A Native Marine Snail Responds Positively to Climate Change
Biological Sciences: Marine Biology PhD
Email address: kaitlin.vanvolkom@unh.edu
Advisors: Dr. Brittany Jellison & Dr. Jenn Dijkstra
Dr. Jellison's lab: Marine Ecophysiology Lab
Dr. Dijkstra's lab: Benthic Ecology and Habitat Mapping
Kaitlin focuses on the role that a marine snail plays in their community, and how this may change with warming temperatures. She surveyed populations of snails from northern Maine to Rhode Island to document their distribution and population density ,and studied predator prey dynamics between crustaceans and slipper limpets. Subsequently, she measured differences in shell morphology between populations, and documented how shell shapes affect physiological processes.
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