Antarctica's Southern Ocean, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound: four different bodies of water supporting widely divergent marine life. Other than salt water, what do they have in common? The effects of human-driven climate change. Biologist Laura Enzor's career is all about taking the measure of those effects and projecting the bioenergetic future. She can mimic climate change conditions in her lab, and her research on fish, corals, and oysters shows ecosystems in and out of balance, as well as the downstream impacts of human activity upstream. Can the humble oyster convey crucial warnings about the future? Join Laura Enzor for this fascinating marine study.
Laura Enzor is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology. She joined the University of Hartford in 2019 after earning her PhD from the University of South Carolina—for which she researched at McMurdo Station in Antarctica—and working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At UHart, she works with her research students to explore questions in the field of ecological physiology: how an organism uses its physiology to adapt to its environment and what form these adaptations might take. She is the course coordinator for BIO122: Introductory Biology I, and also teaches in the Human Anatomy and Physiology program.
Thursday, April 25 | 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | McLean | $20
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