- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Biological Oceanography
- Phone: 603.801.4717
- Email: fmorison@uri.edu
Research
Biological oceanography, plankton ecology
I am interested in plankton food web dynamics, and on the biophysical factors that drive rates of grazing by herbivorous protists. My research has been largely based on fieldwork conducted during research cruises at high latitudes, both in the subpolar North Atlantic and along the Western Antarctic Peninsula, where I measured protistan grazing and its effect on the dynamics of phytoplankton.
Education
PhD. Oceanography, U. Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, 2016
MSc Oceanography, U. Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, 2014
BS Marine & Freshwater Biology, U. New Hampshire, 2009
Selected Publications
Behrenfeld M., R.H. Moore, C.A. Hostetler, J. Graff, P. Gaube, et al. 2019. The North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES): Science Motive and Mission Overview. Frontiers in Marine Science, doi 10.3389/fmars.2019.00122
Morison F. and S. Menden Deuer. 2018. Seasonal similarity in rates of protistan herbivory in fjords along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Limnology and Oceanography 63:2858-2876, doi 10.1002/lno.11014
Morison F. and S. Menden Deuer. 2017. Doing more with less? Balancing sampling resolution and effort in measurements of protistan growth and grazing rates. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 15: 794-809, doi 10.1002/lom3.10200
Morison, F. and S. Menden-Deuer. 2015. Early spring phytoplankton dynamics in the subpolar North Atlantic: the influence of protistan herbivory. Limnology and Oceanography. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10099
Ward D., F. Morison, E. Morrissey, K. Jenksand, and W. H. Watson III, 2011. Evidence that potential fish predators elicit the production of carapace vibrations by the American lobster. J Exp Biol 214: 2641-2648
Morison F. 2008. Occurence and distribution of cyanobacteria and their toxins in Silver Lake, New Hampshire. UNH Center for Freshwater Biology Research 10(1)