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I became interested in the ecology of sponges as an undergraduate student at the Marine Laboratory in Bermuda (now the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences). I returned to work on them as a young Assistant Professor interested in chemical ecology because of their tractability as a model system, and also because they produce in their tissues the greatest diversity of unusual organic compounds of any group of animals. Also, my research team has been working on monitoring the giant barrel sponge in the Caribbean Sea since 1997. |
