Tasha Gownaris

Tasha is an assistant professor of marine ecology at Gettysburg College, where she teaches classes on ecology, fisheries, and oceanography. She is passionate about fostering diversity in STEM and teaching students data literacy skills. Tasha uses field and quantitative work to inform marine and freshwater conservation, focusing on food webs, demography, and spatial ecology.

Awards

Turkana Basin Institute Graduate Fellowships

National Geographic Society Young Explorer's Grant

Evan R. Liblit Enviromnetal Leadership Grant (Stony Brook University)

J.R. Schubel Science Communication Grant (Stony Brook University)

Pikitch Family Endowed Research Award (Stony Brook University)

Goldwater Scholar