Meet Our Team

Alex became the Baker lab manager in 2021. She is the project manager for the RESTORE-funded Alabama Living Shorelines project and is a PI on several other living shoreline monitoring projects, including Graveline Bay on Dauphin Island and Project Greenshores in Pensacola. Alex is a marine ecologist with broad research interests related to interspecies interactions within habitats such as seagrasses, saltmarsh vegetation, and oyster reefs. Alex believes that critical research not only addresses fundamental ecological questions but also directly helps manage and conserve species and ecosystems in a rapidly changing ocean. She is particularly excited about assessing novel approaches for conserving, restoring, and monitoring coastal habitats and their ecosystem services in developed coastal areas. Alex earned her M.S. at the University of South Alabama in 2018 by studying the effects herbivorous green turtles have on seagrasses as sea turtle ranges expand into the northern Gulf of Mexico. As an undergraduate at Florida Gulf Coast University, Alex interned in a Benthic Ecology lab and conducted her senior research project on seagrass feeding preferences of the invasive apple snail, and graduated in 2015.