Howdy, thanks for dropping by. I’m a marine ecologist interested in temperate coastal food webs and the processes that organize them. If you’d like to learn more about my work, check out the Research section.
RECENT NEWS
October 31, 2024 – I just got a paper published in Ecology this week about ecosystem drivers in kelp forests. Focusing on Pycnopodia and sea urchins, the lead author created a model using some parameters from my PhD sea urchin work to identify likelihood, rate, and recovery from disturbance in food webs. Check it out here.
July 6, 2023 – So much great news lately! An Antarctic collaboration has just been published here at Elementa, and I will be starting my new job as a marine ecologist for the NOAA NCCOS group at Kasitsna Bay at the end of the month!
February 22, 2023 – Some really neat work I collaborated on exploring the effects of sunflower star predation on sea urchins has just been published at the Royal Society Proceedings B. Check it out here!
January 30, 2023 – Sound familiar? I recently lent my voice to an educational animated short by Cedar Thicket! Sea ice is NICE!
December 30, 2022 – An article I wrote about sunflower seastars and their indirect effects on sea urchins was published in both the Friday Harbor Labs ‘Tidebites’ series and in The Journals of the San Juan Islands.
December 10, 2022 – I’m spending the week at the Smithsonian’s Carrie Bow Cay marine station to conduct a Reef Life Survey fish census. We’re diving on reefs, in seagrass, mangrove, and sandy habitats. Follow along with the action on MarineGEO’s Twitter!
October 27, 2022 – Last week I was out in the field with some of the great folks from the Seattle Aquarium doing ROV surveys as a part of the NSF INTERN program. I’m working with the Smithsonian’s MarineGEO program and the Samish Indian Nation to survey kelp communities around the San Juan Islands. Check out one of our deep (below the kelp) transects here.
Ross Whippo 