Department of Biology
P.O. Box 42451
Lafayette, LA 70504-2451
Tel: 337/482-5057
Fax: 337/482-5660
E-mail: dkrayesky@louisiana.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Fall 2007-present)
Project title: Monographic
research and phylogenetic investigations of the Ceramiales (Rhodophyta).
Funded by grant from National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology
PEET Program (awarded to Dr. Suzanne Fredericq)
Lowtide at Botany Beach in British Columbia, Canada during the summer
of 2002
Examples of communties in which macroalgae
is collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its estuaries by the UL Seaweeds
Lab
The images above are taken from the Flower Gardens off the Louisiana
coastline. The substratum shown here is composed of small and large rhodoliths
that support a wide diversity of red algal species
Floating mats of Sargassum natans a common site in
the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast (left) and a mangrove of Avicennia
germinans (right) in Port Fourchon, LA. This is a common habitat in
which Caloglossa is found along the Louisiana costline.
My daughter, Megan, and me at the Smithsonian
June 2006
