As a Sustainability Fellow, Anna Vinton (she/her) will develop and use cutting edge quantitative tools to understand how coral reef species can adapt and survive environmental change across varied environments. Moreover, she will work to improve vulnerability assessments and decision models by working with land managers, conservationists and decision-makers, and to thus direct future research and inform policy.
Anna Vinton’s research broadly focuses on developing mathematical theory to investigate how natural populations can avoid extinction due to environmental change. She completed her PhD in the Vasseur lab at Yale University developing eco-evolutionary models to investigate the role of environmental change in extinction dynamics at multiple scales, from individuals to communities. From here, she completed an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in Biology with Tim Coulson at the University of Oxford, where she combined experimental and theoretical work to assess how populations respond to temperature change using a fruit fly model system.
Mentors:
Carly Kenkel
Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, Cnidarian Evolutionary Ecology Lab
Joe Árvai
Director, USC Wrigley Institute for Environment & Sustainability
Dana and David Dornsife Chair and Professor of Psychology Professor of Biological Sciences