Lauren with her favorite research subject

CONTACT INFORMATION
laebell@ucsc.edu
312 Cascade St.
Sitka, AK 99835 (primary location)

EDUCATION
B.S. Biology, Stanford University (2011)
M.S. Marine Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2015)

PUBLICATIONS

Bell LE, JB Gómez, E Donham, DL Steller, PW Gabrielson, KJ Kroeker. (2022). High-latitude calcified coralline algae exhibit seasonal vulnerability to acidification despite physical proximity to a non-calcified alga. Climate Change Ecology, 3:100049.

Kroeker KJ, Bell LE, Donham EM, Hoshijima U, Lummis S, Toy J,Willis-Norton E (2020) Ecological change in dynamic environments: accounting for temporal environmental variability in studies of ocean change biology. Global Change Bio 26(1): 54-67

Bell LE, White T, Donnellan M, Hebert K, Raimondi P. 2018. Monitoring pinto abalone populations and recruitment in Sitka Sound, Alaska. In: Mueter FJ, Baker MR, Dressel SC, Hollowed AB (eds.), Impacts of a Changing Environment on the Dynamics of High-latitude Fish and Fisheries. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks. https://doi.org/10.4027/icedhlff.2018.04 

Bell LE, Bluhm BB, Iken K (2016) The influence of terrestrial matter in marine food webs of the Beaufort Sea shelf and slope. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 550:1-24

Rosen H, Gilly W, Bell L, Abernathy K, Marshall G (2015) Chromogenic behaviors of the Humboldt Squid, (Dosidicus gigas), studied in situ with an animal-borne video package. J Exp Biol 218: 265-275

Donnellan M, Hebert K, O’Connell V, White T, Bell L (2015) Pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana Jonas 1845) research and monitoring plan for Sitka Sound, Southeast Alaska, 2015-17. Alaska Department of Fish and Game. April 4, 2015.

Bell LE, Iken K, Norcross BL (2014) Under-ice sampling through thick landfast ice in the eastern Beaufort Sea. In: Eckert G, Keller S, Tamone S (eds), Diving for Science 2014. Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences 33rd Symposium (72-75). Dauphin Island, AL: American Academy of Underwater Sciences.

Gilly WF, Zeidberg LD, Booth JAT, Stewart JS, Marshall G, Abernathy K, Bell LE (2012) Locomotion and behavior of Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas, in relation to natural hypoxia in the Gulf of California, Mexico. J Exp Biol 215:3175-3190