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The Team
Alison Cawood
Alison Cawood is the Citizen Science Coordinator at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), where she works to actively engage people in SERC research. She is very excited about being part of the Invader ID team because it brings her back to her graduate work with fouling communities and marine invertebrates.
Linda McCann
Linda McCann works at the San Francisco Bay branch of the SERC Marine Invasions Lab. Linda's research interests focus on the biogeography of bryozoans. She is also the project coordinator for the Platewatch program, where volunteers photograph tiles from bays in Alaska.
Katy Newcomer
Katy Newcomer was a technician at SERC where she was one of the founding Invader ID researchers. She has since started her PhD at SUNY ESF where she is studying marine invertebrates in Fiji.
Greg Ruiz
Greg Ruiz is the principal investigator for SERC's Marine Invasions Lab. Greg is very interested in patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of marine invasions at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Partner Organization - Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (KBNERR)
The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (KBNERR) is part of a national network of 29 reserves that are supported through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a state partner. In the national network of National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Kachemak Bay represents a high latitude, fjord estuary type. KBNERRs state partner is the Alaska Center for Conservation Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. One of the most notorious marine fouling creatures is the tunicate. KBNERR partners with SERC to survey for targeted species and measure changes in their population.
