People

Lab Director

Dr. Weng
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
	Stephen Scherrer - Ph.D. student (UH) Spatial ecology of deepwater snappers
	Lauren Averilla, undergraduate (W&M) Cobia ventilation effort under varying environmental conditions Captive animal care
	Sara Meakem, undergraduate (W&M) Cobia Tagging and Captive animal care
	Scott Kilmer, undergraduate(W&M) Cobia Tagging and Animal Care

SharkDuino

	Ben Powell, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - software
	Dara Kharabi, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - coding and analysis
	William Laney, undergraduate (W&M) SharkDuino tag development - hardware and engineering
	Abby Bilenkin
	Jina Nam
	Hanqiu Peng

Lab Alumni

	Eunjung Kim - PhD co-advised with Dr John Sibert Effects of fish aggregating devices on the movements of tunas
	Dr. Martin Pedersen - Postdoctoral Scholar Spatial ecology and geolocation of marine vertebrates
	Dr. Tim Sippel - Postdoctoral Scholar 2010-11 Biology of pelagic fishes Current role: Scientist at NOAA-SWFSC, La Jolla, CA, USA
	Christina Comfort - MSc 2012 Biology of deep water sharks Now working with the SOEST SWAC Team studying environmental impacts of alternative energy
	Gadea Perez-Andujar - MSc 2014 Now working at the Hawaii Nature Center
	Gen Del Raye - PhD 2017 Climate change impacts on fishes Now at San Francisco State University MFA program
	Andrew Gray - MSc 2016 Reproductive biology and residence time of seamount fishes Now working at NOAA Pacific Islands Fishery Science Center
	Danielle Garcia - BSc Presently working with Professor Kathy Dickson at CSU Fullerton
	Chase Roberts - BS
	Stuart Jones, undergraduate (W&M) Artificial reefs and invasive species research Cobia tagging and captive care
	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
	Ducan Campbell Animal Husbandry