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She is working on experimental feeding trials for red and white abalone in the lab.https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/img_1835.jpegIMG_1835https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ellington.jpegellingtonEllington Chen is a second year undergraduate working on bioenergetics of red abalone in the lab. https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ruffins.jpegRuffinsOlivia Ruffins is a first year PhD student with a background in ecophysiology and is brand new to marine science! Welcome to the lab Olivia!https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_0982.jpgIMG_0982Becca Ward-Diorio is a lab tech at UC Berkeley. She graduated from Brown University in 2023, where she studied species behavior and interactions at the Witman Lab. Becca's research interests include community ecology of benthic organisms, alongside behavioral and population ecology of marine mammals. When not at Berkeley or BML, she volunteers at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, helping rehabilitate seals, sea lions, and otters. Outside of her work, Becca enjoys reading, singing, skiing, and hikinghttps://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/sophia_williams.jpgSophia_WilliamsSophie Williams is a third-year undergraduate working in the Okamoto Lab on how environment and harvest shape reproductive investment in fish.https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/feedline_copy3-3.jpgfeedline_copy3https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/feedline_copy3-2.jpgfeedline_copy3https://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/baughman.jpgBaughmanDonaven Baughman is a PhD student in Ecology and Evolution, co-advised by Andy Shantz and Daniel Okamoto at FSU. Before joining the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Lab, he received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Wichita State University in Kansas. Donaven’s research interests combine organismal biology, population ecology, and community ecology to understand how marine invertebrates respond to environmental stress and how their responses impact the sustainability and persistence of environmentally and commercially important marine species. In his free time, Donaven enjoys playing basketball, fishing, painting, and playing video games. Find him on Twitter @communityecodonhttps://dkokamoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/grace_picture.jpegGrace_WestphalGrace will be starting her Ph.D. in Biology (Ecology & Evolution) in August 2022 and will be co-advised by Tara Stewart Merrill and Daniel Okamoto. She completed her undergraduate degree in Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a dual major in English. 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