Dr. Koty Sharp

Short video of a very gravid Northern Star coral (Astrangia poculata) colony spawning in the lab. Look at that thing go!

Students created unique vertical oyster gardens on the RWU waterfront!🦪🌊 Oyster Boys Conservation recently visited the Bristol campus to demo their oyster gardens, capitalizing on the bivalves’ capacity to filter and improve water quality. Read more ➡️ rwu.edu/news/news-arch…

@SeanPGrace @ScientistJake @BabonisLeslie @besemer_ryan @SchickleAlicia @SCSU @UNCWilmington @myrwu @Cornell @Werth_Center Love this!! Sean, you really ought to publish a book with photos of scientists in that parking lot. What a chronicle of temperate coral science history!

Collecting corals and urchins last week! Go #spawnfest Great seeing you @ScientistJake @BabonisLeslie, Sarah, @besemer_ryan and @SchickleAlicia! @SCSU, @UNCWilmington @myrwu @Cornell and @Werth_Center

Congrats @t_lindsay_sci !! Nice work!

@ohmeggz @ScientistJake We have done some testing on this with collaborators and prelim results suggest that exposure to SCTLD does not result in Astrangia mortality. More on that later as we continue that work -

The undergrad researchers are working round the clock in the lab @myrwu with our @TxStateResearch collaborators on our @NSF BRC-BIO supported research. Learning so much from @LaurenFuess, refining our methods for exploring cnidarian microbiomes and symbiosis! #Astrangiathings

Fabulous week in RI @myrwu with @LaurenFuess @TxStateResearch and her group. Undergrads from both institutions learning more about local marine ecosystems and #Astrangiathings!

So excited to be working with this crew this week!! 🪸🧫🪸🧫🪸🧫

It’s a joy to coordinate these with @SeanPGrace and @RandiRotjan - this year we are generating new shared resources/protocols for culturing, husbandry, and public awareness campaigns. This community is as mighty as the #temperatecorals it studies!

Another Temperate Coral Research Conference @myrwu in the books! Exciting to be watching this field move forward so quickly, and to discuss how we can apply the #astrangiathings we’ve learned to address climate change threats on our temperate and tropical marine ecosystems alike!

Beautiful day at RWU Commencement yesterday. Thrilled to have celebrated our newest grads @myrwu!! 🎉🎉🎉 My senior research students this year are so dear to me - these two are fantastic scientists, thinkers, and humans! So excited to see what they do next!!

@tylercarrier_ @adam_reitzel @unccharlotte @UNCCBiology Congrats Adam!!

Endless congratulations to @adam_reitzel for being awarded the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, which recognizes outstanding scholarship, creativity, and research among the faculty at @unccharlotte!

🦪🦪We are hiring!!! 🦪🦪 Come work @myrwu on CEED’s Shellfish team! We are hiring a full-time Hatchery Technician! Never been a better time to join our growing team. It’s such a fun, dynamic group! Check out the job posting below, and please RT:

Any questions about RWU or the program, hit me up!!

Terrific colleagues, waterfront lab with a legendary wet lab, coastal campus…. Visiting Asst. Prof. position - we’re looking for marine microbe. ecol., marine natural products, or coral ecology expertise. It’s a temp replacement of my teaching now that I’m in a Directorship.

📢🚨📢🚨📢🚨📢🚨📢 🌊🪸🧫🌊🪸🧫🌊🪸🧫 Have a background in marine microbes, marine natural products, and/coral ecology? Looking for teaching experience? Dynamite opportunity here! Come work with me at @rwusciences !! rwu.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetail…

@jbaumann3 Thrilled for you!!! Glad you’ll be here in New England! See you soon! 🎉🎉🎉🪸🪸🪸

Perhaps a little late, but I am happy to report that I will be starting on the tenure track at Bates College in Environmental Studies this summer! Casey and I have both accepted TT positions.