Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Tel: 808-235-2224 ∙ Fax: 808-236-7443
Email: falter@hawaii.edu
| I am generally interested in how the growth and metabolism of benthic communities vary as a function of their physical and chemical environment. My current research is focused on understanding how fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus to coral reef communities are differentially forced by light, water motion, and nutrient availability through the C:N:P of the benthic primary producers via Net Primary Production. More recently, I am using a numerical hydrodynamic model (Delft-3D) to build numerical biogeochemical models of benthic systems. |