Staff Profile

SARA GONZALEZ

Preferred Name: Sara Gonzalez

Guest Investigator

Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering

Email: sara.gonzalez@whoi.edu

Phone:

Office: Redfield Building

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mail Stop 34
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Lab/Group Site: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/lindell-lab/

Education

Ph.D. – University of California, Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2022
B.S. – Cornell University, Biological Sciences, 2016

Research Statement

I am interested in seaweed ecology, aquaculture, and uses in society. My research at WHOI focuses on eco-physiology of sugar kelp, including selective breeding for heat-tolerant strains and assessing environmental and genetic influences on desired kelp traits for aquaculture, as well as sustainable cultivation methods for sugar kelp and the related skinny kelp. As a Postdoctoral Scholar, I work with Scott Lindell and Tom Bell in the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department, and Carolyn Tepolt and Harriet Alexander in the Department of Biology.