{"id":6069,"date":"2012-08-16T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2021-01-01T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:42:01","slug":"life-after-mlml-research-from-the-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/08\/16\/life-after-mlml-research-from-the-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After MLML: Research from the Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Paul Tompkins<\/h3>\n

MLML Phycology Lab<\/h3>\n

PhD Candidate
\nLeibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)<\/h3>\n

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Research cruise, Queen Mabel, with a view
Photo by: Paul Tompkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After my master's thesis was accepted in the fall of 2011, I began applying for PhD positions. \u00a0I was accepted at the University of Bremen's Center for Tropical Marine Ecology<\/a>.\u00a0 My current advisor,\u00a0Dr. Matthias Wolff,<\/a>\u00a0leads the\u00a0resource management working group<\/a>\u00a0within the\u00a0department of ecological modelling<\/a>.\u00a0 He has spent many years studying the highly productive waters along the Pacific Coast of South America, and is currently leading a project in the Galapagos archipelago.\u00a0 The goal of this work is to understand how upwelling influences the tropic structure of the islands, and to use this understanding to inform fisheries management in the face of climate variability. \u00a0 My role in this project is to describe the biogeography of macroalgae around the Galapagos archipelago, and determine the functional role of these primary producers in the Galapagos marine tropic web.\u00a0 Of particular interest is the influence of upwelling on algal species distributions, community structure, and productivity.<\/p>\n

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View from my desk at BioMar\u00a0 Photo by: Paul Tompkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have now been in living in Puerto Ayora for two months.\u00a0 During my first week here, I was living on the R\/V Queen Mabel, with collaborators both from ZMT and the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), and surveying the Islands of Darwin, Wolf, Pinta, and the East coast of Isabella. To estimate the percent coverage of macroalgae, I used sampling protocols were similar to those used by the\u00a0CDF\u2019s ecological monitoring project<\/a>.\u00a0 At each site, a 50 meter transect was laid parallel to the shoreline at depths of 15 and 6 meters. Every five meters along transects, a 0.25m2 gridded quadrat with 80 intersection points was placed on the seafloor, and the primary substrate was recorded.<\/p>\n

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By: Paul Tompkins MLML Phycology Lab PhD Candidate Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)   After my master’s thesis was accepted in the fall of 2011, I began applying for PhD positions. \u00a0I was accepted at the University of Bremen’s Center for Tropical Marine Ecology.\u00a0 My current advisor,\u00a0Dr. Matthias Wolff,\u00a0leads the\u00a0resource management working group\u00a0within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21157,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}