Principal Investigator

Dr. Terrie M. Williams

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
williams@biology.ucsc.edu

Research focus:
Comparative physiology of large mammalian predators, with emphasis on energetics.

The Williams lab at Yosemite National Park
after the 2007 Physiological Ecology Meeting in Bishop, CA.
  
 

Current Graduate Students:
  
   

Robin Dunkin
Ph.D. candidate

Implications of large body size
in vertebrates

Jen Maresh
Ph.D. student

Energetics of deep-diving pinnipeds
and cetaceans

 
 

Nicole Thometz
Ph.D. student

Development of diving
in sea otters

 

   
 

Postdoctoral Researchers:
 


Heather E.M. Liwanag

Comparative thermoregulation
and energetics


Shawn R. Noren

Comparative physiological ecology
of vertebrates
 
Laura Yeates 		   
 

Williams Lab Alumni:

Dan Monson Biology, Ph.D. 2009
Heather Mostman Liwanag Biology, Ph.D. 2008
Laura Yeates Biology, Ph.D. 2006
Dawn Noren Biology, Ph.D. 2002
Shawn Noren Biology, Ph.D. 2002
Matthew Rutishauser Biology, M.A. 2001
Jeanine Scaramozzino Biology, M.A. 2000
Randolph Skrovan Marine Sciences, M.S. 1998
Dawn Noren Marine Sciences, M.S. 1997
Shawn Noren Marine Sciences, M.S. 1997