Noelle Lucey

Noelle Lucey is a marine biologist studying ecophysiology at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, and leads the Marine Ecophysiology and Resilience Lucey Lab on Magueyes Marine Laboratories, on Isla Magueyes, La Parguera.

Lucey takes a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying the mechanisms underlying how cold-blooded organisms cope with multiple, intensifying anthropogenic stressors in tropical marine systems. This ecophysiology-based research targets and tests creative, field based approaches that may alleviate the most severe threats to marine life and improve future ocean health.

Lucey’s research aimed at understanding the physiological mechanisms shaping tropical marine systems is highly relevant to the field of both tropical physiology and ecology. As these field are often not well integrated, Lucey’s ability to bring organism-level physiology tools into the field to answer questions about how marine life is changing fills a much needed gap in tropical marine ecosystem research.

October 2026