Marine ecologist & PhD student interested in how human impacts reshape marine trophic interactions. (She/her) 🏳️‍🌈🪸 🐟 ⚛️ 🧬 Other interests include: rstats, sciart, educational outreach https://hannahrempel.weebly.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3miyodpc3v2227 years ago, I gave my first talk at an R stats conference. At the reception, a man asked me, "Do you use R?" 🙄 My mentor, Dr. Kelly Bodwin, helped me shake off my subsequent feeling that I didn't belong and encouraged my love of statistics. Effective mentorship matters: https://ojs.elte.hu/cejntrep/article/view/1198608 Apr 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyodpc3v222https://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3m2u7gexo2k26Work with 4-5th graders? Check out our 'Coral Reefs & Our Changing Oceans' 3-part lesson series on OER Commons! 🪸👩‍🏫 Students build a coral reef food web, then explore how human impacts influence it through hands-on group activities! https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/135980 #TEKS #NGSS #K-12 #teachersky10 Oct 2025 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2u7gexo2k26https://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3lxkxm7aaks2uGreat new pub by Pappalardo et al. on taxon-specific BLAST % identity thresholds for DNA #metabarcoding 🧬, with an associated Shiny app for optimized COI thresholds tailored to your data: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.70147 https://shiny.si.edu/ebbs_blast_filter/ #eDNA29 Aug 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxkxm7aaks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3lgnmh6ww222oAs part of the ‘24-25 SWIMM program, a group of students from Mexico, Cuba and the US have been helping develop a Report Card of coastal resources of Tabasco. 🇲🇽🇨🇺🇺🇸 Last week, we presented a first draft to collaborators in Villahermosa! This has been an amazing group and project to be a part of! 💕26 Jan 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgnmh6ww222ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3leaqz242ak2mHow is bat acoustic activity influenced by noise pollution? How do impacts differ between natural sounds and human ones with similar acoustic characteristics? 🦇💧🚗 Learn more in our new open-access publication, led by Ryan Vosbigian: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.7010627 Dec 2024 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3leaqz242ak2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3ldyrfqc7ls2aJust did the last PCR of my PhD and with that, Im done with the last of my lab work! 🧬🧪🎉23 Dec 2024 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldyrfqc7ls2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3ldvw3yfftk2mCoral bleaching surveys in Bonaire from 2016-2023 show that last year had the most widespread bleaching and related coral colony mortality. While this is disheartening, focusing on increasing local reef resilience can help buy time to address global climate change. 🪸💪 📖: https://www.dcbd.nl/reposerver/api/file/422522 Dec 2024 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldvw3yfftk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3lcvgdamthk2iFor folks interested in coral reef ecosystem related research and news, check out the Coralsky feed! 🪸🐠🦀 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/feed/aaaeqdv5qi4fm https://media.tenor.com/6hjATDTMudIAAAAC/sea-pun-shrimple.gif?hh=422&ww=48009 Dec 2024 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvgdamthk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3lbnmnodjyk23Im elated to share that my coral reef piece won the Society for Women in Marine Science art competition! #sciart #stippling [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnmnodjyk23https://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3l7vnqy65bc2qIn 'A framework for training graduate students & campus communities in inclusive teaching', @botanyberit.bsky.social, @scubamelman.bsky.social, Chris Biggs and & I share a tips & resources for formal professional development training in inclusive pedagogy. 🧵(1/4) http://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00125-2401 Nov 2024 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7vnqy65bc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3l7vewt4r4w2mWhy do animals eat their own poop—and other animals’ too? It's not just your dog that does it, but fish, moose, and many other creatures! 💩 Learn more in a Nat Geo article by Katarina Zimmer highlighting my research and that other scientists: https://nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/coprophagy-animals-feces-nutrition01 Nov 2024 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7vewt4r4w2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kyp35hycaw2zParrotfishes help maintain resilient reefs by grazing algae & cyanobacteria, but some also eat live coral. 🪸 In a new study, we evaluated how parrotfish coral predation intensity varies across gradients in coral cover, diversity, & parrotfish abundance across 4 Caribbean regions: shorturl.at/fjZ2202 Aug 2024 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kyp35hycaw2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3krjrv7tufs23I am honored to receive a Scholar Award given by the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. I am very grateful for this support as I advance in my PhD research on the trophic ecology of nominally herbivorous fishes! @thecaseylab.bsky.social #womeninSTEM02 May 2024 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3krjrv7tufs23https://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kqtigf4ey22gIt was a wonderful to share work on 'Developing inclusive teaching frameworks for campus and community STEAM education' by myself, @scubamelman.bsky.social @botanyberit.bsky.social + Dr. Chris Biggs, and hear about projects by other grant teams at the @CTL_UT Teaching & Learning Symposium last week!23 Apr 2024 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kqtigf4ey22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3knz6o44xmu2b2 years & 2 months later, a stippling drawing I began inspired by a class assignment on "picture an ecosystem" is done! There's something magical to reefs that's always encaptivated me. While Ive never seen the coral triangle myself- the birthplace of reefs, I wanted to capture a bit of that magic.19 Mar 2024 01:11 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3knz6o44xmu2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3klrwaeg6tt2qAre you a woman or non-binary person studying or working in a marine science field in Texas? Consider joining the Texas Chapter of the Society for Women in Marine Science @txswms.bsky.social! texasswms.wixsite.com/texas-swms #TexasScience #WomeninSTEM #nonbinaryinSTEM19 Feb 2024 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3klrwaeg6tt2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kjt6zqzuhk2jFor folks learning to use General Additive (Mixed) Models in R, this free guide by the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science has been a great resource for me! https://r.qcbs.ca/workshop08/book-en/learning-objectives.html #statistics #GAM #GAMM #academicsky #statsky25 Jan 2024 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjt6zqzuhk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kgtic3pmmf2dI am elated and incredibly grateful to receive a 2024 UT Austin Stengl-Wyer Graduate Fellowship! This will support another year of my PhD research investigating the ecological roles of nominally herbivorous fishes in Panamá and Texas using molecular techniques. 🪸🐠🧬 #TexasScience #womeninstem18 Dec 2023 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgtic3pmmf2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kgk4b3fzjn2kIt’s been incredible to spend the past two weeks assisting on projects on Tropical Eastern Pacific reefs and see the other side of the isthmus of Panamá!14 Dec 2023 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgk4b3fzjn2khttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kdoir4dowh2zI’m elated to receive a UT Texas Gulf Coast Research Center Predoctoral Award & dive into some new research on Texas fish! Mariana Rivera Higueras, Juan Pablo Lozano Peña, Mel Niell, & I kicked off this project with fun & successful of field collections & lab work yesterday! @txacsci.bsky.social08 Nov 2023 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdoir4dowh2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannah-rempel.bsky.social/post/3kd2vqjsbcl2rHappy Halloween from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute! 🎃 I love being part of such a fun community!31 Oct 2023 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:uvosufythjsg4u5miz3olygz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2vqjsbcl2r