October was great month with River Bryant and Granger Hanks both successfully defending their theses! The McClain Lab wishes them both well in the new year in their next steps of their academic journey.
Soon to be Dr. Bryant had an amazing year with three first author publications bases on her Ph.D. thesis research! Bryant, S.R. and McClain, C.R. 2022. Functional space expansion driven by transitions between advantageous traits across a deep-sea energetic gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 289:20221302 Bryant, S.R.. and Read more…
A new paper led by Ph.D. student, River Bryant! Bryant, S. R., Nunnally, C., Hanks, G. & McClain, C. R. (2022). The macrofaunal metropolis in the sediments around the first-ever deep-sea alligator fall. Marine Ecology, 43, e12707. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12707 The maintenance of high diversity in deep-sea sediments is often hypothesized to be a result of heterogeneity in disturbance and carbon Read more…
With the recently funded NSF grant and finally settling into LUMCON, I recently added to my lab. I am very excited to add Dr. Cliff Nunnally as a research associate. Cliff has an impressive track record and particularly well-suited to research at hand. Cliff received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M conducting Read more…