Julia Notar, PhD


Researcher in Visual Ecology

I earned my PhD in Sönke Johnsen’s lab, where I studied the visual ecology of marine invertebrates. I’m interested in animals with distributed sensory and visual systems – what can these animals see and what decisions do they make with the information they can gather from the environment? My research mostly focuses on sea urchins and their visually-guided behavior in a comparative context. While I primarily work with urchins, I am also interested in other echinoderms, marine invertebrates, and distributed and low-resolution visual systems more broadly.