Ph.D. Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
M.S. Wildlife Science, Oregon State University
B.S. Environmental Science and Policy, Cert. Marine Conservation, Duke University
Email: lpallin@ucsc.edu
Research Interests
My areas of interest pertain to the conservation and population biology of marine megafauna. More specifically, I am interested in using a suit of molecular and endocrinological signatures to assess population demographics and reproduction physiology. At large, I aim to assess how species demographics respond at both the individual and population level due to both natural and unnatural forcings within their environment. For my Ph.D. research, I will assess vital demographic parameters such as growth, pregnancy, and calving rates, across populations of Southern Hemisphere humpbacks.