Education

Biography

Emily completed her Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology at California State University, Long Beach where her honors thesis determined how environmental conditions influenced the habitat selection of ray species at Catalina Island. In 2019 she completed her Master of Science in Biology at the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab, focusing on the fine-scale movement patterns and behaviors of California horn sharks. She then completed her Ph.D. in Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston in 2024 where her dissertation employed a variety of advanced stable isotope techniques to explore the food web ecology of fishes in a subtropical estuary. Emily joined the Caselle lab in 2024.

Research Area

Emily is a postdoctoral scholar collaborating with the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary to analyze fish movement data in and around US Sanctuaries. Specifically, she is analyzing the Palmyra Atoll acoustic telemetry dataset and hopes to incorporate stable isotope analyses to study habitat use and ecological roles for predators and prey. Emily is broadly interested in movement and feeding ecology and the effect of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures on species and habitats.