People
Lab Director
Kevin Weng - Assistant Professor
Email: kevinweng@vims.edu
Phone: (804) 684-7372
Ph.D., Stanford University
MSc, University of Hawaii at Manoa
BA, Williams College
Current Students || SharkDuino || Lab Alumni
Current Students
Dan Crear - Ph.D. Student (VIMS) Ecophysiology of cobia and sandbar sharks Forecasting cobia migration to inform management |
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Stephen Scherrer - Ph.D. student (UH) Spatial ecology of deepwater snappers |
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Lauren Averilla, undergraduate (W&M) |
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Sara Meakem, undergraduate (W&M) |
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Scott Kilmer, undergraduate(W&M) Cobia Tagging and Animal Care |
SharkDuino
Ben Powell, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - software |
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Dara Kharabi, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - coding and analysis |
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William Laney, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - hardware and engineering |
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Abby Bilenkin |
Jina Nam | |
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Hanqiu Peng |
Lab Alumni
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Eunjung Kim - PhD co-advised with Dr John Sibert Effects of fish aggregating devices on the movements of tunas |
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Dr. Martin Pedersen - Postdoctoral Scholar Spatial ecology and geolocation of marine vertebrates |
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Dr. Tim Sippel - Postdoctoral Scholar 2010-11 Biology of pelagic fishes Current role: Scientist at NOAA-SWFSC, La Jolla, CA, USA |
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Christina Comfort - MSc 2012 |
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Gadea Perez-Andujar - MSc 2014 Now working at the Hawaii Nature Center |
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Gen Del Raye - PhD 2017 Climate change impacts on fishes Now at San Francisco State University MFA program |
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Andrew Gray - MSc 2016 Reproductive biology and residence time of seamount fishes Now working at NOAA Pacific Islands Fishery Science Center |
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Danielle Garcia - BSc
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Chase Roberts - BS |
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Stuart Jones, undergraduate (W&M) Artificial reefs and invasive species research Cobia tagging and captive care |
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Eric Alpert, undergraduate (W&M) Temporal changes in cobia size and habitat usage in the Chesapeake Bay Development of protocol to measure heart rates of sharks using implanted tags Cobia tagging and captive animal care |
Gurubandaa Khalsa undergraduate (W&M) Cobia Tagging and Captive animal care |
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Ducan Campbell Animal Husbandry |