Bio

Christine Nolan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington in the department of biology, where she studies eelgrass using sites in southern Washington and in Puget Sound. She received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Vermont and spent several years living in Texas, working in a research lab and volunteering with the conservation program at the Botanical Institute of Texas. In her free time, Christine loves hiking and camping in the summer and skiing in the winter.

Christine is interested in the ways in which plants sense their local climate and environment. Her work focuses on understanding the genetic and cellular mechanisms that control flowering patterns in eelgrass. Her work aims to inform eelgrass restoration by combining molecular biology laboratory techniques with field collections to understand how the environment affects growth and reproduction of eelgrass and how those processes may be affected by future changes in climate.

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