Justin Chan served as a field technician for the Nalley Lab informing decisions for field sampling, optimizing sampling equipment, and diving across Hawaiʻi’s coastlines collecting samples to generate Gambierdiscus presence and abundance baselines. As a lifelong spearfisherman, Justin is interested in the prevalence, distribution, and impacts of Ciguatera in Hawaiʻi. He worked with the Nalley lab to investigate the spatiotemporal distributions of Gambierdiscus in Hawaiʻi, primarily around Oʻahu.

He is now a Zoology Master’s student with the School of Life Sciences at UH Mānoa.

Key Research Interests:
Island ecology
Marine biology
Fisheries biology