Benjamin Glass
Boston University, MA·Ecology & Evolution
More than half of the world's reef-building corals have died since the 1970s. Reefs protect coastlines from waves and support fish that people rely on for food, so protecting what remains matters.
- Fields
Ecology & Evolution
Earth & Environmental Science
Biology
- Topics
coral reefs
reef-building coral
coral larvae
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Nov 2027
What they work on
- Profile temperature, oxygen and other abiotic conditions at a Bermuda coral reef to define realistic stress scenarios.
- Characterize the physiological and gene expression responses of adult reef-building corals to heat, hypoxia and their combination in a mesocosm experiment.
- Measure the physiological and molecular responses of coral larvae exposed to heat and/or hypoxia.
- Quantify carryover effects of early-life heat and hypoxia exposure by outplanting juvenile corals onto the reef and sampling them later.
More about the research
Corals often face several stresses at once, such as hot water and low oxygen (hypoxia), yet little is known about how these combinations affect corals at different stages of life.
Why it matters
Knowing how heat and low oxygen, alone and together, affect corals at each life stage could improve population projection models and guide reef conservation. That could benefit coastal communities that rely on reefs for protection from waves and for fisheries.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Robert Van Woesik
Florida Institute of Technology, FL·Ecology & Evolution
Quantify differences in coral recovery rates after thermal-stress events worldwide using spatio-temporal Bayesian models, which estimate how recovery varies across both place and time.
Carly Kenkel
University of Southern California, CA·Ecology & Evolution
Test whether differences in staghorn coral shape plasticity are driven by changes in calcification and fine-scale skeletal deposition, using a lab water-flow experiment on clonal replicates of Acropora cervicornis genotypes.
Liza Roger
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Biology
Characterize how coral cells and their dinoflagellate algal partners respond to bleaching-level stress, comparing cells in isolation with cells in symbiosis, to separate each partner's contribution to free-radical buildup.
The school
Boston University: 26 labs on PI Pages, $784M a year on research, 630 research doctorates a year.
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