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Carloyn Belak
I am a fish ecologist and biological oceanographer. My research focuses on fish and invertebrate recruitment dynamics in response to biological and environmental stressors. I have a passion for experiential learning, having taught high school and college marine biology and oceanography courses abroad in the Bahamas, sailing aboard Sea|mester, and at Humboldt. I also work as a marine ecologist at a local consulting firm, assisting renewable energy projects with environmental permitting needs. Outside of research and teaching, I try to get in or on the ocean as often as possible, through diving (scientific or fun!), boogie boarding, or boating.
- MS Marine Biology, Humboldt State University
- BS Biology, UC San Diego
- BIOL 105L Principles of Biology
- ZOOL 110L Introductory Zoology
- ZOOL 314L Invertebrate Zoology
- OCN 109L General Oceanography
Publications:
Kough AS, Belak CA (2022) Piscine predation rates vary relative to habitat, but not protected areas, in an island chain
with an established marine reserve. Front Mar Sci 9:921463
Kough AS, Belak CA, Paris CB, Lundy A, Cronin H, Gnanalingam G, Hagedorn S, Skubel R, Weiler AC, Stoner AW
(2019) Ecological spillover from a marine protected area replenishes an over-exploited population across an island
chain. Conserv Sci Pract. Doi:10.1111/csp2.17
Kough AS, Cronin H, Skubel R, Belak CA, Stoner AW (2017) Efficacy of an established marine protected area at
sustaining a queen conch Lobatus gigas population during three decades of monitoring. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 575:177-
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