SEEPC
An NSF collaboration to study connectivity between
Cold Methane Seeps in the Western Atlantic
- Cunningham Lab (Duke Campus)/Van Dover Lab (Duke Marine Lab)Next Gen Sequencing to infer directionality of dispersal between seeps
- Craig Young/Svetlana Maslokova- Oregon Institute of Marine BiologyMOCNESS larval trapping and barcoding to identify where deep sea larvae can be found
- Ruoying He/David Eggleston- NC StateParameterizing and designing 3D ocean circulation models
Corona
(Coordinating Research On the North Atlantic)
An NSF research coordination network to study the trans-Atlantic biota
- Coordinating trans-Atlantic phylogeographic projects and tissue collection across all taxa
- Compiling a virtual handbook of trans-Atlantic species found in Europe and North America
- Coordinating comparative ecological trans-Atlantic studies between European, Canadian, Icelandic, and American scientists
- Synthesizing our knowledge of biogeographic histories of North Atlantic Species with paleontological and oceanographical data
- Synthesizing long-term benthic ecological sampling with long-term oceanographic data
Arthropod Phylogenomics
- Goal of 100 nuclear protein coding genes from 85 arthropod taxa
- Multiple origins of the crab-like form
Hydrozoan PEET Project
- Revising the Hydractiniidae, Stylasteriidae and Campanulariidae
- A bibliographical database for Hydrozoan Taxonomy
- The Hydrozoan Sequencing Project
Evaluating Phylogenetic and
Population Genetic Methods
- 6-parameter Parsimony
- Ancestral State Reconstruction
- Experimental Population Genetics