Kelp Forests, Tidepools, Islands



About me



Taylor White

She/Her
UC Santa Cruz Graduate Researcher



My research focuses on pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) population dynamics in and around Lingít and Haida land in what is now known as Southeast Alaska. My current research explores how factors like sea otters, sea stars, and human harvest contribute to current and historical shifts in abalone abundance, population size structure, behavior, and habitat use.


Curriculum Vitae

Project Involement



Ways of Knowing Abalone & Sea Otters in Sitka Sound



A study pairing local, Indigenous, and quantitative information on Sitka abalone & sea otter populations & harvest to understand keys trends of current, historical, and future populations

University of California Research

[IRB # HS-FY2021-74]



Ways of Knowing Abalone & Sea Otters in Sitka Sound



A study pairing local, Indigenous, and quantitative information on Sitka abalone & sea otter populations & harvest to understand keys trends of current, historical, and future populations


University of California Research

[IRB # HS-FY2021-74]



Abalone Longterm Monitoring in Sitka Sound


Collaborative abalone monitoring in Sitka Sound since 2015


Abalone Research Collaborations



Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Sitka Sound Science Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks



Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network


Intertidal monitoring of sites in Sitka Sound originally surveyed by Ed Ricketts and Jack Calvin in 1932 and Molly Ahlgren in the 1990s



Graduate Research



Additional information on research, outreach



Contact


twhite1@ucsc.edu
907.738.1798



Research In Tlingit Aaní - Tlingit Ancestral Land -
Gunalchéesh to the Tlingit people for their stewardship of this place



Contact


twhite1@ucsc.edu
907.738.1798