Logan Kozal

Biography

Logan has been a Ph.D. student in the Hofmann lab since 2016. She is interested in the capacity of ecologically and commercially important marine invertebrate species to cope with the environmental stress. She studies the physiological mechanisms by which organisms can rapidly adapt to global change and the variability in these stressors. She focuses on transgenerational plasticity and the roles of maternal provisioning and epigenetic inheritance as potential avenues for resilience in early life stages. In the Santa Barbara Channel, she investigates how upwelling and kelp forests influence heterogeneity in pH and oxygen across space and time and effects on the purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. In New Zealand, she studies heat waves and thermal variation affecting NZ’s mussel farms. Her work investigates whether hatcheries can manipulate the thermal environment of bloodstock to bolster thermal tolerance of the greenshell mussel, Perna canaliculus. Logan is passionate about STEM education and is pursuing her teaching credential through the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.