Principal Investigator • Clayton B. Cook, Ph.D. • ccook@hboi.edu Recent work in the department includes research by Dr. Cook and postdoctoral fellow Simon Davy to investigate how nutrient supply affects productivity and energy fluxes between certain sea anemonies and the single-celled photosynthetic algae living within their tissues. Initial data suggests that the algae (called "zooxanthellae") release more photosynthetically fixed carbon to the host organism during periods of nutrient limitation. The Department is also currently looking at the effects of increased nutrient runoff from Florida Bay and how it is effecting the coral reefs of the Florida Keys. • RESEARCH FOCUS • EFFECTS OF FLORIDA BAY ON REEF CORALS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS