FHL Seminar – Wednesday, October 26
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Commons

Our seminar speaker this week is Chelsea Wood. Chelsea is a newly hired Assistant Professor in SAFS in the College of the Environment at UW and we are looking forward to meeting her and hearing about her research on Wednesday.

https://fish.uw.edu/faculty/chelsea-wood/

Her title is: “Ghosts of oceans past: How fishing reshapes communities of fishes and their parasites”

We will organize a table at noon in the dining hall on Wednesday for the graduate students to meet with Chelsea and hear more about her research goals and to let her know a bit about FHL and your research.

There are also a couple of slots in the afternoon if anyone would like to meet with Chelsea to discuss your research. Please contact Billie Swalla at bjswalla@uw.edu if you are interested in scheduling some time with Chelsea.

Here is an excerpt from Chelsea’s web site:

My research program explores the ecology of parasites and pathogens in a changing world. I work primarily in marine ecosystems, where biodiversity change is driven in large part by fishing. Much of my past work used fished and unfished islands as replicates to test for correlation between fishing and parasite assemblage composition and diversity. I expanded my research program into freshwater ecosystems during my post-doc years, launching a project on schistosomiasis, a zoonotic disease caused by a trematode parasite. I am now adding a temporal dimension to my research program, with work on the historical ecology of marine and freshwater parasitism.