Erin Dillon

I graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a B.S. in Biology and Honors in Marine Biology. My undergraduate adventures took me all over the world from remote islands in the Pacific to the frigid waters of Antarctica. However, the vibrant complexity of coral reefs struck me the moment I jumped in the water. I was hooked. I spent the following two years after graduation as a fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, where I began exploring dermal denticles as a paleoecological tool to reconstruct shark communities on coral reefs. I am now about to dive headfirst into my PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. There, I intend to refine this technique further as part of my dissertation, in addition to investigating the functional ecology of top predators on reefs and getting more involved in science communication

August 2016