Kristin Huizenga

Postdoctoral Researcher

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Research Interests

I am particularly interested in the ways that humans interact with coastal environments both directly and indirectly. I have examined this relationship through the lens of ecology, looking at fishing and food web dynamics, climate change, and water quality, using both experimental and in situ data. My current work focuses on water quality and dissolved oxygen in Buzzards Bay in relation to climate change and nutrient pollution.

Education

Ph. D.: Oceanography, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography,
Narragansett, RI, 2022

B. A.: Biology and Spanish, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2016

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, Woodwell Climate Research Center and Buzzards Bay Coalition, 2024-Present

Research Assistant, Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, 2017-2022

Teaching Assistant, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, 2021

Writer and Executive Board Member, Oceanbites, 2018-2022

Research Assistant, Wellesley College, 2015-2016

Publications

Huizenga K, Oviatt C (2024) Inshore juvenile lobsters threatened by warming waters
and migratory fish predators in southern New England. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 728:183-
197. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14453

Oviatt, C., Stoffel, H., Huizenga, K. et al. A tale of two spring blooms in a northeast
estuary of the USA: how storms impact nutrients, multiple trophic levels and
hypoxia. Hydrobiologia 849, 1131–1148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-
04768-7

Oviatt, C. A., Huizenga, K., Rogers, C. S., & Miller, W. J. (2019). What nutrient sources
support anomalous growth and the recent sargassum mass stranding on Caribbean
beaches? A review. Marine pollution bulletin, 145, 517-525.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.049