Sydney Wilkinson
Ph.D. Student
Marine Biology
2150 Koyukuk Drive
218 O'Neill
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
swilkinson4@alaska.edu
M.Sc. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2020
Ryerson University
B.Sc. Environmental Biology
2018
Wilkinson, S., T. Brown, and B.C. McMeans. 2020. Highly branched isoprenoids: a novel tracer of diatom-based energy pathways in freshwater food webs. Marine and Freshwater Research.
- Food web ecology
- Biomarkers
- Lipids
My research focuses on aquatic systems and trophic linkages that shape food web form and function in the Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems. I am interested in determining what energy sources (e.g., terrestrial, bacterial, phytoplanktonic) fuel food webs and how these sources change through time and space. I use biomarkers (e.g., stable isotopes, fatty acids) as tools to better understand trophic connectedness and resilience of food webs.