Coastal Plant Research

You have found me from one of the various links scattered in the virtual universe! Connect with me at:

• Gulf Coast Research Lab at USM - http://gcrl.usm.edu/cv/biber.patrick/cv.biber.patrick.php

• Center for Plant Restoration (CPR) Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/Coastal-Plant-Restoration-309682115813305/

• Follow me on Twitter - @DrcGrass

Publications from these projects are listed here:

•  Recent papers at USM

• my ORCiD

• Google Scholar Profile

• Research Gate

• Digital Measures

Here are links to some of my favorite ongoing research:

• • Coastal Ecosystems Group (CEG) mirror site

  • Center for Plant Restoration (CPR)

  • Coastal Restoration Resources - A Primer

Links to research projects that are now completed:

• 2023 Marsh Plant Drowning and SLR (coming soon!)

• 2022 Pier Shading Effects: socio-economic assessment

• 2021 Living Shorelines Exposure Assessment

• 2019 Deer Island, Mississippi Restoration Assessment 

• 2018 Marsh Plants Regional Genetic Diversity

• 2017 Mississippi Coastal Salt Marsh in the face of Sea Level Rise 

• 2016 Marsh Plant Salt Stress Responses

• 2015 Seagrass Mapping in the Mississippi and Chandeleur Sounds

• 2014 Shoalgrass and Plasmodiophora - a seagrass disease

• 2013 Measuring Primary Production of Artificial Reefs

• 2012_Aquaculture Waste Phytoremediation at CMAC

• 2011_BP Oil Spill impacts to MS coastal habitats

• 2010_SAV Mapping in Mississippi & Alabama coastal rivers

• 2009_Saltmarsh Plants and Mycorrhizae

• 2008_Deer Island, MS restoration & plant nursery

• 2007_Pier Shading effects on Saltmarsh Plants

• 2006_Salvinia salinity tolerance using PAM

• 2005_Chandeleur Islands Seagrass Monitoring

• 2004_EPA STAR Seagrass monitoring project

• 2002_Dissertation Research: Modeling macroalgae in tropical systems

• 1996_Mangroves and Oil Spills research

• 1993_Coral Reef Algae research