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Dr. Richard B. Aronson, Senior Marine
Scientist, Dauphin island Sea Lab (DISL) and Professor of Marine
Sciences, University of South Alabama (USA), received a grant of
$152,019 from the Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies (ACES) at USA for
"Impacts of salt marsh restoration on ecosystem function and export to
estuarine environments." He also received a grant of $25,000 from the
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) for "Trophic
dynamics of a created salt marsh in coastal Alabama."
Dr. Just Cebrian, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Assistant
Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, received $30,760 from ACES for
"Impacts of hurricanes on the natural and restored recovery of Juncus
roemerianus in Alabama's critical salt marsh habitat.” He is
conducting this research with Principal Investigator Dr. Anne
Boettcher, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, USA. Dr.
Cebrian also received $300,307 from Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Consortium (MASGC) for "Evaluating the role of restored black needlerush
marsh (Juncus roemerianus) as a buffer of anthropogenic
eutrophication of coastal systems: an isotope enrichment approach.” The
Coastal Zone Management Agency awarded Dr. Cebrian and Dr. Ken Heck,
Senior Marine Scientist, (DISL) and Professor of Marine Sciences, (USA),
$15,000 for “Effects of oyster restoration on the quality of Alabama
Coastal Waters: towards an accurate evaluation of the role of oysters as
water cleaning agents.”
Dr. John Dindo, Senior Marine Scientist and Chair of K-12
Education and Public Outreach, DISL, received $48,000/year for 2006-2010
to conduct educator workshops for the National Science Foundation’s
Center for Ocean Science Excellence in Education. He received four
grants from the MASGC: $36,000 for Aquatic Invasive Species; $28,960
for Marine Biotechnology; $45,788 for Educational Enhancement; and
$10,000 mini-grant for a Remote Operated Vehicle exhibit in the
Estuarium. Dr. Dindo received $8,000 from National Sea Grant to publish
a special issue of Current on Aquatic Invasive Species; $12,000
from Shell Oil Foundation to maintain a summer program for minority
science teachers; and $74,000 from the Alabama State Department of
Education to conduct teacher workshops on Marine Applied Science and
Technology.
Dr. Ken Heck received $5,000 from ADCNR for “Post Hurricane
Katrina Damage Assessment of Seagrass Resources of Coastal Alabama”;
$200,000 from NOAA-USA Oyster Restoration Program for “Restoring
Estuarine Landscapes in Alabama Coastal Waters Through Creation of
Oyster Reefs. NOAA-USA Oyster,” sharing this grant with Dr. Sean
Powers, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Assistant Professor of
Marine Sciences, USA; $77,141 from the Gulf of Mexico Program for
“Restoration of prop scar damaged shoalgrass, Halodule wrightii,
meadows in the Mobile Bay watershed”; and $12,600 from the National Park
Service for “Post Hurricane Katrina damage assessment of seagrass
resources of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.”
Dr. Hugh MacIntyre, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Assistant
Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, received $54,702 from ACES for "An
Integrated Study on the Impacts of Watershed Changes on the Turbidity
and Biological Productivity in the Mobile Bay Estuary, AL”; $35,756 from
Alabama Oyster Reef Restoration Program for "Harmful Algal Blooms and
Oyster Restoration in Mobile Bay"; and $7,500 from Gulf Coat Geospatial
Center, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico Program , for
"Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico"
Dr. Sean Powers, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Assistant
Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, received $90,000 from the National
Science Foundation. for “Responses of fish and crabs to nearshore
habitat degradation in Lake Pontchartrain caused by Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita.” This is a collaborative project with Dr. Mark Benfield,
Louisiana State University, Coastal Fisheries Institute. Dr. Powers also
received $50,000 from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council for
“Trophic dynamics of intertidal soft-sediment communities: interaction
between top-down and bottom-up processes.”
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