Our next MEAS Dept. Seminar is this Monday, October 28, at 330PM in Biltmore 2010, in person and via Zoom.
Speaker – Emily Rivest, Assistant Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Seminar Title – Coastal ocean acidification: exposure, vulnerability, and strategies for adaptation
Bio – My research in global change biology sits at the intersection between physiological stress tolerance and environmental exposure. Current research projects examine the physiological consequences of global and local stressors for marine invertebrates in coastal ecosystems and employ complementary techniques from other disciplines (oceanographic sensor technology, environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, coastal ecology). My research program is centered around the mechanisms underlying acclimatization and local adaptation to environmental change, with a focus on anthropogenic stressors such as ocean acidification, ocean warming, and hypoxia, as well as natural environmental variability. This interdisciplinary program in physiological ecology employs laboratory and field-based experiments, with opportunities for students from a range of backgrounds. Study systems include oysters and other bivalves in the Chesapeake Bay, tropical reef corals, and mussels in the temperature rocky intertidal.