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CAERS Fall 2014 Meeting

Save the date! CAERS will be holding its fall meeting on 26-27 September 2014 at the beautiful Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory in Northern California. The meeting will be co-hosted by John Largier (UC Davis/Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory) and Chris Kwan (San Diego State University, UC Davis).

The theme for this meeting is “Exploring the Consequences for Changing Freshwater Flow on Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems.” Abstract submission is now open! Visit the CAERS website for more information. As with previous conferences, we will be selecting the top student poster and oral presentations for CERF travel awards. Hope to see you there!

Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory

The CAERS Fall 2014 meeting will be held at the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory. 

 

CAERS Student Members in the News

One of our main goals as an Affiliate Society is to provide our student members with career development opportunities, including opportunities to demonstrate their leadership potential. To continue in that vein, this year CAERS is starting a new tradition to offer a graduate student the opportunity to co-chair our Affiliate Society meeting. Chris Kwan has gladly accepted that co-chair position for our fall 2014 Bodega Bay meeting and we are seeking volunteers for the Spring 2015 meeting in Ensenada, Mexico. Contact Sharon Herzka ([email protected]) if you are interested in that position.  

Three student representatives are stepping up to provide leadership as CAERS student representatives: Julieta Hernández-López (Autonomous University of Baja California), Kate Hewett (UC Davis, Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory), and Jason Sadowski (UC Davis). These students will become a part of the CERF Governing Board committee on Outreach and Early Career Development, led by Leanna Heffner, the CERF student representative. They represent you, so let us know what you would like to see with respect to career development and mentoring opportunities.

Other student volunteer opportunities exist! We are looking for a graduate student to assist Theresa Talley (CAERS Member-at-Large) with renovating and maintaining the CAERS website. Email Martha Sutula ([email protected]) for more information.

Julieta Hernandez-Lopez
Julieta Hernández-López

Julieta is conducting her Ph.D. studies in the Coastal Oceanography program at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) in Ensenada, Mexico under the direction of Dr. Victor Camacho-Ibar. Her research focuses on the process of nitrogen fixation in San Quintin Bay, a coastal lagoon located on the Pacific coast of Baja California. Her main objective is to estimate the contribution and process controlling of nitrogen fixation as nitrogen source for primary producers within the lagoon.
Kate Hewett
Kate Hewett

Kate cultivated an appreciation for west-coast estuaries while earning a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis, where she worked on understanding the interaction of stratified hydrodynamics and dissolved oxygen within the Russian River estuary. She is broadly interested in acidification and increasing hypoxia in west-coastal waters and coastal-estuarine dynamics. Kate is pursuing a Ph.D. in Hydrologic Science at the University of California, Davis under the direction of John Largier. Her thesis work will involve understanding the intrusion and influence of upwelled water in San Francisco Bay.
Jason Sadowski
Jason Sadowski

Jason is currently Ph.D. student at UC Davis, Department of Environmental Science studying under the direction of Professor Edwin Grosholz. This research focuses on the ecological impacts of invasive invertebrate species on native food webs. He is most interested in how global climate change will affect these interactions and whether current invasive species are poised to expand their ranges as drought becomes more common in Californian estuaries.
Chris Kwan
Chris Kwan

Chris is a Ph.D. student at San Diego State University and UC Davis under the advisement of Jeremy Long. He is interested in studying chemically-mediated behaviors among aquatic organisms and how these interactions affect community structure and ecosystem function, and whether chemical signaling between predators and prey is disrupted by anthropogenic pollutants. His current research investigates the behavioral and physiological effects of pollutants (focusing on heavy metals and pyrethroid insecticides) at sublethal levels on the species interactions of estuarine organisms in San Francisco Bay.