Hilary Hayford
Hilary Hayford
Contact Information
8272 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
(831)770-4469
hhayford [at] mlml [dot] calstate [dot] edu
I am devoted to rocky intertidal ecology. I am particularly interested in community dynamics, stress physiology, biogeography, and biomechanics—I want to know how these organisms can live in such an extreme habitat and what factors are influencing their success.
For my Master’s thesis I am investigating one mechanism for how substrate geology might play a role in species' distributions and abundances along the rocky shore. I hypothesize that geological features that may affect physical stress in high intertidal organisms are heat capacity and water retention. I am investigating these relationships by studying heat shock (stress-induced) proteins in limpets.
Background
Education
BS Marine Biology, UCSC 2001
AS Biology, Cabrillo College 1998
AA Spanish, Cabrillo College 1998
Research Experience
Research Technician, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
UC Santa Cruz, 2000-present
Short- and long-term intertidal monitoring surveys: community structure; black abalone; MPA assessment; biodiversity; oil spill reconnaissance; mussel, barnacle, urchin, snail, seastar recruitment; mussel, barnacle growth; mussel, barnacle, urchin fecundity; grazing dynamics; predation upon mussels; water nutrient assessment; succession and recovery studies; genetic identification of mussel recruits.
Graduate Assistant, Water Intake Structure Environmental Research
Moss Landing Marine Labs, 2006-2007
Plankton tows, invertebrate identification through microscopy, genetic identification of larval invertebrates.
