Staff

Postdoctoral Scholars

Michelle María Early Capistrán is a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow at the Crowder Lab. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on working collaboratively with coastal communities to improve conservation practice by integrating Local Ecological Knowledge and marine ecology. She was originally trained as a Cultural Anthropologist and holds an M.S. and PhD in Marine Science and Limnology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). For over a decade, she has collaborated with rural fishing communities in the Baja California peninsula to understand long-term changes in the abundance of endangered and culturally important green turtles (Chelonia mydas). She will work with Prof. Crowder, in collaboration with Jeff Seminoff of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, to develop species distribution models for green turtles under climate change by integrating Local Ecological Knowledge and Citizen/Community Science.

Former Postdoctoral Scholars

• Rosana Ourens-Chan, Fisheries Scientist, Lowestoft, UK.
• Sara M. Maxwell, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Bothell
• Dana W. Briscoe, Ocean Data Scientist, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand
• Stephanie J. Green, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Jennifer Selgrath, National Marine Sanctuaries Channel Islands, Santa Barbara
• Natasha Hardy
• Danielle Haulsee