Dr. Jarrett Byrnes is an Associate Professor of Biology at UMass Boston. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of biodiversity with a particular focus on kelp forests, urbanized marine ecosystems, and causal inference. He holds a PhD from the University of California Davis in Population Biology and has been a postdoc at both the Santa Barbara Coastal Long-Term Ecological Research project (SBC LTER) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (SBC LTER). At UMass Boston, he currently leads ecological monitoring for the Stone Living Lab. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the Shoals Marine Lab. Dr. Byrnes's work is conducted at a variety of scales, from field experiments manipulating sea walls to region-scale studies of kelp forests to data integration across global ecosystems. He also teaches biostatistics and underwater research techniques.

Gulf of St-Lawrence
North Atlantic Ocean
Global

Kelp forest ecology, coastal ecology, biodiversity ecosystem function, data science, causal inference