Fio Micheli (Stanford), Joachim Claudet (CNRS) and Craig taught another version of their meta-analysis class (Introduction to Meta-analysis in Ecology) this summer at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, CA. We had a terrific group of students from Stanford (along with two students from UF — thanks to Lianne and Jana for coming so Read More …
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Congratulations (and I’m not talking science)!
Science is central to our lives, but there are more important things… congratulations to Lianne and Phillip, Paula and Norbert, Adrian and Blake, and Elizabeth and Jesse on their upcoming (or recent!) weddings (or elopements). Well done!
Adrian is headed to UCSB!
Adrian Stier has accepted a faculty position at UC Santa Barbara [he completed his PhD in the Osenberg lab in 2012 and went on to post-docs at UBC, NCEAS/NOAA, and UW]. He starts this fall in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology. Congratulations Adrian!
Enrichment scale is out at Oecologia
Our “scale of enrichment” paper was published online recently in Oecologia (it also was picked up by a Huffington Post blogger), which shows that small-scale experiments may overestimate the ability of herbivores to control algal blooms that result from nutrient enrichment. Congratulations to Mike and Jing!
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Gil!
Mike successfully defended his dissertation (Context dependence in effects of nutrient enrichment on tropical coral reefs) on Oct 8th to the accolades of his PhD committee (thanks to Suzie Mills, Rob Fletcher, Gustav Paulay, Brian Silliman, and Tom Frazer for all of their support and insight). Mike will be teaching a field course in Marine Read More …
Welcome our newest lab members
We are delighted to welcome Amy Briggs, Rebecca Atkins, and Dr. Paula Pappalardo to our lab. Amy is just finishing her MS at CSU Northridge with Bob Carpenter (she joins previous CSUN alums Lianne Jacobson and Anya Brown in our lab). Rebecca has actually been with us for a year (working as a tech), but she Read More …
Meta-analysis course in Faro, Portugal
Joachim Claudet (CNRS) and Craig taught another version of their meta-analysis class (Introduction to Meta-analysis in Ecology) this summer. We were hosted by CCMAR (Universidade do Algarve; Barbara H. Costa and Karim Erzini) and had a great group of students (see the class photo). We usually teach the course with Fio Micheli (Stanford Univ.), but Read More …
Mass mortality of C. maximum in Moorea, French Polynesia
During our July 2015 surveys in Moorea, French Polynesia, we observed a massive mortality event of our focal study organism, Cereasignum (previously Dendropoma) maximum.
MPA Assessment
A new book on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) edited by Joachim Claudet is now available from Cambridge University Press. In chapter 7 of this book, we explore the evaluation of MPAs using different impact assessment designs (Control-Impact, Before-After-Control-Impact, and Before-After-Control-Impact-Paired-Series) as well as the possibility of covarying effects of biogenic habitat and fish populations in affecting estimates of Read More …
Ocean Bridges
Our Ocean Bridges program (funded by the French-American Cultural Exchange’s Partnership University Fund) has been a very successful collaboration between UF (Craig Osenberg’s and Gustav Paulay’s labs) and CRIOBE/University of Perpignan (Suzie Mills’, Serge Planes’, and Rene Galzin’s labs). In recent years, we worked on a symbiosis between coral and its crustacean inhabitants. Pocillopora is a common Read More …