Tarik Gouhier
Associate Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 0 Marine Science Center
430 Nahant Road
Nahant, Massachusetts 01908
Office
- 617.373.2061
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
Jan 17, 2024
Reintroducing Bee-like Species To Collapsing Ecosystems
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier conclude that honeybees are the simplest and most effective species to reintroduce to ecosystems collapsing from climate change. Their research was published in the journal Communications Biology.
Dec 22, 2023
Reviving Ecosystems: Maximizing Biodiversity Recovery Through Network-Based Restoration Strategies
Alumnus Udit Bhatia, PhD’18, civil and environmental engineering, and Auroop Ganguly, Distinguished Professor of CEE, were two of the co-authors of the paper “Network-based Restoration Strategies Maximize Ecosystem Recovery” published in Communications Biology. The paper discusses how global biodiversity loss demands predictive frameworks for ecosystem collapse and effective restoration strategies.
Nov 04, 2022
Insect Population Decline To Effect Pollination
Kate Duffy, PhD’21, interdisciplinary engineering, has been studying the effect of climate change on insect populations and their important role in our ecosystem. Her research was published in Nature Climate Change.
Oct 27, 2022
Effect of Climate Change on Ecological Populations
CEE Affiliated Faculty Tarik Gouhier and Professor Auroop Ganguly’s research on “Climate-mediated Shifts in Temperature Fluctuations Promote Extinction Risk” was published in Nature Climate Change.
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 […]
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.