HABs

Mar 121 min read

New paper out: Divide and conquer: Spatial and temporal resource partitioning structures benthic cyanobacterial mats

Collaborator and PhD candidate Maya Powell led a review of resource partitioning by cyanobacterial mats in the context of important...

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Mar 121 min read

New paper out: Convergent photophysiology and prokaryotic assemblage structure in epilithic cyanobacterial tufts and algal turf communities

In this paper, we characterized genetic and physiological differences in algal and bacterial assemblages associated with cyanobacterial...

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Feb 7, 20231 min read

Sophie awarded NSF CAREER grant!

Sophie is proud and excited to begin working on her new NSF CAREER Award project, Species Interactions of Coral Reef Benthic...

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Aug 29, 20221 min read

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund Grant for Ethan's postdoctoral research in the Smokies

Ethan will be staying on in the McCoy Lab for his postdoctoral research, joining a project on blooms of Didymosphenia or 'rock snot' that...

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Jul 11, 20223 min read

New paper out: Cyanobacterial mats act as coral disease reservoirs

Check out our new paper out in Ecological Applications, and a Q&A with UNC's Kim Spurr on the importance of this study: UNC-Chapel Hill...

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Oct 7, 20192 min read

New paper out: Consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats on a Caribbean coral reef

New paper out in Scientific Reports: Consumption of benthic cyanobacteria mats on a Caribbean coral reef, led by PhD students Ethan...

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