Raphael Williams is currently working as a technician in the field of marine chemical ecology at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce. His research interests include coral reef biodiversity and natural product diversity especially those compounds that influence evolution and ecology. Recent research projects include the feeding ecology of coral reef herbivores and predators, shallow-water gorgonian diversity, chemical richness in deep-sea gorgonians, coral and macroalgae/cyanobacteria allelopathic interactions, and chemical cues for larval settlement and metamorphosis.