I am a senior environmental science major here at UMass, and my duties in lab have included both extracting and aging river herring otoliths. This past summer I worked as a field technician purse seining, dissecting, and collecting data on juvenile river herring as well as helping with husbandry in the lab. After graduation I hope to continue to work in the field of fish and wildlife conservation, more specifically focusing on how rising temperatures will affect populations of herpetofauna in the United States.

I am really interested in marine and aquatic ecosystems, and exploring how individuals in these communities interact with each other and their environments, so that we can make the most informed and effective conservation decisions.

In my free time, I like to read and spend time in the sun. I love to learn something new everyday, and hopefully I will be able to continue doing so in medical school. I am particularly interested in molecular ecology, and so the goal of my undergraduate research is to study the role climate change plays in regulating the levels of heat shock proteins expressed in anadromous fish. 

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I am an aspiring marine ecologist with an emphasis on global climate change impacts on marine species. This past summer I collaborated with NOAA as an Oregon State University intern where we researched the effect of temperature on yellowfin sole egg and larval development. The summer, though packed with research, did not allow enough time to work on all we set out to do so I designed an independent study to further analyze my results and to expand on my paper I wrote. I am also currently spending time in a lab on campus imaging and aging otoliths to further develop my laboratory skills while staying connected to scientific research.

Vincent is working on dissection juvenile river herring otoliths.