Michael J. Durako
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Department of Biological Sciences
Center for Marine Science
durakom@uncw.edu
Teaching
BIO340
- Plant Physiology - Syllabus
BIO340 - Plant Physiology, Lecture and Lab schedule
BIO340 - Lab Manual
BIO312 - Marine Botany -
Syllabus
BIO312 - Marine Botany,
Lecture and Lab schedule
BIO495 - Aquatic Photosynthesis, Senior
Seminar
BIO575 - Taxonomy of Aquatic and Wetland
Plants - Syllabus
BIO575 - Taxonomy of Aquatic
and Wetland Plants, Lecture and Lab Schedule
BIO495 - Population Dynamics of Seagrasses
Current Research Projects
| Florida
Bay Fish-Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP) SFWMD/USGS/ENP |
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| Summary of FHAP
Changes in the
Distribution and Density |
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Seagrass Die-Off Timeline: 1980's to 2001 |
Map of Florida Bay Seagrass Die-Off
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Distribution and Physiological Ecology of the coral Siderastrea spp. in Florida Bay |
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| High Salinity,
Nutrient and Multiple Stressor Effects Seagrass Communties of North
Eastern Florida Bay. Florida Atlantic University /South Florida Water Management District.
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| Summary of year 1 results. |
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| Multiscale
Assessment of the Morphometrics and Demography of
Thalassia testudinum (Turtlegrass): A New Approach to
Ecosystem Assessment. Florida Department of EnvironmentalProtection/ US EPA. |
| Effects of
Hurricanes on the Physiology, Distribution and Abundance of the Endangered Seagrass,
Halophila johnsonii UNCW/NOAA.
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| NOAA/UNCW
Coastal Ocean
Research and Monitoring Program
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Undergraduate Student
Research/Directed Independent Study
Andrea Wimmers Studies on the effects of salinity fluctuation on
the growth of Ruppia maritima.
Anna Prizzia, Macrophyte distribution and abundance in Florida
Bay.
Amy Dixon, The effects of rapid salinity changes on Zostera
marina L.
Jeanne Salmon, Changes in the shoot demography of Thalassia testudinum in
Florida Bay.
Darin Crew, The effects of the herbicide 2,4 D on the survival
and growth of Ruppia maritima and Myriophyllum
spicatum.
Jason Greene, The effects of sediment type on the growth of Halophila
johnsonii.
Steve Van Sluyter, Vitis rotundifolia cv. berries show significantly less
chitinase activity than berries from Vitis vinifera cvs. Cabernet
Sauvignon and Chardonnay
Lauren Thompson, Diel
variation in fluorescence characteristics in Thalassia testudinum
Lily
Sederstrom – Effects of salinity on photosynthesis and spectral reflectance of
red mangroves.
Graduate
Students
Lesley Muphy, BIO
Jill Paxson, MBY
John Hackney, MBY
Ronnie Dean, MBY
Paula Whifield MSC
Jennifer Kunzelman MBY
Amanda Kahn MBY, Ph.D
Brooke Landry MSC
Robert York MBY
Elizabeth Belsche MBY
Kathryn Chartrand MBY
Nathan Gavin MBY
Links to Other Marine Botany and Seagrass Sites
www.fiu.edu/~seagrass/
www.botany.hawaii.edu/seagrass
http://www.floridamarine.org/seagrass/
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