Amanda Lohmann

Hi! I’m an ecologist, data scientist, and programmer.

I’m interested in using computational and quantitative tools to pull insights out of complex, messy datasets, with the goal of improving our understanding of ecosystems and providing managers with useful, actionable information that can inform policy around the ways we interact with our environment.

I’m currently a research associate in the Castorani Lab at the University of Virginia - we’re studying drivers of resilience in kelp forest ecosystems along the California coast.

I received my Ph.D. in Ecology from the Duke University Marine Lab, where I worked in the Nowacek Lab researching the impacts of climate change on the ecosystem along the western Antarctic Peninsula. We found that multiple consecutive warm winters have begun to cause extended shortages of Antarctic krill - a key species for both predators and Southern Ocean fisheries.