Biology
Department

Education:

B.A. (Honors) in Biology, Occidental College; Ph.D. in Marine Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

• Principles of Biology II
• Chesapeake Bay Science
• Marine and Estuarine Botany
• Ecology of Coastal Systems
• Tropical Biology
• St. Mary's Project

Research Interests:

• Developing methods for culturing seagrasses with the goal of providing plants for seagrass restoration.
• Habitat requirements of seagrasses. What factors influence the survival and growth of particular species?
• Disease resistance in seagrasses. We are studying how environmental factors influence seagrass disease resistance to the wasting disease pathogen, Labyrinthula
• Water quality of the lower Potomac watershed and estuary. I’m the co-director (with Bob Paul) of the St. Mary’s River Project