009-2014). Courtney worked on fisheries management in Belize and is now the Chief Technical Officer at Blue Ventures
Rachel Gittman, PhD student via the CEE (2009-2014). Rachel worked on salt marsh ecosystem function and conservation in North Carolina. Rachel is an Associate Professor at Eastern Carolina University
Abel Valdivia, PhD student via the Biology Department (2009-2014). Abel working on the role of sharks in coral reef ecosystems. Abel is a staff scientist at the World Wildlife Fund.
Serena Hackerott, MS student via the Marine Sciences Department (2013-2014). Serena worked on the impacts of lionfish on Caribbean reef communities. Serena is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Delaware in Mark Warner’s lab.
Pamela Reynolds, PhD (2007-20011 via Biology)
Elizabeth R. Selig, PhD (2003-2008 via CEE), now Deputy Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
Mary O’Connor, PhD (2003-2008 via CEE) now a Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Sarah C. Lee, PhD (2002-2008 via MASC) currently an Assistant Professor at DePauw University
Past post docs
Justin Baumann (2018-2020) SPIRE post doc
Colleen Bove (2020) Post doc
Kathryn Boyer, PhD (2003-2004, now an Associate Professor, San Francisco State University)
Nessa O’Connor, PhD (2005, now an Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland)
Zachary Long, PhD (2005-2007, now an Assistant Professor, UNCW)
Karl Castillo, PhD (2008-2012, now an Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, Dept of Marine Sciences)
Emily Darling (2013-2015), via a David H Smith Conservation Research Fellowship
Other past students, technicians, and friends of the lab
Emma Rudy Srebnik, Caroline Parker, Makeila Cox, Amanda DelVecchia, Meg Dolan, Katie DuBois, Leigh Habeger, Sam Harris, Brittany Huntington, Meredith Kintzing, Laura Ladwig, Emma Moran, Jackie Padilla-Gamino, Matt Perkinson, Virginia Schutte, Michael Simpson, Gillian Smelick, Bobby Vogt, Ivana Vu, Logan Gin, Anna Smith, David Fernandez, Sydney Mantell