At METAL, Angie works on a variety of different projects, all with an emphasis on marine ecotoxicology. Her current projects include:
Measuring mercury concentrations and stable isotope ratios along the length of SSL whiskers to try to understand how dietary changes influence mercury intake
Investigating how a shift to a predominantly marine diet in Alaskan coastal wolves has led to an increase in mercury concentrations in those populations
Understanding mercury concentrations in the lower trophic levels (marine invertebrates) in the Aleutian Islands, including in regions where SSL have shown an increase in mercury concentrations
2014
B.S. Marine Biology, Minor Environmental Science
University of Alaska Southeast
2019
M.S. Marine Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thesis: Harmothoe imbricata: species complex or complex species?
Advisor: Drs. J. Andres Lopez and Sarah Hardy
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
2020–Present
Research Professional
Marine Ecotoxicology and Trophic Assessment Lab (METAL)
Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC)
2018
Graduate Research Assistant
Wildlife Toxicology Lab
2016
Laboratory Technician
Wildlife Toxicology Lab
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation, Fairbanks, AK
2018–2020
Fish and Wildlife Technician IV
Museum of the North, Fishes and Marine Invertebrates Collection, University of Alaska
2017–2018
Graduate Research Assistant
2014–2016
Collections Technician
Gastaldi A, Bishop A, Rea LD (2023) How small can you go? Using a direct mercury analyzer to measure mercury in vibrissae of Steller sea lions. Marine Mammal Science 39(3):1005–1010.
Avery JP, Castellini JM, Misarti N, Keenan M, Gastaldi A, Funk C, … Rea LD (2023) Evaluating methods for determining mercury concentrations in ancient marine fish and mammal bones as an approach to assessing millennial-scale fluctuations in marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11(October):1–11.
Keogh MJ, Gastaldi A, Charapata P, Melin S, Fadely BS (2020) Stress-related and reproductive hormones in hair from three north Pacific otariid species: Steller sea lions, California sea lions and northern fur seals. Conservation Physiology 8(1):1–3.
Everson K M, McLaughlin JF, Cato IA, Evans MM, Gastaldi AR, Mills KK, … Winker K (2019) Speciation, gene flow, and seasonal migration in Catharus thrushes (Aves:Turdidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139(April).
