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News from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab:
April 22, 2003 |
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Contact: Lisa Young 251/861-7509 Grant from ExxonMobil The Dauphin Island Sea Lab recently received a grant for $29,500 from ExxonMobil in support of the Labıs educational and research programs. The funds will go to assisting graduate students in their research activities; promoting BayMobile, the travelling marine science classroom of the Sea Lab; and sustaining other marine science outreach efforts. Senior Marine Scientist presentation Dr. William Schroeder, a Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Professor of Marine Science Program at The University of Alabama, presented a paper on "Seepage, carbonates, and cold-water corals in the Gulf of Mexico" in a special session on "Geosphere/biosphere coupling: Carbonate mounds and cold water corals" at the April 2003 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, in Nice, France. He also was one of the co-authors of a paper presented by a colleague from Florida State University titled "Fresh water export and riverine influence in the northern Gulf of Mexico." Graduate Students receive grants Derrick Blackmon, a Ph.D. student at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, recently was awarded a PADI Award grant for $900 for his research project, "Nocturnal emergence: A predatory escape response of small invertebrates from lower order reef fish in the Florida Keys." Nancy Hilbun, also a Ph.D student at the Sea Lab, was awarded a scholarship from the International Women's Fishing Association in the amount of $500.00. Graduate Students present papers at GERS Conference Graduate students from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab recently participated in the Gulf Estuarine Research Society (GERS) Conference in Port Aransas, Texas. Alina Corcoran, Carolanne Russell, Amy Hunter, and Matt Johnson all gave presentations. |
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