Prof. Peter W. Glynn
RSMAS/MBF
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Telephone: 305.421.4134
Fax: 305.421.4600
pglynn@rsmas.miami.edu

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 (Panamá, Galápagos Islands) and El Niño warming events 1997-98 on eastern Pacific coral reef. The severely affected coral reefs in the eastern Pacific region are being studied 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.