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• Current and Past Graduate Students
• All Publications

• Chris Guo
• Emily Nicholson
• Riley O'Neil

* = student author

Edwards, M., B. Konar, J-H Kim, S. Gabara, G. Sullaway, T.A. McHugh, M. Spector, and S.L. Small. 2020. Marine deforestation leads to widespread loss of ecosystem function. PLoS ONE.

Ulaski,* B.P., B. Konar, and E.O. Otis. 2020. Seaweed reproduction and harvest rebound in southcentral ��������: implications for wild stock management. Estuaries and Coasts.

Bland,* A., B. Konar, and M. Edwards. 2019. Spatial trends and environmental drivers of epibenthic shelf community structure across the Aleutian Islands. Continental Shelf Research 175:12–29.

Metzger,* J.R., B. Konar, and M.S. Edwards. 2019. Assessing a macroalgal foundation species: community variation with shifting algal assemblages. Marine Biology 166:156.

Duffy, J.E., L. Benedetti-Cecchi, J. Trinanes, F.E. Muller-Karger, R. Ambo-Rappe, C. Boström, A.H. Buschmann, J. Byrnes, R.G. Coles, J. Creed, L.C. Cullen-Unsworth, G. Diaz-Pulido, C.M. Duarte, G.J. Edgar, M. Fortes, G. Goni, C. Hu, X. Huang, C.L. Hurd, C. Johnson, B. Konar, et al. 2019. Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:317.

Konar, B., T.J. Mitchell,* K. Iken, H. Coletti, T. Dean, D. Esler, M. Lindeberg, B. Pister, and B. Weitzman.* 2019. Wasting disease and static environmental variables drive sea star assemblages in the Northern Gulf of ��������. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 520:151209.

Ebert, T.A., L.M. Barr, J.L. Bodkin, D. Burcham, D. Bureau, H.S. Carson, N. Caruso, J.E. Caselle, J.T. Claisse, S. Clemente, K. Davis, et al. 2018. Size, growth, and density data for shallow‐water sea urchins from Mexico to the Aleutian Islands, ��������, 1956–2016. Ecology 99(3): 761–761.

• phycology
• research scuba diving
• intertidal ecology
• ecosystem change
• kelp forest ecology
• biological and physical drivers of nearshore communities
• trophic downgrading

• Habitat degradation in kelp forests due to melting glaciers
• Arctic kelp beds in the Beaufort Sea: Detection of long-term change (BOEM)
• Long-term monitoring of ecological communities in Kachemak Bay
• Changes in ecosystem production and benthic biodiversity following the widespread loss of an ecosystem engineer
• Evaluation of nearshore communities and habitats—ecological processes in Lower Cook Inlet

MSL 692 Controversies in Marine Science
MSL 692 Professional Development
MSL 220 Scientific Diving
MSL 421/623 Field Studies in Subtidal Ecology
MSL 456/656 Kelp Forest Ecology
MSL 395 Advanced AAUS Skills

• Scientific Diving Program