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I have been interested in marine biology since I was very young, when a
tidepool octopus that my brothers and I found squirted ink into my face. I
did my undergraduate work in Biology at the University of California, Los
Angeles, completed a MS in Marine Science at Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories in 1989 and finished my PhD at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution in Biological Oceanography in 1996. The theme of my research
is community ecology in extreme habitats. I have been involved in diverse
research projects in a wide variety of locations, from studying polychaete
worms in kelp forests off California, to examining marine mammal
disturbance of soft bottoms in Alaska, investigating polluted areas in
Antarctica, and studying the dispersal of animals between hydrothermal
vent habitats in the deep sea.
Contact the Web Master: sperry@mlml.calstate.edu