"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
-Mother Teresa
-Mother Teresa
ABOUT MEI earned my Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at Florida State University in the Ingels Lab (Meiolab). I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Lab (PI: Kim de Mutsert) using ecological modeling to evaluate how: (1) freshwater input from the Bonnet Carré Spillway affects oyster health, and (2) how environmental and anthropogenic changes along the Mississippi Delta affect fish, shellfish, and fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico. As an ecologist, I am broadly interested in understanding how anthropogenic pollution is affecting marine environments. In particular, I am interested in how microplastics affect ecosystem processes, including biogeochemical cycling and ecological energetics. You can read more about my research interests here.
I first became interested in marine ecology as an undergraduate at SUNY Geneseo where I worked on coral reefs in the Bahamas under the direction of Dr. Isidro Bosch. During my time as an educator at the secondary and post-secondary levels, I wished that I could get back into research in the marine environment and teaching about the marine environment, which brought me back to school to start my Ph.D. |
Aaron Ridall, Ph.D.
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