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David Avery
 
EDUCATION
Ph.D./M.S. Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
B.A. Biology, Rhode Island College
B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic
POSITION
Assistant Professor in Residence
University of Connecticut
Avery Point Campus, Groton, Connecticut
COSEE ROLE & AFFILIATION
Participating scientist with COSEE-Ocean Systems
Participation with COSEE Network
October 8-10, 2009
OCEAN-CLIMATE CONNECTIONS | Scientist-Educator Collaborative Workshop at UConn
University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Connecticut
 
David Avery
WHAT I DO
I am a Biological Oceanographer interested in zooplankton ecology and life history evolution. I studied with Dr. Ted Durbin at the University of Rhode Island, where as a student, I worked on the USGLOBEC project in the late 1990's. My dissertation research however, concerned the quantitative genetics of diapause or dormancy in the calanoid copepod Acartia hudsonica. It was that work that brought me to UCONN in 2002. As a post-doc in the lab of Dr. Hans G. Dam, I applied some techniques of evolutionary ecology to the study of copepods and toxic algae.

I am currently Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Marine Sciences, working with Dr. Dam on several projects related to the evolution of toxin resistance in copepods. I have additional interests in how planktonic organisms cope with life in a dynamic fluid environment, in zooplankton nutrition, and population biology.

Photos: Dr. Avery filming a Connecticut episode of the AquaKids television show. Photo credit: Margaret Van Patten, CT SeaGrant
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