News
May 2018: The Nature Conservancy released the New York City Oyster Monitoring Report: 2016-2017. Our work provides a greater understanding of shellfish restoration in an urban setting and will be shared with restoration practitioners in New York City and experts in coastal cities across the globe.
November 2016: I presented at the 18th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration in Charleston, South Carolina. My talk reviewed nearly 20 years of oyster restoration work in NY/NJ Harbor, focusing on what we know and we need to know for future restoration success.
October 2016: New paper just accepted in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment! More details once it's in press!
August 2016: I'll be at the 2016 Ecological Society of America Meeting presenting on "Identifying key species in the response of food webs to environmental stressors: The case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill." Wednesday at 10:10 AM in COS 43 - Food Webs.
July 2016: New paper out in Ecological Modelling! My spatially-explicit simulation model that shows the presence of alternative states at intermediate nutrient levels in lakes.
June 2016: I am starting a full-time position as the Urban Marine Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy in New York!
March 2016: A new paper from my dissertation is out in PeerJ! Response diversity of different species of aquatic floating plants to environmental conditions.
February 2016: Just got back from the 2016 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference in Tampa, FL. I gave a talk titled "Identifying key species in the response of marsh food webs to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill." Lots of other great talks from collaborators in the Coastal Waters Consortium.
November 2015: I gave the weekly seminar at my current home institution - The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers. My talk was title "The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Modern Food Web Ecology." I talked about the research that I've been working on in the first 6 months of my postdoc.
October 2015: Another great month, including my first sampling trip in Louisiana (part of the Coastal Waters Consortium) and co-organizing a workshop ("Using a Food Web Network Model to Understand Vulnerability of Gulf of Mexico Salt Marsh Food Webs to Oiling") held at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, NJ.
August 2015: It's a busy month! Lab experiments underway at Rutgers, Presentation at the Ecology Society of America Meeting in Baltimore, and a workshop on Bayesian Modeling for Socio-Environmental Data at SESYNC (The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) in Annapolis, MD!
July 2015: Another paper out! Effects of a patchy food environment across life history stages in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology an and Ecology.
June 2015: One of my dissertation chapters is out now in PLoS ONE! Local and regional determinants of an uncommon functional group in freshwater lakes and ponds.
June 2015: I'm excited to be starting as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. Olaf Jensen at the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Science. I will be using ecological modeling to study the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the food web of Louisiana salt marshes.
June 2015: I'm excited to be starting as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. Olaf Jensen at the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Science. I will be using ecological modeling to study the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the food web of Louisiana salt marshes.
May 2015: My dissertation has been successfully defended
January 2015: Our paper on metamorphosis in the marine snail, Crepidula, is out in Biological Bulletin. Here.
December 2014: I will be teaching a short, 2-day introduction to R for statistical computing in January. More information and course materials are here.
September 2014: New paper just got accepted at Biological Bulletin! More details when they're out. Padilla, D.K., M.J. McCann, M. McCarty-Glenn, A. Hooks, and S. Shumway. Effect of Food on Metamorphic Competence in the Model System Crepidula fornicata
August 2014: First day of class at Stony Brook University. I will be the teaching assistant for Invertebrate Zoology (BIO 343) - a pretty awesome class!
May 2014: Great science at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon. I presented results from field surveys about what modifies the tipping point to floating plant dominance in lakes and ponds.
Feb. 2014: My new paper on the Chinese mystery snail and mark-recapture is online at Hydrobiologia!
Jan. 2014: Another semester starts at Stony Brook University! I will be the teaching assistant for Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology (BIO 356).
Dec. 2013: Check out my case study of the Turner Designs AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer.
Sept. 2013: Classes start at Stony Brook University. Will be teaching Invertebrate Zoology to upper level Biology and Marine Science majors!
Aug. 2013: Presentation at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Minneapolis – session on Ecosystem Stability and Resilience.
July 2013: Follow me on Twitter.
Apr. 2013: Find me on Google Scholar and you can follow my new articles and citations.
Mar. 2013: I have received a Lawrence B. Slobodkin Graduate Research Fund from the Department of Ecology to fund research and travel to a meeting! Thanks!
Jan. 2013: I will be presenting a poster at the annual Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in San Francisco, CA. My poster is titled Nutrient stoichiometry, species traits, and regime shifts in freshwater ponds and I will be presenting it on Saturday (1/5/2012). Stop by and see it if you want to find out why the number of duckweed species present in a pond may determine if it is dominated by these tiny plants!
Dec. 2012: I have been awarded an AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer through the Turner Designs Instrument Donation Program. This will allow me to measure ammonium and chlorophyll easily and accurately. Thanks, Turner Designs!
December 2014: I will be teaching a short, 2-day introduction to R for statistical computing in January. More information and course materials are here.
September 2014: New paper just got accepted at Biological Bulletin! More details when they're out. Padilla, D.K., M.J. McCann, M. McCarty-Glenn, A. Hooks, and S. Shumway. Effect of Food on Metamorphic Competence in the Model System Crepidula fornicata
August 2014: First day of class at Stony Brook University. I will be the teaching assistant for Invertebrate Zoology (BIO 343) - a pretty awesome class!
May 2014: Great science at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon. I presented results from field surveys about what modifies the tipping point to floating plant dominance in lakes and ponds.
Feb. 2014: My new paper on the Chinese mystery snail and mark-recapture is online at Hydrobiologia!
Jan. 2014: Another semester starts at Stony Brook University! I will be the teaching assistant for Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology (BIO 356).
Dec. 2013: Check out my case study of the Turner Designs AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer.
Sept. 2013: Classes start at Stony Brook University. Will be teaching Invertebrate Zoology to upper level Biology and Marine Science majors!
Aug. 2013: Presentation at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Minneapolis – session on Ecosystem Stability and Resilience.
July 2013: Follow me on Twitter.
Apr. 2013: Find me on Google Scholar and you can follow my new articles and citations.
Mar. 2013: I have received a Lawrence B. Slobodkin Graduate Research Fund from the Department of Ecology to fund research and travel to a meeting! Thanks!
Jan. 2013: I will be presenting a poster at the annual Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in San Francisco, CA. My poster is titled Nutrient stoichiometry, species traits, and regime shifts in freshwater ponds and I will be presenting it on Saturday (1/5/2012). Stop by and see it if you want to find out why the number of duckweed species present in a pond may determine if it is dominated by these tiny plants!
Dec. 2012: I have been awarded an AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer through the Turner Designs Instrument Donation Program. This will allow me to measure ammonium and chlorophyll easily and accurately. Thanks, Turner Designs!