Marine Ecologist and Adjunct Professor
Marine Ecologist and Adjunct Professor
Hakai Institute and UBC | Calvert
Hakai Institute and UBC | Calvert
Alyssa is the Hakai Institute sea star monitoring and rocky intertidal program principal investigator. She has been a Hakai Institute postdoctoral fellow and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. Alyssa received her PhD from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in 2016, her MS from Western Washington University in 2008 and her BA from Colorado College in 2005. Alyssa’s research focuses on marine disease ecology, evaluating how host-parasite interactions shape or are shaped by ecological communities and their environment.
Alyssa is a contributor to the British Columbia Central Coast Observatory.