As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.
Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.
For this week‘s edition (#1294), Bob has selected Joseph Pawlik’s segment focusing on the relationship between sponges and coral reefs. A professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. Pawlik’s Academic Minute segment originally aired in late June.
Joseph Pawlik received his BS in 1982 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his PhD in 1988 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. After postdoctoral fellowships at Friday Harbor Labs (U. Washington) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he joined the faculty at UNC Wilmington in 1991, where he teaches Invertebrate Zoology and directs a research program involving undergraduate, MS and PhD students. Dr. Pawlik has over 130 scientific publications, mostly in the areas of marine chemical ecology and the biology of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs. Subscribe to the Pawlik Lab‘s YouTube channel here.
