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Karen Arthur
Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida
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Karen Arthur is a Postdoctoral
Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce.
She graduated with a PhD from the University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia in 2005 where she was looking at the feeding
ecology of green turtles and the implications of extensive and
long-lasting harmful algal blooms in their foraging habitat.
As a research fellow at the Smithsonian she is interested in
the impacts of harmful algal blooms on marine ecosystems, particularly
the impacts of nutrient addition on growth and secondary metabolite
production in the toxic cyanobacterium Lyngbya spp.
Her current research focuses on the role Lyngbya plays
in the ecosystem, potential causes of blooms and the fate of
toxins in food chains. Karen’s research uses innovative
techniques such as stable isotope analysis, toxicology and the
Crittercam® to elucidate how harmful algal blooms may be
impacting on the marine ecosystem
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