Category: Research

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Dr. Bastian Bentlage, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, assembles a coral research instrument developed by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. After a detour to Alabama following the 28th NSF EPSCoR National Conference in Nebraska, Bastian Bentlage, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, brought home a newly developed scientific instrument to aid

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Research by Reilly Kleven at the University of Guam (UOG) has revealed the remarkable growth potential of branching Lithophyllum coralline algae, a vital component of Guam’s coral reefs. Kleven is a Graduate Research Assistant with the Guam National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) at UOG.

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As part of the University of Guam’s first Bioblitz, an event focused on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a place over a set period, a team of international scientists engaged the island’s local community through a mini research symposium held on Friday, February 16, 2024. These

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Following a three-week series of biological surveys, scientists from the University of Guam Marine Laboratory along with an international team of researchers estimate that they have collected hundreds of new marine biological records and species combined from around the coasts of Guam. From the southern coast of Guam almost up

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The University of Guam launches its Bioblitz, an international collaboration to catalog the diversity of marine organisms along the coasts of Guam from February 2 to 22, 2024. Marine scientists Diana Noto; David Burdick, Dr. Gustav Paulay and Dr. Robert Lasley are joined by Vice Speaker Tina Muna Barnes, Sen.

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Karina Mejia, a Guam NSF EPSCoR Graduate Research Assistant in the University of Guam’s Master of Science in Biology program, presented her research at the 2023 Indo-Pacific Fish Conference which was held at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, which happens every four years, is