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My research focuses on marine ecosystem responses; understanding relationships between organisms and their environment and specific biological and physiological responses to environmental change. In particular, I am interested in the mechanisms by which anthropogenic-driven perturbations affect coastal habitats and species. I give special focus to assessing nutritional importance of food sources, discerning physiological state of organisms, and historically tracing responses to environmental change for commercially important coastal bivalves, horseshoe crabs, and manatees.
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Nicole Taylor |
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Graduate Students
Heater Patterson, PhD Student
"Use of stable isotope ratios and protein regulation to detect dissolved oxygen stress in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica" |
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Allen Aven, PhD Student
"Habitat use by the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Alabama waters" |
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Interns
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2010
Katie Interlicha (Vassar College, NY)
Erik Brush (Auburn University, AL)
Emily Stauss (Spring Hill College, AL)
Courtney Miller (University of South Alabama, AL)
2009
Carolyn Kovacs (College of William & Mary; Williamsburg, VA)
Maury Estes (Directed Study; Alabama A&M, AL)
2008
Allen Aven (NGI; University of Memphis, TN)
Heather Juedes (Directed Study; Auburn Univ., AL)
2007
Joshua Daskin (REU; Brandeis Univ., MA)
Lauren Waters (Directed Study; Auburn Univ., AL)
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High School Interns
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2010
Jacy Baggett (Murphy High School, AL)
2007
Cameron Welch (Benjamin Russel High School, AL) |
Former Graduate Students
Peter Biancani, MS 2010
Seasonal and spatial effects of wastewater effluent on oyster growth, survival, and accumilation of pathogens in Mobile Bay, AL.
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