Publications

Meyer, M., Brousil, M., Lee, B., Armstrong, M., Bloom, E., and Crowder, D. (2024) Identifyingdrivers of sewage-associated human pollutants in pollinators across urban landscapes, Apidologie 55(1), 3.

Rumberger, C., Armstrong, M.*(co-first author), Kim, M., Ponce, R., Melendez, J., DeBiasse, M., Caplins, S., and Bay, R., Selection Over Small and Large Spatial Scales in the Face of High Gene Flow, Molecular Ecology.

Verrelli, B.C., Carlen, E.J., Miles, L.S., Rosenberg, M.S. … Armstrong, M., et al. (In Prep), An urban perspective to fundamental questions in molecular biology and evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution: Perspective.

Presentations

Talks:

• • How stressful are cities? Investigating the impacts of urban pollution on marine invertebrates (2024) Coastal Marine Science Institute Symposium
  • Exploring the effects of an urban pollutant on an intertidal marine invertebrate (2024) Bodega Marine Lab Friday Forum seminar series
  • Exploring the effects of an urban pollutant on an intertidal marine invertebrate (2024) National Evolution Conference, invited urban evolutionary ecotoxicology symposium speaker
  • Dynamics of selection and gene flow in Pacific purple sea urchin populations along the California Coast (2022) Western Society of Naturalists Conference
  • Teaching Bioinformatics to Undergraduate and Graduate Students: A Case Study (2022), RCN for Evolving Seas Integration and Training Workshop (working group information)
  • Stressful Cities: Genomic Variation Across S. purpuratus Populations Associated with Coastal Urban Stress (2022), Center for Population Biology Seminar
    • • 2021, National Evolution Conference (virtual)
      • 2020, Western Society of Naturalists Conference (virtual)
      • 2020, Center for Population Biology Workshop
  • Phenotypic Plasticity as an Explanation of Invasion Success (2019) WSU Honor’s College Thesis Defense.

Poster Presentations:

• • Armstrong,M., Porter, J., and Bay, R. Exploring the Effects of an Urban Pollutant on an Intertidal Marine Invertebrate (2023) National Evolution Conference in Albuquerque, NM
  • Armstrong, M., Smithson, M., and Dybdahl, M. Phenotypic Plasticity as an Explanation of Invasion Success.
    • • 2019 National Evolution Conference in Providence, RI.
      • 2019 WSU Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA). 2nd place
  • Armstrong, M., Smithson, M., Hudak, A., and Dybdahl, M. Is Phenotypic Variation Within and Between Populations of a Parthenogenic Invasive Species Adaptive?
    • • 2018 Evolution Washington, Idaho, British Columbia and Oregon Conference (EVO-WIBO). undergraduate poster award
      • 2018 WSU SURCA. 1st place

  
  

  • Armstrong, M., Smithson, M., and Dybdahl, M. Phenotypic Differences in a Single Clonal Type in Newly Colonized and Established Populations.

    • • 2017 National Evolution Conference in Portland, OR.

      
      

      • 2017 WSU SURCA. 2nd place

  
  

  • Thomas, C., Armstrong, M., Dybdahl, M., and Finger, J. Genotype specific differences in the predicted and observed spread of an invasive species (2016) WSU SURCA