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Joshua Voss, PhD | Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute | Florida Atlantic University | 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946 | Lab Phone: 772-242-2393 |
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Ashley Carreiro was recently awarded 2nd place for the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) master’s level scholarship award. Her proposal on The Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease was chosen to receive this scholarship against twenty-seven other reviewed proposals. Her research will be looking at the progression of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) on Montastraea cavernosa coral colonies on a reef off Fort Lauderdale beaches. She will be comparing the disease progression rates on SCTLD-affected colonies amended with moderate nutrients to the progression rates on unamended SCTLD- affected colonies. This scholarship will help her fund the water quality analysis needed to determine the changes of nutrient levels around the different experimental colonies. SCTLD was first described in 2014 and has been killing off corals along the east coast of Florida and wider Caribbean for the past seven years. It is still a mystery to what has caused this disease and how local stressors may influence the prevalence and spread. Ashley hopes that her research will answer some of the questions to which environmental stressors, specifically nutrient run-off, might cause this detrimental disease to persist and advance. Congrats, Ashley!
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