LuLu Lacy
LuLu is a new graduate student pursuing their PhD with the Tropical Rivers Lab. They have studied many aquatic and marine ecosystems in the Southeastern US and Latin America, and have a strong interest in tropical fisheries, fish migration, and deconstructing our post-colonial relationship with waterways. LuLu spent the past year working in El Yunque National Forest of Puerto Rico, where they were a part of the Luquillo LTER and ran multiple experiments examining the top-down effects of amphidromous shrimps on detrital processing, algal standing crop, and benthic community composition. While attending the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, LuLu spent a semester in Costa Rica and received a grant to study on the coast of Georgia with the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.