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Our Mission:
My lab employs a team approach to
problem solving and we emphasize field experimentation as the primary
means of attacking ecological problems. Our goal is to understand how physio-chemical and
biological factors such as competition and predation influence the
structure and function of nearshore marine ecosystems. While our emphasis
is on population and community ecology, we also work at the interface of
community and ecosystems ecology. We do both basic and applied research,
and our efforts range from investigating the role of larval abundance as
it influences the adult population size of blue crabs, to evaluating the
cascading trophic effects of overharvesting fish predators from coastal
systems.
Most of our efforts are focused on studying the plants
and animals inhabiting seagrass meadows, although we also are working on
coral and oyster reefs studies, and on the interactions between adjacent
seagrass and coral reef habitats.
Internship Opportunities in
the Marine Ecology Lab-
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