About
Dr. Andrew Villeneuve is a marine biologist based at Friday Harbor Labs (University of Washington, USA). He is interested in how marine organisms are responding to heatwave events through the lens of physiology. He uses experimental and modeling tools to build predictive models of ecophysiological stress in marine invertebrates, with the goal of applying these models for applied ecological and fisheries management needs.
Andrew earned his PhD from the University of New Hampshire, where his research focused on building heat stress models for oysters and gorgonians. Previously, he studied local adaptation of a widely distributed marine snail to understand the role of evolution in driving population-level responses to climate change. He was also a 2021 Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with NOAA Fisheries.
Andrew is a co-team lead for the Thermo ToleRate working group through the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL), which seeks to understand the diversity of organisms' heat stress adaptations and test the ability for current heat stress models to predict population crashes in response to extreme heat events. He is an active member of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, in which he served as a co-chair for the early career working group from 2024-2026.
Joined
October 2026
