Research Fellowship Recipients
Ruth Gates Fellowship
2020
- Aliyah Griffith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
2019
- Till Roethig, University of Derby, United Kingdom
Graduate Research Fellowships
2021
- Natalie Anderson, University of York
- Emily Chei, University of Hong Kong
- Benjamin Farmer, Louisiana State University
- Akacia Halliday-Isaac, University of Mississippi
- Katherine Lawson, State University of New York
- Clayton Vondriska, Arkansas State University
2020
- Rachel Carlson, Stanford University, United States of America. Project: Strength in small places: mapping coral larvae in a warming ocean
- Matías Gómez Corrales, University of Rhode Island, United States of America. Project: Cryptic diversity matters for coral conservation
- Charlotte Page, University of New South Wales, Australia. Project: Microbial dynamics during coral reef restoration: the impacts of environment on meta-organism function
- Rodrigo Rodríguez Vázquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Mexico. Project: Spatiotemporal evaluation of juvenile corals dynamics in a critical condition reef by underwater multispectral orthomosaics
- Twinkle Sebastian, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, India. Project: Regime shifts in Lakshadweep atoll reef ecosystem
- Kevin Wong, University of Rhode Island, United States of America.Project: Determine the mechanisms driving cross-generational plasticity in reef-building corals to thermal stress
2019
- Jessica Bellworthy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Project: Parental effect of chronic copper exposure during brooding on the thermal tolerance of planulae
- Naomi Huntley, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Project: Shifts in the coral associated microbial community following stony coral tissue loss disease infection
- Igor Pessoa, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Project: Accurate trace metal analysis of coral skeletons: anthropogenic influences in corals at Ilha Grande Bay, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
- Krishnaveny Saranadha, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala, India Project: Coral disease distribution at Lakshadweep atolls
- Sterling Tebbett, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Project: Functioning of climate-transformed coral reefs
- Diana Ugalde, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sisal Hunucmá, Yucatán México Project: Scales of spatial variation of marine sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) diversity of southern Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean coral reefs
2018
- Alexander Fordyce, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, AustraliaProject: The use of Computer Tomography to investigate fine scale structure, density and porosity of coral skeletons following thermal stress and resulting chemical dissolution by microbial endoliths
- Remi Ketchum, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USAProject: Molecular and microbial mechanisms of thermal adaptation in the keystone urchin, Echinometra mathaei, along the Arabian Peninsula
- Athira Prasad, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala, IndiaProject: Climate Change and Population Connectivity of Lakshadweep Atolls
- Amanda Ramos Romero, University of Havana, Playa, La Habana, CubaProject: Influence of benthic algae on larval behavior and settlement of the coral Acropora palmata
- Maria Santos, University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, JapanProject: Sibling zoantharian species: connectivity and associated zooxanthellae
- Karina Scavo Lord, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USAProject: Evaluating the role of mangroves as refugia for the branching reef coral, Porites divaricata
2017
- Arulananthan Ashani, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Project: A Baseline Survey of coral reefs and genetic diversity analysis of coral species in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka
- Wing Chan, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria & Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Project: Assisted evolution via hybridization: A new potential approach in coral reef restoration
- Erin Dillon, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA Project: Reconstructing historical shark communities on Curaçao using a novel paleoecological tool
- Yohan Louis, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius Project: Spatial and temporal modulation of the expression of Heat Shock Proteins in the coral Acropora muricata before and during the 2016 El Niño.
- James Price, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Project: Coral resilience to global change: roles of the microbiome and animal physiology
- Aida Sofia Rivera Sotelo,University of California, Davis, California, USA Project: Coral Ecologies – An Ethnography of social relations in the Caribbean coast of Colombia
2016
- Archana Anand, Hong Kong University, Hong KongProject: Linking sewage impacts to ecosystem decline in a human impacted marine environment
- Danielle Claar, University of Victoria, Victoria, CanadaProject: Elucidating mechanisms of coral reef resilience to local stressors and El Niño on the world’s largest atoll
- James Dimond, University of Washington, Seattle, USAProject: The role of DNA methylation in the response of tropical reef corals to environmental change
- Laura Marangoni, Federal University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, BrazilProject: Interactive effects of acidification, increasing temperature and micronutrient enrichment on the physiology of Mussismilia harttii (Scleractinia, Mussidae) – implications of concurrent climate and non-climate stressors
2007-2015
- 2015 Giverny Rodgers, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, AustraliaProject: Climate Change in a Stable Thermal Environment: Effects on the Performance and Life History of Coral Reef Fish
- 2015 Benjamin Titus, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USAProject: Phylogeographic Reconstruction Reveals Extensive Cryptic Diversity in a Common Symbiosis from the Tropical Western Atlantic
- 2009 Rowan Trebilco, Simon Fraser University, AustraliaProject: A size-spectrum approach to assessing coral reef fisheries impacts, habitat effects and ecosystem baselines
- 2007 Jez Roff, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, AustraliaProject: Historical ecology of coral communities from the inshore Great Barrier Reef
- 2007 Heidi Schuttenberg, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia & CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Project: Understanding and strengthening effective coral reef governance: a map and compass to guide strategic change in Southeast Asia
