Research Collaborations

Collaborations over the past two years (2012-2013)

Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge - Community-based coral propagation and restoration.

Florida International University - Influence of coral colony outplant genetic diversity on growth and survival, disease prevalence and spread, coral predator density and colony selection and Symbiodinium composition and density.

Florida International University - The roles of nutrient enrichment and herbivore pressure in driving algal abundance, coral growth and microbial communities on a coral reef.

Florida Keys Community College - Marine Data Collection - student fieldtrip.

Florida Tech - Determining vectors for transmission of coral diseases.

HBOI - Determining the molecular basis of susceptibility to disease in Floridian corals.

HBOI - Resistance, Recovery, and Restoration: Assessing Trade Offs in Ecological Strategies of Floridian Corals.

HBOI - Determining the molecular basis of susceptibility to disease in corals.

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium - Undergraduate course in tropical marine biology.

NOVA Southeastern University - Investigation of genotypic variations in growth rates of Staghorn coral - implications for coral restoration.

Oregon State University - Experimental assessment of the effects of eutrophication on coral disease prevalence and coral-associated microbe populations.

Penn State University - Gene expression due to temperature stress in Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) with respect to long-term environmental acclimation and genotypic variation.

Rollins College - Continued investigation of the white pox disease pathogen, Serratia marcescens.

Rollins College - Ecology of a Reverse Zoonosis: Human-Environment Interactions in the Transmission, Persistance, and Virulence of White Pox Disease in Elkhorn Coral.

SCUBAnauts International - Community-based coral propagation and restoration.

Seaworld - Utilization of rescued corals of opportunity for education.

Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program - Development of scientific diver training courses to be held in the Florida Keys.

Smithsonian Field Station - Continued investigation of inhibitors to Porites astreoides coral larvae settlement.

Tulane University - Water-borne transmission and cross-infection of Aspergillosis in the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Utilization of rescued corals of opportunity for Quantification of stressor-response relationships in corals.

U.S. Geological Society - Monitoring coral and algal calcification: understanding spatial and temporal variation in the context of ocean acidification, warming, and water quality.

University of Buffalo - Coral spawning - collections for ongoing larval research.

University of Texas - Gene expression in Porites asteroides exposed to prolonged thermal stress.

University of Texas - Coral spawning: collections for ongoing larval research.

University of Richmond - Investigation of zooxanthellate sponges in the Florida Keys.

University of Georgia - Developing remote sensing technology to measure stress/disease in coral.

University of Georgia - Long-term monitoring of Acropora palmata.

University of Houston - Gene expression and bacterial changes during the stress response of soft corals.

University of Miami - Developing and testing methods for the sequencing of coral genomes.

University of Michigan - Determining cause and effects of shifts from coral dominated to algal dominated reefs.

University of Michigan - Role of bacterial assemblages in the biomedical use of Ectinascidea turbinata.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science - How does the gastrovascular system in perforate and imperforate corals affect physiological response to environmental stress?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Investigation of fundamental or persistent microbial associates residing within coral tissue involved in nitrogen transformations.