Faculty & Staff
Joseph R. Pawlik, Professor
Ph.D., Marine Biology, Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, UC – San Diego, CA, 1988
B.S., Biology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, 1982, summa
cum laude
Myrtle Grove 2333 | (910) 962-2377
| Center for Marine Science,
5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409 | pawlikj@uncw.edu | http://people.uncw.edu/pawlikj/
Dr. Pawlik is a marine invertebrate zoologist with research interests in marine chemical ecology and coral reef ecology. Recent work in his lab has focused on the functions of unusual organic compounds derived from Caribbean coral reef sponges and sea whips, particularly as defenses against predation, fouling, and overgrowth. He has an ongoing research program in Key Largo, Florida at UNCW’s National Undersea Research Program studying the ecology of the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta.
See Dr. Pawlik's webpage
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