People

Channing Cantrell

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Biology)

MSc Student - Marine Biology

Auburn University

Research:

My research focuses on the benefits of nitrogenous wastes from

symbiotic shrimp on the Symbiodinium populations within

Bartholomea and the production of UV-protective compounds.

General:

Home town: Chattanooga, TN

Current town: Auburn, AL

Education:

BS: Biology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Minor: Chemistry

MS: Marine Biology - Auburn University, AL

(In Progress)

Contact:

Email: cec0032@auburn.edu

Hobbies:

Hiking, yoga, caving, SCUBA, swimming, disc golf,

and playing with my pit bull Bagheera.

Dr. Nanette E. Chadwick

Associate Professor

Auburn University

Research:

Marine invertebrate behavior, population dynamics, life

history evolution, ecology of symbioses, coral reef and sea

anemone ecology

General:

Home town: Modesto, CA

Current town: Auburn, AL

Education:

BS: University of California at Santa Barbara

PhD: University of California at Berkeley

Postdocs: Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science, Israel

Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University Medical School

Contact:

Mail: Dept. of Biological Sciences

101 Rouse Life Sciences Bldg.

Auburn University, AL 36849

Email: chadwick@auburn.edu

Phone: +1-334-844-8184

Fax: +1-334-844-1645

Hobbies:

Bicycling, organic gardening, gourmet cooking, quilting

The Chadwick Laboratory

Lab Members

Ashley Isbell

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Biology)

PhD Student - Marine Biology

Auburn University

Research:

Ensemble structure of shrimps symbiotic with the Caribbean sea

anemone Bartholomea annulata

My research has primarily been focused on crustaceans (lobsters, crayfishes, and shrimps) and sea anemones. My undergraduate research focused on the foraging ecology of the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus. I conducted research on how the risk of mandible fracture works together with optimal foraging theory to affect prey size selection when feeding on the cerith snail Cerithium lutosum. As a part of my undergraduate degree, I was involved in the NSF-IRES funded Jordan Project where I conducted research on the population structure of giant sea anemones at Aqaba, northern Red Sea. Following this, I became a Ph.D. student at Auburn University. I am beginning my third year at Auburn, and for my doctoral research, I plan to describe the distribution, abundance , and habitat use of crustaceans symbiotic with the corkscrew anemone Bartholomea annulata in the US Virgin Islands, and to assess how some aspects of inter-

specific competition and predation risk affect their

ensemble structure. B. annulata hosts the highest

diversity of crustacean symbionts in the Caribbean,

which include 4 shrimps (all obligate associates), 1

mysid (obligate), and 1 crab (facultative).

General:

Home town: Red Bay, AL

Current town: Auburn, AL

Education:

BS: Biology - Univ. Northern Alabama

PhD: Marine Biology - Auburn University, AL

(In Progress)

Contact:

     Mail: 131 Funchess Hall
             Auburn University
             Auburn, AL 36849

Email: adi0001@auburn.edu

Hobbies:

SCUBA, running, volleyball, reading, writing

Website: Personal

Joe Krieger

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Biology)

MSc Student - Marine Biology

Auburn University

Research:

Effects of recreational diving on coral reefs at Key Largo, Florida

Keys

Ecotourism often is promoted as an ecologically-friendly use of natural resources, however if not managed carefully, can cause negative impacts to ecosystems. Recent increases in anthropogenic stressors, including recreational scuba diving, have caused extensive damage to coral reefs worldwide, but the effects of these activities are only beginning to be widely understood and applied to coastal resource management. In the Florida Keys, minimal government involvement in regulating recreational diver behavior has led to local dive shops being mainly responsible for promoting diver behavior that reduces damage to the reef ecosystem. We determined patterns of recreational dive frequency and damage to reef corals at selected sites near Key Largo, and analyzed the effects of pre-dive briefings and other factors on diver behavior. Current rates of diver-coral interactions indicate that current rates of recreational diving on some reefs in Key Largo appear to be ecologically unsustainable. This study reveals severe ecological consequences of current management practices of

diving tourism in Florida, and provides recommend-

ations to mitigate some of the negative consequences

of this intensive recreational diving.

General:

Home town: Ionia, MI

Current town: Auburn, AL

Education:

BS: Biology, Central Michigan University, MI

MS: Marine Biology - Auburn University, AL

(In Progress)

Contact:

Email: jrk0009@auburn.edu