ERIC SANFORD, PH.D.
Professor of Evolution and Ecology
Bodega Marine Laboratory P.O. Box 247 Bodega Bay, CA 94923
Email: edsanford “at” ucdavis.edu
Graduate Students
SAM WALKES
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Group in Ecology
Research interests: I'm interested in the ecological and evolutionary processes that influence geographic range shifts, including how processes at the expanding edge of a range may differ from those in range-center populations.
Keira MONUKI
Ph.D. Student, Population Biology Graduate Group
Research interests :I am interested in how species' geographic distributions change with anthropogenic impacts. In particular, I am studying climate-driven range shifts and species introductions and the processes that facilitate these distribution changes.
JULIANNA PORTER
Ph.D. Student, Population Biology Graduate Group
Research interests: ecological and evolutionary processes that influence geographic range shifts
Post-doctoral Researchers
Dr. AURORA RICART
Ph.D., University of Barcelona
Post-doctoral researcher with the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research team (website)
Dr. DAN SWEZEY
Ph.D., University of California Davis
Lead Scientist, The Cultured Abalone Farm; and Post-doctoral researcher with the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research team (website)
Undergraduate Researchers
MArianne Barredo
UC Davis, Marine and Coastal Science major
Independent Research, 2025.
Research Project: Diet of juvenile sea stars, Piaster ochraceus.
CAROLINE DONOHEW
UC Davis, Environmental Science and Management major
Independent Research, Summer 2024. EVE Scholars Program
Research Project: Effects of an introduced sea anemone on the surrounding soft-sediment community.
SOPHIA LINDEMUTH
UC Davis, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology major
Independent Research, 2024
Research Project: Stable isotope analysis of the diet and ecological role of the dove snail, Alia carinata.
Supporting Roles
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Sanford Lab, November 2023, WSN Annual Meeting in Monterey, CA. (left to right) Eric Sanford, Wilson, Emily Longman, Keira Mounki, Sam Walkes, Jacquie Rajerison, and Zoe Brumbaugh.
Sanford Lab, November 2022, WSN Annual Meeting in Oxnard, CA. (back row) Manny Delgado, Sky Jung, Adri Penix, Zoe Brumbaugh; (front row) Jacquie Rajerison, Emily Longman, Sam Walkes, Keira Mounki, and Wilson.
Sanford Lab, Summer 2019: (from left to right) Maddy Frey, Manisha Koneru, Sam Walkes, Eric Sanford, Emily Longman, Sarah Merolla, Aurora Ricart
The Sanford Lab is committed to increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, both within our lab group and in our broader academic community. Our lab group’s statement of commitment to anti-racist action can be found here.