Welcome to the Fish Ecology Lab at the ____Dr. Jennifer McIlwain University of Guam Marine Laboratory

My research interests cover a broad range of topics within the field of reef fish population dynamics. These include patterns in larval replenishment, adult reproductive biology, settlement patterns of juvenile reef fish, age-demographics of reef fish, sex-change in exploited hermaphroditic species and fish-habitat relationships.

My group, the Fish Ecology Lab, has taken the lead role in reef fish ecology/fisheries research in the West Pacific. Our approach has been to use a multitude of techniques (surveys, genetics, demography, modelling and acoustic tagging) as a means to answering some of the most challenging questions in tropical fisheries research.

If you are a highly motivated, hard working individual who enjoys a challenge, with an interest in pursuing research in tropical marine ecology in the Western Pacific, please contact me via email to discuss the possibility of joining the Fish Ecology Lab.

Feel free to contact my students to get their opinion of life at the UOG Marine Lab and the ins’ and out of living on Guam. A more detailed summary of the FEL and our primary research interests can be found here