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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Ocean builders – Alexa Runyan uses 3-D models and novel technologies to discover how coral reef architecture affects its inhabitants and visitors | Rising Sea Voices Podcast
Description: In this episode, Alexa Runyan, Ph.D. student in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, explains how the call of the ocean deflected her from a musical career and led her to study coral reefs. Alexa explains her undergraduate work in Dr. John H. R. Burns’ lab on the structural complexity of coral reefs using a 3-dimensional (3D) approach to understand how the reef architecture affects organisms such as invertebrates and fish. Now the awardee of a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, Alexa will continue this work with Dr. Brennan Phillips. This time, i...