- Jennifer E. Smith
- Graduate Research Assistant
Botany Department
University of Hawaii Manoa
3190 Maile Way
Honolulu HI 96822
808-956-3944
jesmith@hawaii.edu
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/GradStud/smith/JENHOME.htm
Jennifer Smith is a graduate research assistant currently working on her masters degree in Botany at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She received two Bachelor’s degrees in Marine Biology and Zoology from Humboldt State University in northern California in 1997. Her research interests primarily involve the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on marine environments, specifically how eutrophication, overfishing and alien species introductions shift benthic community structure and function. She is currently conducting a large field experiment on the island of Hawaii that investigates the effects of nutrients and herbivory on algal biomass, community development, succession and species diversity. Jennifer has conducted SCUBA research in the pacific north west, throughout the Hawaiian Islands and the Florida Keys and has conducted some of the first algal surveys ever on the outer Hawaiian islands. This is Jennifer's second trip with Team Halimeda, but will be her first saturation mission in the Aquarius.