About Us

Combining coastal oceanographic, ecological, and engineering-based observational techniques, our work focuses on the main question of how individual experience in the plankton affects population dynamics.  

News

Summer REU students wrapped up their sweet research

August 2025

Kyla Polock (UW, LSAMP) and Cailey Plainte (Simmons University, CICOES REU) explored the hydrodynamics of larval barnacles used dynamically-scaled models. Check out the cool video Cailey made.

 

Summer intern participated on WOAC cruise

July 2025

Summer intern Lane Barron sail with the Washington Ocean Acidification Center to collect zooplankton sample.  See the Swarthmore College Instagram Post about her work.

 

New project Funded

June 2025

We received support from the Royalty Research Fund to develop the use of larval crab carapace as indicator for ocean acidification.

 

Chan lab at SICB

January 2025

Postdoc Will Ballentine and Swarthmore undergraduates presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Atlanta, GA.

 

New paper on fertilization kinematics

September 2024

Collaborative paper with Dr. Wing-ho Ko is out in Integrative and Comparative Biology. Learn about finding love in the ocean here.

 

New start at the University of Washington

September 2024

The Chan Lab has completed its relocation to Seattle.We are so glad to be part of the UW Oceanography community (again)!

 

For more, visit the archived news page.