Dr. Denise Yost to Hawaii

June 9, 2010
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Dr. Denise YostDr. Denise Yost (MEES graduate, May 2010) has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology starting this July. She is joining an outstanding research group led by Dr. Ruth Gates and will be investigating how thermal stress affects the diversity of coral symbionts in coastal reef ecosystems.

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