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Bob Ginsburg

Further Investigation Yields 2 Extinct Coral Species

What began as an homage to achievement in the field of coral reef geology has evolved into the discovery of an unexpected link between corals of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Drs. Ann Budd (University of Iowa) and Donald McNeill (University of Miami) named a species of fossil coral found on the Island of Curaçao — some six million years old — after UM Rosenstiel School’s Dr. Robert N. Ginsburg in 1995. The coral, originally thought to be an elkhorn coral was now been positively identified as a Pacific acroporid genus named Isopora, with the help of Dr. Carden C. Wallace of the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Australia. Read more…

Ayeisha Brinson

Brinson Receives 1st Interdisciplinary Ph.D.

Ayeisha Brinson is the first student to complete the University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program through the Rosenstiel School. The innovative Interdisciplinary Ph.D. allowed Brinson the flexibility to develop a specialized course of research and study, which combined 4 different areas: Marine Biology & Fisheries, Marine Affairs and Policy, Sociology, and Economics. Her research took her to fishing communities in Venezuela, South Florida, Ghana and Senegal, where she evaluated the impacts of fishing fleets targeting Atlantic billfish. Read more…