The ʻOhana

Jessica Jacob, PhD
Principal Investigator
Student Researchers
Graduate
- Aspen Pawlowski (2025 – Present): Development of laboratory and field diagnostic assays for Brucella ceti in standarded Hawaiian cetaceans
- Emma Phillips (2025 – Present): Determining the relative abundance of various tuna species in canned tuna
Undergraduate
- Katie Young (2026 – Present)
- Kennedy London (2025 – Present)
- Jocelyn Stara (2025 – Present)
- Abraham Dare (2024 – Present)
- Maiya Johnson (2024 – Present)
- Kiana Walker (2024 – 2026)
- Natasha Berrios (2023 – 2024)
- Tyler-Perryn Gates (2023)
- Violet Marshall (2023 – 2024)
- Emma Phillips (2023 – 2025)
- Saige Ranon (2023 – 2024)
- Cassandra Walti (2023 – 2024)
- Kyle Marisse Alquizola (2022)
- Maya Maxfield-Villard (2022 – 2023)
- Allison Nims (2022 – 2025)
- Aspen Pawlowski (2022 – 2025)
- Amelia Thompson (2022 – 2023)
- Idessa Vess (2022 – 2023)
- Ana Mijares (2023 – 2025), University of Florida
- Mya Russo (2025 – Present), University of Florida
- Olivia Vignali (2025 – Present), University of Florida
Collaborators
- Patrick Larkin, University of Florida