I knew from an early age that I wanted to study marine biology after I had my first snorkeling experience at the age of 11. I chose to study marine biology at Bowdoin College, where I took advantage of its flow-through seawater system at the Coastal Studies Center to conduct my senior research project on the effect of predator cues on urchin growth and morphology. After college, I was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to the Cayman Islands, South Africa, Australia, Malaysia and Panama to study how sea turtle ecotourism impacts local communities. I completed my PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara with Steve Gaines and Bob Warner investigating the consequences of fishing-induced changes in predator size for marine food webs.  I was an NSF OCE post-doctoral research fellow with Malin Pinsky at Rutgers University where I examined the impacts of climate change on predator-prey interactions and fisheries. I am currently an assistant professor in biology at Wellesley College.

My faculty page is here: https://www.wellesley.edu/biology/faculty/selden

​Contact me at bselden at wellesley.edu