Sarah Teck
sarahjteck@gmail.com
Dr. Sarah Teck, a UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, is passionate about discovering novel ways to promote conservation through both scientific and interdisciplinary explorations. Her interest in marine ecology began during her third year of college as a student in an interdisciplinary maritime studies semester, the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College-Mystic Seaport, which blends marine science, policy, history, and literature of the sea. She discovered that the subject of invasive species nicely melded her interests in scientific research, policy, ecology, and conservation and worked for 3 years in the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dr. Gregory Ruiz. During her doctoral program, she worked as an intern and research assistant at the prestigious National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Her doctoral work juggled the multivariate world of marine resource management, examining the status, challenges, and variations of a sea urchin fishery through the interdisciplinary lenses of ecology, fisheries science, and economics. In addition, she used expert elicitation to examine multiple anthropogenic impacts to multiple ecosystems across the California Current. She continues to focus on joining various disciplines by uniting ecological, fisheries, and economic data to answer research questions within our ever-changing nearshore marine ecosystems, increasingly exposed to human pressures. She holds a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology from University of California, Santa Barbara, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire, and a B.A. in American Literature and Creative Writing from Middlebury College.
For more information please see: https://sarahteckscience.wordpress.com