coral reef | McCoy Lab

New paper out: Viral association with cyanobacterial mat mortality

Our new paper out in Ecology, led by former student and postdoc Ethan Cissell, reveals the role of viruses in the natural mortality of...

Maya awarded SICB Grant in Aid of Research!

Maya presented her research at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference last week. It was very exciting to...

New paper out: Coprophagy in Caribbean parrotfishes

In our new publication in Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3657), we identify coprophagy (fecal consumption) as an important pathway...

Congrats to new NSF Graduate Fellow Randi!

Second-year PhD student Randi Bowman has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund her research on the effects of...

Josh receives William R. Dawson Award and GIAR from SICB!

PhD Candidate Josh Manning was recently awarded one of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology’s Grants-in-Aid of Research to...

Josh and Ethan - Recipients of the Gramling Award in Marine Biology!

The Department of Biological Science at FSU has awarded the Jack Winn Gramling Award in Marine Biology to 4th year students Josh Manning...

Study of Caribbean bright spots featured on WFSU/NPR

https://news.fsu.edu/multimedia/radio/2020/08/26/bright-spots-could-be-key-to-securing-the-future-of-declining-coral-reefs-2/

New paper out: Bright spots could be key to securing the future of declining coral reefs

In recent decades, the decline of living hard coral on reefs around the world has raised concerns among marine experts. For years, the...