Media Contact: Lisa Young
251/861-7509Dr. Richard Aronson, Senior Marine
Scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) and Professor of Marine
Sciences, University of South Alabama (USA), recently received $25,000
from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR),
State Lands Division, Coastal Section to investigate trophic dynamics of
a created salt marsh in coastal Alabama. He also received $152,019 from
EPA’s Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies to research impacts of
salt-marsh restoration on ecosystem function and export to estuarine
environments.
Dr. Ken Heck, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL and Professor of Marine
Sciences, USA, received $200,000 from NOAA-USA Oyster Restoration
Program for research on restoring estuarine landscapes in Alabama’s
Coastal Waters through the Creation of Oyster Reefs. He also received
$52,000 to maintain the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Heck and Dr. John Dindo, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL, received
$52,336 from the Gulf of Mexico Foundation for a restoration and
protection project of grassbeds surrounding Robinson Island.
Dr. Hugh MacIntyre, Senior Marine Scientist, DISL, and Assistant
Professor of Marine Sciences, USA, received $24,500 from ADCNR for
research on Little Lagoon as an Incubator Site for the Harmful
Bloom-Forming Diatom Pseudo-Nitzschia. He also received $270,274 from
The Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environment
Technology to study Improved Characterization of Microalgal Abundance
and Taxonomic Status through Laser-Induced Fluorescence.
Dr. MacIntyre is currently spending this summer as a Research Fellow at
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire
d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-mer (France)
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