Peter Verity |
Peter G. Verity
Professor
Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography
Expertise:
Plankton, Nutrients, Pelagic Food Webs, Trophic Interactions
Issues of Interest:
- Eutrophication
- Dissolved oxygen
Current Projects
and Activities:
Within coastal Georgia: long term studies of nutrient increases in estuarine
waters and associated changes in pelagic food webs.
Location:
Primarily the Skidaway River Estuary and contiguous Wilmington River and Wassaw
Sound.
Project Links:
Long-Term
Water Quality Sampling of the Skidaway River Estuary
Peter
Verity (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography, Savannah, Georgia, USA)
Biocomplexity:
Bio-feedback Basis of Self Organization in Planktonic Ecosystems Using Phaeocystis
as a Model Complex Adaptive System
Peter Verity, Marc Frischer (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography),
Mark Hay (Georgia Inst. of Technology), and Bernard Patten (Univ. of Georgia)
Molecular
Approaches for In Situ Studies of Nitrate Utilization by Marine Bacteria
Marc Frischer, Peter Verity, (Skidaway Inst.
of Oceanography), Debbie Bronk (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), and
Matt Gilligan (Savannah State Univ.)
Sources
and Transport Mechanisms of White Shrimp in Southeastern Coastal Waters
Jackson O. Blanton, Peter G. Verity (Skidaway
Inst. of Oceanography), Charles A. Barans and Elizabeth L. Wenner, (Marine
Resources Research Institute, South Carolina DNR)