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JLab Marine ecology for a changing planet
The Scientists
David Samuel Johnson
Lab leader.
Valerie Acosta Rodriguez
Valerie is the lab manager. In addition to keeping the lab running, she researchers invertebrates, particularly crabs and worms.
Manisha Pant
Manisha is a laboratory technician and an expert in benthic invertebrates from fresh and saltwater, statistics and R.
Claire Curran
Claire is a graduate scientist getting her MS in the lab. She is studying parasite ecology using the amphipod-trematode system of Orchestia grillus and Levinseniella byrdi.
Elizabeth Oliver
Elizabeth is a graduate scientist getting her MS in the lab. She is researching how range-expanding fiddler crabs impact salt marshes in New England.
Rachel Cole
Rachel is graduate scientist at William & Mary. She is an expert in R, statistics, and benthic invertebrates.
Colin Surdam
Colin is an undergraduate scientist at Anslem College. He spent the summer of 2025 researching the impacts of fiddler-crab burrowing and feeding on saltmarsh worms.
Lab Alumni
Bethany Williams
Dr. Serina Wittyngham
Emily Goetz
Kayla Martinez-Soto
Andrew Nemeth
Caroline Failon
Danielle Doucette
Tyler Treakle
Cynthia Crowley
Katherine Longmire
Catherine Wilhelm
Viola Yu
Anna Ledwin
Maclaren Johnson
Esther Harper-Smith
Leah Scott
Anne Turner
"...a real scientist is someone who can think about a subject while talking to his or her spouse about something else."
~E.O. Wilson, paraphrasing a colleague~
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