Kathleen J Pitz

Kathleen J. Pitz received the B.A. degree in molecular cell biology, emphasis in genetics, genomics, and developmental biology, from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in biological oceanography from the Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole, MA, USA, in 2016. She completed three years of a postdoctoral fellowship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA, where she is currently a Research Associate. Her research includes examining how environmental DNA (eDNA) relates to traditional measures of biodiversity, using eDNA to examine patterns of biodiversity and community change through time in Monterey Bay (on interannual to daily scales of variation) as well as how eDNA can be used to survey biodiversity regionally across the California Current Ecosystem.