John Wares

I went to graduate school to study salamanders, and somehow got turned onto the path of marine diversity. I try to understand how diversity at all scales moves and interacts, usually in coastal ecosystems but also southeastern U.S. rivers and streams. More and more frequently, the diversity we study includes parasites and pathogens. Human activity moves such organisms around the planet and gives them new contexts for interaction, and increasing ocean temperatures often causes dramatic outbreaks. Understanding the ways that marine diversity is maintained and distributed is a primary goal of my research.

April 2016