November 6 Roundtable Announcement

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Marty Downs

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Nov 4, 2025, 12:39:07 PM (3 days ago) Nov 4

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Dear Colleagues,

This week's NCEAS Roundtable will feature a new(-ish) NCEAS resident scholar, Allison Payne.

Beyond monitoring: Long-term research for deep ocean exploration, innovation, and education

Allison Payne

Thursday, November 6 @ 3:30 PM

NCEAS Lounge

1021 Anacapa Street, 3rd Floor

and on Zoom, followed by a social hour on the NCEAS terrace

Abstract: Long-term ecological research is essential for establishing baselines, testing theory, tracking global change, and informing policy decisions. However, long-term studies can do even more by facilitating exploration, innovation, and education. I will share three projects from my dissertation work, each focusing on a different long-term research project in the deep ocean. From discovering rare events in existing data, to testing high-risk, high-reward methods, to including undergraduate students in the scientific process, I will explore how long-term studies have amplified the impact of my work across scales.

Bio: Allison is a fifth year PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the Beltran Lab, where she studies deep ocean ecology. She uses tools like passive acoustic monitoring, animal-borne instruments, and demographic analyses to learn about the most remote parts of our planet. She's a field biologist, educator, and science facilitator, and hopes to use all these skills to collaborate with her new colleagues at NCEAS.

Hope to see you there!

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