Join us for Vicky Ooi's Thesis Defense!

"Determining the effects of sex and temporal variation on the late chick-rearing diets of emperor penguins at Cape Crozier, Ross Sea, using DNA metabarcoding"

 

Tuesday, September 29th 2026 @ 12 PM (PDT)

 

In person at the MLML Seminar Room or via Zoom/YouTube livestream

Join Us for Parker Malhotra's Master's Thesis Defense!

"A multidimensional analysis of genetic structure in canary rockfish, Sebastes pinniger, along the U.S. West Coast"

Friday, August 21st @ 1 PM (PST)

In person at the MLML Seminar Room or via Zoom/YouTube livestream

Join Us for Olivia Beaudoin's Master's Thesis Defense!

"Physical Drivers of Pismo Clam (Tivela stultorum) Populations at the Northern Range Edge in Monterey Bay, California"

Friday, July 10 at 12:00 PM (PDT)

In person at the MLML Seminar Room or via Zoom/YouTube livestream

Ava Besecker will be defending her thesis entitled, "Resilience in restoration: Investigating the thermal tolerance of Galápagos corals during El Niño".

Thursday, May 14th at 2:00 PM (PST).

The defense will be in-person in the MLML Seminar Room and online.

Roxanne Garibay's thesis defense, " Depth-dependent effects of disturbance on reproductive output and growth of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)",  May 7th at 3:00 pm.

Jason Gonsalves's thesis defense on "ENSO-Induced Oceanographic Anomalies and Their Potential Impacts on Coral Species in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area" is Thursday, April 30th, 2026 from 9 - 10am PDT.

The defense will take place in-person in the seminar room and will also be live streamed on both Zoom and Youtube. Livestream links can be found below.