Dr. Gosnell’s work focuses on understanding the mechanisms, including human activity, that drive patterns in diversity, how diversity impacts ecosystem functioning, and how ecology can inform, motivate, and learn from management actions. His work employs and connects field, lab, and quantitative techniques in order to comprehensively examine these issues. Most of the lab’s field projects focus on understanding, restoring, and conserving coastal marine communities (e.g., oyster reefs, salt marshes, seagrass meadows), while lab and computational work explore topics including oil spill effects, diversity in hyperdiverse systems such as kelp forests and rain forests, and the practice of species reintroductions.
To learn more about Professor Gosnell’s work, please visit his website.
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