Tarik Gouhier
Affiliated Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Contact
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 0 Marine Science Center
430 Nahant Road
Nahant, Massachusetts 01908
Office
- 617.373.2061
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Research Focus
Population Biology
Education
- PhD, McGill University, 2010
Teaching Interests
Population Biology
Research Overview
Population Biology
Selected Research Projects
- Mechanisms of Resistance And Resilience to System Wide Loss of a Keystone Predator in an Iconic Intertidal Community
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Spatiotemporal Extremes And Associations: Marine Adaptation and Survivorship Under Changes in Extreme Ocean Temperatures
Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - The Effects of Fine-Scale Temperature and Desiccation Variability on the Distribution of Marine Species
Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Selected Publications
- M. Yeager, A.R. Hughes, T.C. Gouhier, Predicting the Stability of Multitrophic Communities in a Variable World, Ecology, 101, 2020, e02992
- P. Pillai, T.C. Gouhier, Not Even Wrong: The Spurious Measurement of Biodiversity’s Effects on Ecosystem Functioning, Ecology, 100, 2019, e02645
- D.L. Townsend, T.C. Gouhier, Spatial and Interspecific Differences in Recruitment Decouple Synchrony and Stability in Trophic Metacommunities, Theoretical Ecology, 12, 2019, 319–327
- G. Di Cecco, T.C. Gouhier, Increased Spatial and Temporal Autocorrelation of Temperature Under Climate Change, Scientific Reports, 8, 2018, 14850
- T Rogers, T.C. Gouhier, D.L. Kimbro, Temperature-Dependency of Intraguild Predation Between Native and Invasive Crabs, Ecology, 99, 2018, 885-895
- D. Wang, T.C. Gouhier, B.A. Menge, A.R. Ganguly Intensification and Spatial Homogenization of Coastal Upwelling Under Climate Change, Nature, 518, 2015, 390-394

Feb 19, 2015
Climate Effect on Coast
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Tarik Gouhier’s article in Nature shows that climate change will result in major changes in coastal marine ecosystems.
Jul 22, 2014
Interdisciplinary NSF Grant
Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Affiliated Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier were awarded an $1.2M NSF Cyber SEES grant to study changes in marine organisms based on ocean temperature. The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in […]
Apr 04, 2013
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.