Kamille Hammerstrom

Research Associate

After an early and intense childhood fascination with blue crabs, I completed an undergraduate degree in Marine Biology at Texas A & M University at Galveston and a masters degree in Marine Science at the University of South Carolina. I’m interested in disturbance and recovery processes in marine environments, from how seagrasses respond to boat hull and propeller damage to how infaunal communities change in response to erosion and tidal restriction. I’ve been very fortunate to participate in research projects in the seagrass-coral banks of the Florida Keys, eelgrass beds in coastal North Carolina, tidal creeks of coastal South Carolina, kelp forests in the San Juan archipelago, seagrass and infaunal communities in Elkhorn Slough, infaunal communities on the continental shelf in Monterey Bay, hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific, and sponge communities in Antarctica. When I'm not analyzing data I can often be found deadheading flowers in my garden.