{"id":1499,"date":"2017-10-30T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/?page_id=1499"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T02:27:46","slug":"selena-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/selena-mcmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selena McMillan<\/h3>\n
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\"\"Selena was a project assistant for the\u00a0California Sea Grant Extension Program<\/a>\u00a0and worked on a variety of projects relating to managing data-poor fisheries. She graduated from the\u00a0University of California Santa Cruz<\/a>\u00a0in 2003 where she majored in Marine Biology and was involved in several research projects, including subtidal monitoring for the\u00a0Partnership of Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans<\/a>\u00a0(PISCO). After completing her undergraduate degree, she continued her work with PISCO as a subtidal technician. In the fall of 2004, Selena entered the masters program at\u00a0Moss Landing Marine Laboratories<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0examined The effects of the subtidal snail\u00a0Chlorostoma brunnea<\/em>, on the giant kelp,\u00a0Macrocystis pyrifera<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

After graduating from MLML in 2010, she was accepted at the\u00a0University of Auckland in New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0with a full scholarship as a PhD student working with\u00a0Prof. Kendall Clements\u00a0<\/a>in the School of Biological Sciences. Their project examined herbivorous fishes in the temperate and tropical reefs and their hindgut microbial community. It is known that\u00a0these hindgut microbes are an integral part of the nutrition of their fish hosts as they ferment algal carbohydrates into short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) for use by the fish. \u00a0It is unknown, however, a) how much the microbes contribute to the host fish nutrition or b) if these hindgut microbes can contribute nitrogen and\/or proteins to the fish. Her project utilized tools such as stable isotope analysis and compound-specific stable isotope analyses (using amino acids) to try and answer these questions. During this project, she was lucky enough to travel to the Great Barrier Reef and work at\u00a0Lizard Island Marine Research Station<\/a>. She also collected fish in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, which, although is missing\u00a0Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i>, is still a lovely kelp-dominated temperate reef.\u00a0 Throughout her PhD program, she had had the opportunity to teach several undergraduate labs and field-based courses. She enjoyed teaching, and the research and is grateful that she was able\u00a0 to live and travel in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

In 2017 Selena took a job with\u00a0Reef Check<\/a>, where she now works as\u00a0the Southern California Regional Manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selena was a project assistant for the\u00a0California Sea Grant Extension Program\u00a0and worked on a variety of projects relating to managing data-poor fisheries. She graduated from the\u00a0University of California Santa Cruz\u00a0in 2003 where she majored in Marine Biology and was involved in several research projects, including subtidal monitoring for the\u00a0Partnership of Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans\u00a0(PISCO). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Fisheries and Conservation Biology Lab","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1499\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}