George Jarvis

AAUS 2025 Scholar Update

 I finished my Master’s at Cal State Northridge in 2019, then I moved to Melbourne, Australia to start a PhD in the Marine Evolutionary Ecology Group. For my PhD, I studied broad-scale patterns in life-history traits in animals – mostly in marine invertebrates – to understand why these patterns have evolved (feel free to check out some of the papers from this work: evolution of hermaphroditism; evolution of body size and fertilization mode). I finished my PhD in December of 2024, and recently accepted a postdoctoral research position at the University of Chicago, working with Dakota McCoy. I will move back to the US soon, and I am looking forward to building upon the work that I started in my PhD: specifically problems related to the biology of reproduction in marine critters like corals and molluscs, but really in any organisms with diverse reproductive strategies!

I was fortunate enough to present my PhD research at several conferences around the world, including at the Society for Experimental Biology in Montpellier, France (shown here).

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still spend heaps of time underwater (mostly snorkelling these days). Here’s a flathead (Platycephalus fuscus, in the lingcod family) photographed in Port Phillip Bay, in Victoria, Australia