Dr. Brooke Weigel

Biography

Brooke Weigel is a marine ecologist whose research focuses on the ecological physiological responses of primary producers and microbial communities to global climate change, particularly the consequences of changes in marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. She is particularly interested in the feedbacks between climate change, kelp forests, microbes, and carbon cycling in the ocean. Her research employs a variety of tools and methods, including field and laboratory experiments, genomics, bioinformatics, algal culturing, and ecophysiology, to improve the understanding of the impacts of climate change on nearshore marine ecosystems. The Weigel Lab is part of the Oceans Department within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and is based at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California.

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