| Sally
Brennan is the University Programs’
registrar and administrative assistant. She has extensive
experience working with students, having been employed at Spring
Hill College and the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science.
Her love of the marine environment comes naturally: sailing is one
of her main hobbies. She has three children, and is delighted to
be here at the Sea Lab. "On my lunch break, I go visiting
different areas of the Lab and take it all in. It is incredible,
and I am so happy to be a part of it," Sally says
enthusiastically.
Dr. Ken Heck has two new postdoctoral fellows working in his laboratory. Dr. Per Moksnes received his Ph.D from Göteborg University in Sweden, and is currently researching the importance of nursery habitats and juvenile processes affecting recruitment in benthic |
||
|
|
||
| crustaceans.
While at the Sea Lab, he’ll be testing if juvenile crabs compete
for space within seagrass beds, and if cannibalism is an important
source of mortality for young crabs. He chose to work with Dr.
Heck because of the latter’s research reputation in the field of
blue crab larvae in Mobile Bay. Dr. Moksnes has brought his wife
Claudiaand son Anton for his two year postdoc stay. "One of
our biggest interests is to catch, cook and eat seafood, and it is
hard to imagine a better place than Dauphin Island for that sort
of activity," he smiles.
The other postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Heck’s shop is Dr. Silvia Ibarra. With a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Aix-Marseille II, Dr. Ibarra has been |
||
|
|
||
| working
as a full-time researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and
Higher Education of Ensenada in Mexico. Her research interests
center on marine plants, specifically seagrasses, and on the
ecology of coastal lagoons and the coastal zone in general. Dr.
Ibarra comes to us as a prestigious Fullbright Scholar, and she
will be here until December 2001. She is looking forward to visits
from her biologist husband and 17-year old son.
The last of our new faces is Sharyl Crossley, an aquarist at the Estuarium. Read more about her on page 9; she also contributed to our feature story about seahorses on page 12. |
||
|
|
||
