LAB MEMBERS

DR. JORDAN CASEY (she/her)
Principal Investigator  |  [email protected]

2021- | Assistant Professor | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2018-2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher | École Pratique des Hautes Études | CRIOBE | France
2016-2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher | National Museum of Natural History | Smithsonian Institution | USA
2015 | Ph.D. | Marine Biology | James Cook University | Australia
​2009 | B.Sc. | Ecology & Biodiversity | Spanish | Sewanee: The University of the South | USA

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DR. ALEX BARTH (he/him)
​Postdoctoral Researcher | [email protected]

Project: Disentangling plankton food webs along the Texas Gulf Coast to predict the future of estuarine ecosystems​

2024- | Postdoctoral Researcher | The University of Texas Marine Science Institute | USA
2024 | Ph.D. | Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina | USA
2019 | B.S. | Marine Sciences | California Polytechnic State University | USA

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HANNAH REMPEL (she/her)
Ph.D. Candidate | [email protected]

Project: Quantifying context-dependent grazing by coral reef herbivorous fishes across anthropogenic and ecological gradients

2021- | Ph.D. Student | Marine Sciences | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2020 | M.S. | Biological Sciences | California Polytechnic State University | USA
​2016 | B.A. | Biology | Lewis & Clark College | USA

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ZOÉ DELECAMBRE (she/her)
Ph.D. Candidate | [email protected]
(Co-supervised with Valeriano Parravicini)

Project: Niche partitioning, adaptation, and productivity on coral reefs

2021- | Ph.D. Student | École Pratique des Hautes Études | CRIOBE | France
2021 | M.S. | Biodiversity and Environment | École Pratique des Hautes Études | CRIOBE | France
2019 | B.Sc. | Ecology and Organisms Biology | Université de Montpellier | France

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INGRID VASCONCELLOS BUNHOLI (she/her)
​Ph.D. Student | [email protected]

2022- | Ph.D. Student | Marine Sciences | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2022 | M.S. | Biological Sciences (Ecology) | Indiana State University | USA
2020 | M.S. | Biological Sciences (Zoology) | Universidade Estadual Paulista | UNESP | Brazil
2019 | B.Sc. | Environmental Engineering | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | UNIFESP | Brazil
2016 | B.Sc. | Marine Science | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | UNIFESP | Brazil

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CHRISTINA MARCONI (she/her)
​Ph.D. Student | [email protected]

2022- | Ph.D. Student | Marine Sciences | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2018 | M.P.S. | Marine Conservation | University of Miami | USA
2016 | B.S. | Natural Resources | University of Connecticut | USA

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JUAN PABLO LOZANO PEÑA (he/him)
Ph.D. Student | [email protected]

2024- | Ph.D. Student | Marine Sciences | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2021 | B.Sc. | Universidad de ​Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano | Colombia

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MARISSA KORDAL (she/her)
Master's Student | [email protected]

2024- | Master's Student | Marine Sciences | The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute | USA
2022 | B.Sc. | Biological Sciences | State University of New York at Cortland | USA

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DAVID MALCOLM (he/him)
Research Technician | [email protected]

2023 | M.S. | Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA
2020 | B.S. | Biology | Geology | University of Florida | USA

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RODNYEL AROSEMENA LÓPEZ (he/him)
Research Technician | [email protected]

2023 | B.Sc |.Marine Biology | Universidad Marítima Internacional de Panamá | Panamá

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MEGAN DO (she/her)
Undergraduate researcher | [email protected]

​2022- | B.S. | Marine Science | The University of Texas at Austin | USA
2021-2022 | B.S. | Marine Biology | University of California, San Diego | USA

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FORMER LAB MEMBERS

​​Chloé Pozas-Schacre (she/her)
Position: Master's student (2019)

Malachy McCaffrey (he/him)
Position: Research technician (2021-2022)

Ariel Wang (she/her)
Position: Undergraduate researcher (2022-2023)

Mary Finch (she/her)
Position: Undergraduate researcher (2023)

Dr. Nicole Foster (she/her)
Position: Postdoctoral researcher (2022-2023)

Dr. Robert Semmler (he/him)
Position: Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2023)

Kylie Helterbrand (she/her)
Position: Undergraduate researcher (2024)