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Brian Hopkinson
Assosciate Professor 102 Marine Sciences Bldg Department of Marine Sciences University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3636 Office Phone: (706) 542-7880 Lab Phone: 706-542-2037 bmhopkin@uga.edu |
Through photosynthesis, energy and carbon enter the marine food web providing food for higher trophic levels (such as fish). I study the ways in which phytoplankton acquire and process elements (mainly C and Fe) required for photosynthesis. The ways they acquire these elements differs among species, which affects the distribution and abundance of phytoplankton groups.
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Anna Tansik
Graduate Student 102 Marine Sciences Bldg Department of Marine Sciences University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3636 Phone: 706-542-2037 atansik@uga.edu |
I am looking at the flux of inorganic carbon into diatoms and symbiotic dinoflagellates using mass spectroscopy in order to illustrate the effects of variable dissolved organic carbon levels on photosynthesis. Understanding this can shed light on the ecological changes that occur in ecosystems such as coral reefs as climate continues to change.
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Daniel Baker
Graduate Student (co-advised by Bill Fitt, Ecology) 102 Marine Sciences Bldg Department of Marine Sciences University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3636 Phone: 706-542-2037 daniel.baker7@uga.edu |
I am analyzing a long term (>20 years) time series of data on coral and zooxanthellae properites from reefs in the Florida Keys.
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Daniel Owen
Graduate Student 102 Marine Sciences Bldg Department of Marine Sciences University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3636 Phone: 706-542-2037 dpo63634@uga.edu |
I am studying the productivity of different photosynthetic organisms on coral reefs including corals, gorgonians, and algae. The goal of the work is to estimate the productivity of these taxa at the reef scale by combining discrete measurements of primary production by these organisms with estimates of the their abundance on the reef from 3D photographic reconstructions of the reef.
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