Dr. Phil Dustan, Biology Professor at the College of Charleston, will talk about coral reef conservation.
Dr. Dustan holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a principal investigator for the Coral Reef Monitoring Project, a multi-institutional project examining the status and trends of the reefs of the Florida Keys as part of the US EPA Florida Keys Water Quality Assurance Program.
His research interest include the ecology, vitality, and conservation of reef-building corals, remote sensing and change detection in coral reefs communities, and the impact of urbanization on the watershed ecology of coastal waters.
He is also the science advisor for The Cousteau Society, which takes him into the world of conservation biology. The global decline of coral reefs is signaling the waning health of the world’s oceans. This rapid, almost lightening-speed decline of coral reefs around the world requires that we work hard for their conservation, or future generations (including coral reef scientists) will know the beauty of the seas only from the films and reports that we leave behind.
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