Current SMS Fellows
Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellows:
Karen Arthur, University of Queensland, Australia
Project: The Chemical Ecology of Lyngbya sp. in Florida
(7/2006 - 12/2008)
J. Antonio Baeza, University of Louisiana at
Layfayette
Project: An empirical test of sex allocation theory in simultaneous
hermaphrodites using
marine shrimps Lysmata spp. as model systems
(5/2007 - 6/2008)
Jonathan Craft, The College of Charleston (Predoctoral
Fellow)
Project: Co-Evolution of Macroalgal-Herbivore Interactions on
Coral Reefs: Are Tropical Herbivores More Tolerant of Lipophilic
Secondary Metabolites Than Temperate Herbivores?
(May - July 2008)
James Douglass, College of William and Mary,
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Project: Impacts of marine reserves on seagrass ecology in tropical
and subtropical systems
(8/2008 - 8/2010)
Sarath Gunasekera, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: Isolation, Identification and Quantitative Analysis of
the Toxic Secondary Metabolites Associated with Cyanobacteria
Lyngbya spp. Blooms in Florida
(11/2006 - 1/2009)
Theresa Meickle, Florida Atlantic University
(Predoctoral Fellow supported by NSF GK-12)
Project: LyngbyaHAB: Ecology of Toxic Marine Cyanobacteria Lyngbya
spp. in Florida Estuarine and Coastal Waters
(summer 2007 - present)
Katharine Anne Rawlinson, University of New
Hampshire
Project: Comparative Embryonic and Post-Embryonic Development
of Polyclad Flatworms
(9/2007 – 8/2009)
Kathleen Semon, University of Miami
Evaluation of Driving Forces that Facilitate and Maintain Cyanobacteria
Blooms and Reef Phase Shifts across a Caribbean Gradient
(9/2007 – 8/2009)
Koty Sharp, University of California at San
Diego
Project: Investigation of Transmission of Microbes in Gametes
and Larvae in Two Caribbean Coral Genera (Montastrea
and Porites)
(2/2006 - 8/2008)
Link Foundation/Smithsonian Institution 12-Week Graduate Student
Fellow:
Andrew Gillis, University of Chicago
Project: Gill Slit Development in the Hemichordate, Saccoglossus
kowalevskii
(October - December 2008)
Kyle Glenn, California State University at Monterey
Bay, Moss Landing Marine Lab
Project: The Effects of Calcification on Nutrient Absorption in
Rhizophytic Algae
(June - August 2008)
Juliane Vogt, University of Dresden, Germany
Project: Analyzing the influence of canopy gaps on mangrove forest
dynamics: a
field study in the Indian River Lagoon
(April - June 2009)
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