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I’m an Associate Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. My research program explores the ecology of parasites in a changing world. I’m interested in understanding whether, how, and why parasite communities respond to human-driven environmental change and my lab approaches this question in several ways. Historical ecology allows us to reconstruct long time series of parasite change and infer environmental correlates of that change; we collect these data using parasitological dissection of natural history specimens, with meta-analysis of the existing literature, by resurrecting unpublished government, institutional, or personal datasets, and with archived industry specimens. We also employ natural and manipulative experiments in contemporary marine and freshwater ecosystems. We’re interested in answering big questions like, “Is the world wormier than it used to be?“, but we also apply the principles of parasite ecology for immediate practical applications, like the control of aquaculture pests and of human infectious diseases.
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Contact
- E-mail: chelwood @ uw.edu
- Instagram: @parasite_enthusiast
- Mailing address:
- University of Washington
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Box 355020
- Seattle, Washington 98195-5020
- Office: Fishery Sciences Building 318B
- Lab: Fishery Sciences Building 248