Diversity & Inclusion
NCEAS is committed to improving diversity and inclusion in science, and here are resources to support diversity and inclusion.
NCEAS is committed to improving diversity and inclusion in science, and here are resources to support diversity and inclusion.
Maggie is a Projects Data Coordinator for the Arctic Data Center. Through this position, she helps researchers submit and archive their data so that their research is findable, reusable, and reproducible. Maggie is interested in utilizing data science to facilitate ecological research. Earlier in her career, she worked for California States Parks, as a biological consultant, and as a lab manager at UC Santa Barbara. Maggie holds a Master’s in Ecology from UC Santa Barbara where she studied the interaction between climate and herbivory on California plant communities.
Molly Phillips (she/her/hers) is the Access and Inclusion Coordinator for the Long Term Ecological Research network. She helps to facilitate the design and implementation of strategies to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion across the LTER network. Molly is a biologist by training with a background in evolution, ecology, and natural history, with a variety of past work experiences including natural history collections, state agencies, nonprofits and the U.S. Air Force.
Principal Investigator(s): Holden Harris, Willem Klajbor
ActiveRay Czaja is a Gulf Ecosystem Initiative postdoc researcher investigating bottom-up and climate change impacts on zooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Gulf of Mexico. Broadly trained in marine ecology, Ray’s M.S. work (University of West Florida) involved seagrass community ecology in the Gulf of Mexico, and Ray’s doctoral work (Stony Brook University) involved bivalve fisheries ecology in the northwest Atlantic. Prior to graduate school and following his B.S.
Mai is a Post-Doctoral Scholar conducting research with a Gulf Ecosystem Initiative working group on the impact of severe weather on fisheries. Her doctoral research focused on understanding eutrophication and its interactions with mercury cycling. Mai completed a Ph.D. in marine sciences from the University of South Alabama and an M.P.H. in public health and a B.A. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley.
Marisa (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral scholar investigating the environmental and economic costs of plastic pollution and marine debris in the United States. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a scientific diver to help manage invertebrate fisheries off the coast of California. Her doctoral work assessed Palmyra Atoll’s communities (terrestrial arthropods and parasites in marine fish) to understand how species distributions changed with scale. She also focused on using Bayesian techniques to account for imperfect detection in community surveys. Marisa completed a Ph.D.
Casey is a postdoctoral scholar studying the impacts of human activity and climate change on marine biodiversity. His work examines the intersection of anthropogenic stressors with the ranges of species affected by those stressors to understand spatial patterns of human impact, to help inform effective marine conservation. As a data scientist, Casey strives to incorporate best practices of reproducibility and open science in his research.