Epiphytic diatom production on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) in northern Gulf of Mexico by Venable et al. is available for online viewing in Gulf and Caribbean Research!
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This publication is the final product from Jon's summer REU project at Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) from summer 2023.
We had a lot of fun collecting seagrass and water from the field, and performing light and dark chamber incubations to determine the contribution of epiphytic diatoms to the productivity of Thalassia!
February 6, 2023
Press versus pulse nutrient supply and species interactions mediate growth of coral reef macroalgae by Sura et al. is available for online viewing in Oikos!
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Sometimes it just takes a while for research to make its way through the publication pipeline!
This publication is the final product from a group project done in Moorea, French Polynesia during UCLA's Field Marine Biology Quarter (FMBQ) in winter 2016. The former undergraduate students put in lots of time and hard work managing this large mesocosm experiment and it paid off with cool findings!
March 29 - April 2, 2022
Shayna presented a project from during her PhD at the Benthic Ecology Meeting (BEM) 2022 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Pulse versus press nutrient supply and species interactions mediate growth of coral reef macroalgae
August 1 - 6, 2021
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2021 Annual Meeting, which was held virtually due to COVID-19.
July 19 - 23, 2021
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), which was held virtually due to COVID-19.
May 28, 2021
Shayna is officially Dr. Shayna Sura as all of her committee members approved of her dissertation today!
January 13, 2021
Flip it and reverse it: reasonable changes in designated controls can flip synergisms to antagonisms by Fong et al. is accepted for publication in Science of the Total Environment.
Caitlin Fong and Peggy Fong led a graduate seminar at UCLA in 2018 that led to this publication!
January 4, 2021
Responses of two common coral reef macroalgae to nutrient addition, sediment addition, and mechanical damage by Sura et al. is accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
This publication is the result of lots of hard work and perseverance of former undergraduate students who participated in UCLA's Marine Biology Quarter (MBQ) in spring 2017.
December 23, 2020
One of Shayna's dissertation chapters is accepted for publication!
Selective consumption of Macroalgae species by herbivorous fishes suggests reduced functional complementarity on a fringing reef in Moorea, French Polynesia
In press with the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the Western Society of Naturalists (WSN) 2020 Annual Meeting, which was held virtually due to COVID-19.
September 25, 2020
Shayna has a new publication out! This publication is the result of multiple years of work and the work of many wonderful young scientists!
Testing the conceptual and operational underpinnings of field herbivory assays: Does variation in predictability of resources, assay design, and deployment method affect outcomes? by Fong et al. is published in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020 Annual Meeting, which was held virtually due to COVID-19.
October 31 - November 3, 2019
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the Western Society of Naturalists (WSN) 2019 Annual Meeting in Ensenada, Mexico.
August 11 - 16, 2019
Shayna presented a chapter of her dissertation research at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2019 Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.
July 25, 2019
Ten simple rules for giving an effective academic job talk by Sura et al. is published in PLOS Computational Biology. link
This article arose from an EEB departmental seminar that Shayna participated in about how to give an effective academic job talk.
May 2019
Shayna was awarded a University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF).
Shayna was awarded the A.M. Schechtman Award for Distinguished Teaching from UCLA's EEB Department.
Nury Molina, Kristen Soares, and Jonathan Kim (Shayna's undergraduate mentees) presented their research at the UCLA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department 22nd Annual Research Symposium.
March 29, 2019
Macroalgae and nutrients promote algal turf growth in the absence of herbivores by Sura et al. is published in Coral Reefs. link
This research project was conducted with undergraduate students participating in UCLA's Marine Biology Quarter in spring 2017 and this article is one of Shayna's dissertation chapters.