Grace Cawley

Grace Cawley

Grace is a 4th year PhD student originally from Salem, Massachusetts. Grace attended University of San Diego from 2015-2020, earning a BA and then MS in Environmental and Ocean Sciences (Marine Ecology pathway). Her thesis research with Dr. Jennifer Prairie focused on the ingestion and selection of marine snow by copepods.

In the Decima Lab, Grace's research focuses on the role gelatinous zooplankton, specifically pyrosomes, play in the ecosystem. Her work focuses on their intrusion into the California Current Ecosystem over the past decade and the consequences for trophic interactions and biogeochemistry.