Mike Fong
Degree: MS, Biological Oceanography
Advisor: Susanne Menden-Deuer
Completion date: thesis submitted, Fall 2015 graduate
Research: I study the signals used by microzooplankton to direct and mediate motile behaviors to encounter their prey. Using three-dimensional filming techniques, I am able to quantify the modifications in individual swimming behaviors in response to different environmental conditions and estimate how this change is reflected at the community level.
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