Dylan Gomes, PhD

Salmon survival and food webs in a changing climate - I am currently a postdoctoral researcher with Lisa Crozier, Jim Ruzicka, and David Huff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Lorenzo Ciannelli at Oregon State University.

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Jesse Barber's Sensory Ecology Lab - Boise State University, Idaho - I started my PhD work at the Barber Lab in Idaho in April of 2017 and finished in February of 2021. We've published my dissertation chapters in BioScience, Functional Ecology, Oikos, and Nature Communications, along with other side projects in PeerJ.

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Clinton Francis' Lab - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California - Clint was on my PhD committee and is a close collaborator of ours in Idaho, and I worked with him closely during my PhD.

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Akito Kawahara's Lab - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida - Akito was on my PhD committee and is a collaborator of ours in Idaho. During my PhD, I spent the Spring 2019 semester at the Florida Museum of Natural History with Akito and Dr. Craig Bateman doing some next-gen sequencing work. 

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Holger Goerlitz's Lab - Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (MPIO) - Seewiesen, Bavaria, Germany - I received a Fulbright grant to work in Holger's lab for nearly a year. We published our work in PeerJ in 2020.

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Rachel Page's Lab - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) - Gamboa, Panama - I joined Rachel's lab for a year after getting my undergraduate degree. We published one report in Science and one in Animal Behaviour (2016 and 2017 respectively).

         Links to the following collaborators from Panama:

Wouter Halfwerk - VU Amsterdam

Mike Ryan - University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Taylor - Salisbury University

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Doug Emlen's Lab - University of Montana - Doug was instrumental to my start as a scientist. As a mentor, he inspired me and he pushed me to get a position in Panama at STRI after graduating from UM. I cannot thank him enough.

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