Physical & Biological Sciences Division
Postdoctoral Scholar
Staff
Remote work location
NOAA Fisheries Laboratory 276
NMFS
- Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2022-2023
- Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 2022
- B.S., College of William & Mary, 2016
I am an oceanographer researching the ecology of animals central to marine food webs. Previous studies have focused on zooplankton and krill, recently expanding to include fishes. My broad interest is to improve understanding of the processes that underlie ecosystem structure, function, and change. I enjoy making field observations and being part of collaborative, interdisciplinary teams. Ongoing postdoctoral work with Dr. Megan Cimino aims to develop statistical models for predicting the abundance and distribution of zooplankton along the Antarctic Peninsula. I am also studying the California Current ecosystem to inform Chinook salmon management in collaboration with NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
- Conroy, JA, JA Santora, SB Munch, TL Rogers, DK Steinberg, MA Cimino (2025). Survey coverage impacts ability to detect and predict zooplankton population change. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 720. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02720-4
- Conroy, JA, DK Steinberg, SC Nardelli, O Schofield (2024). Omnivorous summer feeding by juvenile Antarctic krill in coastal waters. Limnology and Oceanography 69, 4:874-887. doi:10.1002/lno.12533
- Conroy, JA, DK Steinberg, MI Thomas, LT West (2023). Seasonal and interannual changes in a coastal Antarctic zooplankton community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 706:17-32. doi:10.3354/meps14256
- Conroy, JA, CS Reiss, MR Gleiber, DK Steinberg (2020). Linking Antarctic krill larval supply and recruitment along the Antarctic Peninsula. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60, 6:1386-1400. doi:10.1093/icb/icaa111
- Conroy, JA, DK Steinberg, PS Thibodeau, O Schofield (2020). Zooplankton diel vertical migration during Antarctic summer. Deep-Sea Research I 162:103324. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103324
