Kerri Dobson

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Kerri is a marine biologist with expertise in coral reef ecology and conservation. Originally from the UK, Kerri received her PhD in 2021 from The Ohio State University, USA, where she studied the effect of climate change on coral physiology. Since then, she has been a 2021 Knauss Fellow with the Ocean Acidification Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA, and a Teaching Fellow in Marine Biology at the University of Southampton, UK. Through her career thus far, Kerri has conducted coral research in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Madagascar, Hawai'i, and Montserrat. She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Center for Marine Science, USA, where she is conducting research into coral larval settlement preferences, the impact of environmental stressors on crustose coralline algae (CCA) and corals of the tropical Western Atlantic, and the potential for beneficial microorganisms to aid in the thermal resistance and resilience of CCA and corals.

 

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