Title: Associate Scientist
Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Email: ctepolt@whoi.edu
Phone: (508) 289-3357
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Research Interests: Rapid adaptation, ecological genomics, population genetics, thermal physiology, ecophysiology, marine invasive species, marine dispersal and connectivity, European green crabs
Biographical Sketch:
Carolyn joined the WHOI Biology department in March of 2017, after postdoctoral research in biodiversity genomics at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2014, she received a PhD from Stanford, where she studied at the Hopkins Marine Station on Monterey Bay. Before beginning doctoral research, she worked for years as a geneticist in commercial, government, and conservation-based labs, and earned an MS on conservation genetics of endangered birds in New Zealand. Her research focuses on understanding how marine species adapt to changing environments on time scales of decades to centuries, and what genetic tools can tell us about dispersal and connectivity in the ocean. She works extensively with marine invasive species, and integrates approaches from genomics, ecology, and physiology.