Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

UNAM. Roberto moved to the University
of California Santa Barbara,
where he received a Ph.D. in
aquatic and population biology.
After a year as a post-doctoral fellow
at UCSB, Dr. Iglesias-Prieto
moved in 1994 to the northern
Mexican state of Baja California to
take a position as a senior scientist
at the Center for Scientific Research
and Higher Studies of Ensenada.
Since 1996, Roberto has
been a research professor at
UNAM’s laboratory at Puerto
Morelos in the Caribbean coast of
the Yucatan Peninsula.
Roberto’s main research interest is
the photobiology of the symbiotic
associations between zooxanthellae
and reef-building corals. His work
has been focused on the ecological
and evolutionary consequences of
symbiont specificity in corals, the
effects of thermal and light stress
on the organization of the photosynthetic
apparatus of symbiotic dinoflagellates,
and the role of coral
skeletons as modulators of the intracellular
light environment. In addition
to his research interests in
coral reefs, Roberto is currently
serving as the head of the Scientific
and Technical Advisory Council on
Coral Reefs for the Mexican government.
Bob Cowen,
Rosenstiel School
of Marine &
Atmospheric
Science, USA
Population
Connectivity in
Coral Reef Systems
Tuesday, July 8, 2:00PM
Robert K. Cowen is the Robert C.
Maytag Professor of Ichthyology
and Chair of Marine Biology and
Fisheries at the University of
Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine
and Atmospheric Science. He
also holds a joint appointment as
Professor in the Department of Biology
at UM. He earned his B.A. at
UCSB, M.S. at the Moss Landing
Marine Laboratories and Ph.D. in
biological oceanography at the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
He has authored or co-authored
over 90 publications on
topics ranging from coastal fish
ecology and early life history, to
fishery oceanography, larval transport
and population connectivity.
His research has included both a
field-intensive empirical and biophysical
modeling approach to resolving
the mechanisms and the
population consequences of larval
dispersal. Dr. Cowen is currently
serving on the U.S. Ocean Research
and Resource Advisory
Panel (ORRAP), the Partnership for
Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal
Oceans (PISCO) External Advisory
Committee, NOAA/NSF CAMEO
Steering Committee, JOI Ocean
Observatory Interim Steering Committee,
and as CLIOTOP/GLOBEC
Early Life History Working Group
chair. His other service activities
have included ICCAT Technical Advisor,
Marine Reserve Consensus
Panel, hosting and participating in
various workshops on the topic of
marine population connectivity
and management of Caribbean
coral reefs. Dr. Cowen is also a
member of the Connectivity Working
Group of the GEF Coral Reef
Targeted Research Program.
11 th International Coral Reef Symposium ■ Reefs for the Future
Drew Harvell,
Cornell University,
USA
Drivers of Coral
Infectious Disease
Wednesday, July 9,
8:30AM
Drew Harvell is a professor of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology at
Cornell University. She is widely
recognized for her work on marine
diseases, chairing both the World
Bank Targeted Research Program
on Coral Disease and the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis program on the Ecology
of Marine Disease. The current
focus of Dr. Harvell’s laboratory
group is on the ecology and evolution
of coral resistance to disease.
A subtheme of this work includes
evaluating the impacts of a warming
climate on coral reef ecosystems.
Her analyses and papers
have led to the now widespread
acceptance that diseases in marine
ecosystems are important, particularly
in the very climate-sensitive
coral reef ecosystems. Projects in
her lab involve a variety of approaches,
including field studies,
molecular techniques, chemical
analyses and mathematical modeling.
She has worked for many
years on coral reefs in the Mexican
Yucatan and Florida Keys and more
recently in the Pacific. Her work
has been featured in national and
international media. Dr. Harvell
received her Ph.D. from the University
of Washington in 1985. Following
NATO and NSF
postdoctoral fellowships in 1986,
she joined the faculty of Cornell
University in 1986. She has been a
sabbatical fellow at National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
and Vice President of the Society
of American Naturalists, is a
senior scientist at The Kohala Center
and serves on the editorial
board of Annual Reviews of Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics.
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