Opportunities for Graduate Students in Kelp Forest Ecology

Posted by on Dec 1, 2021 in jobs | No Comments

I currently have two openings for graduate students in either the UMB Biology Department or SFE. Please see below and don’t hesitate to contact me with questions! Grad Student for Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Assess the Effects of Warming on New England Kelp Forests The Byrnes and Schaaf labs at UMass Boston (http://byrneslab.net and https://www.umb.edu/spectralmass) […]

Job: Biological Monitoring Tech in the Byrnes Lab

Posted by on May 5, 2021 in jobs | No Comments

Seasonal Biological Monitoring Technician in the Byrnes Lab June 1 – Aug. 31, 2021 The Byrnes lab at UMass Boston seeks two summer technicians for work on biological monitoring of rocky shorelines in the Boston Harbor Islands in collaboration with the Stone Living Lab. The Stone Living Lab (https://stonelivinglab.org/) is a multi-investigator effort to evaluate […]

Jarrett gives SML Rock Talk Online!

Posted by on Aug 6, 2020 in talks | No Comments

As all seminars and such for the Covid era are online this summer, Jarrett’s Shoals Marine Lab Rock Talk on kelps is now online as well! Check it out!

Looking for Postdoc Interested in Kelp, Remote Sensing, and Citizen Science

Posted by on Jan 24, 2020 in jobs | No Comments

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in the use of remote sensing to understand the drivers of giant kelp dynamics at global scales. The Floating Forests project (http://floatingforests.org) is a NASA funded citizen science effort to map changes in kelp abundance using Landsat satellite imagery. The successful candidate will analyze this data to examine […]

Byrnes lab undergrad Matt Souza talks Crabs on Living on Earth

Posted by on Mar 7, 2018 in lab in the news | No Comments

Matt Souza spent the last summer working on his honors thesis out at the UMB Nantucket Field Station. While there, NPS’s Living on Earth came out to hear wht he was working on. Hear him talk about his experience and a wonderful primer on Nantucket crabs!

New Paper: One Phrag Genotype to Rule them All

Posted by on Sep 11, 2017 in Uncategorized | No Comments

In new work out last week, Jarrett working with colleagues showed that the genotype of different subspecies of Phragmites australis not only sets up sometimes *very* different communities of microbes, but ultimately determines local ecosystem function and plant performance. These genotype-microbe associations can be nearly identical even when plants are hundreds of kilometers apart. These […]

Are warming oceans hitting Gulf of Maine Kelp Forests?

Posted by on Aug 28, 2017 in lab in the news | No Comments

Jarrett is quoted in an AP story in this week’s Portland Press Herals on the fate of Gulf of Maine kelp forests based on work the Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network is doing here!

Congrats to REUs!

Posted by on Aug 11, 2017 in lab news | No Comments

Byrnes Lab REUs presented their summer work on predation in kelp forests and sedimentation rates in salt marshes at the UMB summer research symposium, and nailed it! It’s been a great summer watching them grow as scientists and just do amazing work. Here’s to more to come!               Still […]

New Paper: Global Kelp Forest Change

Posted by on Nov 16, 2016 in publications | No Comments

Four years ago, I was fortunately enough to lead a working group on the global impact of climate change on kelp forests. Our first research product has just come out in PNAS, and I am incredibly proud of it. In it, we analyze hundreds of data sets of kelp forest change spanning nearly a half […]

New Paper: Biodiversity Change & Human Impacts in the Sea

Posted by on Jul 20, 2015 in publications | No Comments

Work in our ocean biodiversity change class and working group is beginning to bear fruit! This Elahi et al. piece looks at timeseries of biodiversity in oceans around the world and finds that in areas of high human impact we are more likely to lose species. However, a number of ecological drivers appear to be […]