Dionne Hoskins

Dionne L. Hoskins

Fishery Biologist, NOAA Fisheries
Associate Graduate Professor, Savannah State University

Expertise:
Deposit feeder ecology, benthic ecology, undergraduate research programs

Issues of Interest:
Microbe - macrofauna interactions with respect to nutrition
Trophic relationships; commercial fisheries

Current Projects:
Director, SSU/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program.
Project Manager and co-PI, NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center at SSU.
Fishery Biologist, NOAA.
Associate Research and Graduate Professor, SSU.
Current Research: Characterization of Benthic Macrofauna and Sediment EPS (exopolysaccharide) in Coastal Georgia Sediments

Location:
Tidal mudflats (specifically, Williamson Island in the Savannah River Estuary)

Project Links:

Microbial Indexing of Saltmarsh Health and Recovery: Development of a Health/Productivity Scale
     Marc Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Jeffrey King (US Army Corps/Adjunct SkIO), Carla Curran (Savannah State Univ.), and Dionne Hoskins (Savannah State Univ.)

Homepage:
http://www.savstate.edu/scitech/scmath/html/marine/faculty.html