Opportunities for students

These are some projects where there are opportunities to volunteer or to develop parallel thesis projects (bachelors, masters, and doctoral).

• Monitoring of the mole crab Emerita analoga and its Acanthocephalan parasites in San Diego and  Ensenada.

  • Field work (sandy beaches)
  • Dissections of crabs to quantify parasite loads (laboratory)

• The effects of invasive macroalgae on the subtidal marine communities in Baja California.
  • Underwater monitoring (diving)

• The effects of invasive macroalgae on the purple and red sea urchins in Baja California.
  • Monitoring and underwater experiments (diving)
  • Effects of different macroalgae diets on urchins (laboratory)