- Dr. Brenda Konar
- Research Assistant Professor Staff Scientist
Global Undersea Research Unit West Coast & Polar Regions
University of Alaska Fairbanks Undersea Research Center
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
phone: 907-474-5028; fax: 907-474-5804
bkonar@ims.uaf.edu
Dr. Brenda Konar is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Staff Scientist for the West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Center. At UAF, she teaches Marine Biology, Invertebrate Zoology, Subtidal Ecology and various Marine Biology seminars. Her most current research is in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska where she is examining subtidal community changes occurring with the decline of a keystone species (Sea Otters). She also has proposals pending to examine plant-herbivore interactions at the Semichi Islands, Alaska; to explore structuring forces in an algal community in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica; to determine the effects of sedimentation caused by logging in Kachemak Bay, Alaska; and to make a benthic comparison of the Bering and Berents Seas in relation to global climate change. This is Brenda’s second visit to Florida and the Aquarius habitat with Team Halimeda. She is looking forward to the long submergence in Florida’s warm waters since it has already started snowing in Fairbanks.