Barbara Spiecker

Barbara Spiecker

Research Scientist II
Office: UNH COLSA Biological Sciences, Spaulding Hall 242, Durham, NH 03824

Postdoc, University of California, Santa Barbara (2022)
Ph.D., Oregon State University (2020)
M.S., Northeastern University (2014)
B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology (2011)

Co-Founder of Atomic Hands (<a href="http://www.atomichands.com">www.atomichands.com</a&gt;)
- A non-profit organization that aims to foster curiosity in STEM through American Sign Language-centric resources, empower our signing community to develop and deliver engaging STEM topics, and encourage networking among deaf STEMists.

Courses Taught

  • ASL 435: American Sign Language I Lab
  • ASL 532: American Sign Language IV Lab

Selected Publications

  • Spiecker, B. J., & Menge, B. A. (2022). Coastal upwelling may strengthen the controls of herbivory and light over the population dynamics of Hedophyllum sessile in the Oregon rocky intertidal. Ecology and Evolution, 12(8). doi:10.1002/ece3.9218

  • Spiecker, B. J., & Menge, B. A. (2022). El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales. Ecological Monographs, 92(2). doi:10.1002/ecm.1504

  • Kurz, C., Reis, J., & Spiecker, B. (2020). Ideologies and attitudes toward American Sign Language: Processes of academic language and academic cocabulary coinage. In Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (pp. 287-308). De Gruyter Mouton.

  • Grorud-Colvert, K., Constant, V., Sullivan-Stack, J., Dziedzic, K., Hamilton, S. L., Randell, Z., . . . Lubchenco, J. (2019). High-profile international commitments for ocean protection: Empty promises or meaningful progress?. Marine Policy, 105, 52-66. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2019.04.003

  • Sweet, H. C., Doolin, M. C., Yanowiak, C. N., Coots, A. D., Freyn, A. W., Armstrong, J. M., & Spiecker, B. J. (2019). Abbreviated Development of the Brooding Brittle StarOphioplocus esmarki. The Biological Bulletin, 236(2), 75-87. doi:10.1086/701916

  • Spiecker, B., Gouhier, T. C., & Guichard, F. (2016). Reciprocal feedbacks between spatial subsidies and reserve networks in coral reef meta‐ecosystems. Ecological Applications, 26(1), 264-278. doi:10.1890/15-0478

  • Lambert, J. D., Chan, X. Y., Spiecker, B., & Sweet, H. C. (2010). Characterizing the Embryonic Transcriptome of the Snail Ilyanassa. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50(5), 768-777. doi:10.1093/icb/icq121

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