Andrew Jones

Website: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~awj7/

About Me:

I grew up in Fairfax California just north of San Francisco, and attended high school at Marin Academy in San Rafael.

I moved to Ithaca to attend Cornell University in 2002. Once there, I quickly found my way to the Department of Natural Resources, focusing my studies on applied ecology. For my junior year I studied abroad at James Cook University. In my brief time there I was able to work with graduate students in the Department of Tropical Biology and researchers at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences.

Graduating in 2002, I worked as a technician briefly for Reed Mariculture, then moved to the National Marine Fisheries Service in Santa Cruz California. At NMFS I worked as a part of the Salmon Ecology Team, monitoring and conducting research on local steelhead and coho populations. 

In 2008 I moved east again to start graduate school at Yale University. For my dissertation I am investigating the effect of density driven intraspecific competition on the foraging behavior and phenotypic distribution of a local fish species.  More generally, I am interest in trait variation in natural populations. Both the mechanisms that promote trait variation as well as the ecological effects of such variation.