Biography

Joey received his B.S. in Marine Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Florida International University in 2013. At FIU, he worked with Dr. Craig Layman and his lab on ecological questions in tropical nearshore habitats of the Bahamas and South Florida. Joey completed a honors thesis project that focused on the differences in community assemblages between intact and restored mangrove habitats. After FIU, he went on to complete an M.S. in Environmental Science at Portland State University. There he worked under Dr. Elise Granek to focus on projects that assessed the role of pharmaceutical contaminants as stressors on rocky intertidal and estuarine communities. After finishing his masters, Joey worked as Natural Resource Policy fellow with Oregon Sea Grant and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. He joined the Burkepile lab in 2016 and finished his Ph.D in 2023. 

Research Area

Joey finished his Ph.D. in the lab in 2023 focusing on the role of consumer mediated nutrient cycling in kelp forests in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research Project.  Joey is now a Quantitative Ecologist with Great Ecology in San Diego.