Pamela Hallock Muller

Research Interests

  • Reef health using techniques ranging from traditional micropaleontology, sedimentology and ecology to molecular genetics and biomarkers to study the responses of reefs, modern and ancient, to environmental change
  • Biology and ecology of larger foraminifera and their endosymbionts, with emphasis on the causes and implications of bleaching
  • Decline of coral reefs in the Florida Keys
  • Benthic communities and carbonate sedimentology along coral-reef turnon/turnoff gradients
  • Effects of coastal pollution on reef communities of Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys
  • Development of indicies of biological integrity based on foraminifera applicable to coral reef environments (FORAM Index CD)
  • Effects of aresenic-laden hot springs on reef-dwelling foraminifera in New Guinea


Contact Information

Department of Marine Science
University of South Florida
140 Seventh Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

http://www.marine.usf.edu/faculty/pamela-hallock-muller.shtml

http://www.marine.usf.edu/reefslab/index.html

pmuller@marine.usf.edu