“Be empowered. Empower yourself with a good education. Then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”
- Michelle Obama
I am a faculty affiliate of the NSF Tamamta Program at UAF to advance Indigenous knowledge and representation in fisheries and marine biology. Please check out the Tamamta website for more information about the program.
Stay tuned for specific student recruitment announcements. I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs. Please contact me if you have an interest in joining the lab.
Is graduate school right for you? Check out this helpful blog post by Yale Biology professor, Casey Dunn.
How do you apply to a MS or PhD program? Here’s a helpful blog post by University of Maine professor, Jacquelyn Gill
How to get in touch with a potential advisor? Tips on writing an email of interest by the Evans Lab at Michigan State.
Undergraduate Jennifer Tusten extracting eDNA samples for the NSF Alaska EPSCoR Fire and Ice Project
MS Student Maris Goodwin (right) and collaborator Dr. Schery Umanzor (left) deploying passive eDNA sampling devices in Kachemak Bay, AK
Undergraduates Andrew Wilson (L) and George Deal (R) presented a poster on their passive eDNA sampling device to the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Meeting in March 2023.