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I am a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. I am deeply fascinated by the flow of energy and materials through food webs (i.e. complex networks of species that eat each other). Specifically, I'm interested in answering basic questions about how these networks are formed | I am a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. I am deeply fascinated by the flow of energy and materials through food webs (i.e. complex networks of species that eat each other). Specifically, I'm interested in answering basic questions about how these networks are formed, change through time and respond to perturbations. I approach this problem through a combination of analytical models and laboratory experiments with protist systems. I also combine techniques from information theory, metabolic scaling theory and field experiments with freshwater ponds to study the dynamics of network topology and energy fluxes in real communities of phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, and amphibian species. On the weekends I play country and bluegrass music around Southern California. | ||
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I am a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside. I am deeply fascinated by the flow of energy and materials through food webs (i.e. complex networks of species that eat each other). Specifically, I'm interested in answering basic questions about how these networks are formed, change through time and respond to perturbations. I approach this problem through a combination of analytical models and laboratory experiments with protist systems. I also combine techniques from information theory, metabolic scaling theory and field experiments with freshwater ponds to study the dynamics of network topology and energy fluxes in real communities of phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, and amphibian species. On the weekends I play country and bluegrass music around Southern California.