I’ve become interested in the relative impacts of carnivores  and omnivores in structuring marine communities.  In NC estuaries, omnivores may play a large role in structuring algal communities due to their larger body sizes compared to the relatively small herbivorous amphipods and isopods in

Something is eating my ulva. I’m culturing the green algae, collected from seagrass beds near the lab, in 60L mesocosms provided with flow through sea water from dump buckets. To promote growth, I provided each mesocosm with Osmocote (slow release fertilizer). But, instead of improving the culture

Last weekend I poked around the Sutherland research docks at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort. I was surprised at how different the fouling community assemblage is here compared to back on the West Coast. The research dock boasted some botryllids, bugula, and a lot of filamentous algae. The water

I’m not so sure how I feel about statisticians with a sense of humor...

 

Midterm, Problem 4:

 

In the religion of Statistics:

   1. Who are the priests?

   2. Who are the mendicant friars?

   3. What vow do graduate students usually take in this  

       religion?

   4. Name an act that will invoke