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MENTORS
Each student
will be guided by one of the 16 potential mentors listed below. The areas of
mentors' research cover a broad range of disciplines in environmental
biology. All mentors are currently developing these research areas in the
Caribbean Basin.
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Research Area
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Leader
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Potential Mentors
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Marine Biology and Environments in the Caribbean Basin
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Dr. Walter
Goldberg
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W. Anderson, D. Childers, L. Collins, J.
Fourqurean, W. Goldberg, Chris Brown
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Environmental Biology of Terrestrial Caribbean
Ecosystems
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Dr.
Daniel Childers
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W. Anderson, D. Childers, J. Fourqurean, S.
Koptur, D. Lee, S. Oberbauer, J. Trexler, M. Donnelly, E. Gaiser
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Organismal Biodiversity and Conservation in the
Caribbean Basin
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Dr.
Bradley Bennett
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B. Bennett, T. Collins, J. Trexler, J. Ortega, S.
Koptur, D. Lee
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Caribbean Paleoenvironments and Geology
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Dr.
Laurel Collins
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W. Anderson, L. Collins, G. Draper.
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More
details about the 16 potential mentors and their main areas of research and
teaching are listed below.
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Mentor
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Unit*
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Main Areas of Research and
Teaching
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Dr. William T.
Anderson
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Earth,SERC
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Stable isotope biogeochemistry, high-resolution
paleoclimatology
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Dr. Bradley C. Bennett
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Bio,EnvSt
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Neotropical ethnobotany, vascular epiphyte
ecology,
vegetation dynamics of southern Florida, ethics and
conservation
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Dr. Chris Brown
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Bio
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FIU Marine Biology Program, endocrine regulation
of development in fish, fish growth and
reproduction, aquaculture in the developing world
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Dr.
Daniel Childers
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Bio, SERC
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Wetland ecosystems, wetland biogeochemistry,
landscape ecology, ecological modeling
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Dr. Laurel S. Collins
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Bio,Earth
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Marine paleoecology, paleoenvironments, invertebrate
paleobiology, foraminiferal evolution & biogeography
in Tropical America
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Dr. Timothy M.
Collins
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Bio
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Molecular systematics, systematic theory,
molecular biogeography, metazoan (especially molluscan)
phylogeny
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Dr.
Maureen Donnelly
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Bio
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Ecology and evolutionary biology of tropical
amphibians and reptiles
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Dr. Grenville Draper
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Earth
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Structural geology, metamorphic geology and
tectonics,
especially of the Caribbean, Central America & Mexico
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Dr. James W. Fourqurean
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Bio, SERC
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Marine ecosystems (especially nearshore
estuarine),
seagrass
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Dr. Javier Francisco-Ortega
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Bio, FTBG
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Tropical plant molecular systematics, conservation
genetics, origin and evolution of island plants, plant
biogeography
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Dr. Evelyn Gaiser
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Bio, SERC
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Aquatic Ecology, Algal Biology, Paleolimnology,
Diatom Taxonomy
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Dr. Walter M.
Goldberg
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Bio
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Coral reef ecology, coral ultrastructure and
biochemistry, oceanography, marine biology
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Dr. Suzanne Koptur
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Bio
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Plant-herbivore interactions, pollination biology,
fire ecology, conservation ecology, ecology of
South Florida
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Dr. David W. Lee
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Bio
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Functional ecology of tropical forest plants,
especially function and development in understory,
secondary compounds, ecology
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Dr. Steven F. Oberbauer
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Bio
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Plant ecological physiology, photosynthesis and
cell-water relations of tropical forest, response of
plants to climate change
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Dr. Joel C. Trexler
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Bio
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Population and community ecology, population
and ecological genetics, especially of fishes and
endangered species
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Bio = Department of Biological
Sciences,
Earth = Department of Earth Sciences,
EnvSt = Department of Environmental
Studies,
FTBG = Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden,
SERC = Southeast Environmental Research Center
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