Dr. Jeffrey Turner, Primary Investigator:
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised just south of Atlanta, Georgia, I am now happy to call the Gulf (aka The Third Coast) home. Prior to my arrival at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, I acquired a deep appreciation for our world’s oceans sailing the Bearing Sea and Arctic Ocean with the US Coast Guard. Afterward, I uncovered my fascination for marine ecology at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology. Following the defense of my dissertation, I boarded a flight to Seattle where I studied genetics and genomics as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center and the University of Washington School of Oceanography. The influence of oceans on human health and well-being has become a central theme in my research and teaching interests. This broad theme intersects with a diversity of topics including but not limited to conservation biology, marine pollution, emerging infectious diseases, harmful algal blooms, coral reef ecology, natural resource management, and global climate change.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, 2010. Thesis adviser: Erin K. Lipp. Thesis title: Environmental factors and reservoir shifts contribute to the seasonality of pathogenic Vibrio species.
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Undergrad Students
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Graduate Students
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Post-Doctoral Researchers
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