Jennifer A. Chiu
Diets and stable isotope signatures of Yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) in Central California
Jennifer graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011 with a B.S. in Ecology & Evolution and a minor in Asian American Studies. During her time at UCSB, she assisted with research focusing on the non-consumptive effects of predators on prey in the intertidal zone, coupled with the effects of climate change and habitat complexity. She also completed a senior research project investigating the burgeoning and unregulated Kellet’s Whelk fishery along the California coast. After graduation, Jennifer accepted a Fisheries Ecology Internship at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, where she participated in numerous projects in the northern Gulf of Mexico (including Tiger Shark gut content research, Bonnethead Shark functional response, Cownose Ray foraging ecology and Red Snapper tagging). Before beginning graduate school, she worked as a biological science technician at the USGS, where she studied the distribution and biomass of benthic invertebrates in San Francisco Bay.
Jennifer joined the Fisheries & Conservation Biology Lab at MLML in the fall of 2012. Her thesis project entitled Diets and Stable Isotope Signatures of Yellowtail Rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) in Central California, investigated the spatial and temporal variability in the diets of a commercially and recreationally important fish species in an area where previous diet data were limited. Additionally, Jennifer served as the Statewide Coordinator for California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) from 2012-2019.
