I'm an ecologist, working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. I received my Ph.D. at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in 2022, where I was a member of Craig Osenberg's lab. My current research focuses on how the interactions between microbes and macroscopic communities can produce emergent effects in ecosystems.
Research Interests
My overarching scientific interests involve understanding the biological and ecological processes that drive community structure and dynamics through time. I often study these processes under the context of human-induced environmental changes, including climate change and ocean acidification, as well as through the effects of human harvests on wild populations. I investigate these topics from organismal, population, and community-level perspectives, using observational, experimental, and theoretical modeling (e.g., computer simulation) approaches.
Experience
I have been involved with a wide array of terrestrial and marine ecology research projects. Much of that research has been in tropical forest and coral reef systems in the Pacific and Caribbean. However, I've also done work in forested areas of the Southeast US, and most recently, in seagrass systems along the US West Coast.
See my Research page to read more about some of the projects that I am working on currently, and other research that I have been involved with in the past.
Research Interests
My overarching scientific interests involve understanding the biological and ecological processes that drive community structure and dynamics through time. I often study these processes under the context of human-induced environmental changes, including climate change and ocean acidification, as well as through the effects of human harvests on wild populations. I investigate these topics from organismal, population, and community-level perspectives, using observational, experimental, and theoretical modeling (e.g., computer simulation) approaches.
Experience
I have been involved with a wide array of terrestrial and marine ecology research projects. Much of that research has been in tropical forest and coral reef systems in the Pacific and Caribbean. However, I've also done work in forested areas of the Southeast US, and most recently, in seagrass systems along the US West Coast.
See my Research page to read more about some of the projects that I am working on currently, and other research that I have been involved with in the past.
© Amy A. Briggs, 2014