{"id":163,"date":"2018-02-21T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:09:55","slug":"phd-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/projects\/phd-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Research in Ken Smith&#8217;s Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2018\/02\/IMG_7374_cropped_sponge_stalks_StaM.jpg\" \/><big><b><big>Ph.D. Research\u00a0<\/big><\/b><b>in\u00a0<\/b>Ken Smith&#8217;s Lab<b>\u00a0at\u00a0<\/b>Scripps Institution of Oceanography<\/big><\/p>\n<p><b>The ecology of glass sponge &#8220;communities&#8221; in the abyssal NE Pacific<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My research in the Smith lab focused on the relationship of suspension feeders to flow (and food supply) at an abyssal time-series station in the NE Pacific (Sta. M).\u00a0 My dissertation involved three main projects: 1) evaluating the diversity and vertical zonation of organisms living on stalked organisms (esp. the\u00a0glass sponge\u00a0<i>Hyalonema<\/i>); 2) examining the near-bottom flow; and 3) characterizing the near-bottom, suspended particulate matter as well as the\u00a0phytodetritus\u00a0aggregated on the sea floor at the abyssal station. In order to collect the &#8220;stalk communities&#8221; (i.e. the sponge stalks and\u00a0associated epizoites) and the phytodetritus from the sea floor at 4100 m depth, we used the submersible <i>Alvin<\/i>. I prepared a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/science\/B\/people\/sbeaulieu\/DIALOG_poster.jpg\">poster<\/a>\u00a0about my dissertation research for the 1999 DIALOG Symposium.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 948px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2018\/02\/stace_alvin-2.jpg\" alt=\"Stace with Alvin\" width=\"938\" height=\"1039\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo, I am securing tube cores onto the Alvin basket prior to a dive.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. Research\u00a0in\u00a0Ken Smith&#8217;s Lab\u00a0at\u00a0Scripps Institution of Oceanography The ecology of glass sponge &#8220;communities&#8221; in the abyssal NE Pacific My research in the Smith lab focused on the relationship of suspension feeders to flow (and food supply) at an abyssal time-series station in the NE Pacific (Sta. M).\u00a0 My dissertation involved three main projects: 1) evaluating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/266"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/sbeaulieu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}