Students in the College of Charleston’s biology and marine biology programs are learning by getting dirty in the Lowcountry’s ubiquitous pluff mud. Trudging though marshland, the students collect, analyze and catalogue plant life and other organisms.
In addition to furthering the study of the ecological and evolutionary impacts of climate change, the students are contributing to a research project that traces the origins of an invasive species of seaweed. Associate Professor of Biology Erik Sotka and postdoctoral researcher Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield are leading the research project through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[Related: Read how CofC researchers traced invasive seaweed to Japan.]
