Sandin’s research focuses on community ecology, investigating how organisms interact in complex marine communities. One major facet of the lab’s interests involve fish and fisheries, with the goal of determining the best way to balance fishing demands today with the perpetuity of fisheries for generations to come. This work on fisheries is complemented by work on the the community ecology of benthic taxa. The ecology of any individual species is the result of myriad interactions and environmental forcings, and combining insights from multiple fields and data sources provides a ripe context for advancing the field of community ecology.