- Dana Williams, PhD
- Assistant Scientist
University of Miami and NOAA-Fisheries
Dr. Dana Williams began her post-doc at the University of Miami Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies in 2002 working with Dr. Margaret Miller at NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, Florida. Since then she has been examining the fate of Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis in the Florida Keys with particular focus on recruitment and the impact of a variety of threats including predation by the corallivorous snail Coralliophila abbreviata, and disease. Her current research activities have expanded to include Acropora population monitoring at several locations throughout the Caribbean including Curacao, Navassa, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands. The documented failure of natural recruitment of Acropora palmata following the 2005 hurricanes in the Florida Keys has added the urgent need for appropriate restoration methods to her research activities.
