Meet the members of our lab!
Anna Roat, MS Student (2024–present)
Anna is in our 5-year undergraduate/MS degree program. She is using sea ice biomarkers to investigate the role of ice algae in snow crab diets and linkages to the collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery following a marine heat wave and record low sea ice in 2018 and 2019.
Project Funding: North Pacific Research Board Graduate Research Fellowship
Evan Kinnevan, PhD Student (2025–present)
Evan is part of our interdisciplinary Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences PhD program. His research focuses on understanding the drivers of recent declining reproductive success of Osprey in the Chesapeake Bay.
Project Funding: Virgina Osprey Foundation
Maia Gostin, Undergraduate Researcher (2026–present)
Celia Wright, Undergraduate Researcher (2026–present)
Former Lab Members
Victoria Polit, undergraduate researcher (BS Biology, 2026)
Project: SEM Imaging of sea ice diatoms
Ava Burke, lab manager (BS Biology, 2026)
Meera Swaminathan, undergraduate researcher (summer 2025)
Meera is working on a project to pair SMMR, SSM/I, and SSMIS daily sea ice concentration data with Alaska Native subsistence hunters and coastal community observations from the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook to explore hunter accessibility in a changing Arctic environment.
Project Funding: DC Space Grant Consortium
Jennifer Kunz, undergraduate researcher (2024)
Project: plastic ingestion and contaminants among Northern fulmar populations.
Lindsay Lao, undergraduate researcher (2024)
Project: Sea ice biomarkers in Pacific Arctic sediments
Angela Crossatto, undergraduate researcher (2024–2025)
Project: Ice algal fluxes in the Northern Bering Sea (M8 mooring)
Koch Marine Lab 