Candice Cross is beginning her career as a PhD student at UCLA in the Barber Lab. She graduated from LMU where she worked with Demian Willette. Welcome to UCLA and the Barber Lab, Candice!

Paul Barber was announced as the winner of the 2019 UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize. The Gold Shield Prize is given annually to “exceptional mid-career full professor who has a distinguished record of undergraduate teaching, research and University service.”

Paul Barber starts a 6 month sabbatical to develop a new HHMI funded program to foster the success of premedical students at UCLA from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds

Congratulations to Onny Marwayana for finishing his M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Onny is returning to Indonesia to work for the Indonesian Institute of Marine Sciences (LIPI). Selamat pulang Onny!

Erick Zerecero, an alum of UCLA Environmental Science program and The Diversity Project joins the Barber Lab as a PhD student. Welcome Erick!

Collaborators Paul Barber, Peggy Fong and Sennai Habtes were recently awarded a new grant from NSF for The Diversity Project. The grant , entitled “The Diversity Project-A Transformative Field Research Experience That Engages Students by Empowering Them to Conduct Original Marine Research,” will support running The Diversity Project for the next three years, and will also focus on studying the impact of student directed field research experiences on shaping student desires to pursue graduate school in the Geosciences.

Barber Lab members Erick Zerecero and Tyler Ely Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship. Sam Degregori earns Honorable Mention. Impressive work all!

Following publication of Zack’s senior thesis on coral response to elevated water temperatures, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability features Zack’s work. Read more about it HERE

On January 19th, 2018, Rita Rachmawati filed her PhD thesis on “Differential Responses of Coral-Associated Microbiomes to Elevated Temperatures Across the Indonesian Archipelago at Species, Local and Regional Scales” . Dr. Rachmawati will now return to Indonesia to continue her work with the Department of Fisheries.  Congratulations Rita!

National Geographic features Zack Gold’s research on using eDNA to monitor marine protected areas in their Learning Panorama platform for school kids. The story will be available in both English and Spanish.