Diana Baetscher

Molecular ecology and population genetics of fishes

Welcome!

I’m a postdoc with Ken Smith and the Pelagic-Benthic Coupling group at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). My research explores larval dispersal at depth and as part of a long-term time series on the abyssal seafloor.

Prior to joining MBARI, I was a postdoc with Nina Overgaard Therkildsen and Pete McIntyre at Cornell University applying DNA metabarcoding to identify which of the oceans’ wild fish stocks are sources for aquaculture feeds.

I completed my PhD in Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz in March 2019.

Moonlighting as a photo-identification assistant at the Ross Sea ice edge.

Research

Feel free to contact me with questions or if you need access to PDFs.

Multi-locus metabarcoding of marine species mixtures found in aquaculture feeds

Population structure of Alaskan Northern Fulmars and bycatch assignment

Larval dispersal of kelp rockfish across a marine reserve network in central California

Genetic differentiation and stock structure in Atlantic river herrings

Genetic species identification of nearshore Pacific rockfishes

Publications

2019

Baetscher DS, Anderson EC, Gilbert-Horvath EA, Malone DP, Saarman ET, Carr MH, Garza JC. “Dispersal of a nearshore marine fish connects marine reserves and adjacent fished areas along an open coast.” Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.15044

2018

Baetscher DS, Clemento A, Ng T, Anderson EC, Garza JC. “Microhaplotypes provide increased power from short-read DNA sequences for relationship inference.” Molecular Ecology Resources. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12737

Smith JG, Malone D, Baetscher DS, Carr MH. “Evaluation and application of a biopsy device for in-situ non-lethal tissue extraction for fishes.” Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi: 10.3354/meps12575

Reid K, Hasselman DJ, Palkovacs EP, Baetscher DS, Bentzen P, McBride M, Garza JC. “Range-wide population structure and baseline assessment of anadromous river herring.” Fishery Bulletin. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.04.014

2017

Baetscher DS, Hasselman DJ, Reid K, Palkovacs EP, Garza JC. “Discovery and characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms in two anadromous alosine fishes of conservation concern.” Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3215

Heading west on the Western Flyer from Moss Landing to Station M, October 2019.

Thanks for your interest!

dianabaetscher @ mbari.org

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