Jennifer Burnaford studies the effects of environmental stressors and human activity on rocky intertidal communities. She integrates a ‘small-scale’ physiological focus with ‘large-scale’ analysis of species interactions to examine community structure in the present and predict patterns under conditions of global change. Studies in her lab focus on organisms from seaweeds (e.g. how will high intertidal rockweeds respond to sea level rise?) to vertebrates (e.g. how do high temperatures during low tide affect the susceptibility of invertebrate prey items to consumption by birds?).