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Nathan Hall

Director, Morehead City Field Site

Biography

Nathan Hall’s research seeks to understand the top down and bottom up drivers of phytoplankton biomass and community composition in lakes, rivers and estuaries. He is particularly interested in how natural ecosystem characteristics such as residence time, grazer communities, and vertical mixing regimes interact with nutrient and light availability to affect bloom dynamics, phytoplankton community composition and water quality conditions. Recent studies have underscored the critical role of interactions between hydrological forcing and nutrient loading in determining phytoplankton biomass and community structure, including toxic harmful algal bloom species. Hall also serves as director of the Morehead City Field Site.

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2009