Teasely Professor Mark Hay awarded NURC

Dr. Mark Hay, Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, was recently awarded a National Undersea Research Center grant entitled, "Herbivore Resistance to Seaweed Defenses and the Effects on Reef Community Structure". This grant awards not only research funds, but also research boat time and use of the underwater Aquarius lab. Aquarius is an underwater ocean laboratory located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The laboratory is deployed three and half miles offshore, at a depth of 60 feet, next to spectacular coral reefs. Scientists live in Aquarius during ten-day missions using saturation diving to study and explore our coastal ocean. Aquarius is owned by NOAA and is operated by the National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.