Joel K. Llopiz

Associate Scientist, Biology Department (CV)

The work in my lab focuses on fish and fish larvae, and their interactions with the biological and physical environment. Check out the information on this site to get a better idea of the work I’m interested in, and if you want to join the lab, have a look here and get in touch with me. And if you have any potential collaborations in mind, please contact me about these as well!

Chrissy Hernandez

Ph.D. Student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program

Penny

Lab entertainment and moral support

Broadly, Penny’s interests are being pet (especially on her belly), lounging around the lab, and chewing on her elk antlers.

Sam Cox

High School Intern, Falmouth Academy (2014-2016)

Gone but not forgotten...

Lab family, summer 2014: André Price, Sophie Knorek, Marissa Lerner, Joel Llopiz (presumably), Sam Cox, and Andy Jones

Sophie Knorek

Guest Summer Undergraduate Student, Hendrix College (2014)

Marissa Lerner

High school intern / Part-time helper (2014)

André Price

Summer Student Fellow, Elizabeth City State University (2014)

Andy Jones

Postdoctoral Scholar (2014-2016)

Jocelyn Spagnuolo

Intern (2014)

Jaimie Rojas

Guest Investigator, Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Venezuela (2014)

Sara Reese

Undergraduate Guest Student, Colgate University (2014)

Julie Pringle

Lab Assistant (2015-2016)

Amaya Uriarte

Guest PhD Student, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (spring 2015)

Sara Hamilton

Summer Student Fellow, Bowdoin College (2015)

Lab family, summer 2015 (L to R): Andy Jones, Justin Suca, Mimi Starr, Julie Pringle, Joel Llopiz, Penny, Sara Hamilton, Sam Cox, and volunteer Sofia Gabriel (not present were volunteers Jorge Conde, Gabby Vaillancourt, Rachel Fordham and Caroline Rosinski)

Miranda Starr

Summer Undergraduate Guest Student, Pomona College (2015)

Chrissy was a WHOI Summer Student Fellow (2013) and Guest Student (2013-2014) in the lab, and then a research technician at Gulf of Maine Research Institute with Kathy Mills and Andy Pershing. She’s now back in the lab as a graduate student in the Joint Program (as of Sept 2015), and she’s an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Chrissy’s interests are in modeling the dispersal of fish larvae in the ocean. She’s currently working on developing the specifics of her dissertation, which will likely include a focus on a diversity of fishery-relevant species in the NE United States.

Caroline Rosinski

Undergraduate Guest Student and thesis advisee, Stonehill College (2016-2017)

Jacob Strock

Undergraduate Guest Student and thesis advisee, Lafayette College (2016-2017)

Justin was a NOAA Hollings Scholar in the lab during the summer of 2015 as an undergraduate working on the early life history of river herring. He is now a graduate student, and his dissertation is focused on forage fishes, including sand lance, river herring, and arctic cod. Justin received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2018.

Justin Suca

Ph.D. Student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program

Sarah Glancy

Research Assistant

Sarah is our freshwater zooplankton guru, and began working on our river herring projects examining nursery habitat variability. She’s now involved in zooplankton and gut content identification from our LTER, sand lance, and arctic cod projects. Sarah has a master’s from SUNY Plattsburgh and BS from Gannon University.

Marco Torri

Guest PhD Student / WHOI Gori Fellowship recipient (2016), University of Palermo and IAMC-CNR

Katie Swoap

WHOI Winter Term student (2016) and Summer Undergraduate Guest Student (summer 2016), Williams College

Isabelle Stewart

High School Intern, Falmouth Academy (2016)

Current lab members

Lab family, summer 2017 (L to R): Lydia O’Connor, Laura Pino, Penny, Ciara Willis, Joel Llopiz, Raúl Laiz Carrion, Sarah Glancy (not present were Chrissy Hernandez and Justin Suca)

Helena McMonagle

Research Assistant

Helena joined the lab in January 2018 and initiated our lab’s foray into molecular work. She has worked hard to develop and implement a protocol for measuring RNA/DNA ratios in fish, and has been using this technique to examine the nutritional condition of arctic cod and juvenile river herring. Helena was recently accepted into a PhD program at the University of Washington and will be leaving us in Sept 2018.

Ciara Willis

Summer Student Fellow, Dalhousie University (2017)

Raúl Laíz-Carrión

Guest Investigator, Fulbright Scholar, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (2017)

Jessica Randall

Research Assistant (2018)

Laura Pino

Undergraduate Guest Student, Penn State University (2018)

Julia Cox

LTER Summer Student Fellow, UMass Amherst (2018)

Teresa Giandonato

Undergraduate Guest Student, NOAA Hollings Scholar, Colorado Mesa University (2018)

Agatha Freedberg

Undergraduate Guest Student, University of Miami (2018)

Paul Caiger

Postdoctoral Investigator

Paul is a fish ecologist and photographer extraordinaire, and is splitting his time between the lab’s Ocean Twilight Zone project and his ongoing work with NOAA colleagues in Sofie Van Parijs’s passive acoustics group. Paul has a BSc from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Auckland's Leigh Marine Laboratory.

Matt Stefanak

Semester at WHOI undergraduate student

Matt is a senior at Middlebury College and here at WHOI for the fall semester. He is working on identifying settlement-stage fish larvae from our USVI project on coral reef soundscapes and larval fish settlement.

Lab family, summer 2018 L to R front: Justin Suca, Sarah Glancy, Teresa Giandonato, Kalyani Twyman, Elizabeth Constantine, Elijah Morris, Joel Llopiz, Martha Hauff. L to R back: Agatha Freedberg, Laura Pino, Chrissy Hernandez, Helena McMonagle, Julia Cox, Joe Varney