Rate My Professor Jennifer Donelson

Donelson's research focuses on the ecology and early life history of marine fishes, with emphasis on ecological impacts of climate change, including ocean warming and acidification, and the potential for acclimation and adaptation through phenotypic plasticity and transgenerational effects. She employs environmentally controlled aquarium systems to simulate future ocean conditions and study developmental plasticity, parental effects, and behavioral responses in coral reef fishes. Her contributions include co-editing theme issues on adaptation and phenotypic plasticity to climate change in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2019) and Frontiers in Marine Science (2022). Key publications feature 'The epigenetic landscape of transgenerational acclimation to ocean warming' (Nature Climate Change, 2018), 'Transgenerational plasticity and climate change experiments: Where do we go from here?' (Global Change Biology, 2018), 'Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change' (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019), and 'Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals' (Nature Climate Change, 2017). Awards include the ARC Future Fellowship and the 2021 Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award from the Australian Marine Sciences Association.