I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) and Statistical and Data Sciences at Smith College (Northampton, MA). I teach courses focused on human impacts on ecosystems, marine science, ecology, biostatistics, and climate change.
My lab’s research focuses on coastal ecosystem ecology with a particular interest in tropical coral physiology, ecology, and biogeochemistry. I am broadly interested in:
- Marine invertebrate physiology and ecology
- thermal history and thermal tolerance
- Acclimatization
- Coral heterotrophy
- Biogeochemistry
- Biogeographic range shifts
- The effects of climate change on reefs
- Human impacts on marine environments
- Marine policy and management
Learn more about my research and funding from the Rufford Foundation here.
For access to my code and R tutorials please see my GitHub page.
To access my “Intro to R for EcoEvo” online course, click here.
Education
Postdoc: SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill in the Castillo and Bruno labs.
PhD Dissertation: The impacts of anthropogenic global change and local human activities on reef-building corals on the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. PDF.
PhD: Marine Sciences – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
MS: Earth Sciences – The Ohio State University, 2013
MS Thesis: Acquisition and allocation of carbon to lipids of bleached and non-bleached P. compressa and M. capitata.
BS: Biology and Earth Sciences – The Ohio State University, 2011
Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis: The effects of repeat bleaching on photosynthesis, metabolism, and feeding rates in three species of Caribbean coral.
Science Communication:
follow me on twitter @jbaumann3
I am available to speak to groups and classrooms. Feel free to get in touch for details.
(diving photo credit: ML Parker Media)
Baumann Marine Ecophysiology Lab 