Graduate Student

Carly is an environmental microbiologist interested in how microbial communities influence host phenotypes. In her dissertation work, she integrates omics signatures of microbial activity with microscopy image analysis to understand how microalgae, bacteria, and viruses influence coral disease, and how consumers shape these microbial communities on a coral reef.

Fall 2022, Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Rice University)

Spring 2024, Ph.D....

Uncertainty is a fundamental feature of ecological systems and their management: knowledge of the system state and its dynamics is imperfect, actions have uncertain consequences, and factors like climate change will alter the environment in ways that can be hard to predict. My dissertation represents a range of approaches to uncertainty in ecology and conservation, from improving inference about complex biological systems to optimizing management actions that alter stochastic dynamics.

Fall 2022...