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B. Aronson
Richard B. Aronson
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
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Rich Aronson is a Senior Marine
Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama. He received
his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Harvard
University in 1985. His primary research focus is understanding
how large-scale processes, including climate change, disease,
overfishing and nutrient loading, control the geology and ecology
of coral reefs on time scales ranging from decades to millennia.
To that end, he has been coring reefs underwater in Belize,
Panama and Jamaica for the past 15 years. A second area of interest
is climate change in Antarctica and its implications for species
invasion and community turnover. In 2004 Rich coauthored a report
titled “Coral Reefs and Global Climate Change” for
the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He is currently President
of the International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS). Rich is
grateful for the support he has received from Smithsonian programs
since 1986. |
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