Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor

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Education
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2002–2003
  • Ph.D. in Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., 2002
  • B.S. in Marine Biology, high honors, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A., 1995
  • B.S. in Molecular Biology, high honors, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A., 1995

Assistant Professor
Biological Oceanography

My work is largely about exploration. I spend a few weeks each year on research ships, using submersibles and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to collect samples and get video footage of deep-sea corals. Every submersible dive is a unique experience. Each site seems to have a different abundance of species as well as a few species we haven’t seen at other sites.

Back in the lab, we count the types of corals we observed and the types of invertebrates on the corals. We do genetic analyses to determine which species we have collected, how they are related to each other, and how well they are dispersing among different sites. This work is exciting because it has the potential to play a role in the conservation of these incredible deep-sea communities.

- Deepsea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (DEEP-C consortium, RFP-I)

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