- Margaret Miller, PhD
- Chief Scientist
Ecologist, NOAA-Fisheries
Margaret Miller is an Ecologist with the NOAA Fisheries’ Southeast Science Center. She received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and a doctorate in marine ecology from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Her dissertation involved ecological studies of a non-reef building coral species off North Carolina. She then moved south to examine some “real” corals, in a three-year post-doctoral position with the University of Miami. She began work for NOAA-Fisheries in 1997 as the sole benthic ecologist at the Miami Lab and has served as a foundation for its growing coral reef program. She is an active field researcher and diver. Her current research foci include coral early life history, coral restoration, population studies of threatened elkhorn and stagorn corals and their threats. She lives with her husband and 4-year old son in Miami and Key Largo. Dr. Miller can be reached at SEFSC, 75 Virginia Beach Dr., Miami FL 33149; 305-361-4561; margaret.w.miller@noaa.gov.