Research in the Stauffer Lab at UL Lafayette focuses on:
Phytoplankton ecology - investigating how these essential organisms at the base of the food web interact with the environment, each other, and other members of the ecosystem.
Extreme events & planktonic communities - quantifying how extreme events (i.e. hypoxia, fish kills, hurricanes) affect phytoplankton community structure and planktonic food webs.
Coastal biological oceanography - assessing the roles that physical, chemical, and biological processes play in structuring plankton communities in coastal ecosystems across varying scales in space and time.
Water quality issues & emerging technologies - understanding the underlying processes driving water quality problems (e.g. eutrophication, hypoxia, harmful algal blooms), and applying new tools and techniques to find better ways of dealing with them.
We use a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches to understand factors that structure phytoplankton communities, lead to algal blooms, and the food web implications of those events. Activities in the Stauffer Lab also include the development and application of new tools to study and model aquatic ecosystems over time and space.
Phytoplankton ecology - investigating how these essential organisms at the base of the food web interact with the environment, each other, and other members of the ecosystem.
Extreme events & planktonic communities - quantifying how extreme events (i.e. hypoxia, fish kills, hurricanes) affect phytoplankton community structure and planktonic food webs.
Coastal biological oceanography - assessing the roles that physical, chemical, and biological processes play in structuring plankton communities in coastal ecosystems across varying scales in space and time.
Water quality issues & emerging technologies - understanding the underlying processes driving water quality problems (e.g. eutrophication, hypoxia, harmful algal blooms), and applying new tools and techniques to find better ways of dealing with them.
We use a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches to understand factors that structure phytoplankton communities, lead to algal blooms, and the food web implications of those events. Activities in the Stauffer Lab also include the development and application of new tools to study and model aquatic ecosystems over time and space.
