This month we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Caitlin Kroeger, our new Postdoctoral Research Associate, to the Farallon Institute team! Caitlin's most recent work has focused on understanding how seabirds adjust behaviorally and physiologically to environmental challenges at sea while searching for food. This work left her wondering how expected future changes in wind and sea patterns might ultimately impact seabird distributions and that's how she ended up at our doorstep. At the Farallon Institute, Caitlin will be working with our team to understand how variation in ocean currents and eddies of the North Pacific affect biological communities, from zooplankton to top predators such as seabirds. From here she will be modeling how forecasted environmental changes might affect the composition and distribution of these communities. As the co-founder of a science communication organization at UCSC, we are also really excited to see what kinds of ideas Caitlin might bring to FI for making our science more accessible to all of you! Read more about Caitlin's background here.