Christina Goethel

Biography

 I am a benthic ecologist that specializes in the Arctic, but is beginning work in the Chesapeake Bay as well. Most of my research is focused on examining stress, primarily physiological stress, on the species found in the benthic community that relate to the changing physical parameters, such as temperature, in various Arctic ecosystems including the Pacific Arctic continental shelf system and Icelandic fjords. The majority of my work is conducted in the field during the summer aboard icebreakers from both the US and Canada as part of programs like the Distributed Biological Observatory (https://dbo.cbl.umces.edu/) or back in the laboratory with simulated Arctic conditions. I also use time-series modeling methods to examine the changes in populations (abundance, biomass, size structure) of these benthic organisms, with a focus on bivalve species.