Seminars

About Nick: "My graduate research training encompassed a combination of biophysical and physiological tools used to describe how organism responds to changes in environmental conditions. For my masters research, I focused on the effects of the light microenvironment influencing the photophysiology and growth of scleractinian coral. For my dissertation research, I explored the physiological responses of Fucus vesiculosus, a basal primary producer, to environmental drivers (i.e., temperature and nutrient enrichment) through the use of photosynthesis and growth measurements.

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Facilitation cascades arise where primary foundation species facilitate secondary (dependent) foundation species and collectively, they increase habitat complexity and quality to enhance species richness and abundance. In this seminar, I will present results from field experiments, lab experiments, correlational studies and models that indicate facilitation cascades created by spatial overlap of cordgrass and ribbed mussel foundation species are powerful drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience to climate change in southeastern US salt marshes.

Dr. Behl is the Associate Director and Public Service Assistant for Georgia Sergeant. She has interests in science policy and ethics, geoscience 

education and communication, as well as in large-scale ocean circulation and air-sea interactions.

Dr. Dissanayake is a postdoctoral researcher working on modeling aggregation and export of marine particle and oil in the water column in Dr. Burd’s lab at UGA. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Scott Socolofsky at Texas A&M University.

"Functional Characterization of Vitamin Transport and Metabolism in Microbes" (Sponsored jointly by the Department of Marine Sciences and the UGA Microbiome Seminar Series). Dr. Wright conducts research on activity-based proteomics by which proteins are captured from microbes or the environment based on their function.

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