Brian Helmuth
Brian Helmuth
University of South Carolina
Department of Biological Sciences
715 Sumter St.
Columbia
SC
29208
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Fields of interest
Coastal Ecology, Marine Biology, Biogeography
Description of scientific projects
My lab uses heat budget models (with data derived from remote sensing and ground-based measurements of weather, along with outputs from GCMs) to predict levels of physiological stress in organisms. We then use these data to quantitatively forecast patterns of abundance, reproduction, and species distributions in coastal marine organisms. We are currently funded by NASA Ecological Forecasting and NOAA Ecofore.