Peter W. Glynn
Professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries

Biography

Honors and Professional Activities:
Phi Beta Kappa
C. Darwin Medal, ISRS (1992)
Pacific Science Association
International Society for Reef Studies, Council Member
Executive Council, Charles Darwin Research Foundation
Bert Paper Award, Coral Reefs, vol. 8 with L. DÕCroz, International Society for Reef Studies
Sigma Xi Scientist of the year, University of Miami

Research Interests

Research activities center on coral community structure and function with emphasis on natural and anthropogenic disturbances to coral reefs. Major attention has been directed toward an analysis of the impacts of the 1982-83 El Niño warming event on eastern Pacific coral reefs. The severely affected coral reefs in the eastern Pacific region are being study with respect to (1) initial and long-term disturbance effects (predation, competition, symbiosis, bioerosion), (2) causes of coral bleaching and mortality, (3) coral community recovery, and (4) records of El Niño disturbances in the past, based on evidence from core drilling, sclerochronology, stable isotope and trace metal signals.

Representative Publications

Glynn, P.W. (1997) Bioersion and coral-reef growth; a dynamic balance. Pp. 68-95 In: C.Birkeland (ed.) Life and Death of Coral Reefs, Chapman & Hall, New York.

Glynn, P.W. (1996) Coral reef bleaching: facts, hypotheses and implications. Global change Biology 2:495-509.

Glynn, P.W., Colley, S.B., Gassman, N.J., K. Black, J. Cortes, and J.L. Mate (1996) Reef coral reproduction in the eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panama, and Galapagos Islands(Ecuador). III. Agariciidae (Pavona gigantez and Gardineroseris planulata). Marine Biology, 125:579-601.

Glynn, P.W., J.E.N.Veron, and G.M. Wellington (1996) Clipperton Atoll (eastern Pacific): oceanography, geomorphology, reef-building coral ecology and biogeography. Coral Reefs 15:71-99.

Glynn, P.W. (1993) Coral reef bleaching: ecological perspectives. Coral Reefs 12:1-17.

Contact

Prof. Peter Glynn
RSMAS/MBF
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149

Telephone: 305/361-4134
[email protected]