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Jennie Ohayon

Ph.D. Student, Environmental Studies
Jennie Ohayon   Urban Ecology and Environmental Justice

My research interests center around urban ecology and urban environmental movements. Specifically, I aim to research strategies for preserving threatened species and enhancing biodiversity within an urban landscape. Employing a combination of comparative and experimental studies on urban greenways in California, I will examine how their geometry affects community composition and population dynamics of native and non-native plant species with different life history strategies. I am also interested in the potential of social movements and alternative communities to re-conceptualizing how nature and the environment are understood and how cultural change can promote the development of the "ecological city".   more research interests...
Email: johayon <at> ucsc.edu      Office: 429 Natural Sciences 2      
Snail-mail: Jennie Ohayon, Environmental Studies, 1156 High St., University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA		  

 

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Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Jennie Ohayon

Education
University of California Santa Cruz (Ph.D. Student 2008-present)
University of Toronto, Hon. B.Sc. Toronto, Canada (Biology and Political Science; Literary Studies Minor; 2007)
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (Exchange year, 2002-2003)

Honors
2008 Regents' Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz
2006 National Science Foundation REU Grant
2002 St. George's Society Award for Study in the UK
2000 Victoria College at the University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship

Select Recent Publications
Ohayon, J.L. and C.A. Stepien. 2007. Genetic and biogeographic relationships of the racer goby Neogobius gymnotrachelus
    (Gobiidae: Teleostei) from introduced and native Eurasian locations. Journal of Fish Biology 71: 360-370.

Select professional experience
Summ2006 Great Lakes Genetic Laboratory, Lake Erie Center at the University of Toledo: Researcher, Toledo, Ohio
2006-2008 Take the Tooker: Volunteer, Toronto, Ontario
2005-2006 The Mart Gross Lab in Conservation Biology at the University of Toronto: Research Assistant
2003-2008 The Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto (APUS)
2003-2006 Alternative Fuel Technology: Project and Research, Toronto, Ontario
2001-2002 Toronto Community Housing Corporation: Program Leader
2001-2002 The University of Toronto’s Women's Centre: Collective Member, Toronto, Ontario

Select teaching experience
Teaching assistant: ENVS 163 Plant Disease Ecology

 

 

 

 
Expanded Research Interests.
My research interests center around urban ecology and urban environmental movements. Specifically, I aim to research strategies for preserving threatened species and enhancing biodiversity within an urban landscape. Employing a combination of comparative and experimental studies on urban greenways in California, I will examine how their geometry affects community composition and population dynamics of native and non-native plant species with different life history strategies. I am also interested in the potential of social movements and alternative communities to re-conceptualizing how nature and the environment are understood and how cultural change can promote the development of the "ecological city".