RESEARCH INTERESTS
Marine community ecology; sponge and coral reef ecology; seagrass and kelp ecology; climate change and ocean acidification; species interactions; the effects of anthropogenic stressors on ecosystem function and processes. As a researcher with broad interests in how anthropogenic impacts affect marine ecosystems, I have developed a research program focused on studies of coral reef ecology, seagrass ecology, species interactions, and larval recruitment in the face of anthropogenically induced sedimentation, eutrophication and ocean acidification. Recently, I have become interested in how climate change and ocean acidification will influence biogenic habitat engineers and subsequently habitat complexity, and how these changes will cascade throughout the ecosystem. |
Amber Stubler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Biology Occidental College Los Angeles, CA Email: [email protected] |
AWARDS AND FUNDING
2013 - Smtihsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institute 2012 - Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Recipient, Waste Reduction and Management Institute 2011 - Lerner Gray Memorial Grant, American Museum of Natural History 2011 - Grants-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi 2011 - Graduate Student Fellowship, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University 2010 - Sponge Taxonomy and Ecology Course, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2009 - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, honorable mention 2008/2009 - Deans Scholarship, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University 2008 - Best Student Oral Presentation, 37th Benthic Ecology Meeting 2007 - Frankel Foundation Scholarship, Stony Brook University 2006 - NSF (REU) Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of Alaska Southeast |