Teaching & Outreach
Teaching
Thesis Advisor, Integrated Marine and Estuarine Science Program and Integrative Biology Program
San Francisco State University, 2019–present
Introduction to Oceans
Lecturer, University of California Berkeley
Foundations in Global Change in Urbanized Coasts and Estuaries
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco State University
REU Teaching Research Cruise
Instructor/Chief Scientist, R/V Questuary, San Francisco State University
Oceanography — Science of the Sea
Teaching Assistant, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Selected Talks
Revealing the hidden diversity, abundance and feeding interactions at the base of aquatic food webs
Moss Landing Marine Labs, Symposium Series, 2022
Larval longfin smelt diets assessed with morphological ID and DNA sequencing of guts
Longfin Smelt Symposium, Sacramento, CA, 2019
Copepod nauplii in subtropical environments
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, Naples, Italy, 2016
Species-specific grazing impacts of copepod nauplii
Jungbluth, M., Selph, K., Lenz, P.H., and Goetze, E. — ICES/PICES 6th Zooplankton Production Symposium, Bergen, Norway, 2016
Service & Leadership
- Working Group Member — MBON: Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (eDNA Working Group)
- Science Network Member — Ocean Census Science Network
- Contributing Member — Interagency Ecological Program: Zooplankton, Genetics, and Estuarine Ecology teams, San Francisco Bay-Delta
- Contributing Member — California Molecular Methods Work Group
- Fellow — Equitable Collaboration in STEM HUB, SFSU (2021–2022)
- Committee Member — Anti-Racism Committee, SFSU College of Science and Engineering (2023–2025)
- Committee Member — Student Scholarship Committee, SFSU (2019, 2020)
- President — Na Kama Kai Oceanography graduate student organization (2014–2015)
- Chair — Science Communicators 'Ohana (2014–2015)
- Reviewer — 10 peer-reviewed journals including Environmental DNA, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Nature Scientific Reports
Outreach
Science communication and public engagement are central to expanding access to ocean and estuarine sciences. Activities have included:
- Exhibit Leader — Estuary & Ocean Science Center Open House (2018, 2019, 2023, 2024)
- Exhibit Leader — California Academy of Sciences Nightlife: Women in Plankton Ecology (2019)
- Mentor — First Lego League Championship (2024)
- Presenter (Skype-a-Scientist) — Plankton science presentations to K–5 classrooms (2020–2021)
- Discussion Leader — Girl Scouts Oceanography Badge: Women Oceanographers (2021)
- Exhibit Leader — SOEST Open House: Zooplankton: Microscopic Ocean Drifters (2013, 2015, 2017)
- Founder — Real Science at SOEST Blog, UH Manoa (2013–2016)
- Author — "Using DNA to map out the food that keep fish alive." San Francisco Examiner (2019)