I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara working with Dr. Deron Burkepile. I am a marine ecologist who seeks to understand how ecological communities are structured and how humans are altering these communities during this time of global change and biodiversity loss. I ask fundamental ecological questions in community ecology that can then inform conservation and management. I recently finished my PhD at Stanford University working with Dr. Fiorenza Micheli at the Hopkins Marine Station.

PhD Biology, Stanford University, 2023
MSc Biology, University of Victoria, 2017
BScH Biology, Queen’s University, 2013

Jamie McDevitt-Irwin


I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara working with Dr. Deron Burkepile. I am a marine ecologist who seeks to understand how ecological communities are structured and how humans are altering these communities during this time of global change and biodiversity loss. I ask fundamental ecological questions in community ecology that can then inform conservation and management. I recently finished my PhD at Stanford University working with Dr. Fiorenza Micheli at the Hopkins Marine Station.

PhD Biology, Stanford University, 2023
MSc Biology, University of Victoria, 2017
BScH Biology, Queen’s University, 2013