Curricula Vitae in BFT Natural Sciences

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Mercer Robert Brugler Department Chair/Professor		Mercer R. Brugler is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus since August 2020.
Jon-Michael Hardin Instructor
Miss Rebecca Gail Krygiel Instructor		Rebecca Krygiel Capello, MSc went to the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a Minor in Spanish. She went to graduate school at King’s College London, in London, England, where she majored in Human and Applied Physiology. Her favorite area of Physiology is Environmental Physiology, which is learning how the body responds and adapts to extreme environments, such as diving, altitude, and space.
Kathryn R Madden Instructor	Biology	Kathryn Madden is an Instructor of Biology and Environmental Biology at University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Dr. Eric Wilson Montie Associate Professor	Marine sensory biology and neurobiology, Environmental toxicology, Marine biology	My interests concern the effects of chemical pollutants and marine toxins on the brain and hearing, neuroimaging of marine mammals, hearing of fish and marine mammals, acoustic communication of aquatic vertebrates, effects of chemical pollutants, anthropogenic noise, and climate change on sound production and spawning of fish.
Dr. Daniel Tyler Pettay Associate Professor	temperate microalgal and cyanobacterial communities of the eastern United States, algal symbionts of tropical invertebrates, particularly coral	Dr. Pettay is a broadly trained molecular ecologist interested in how microalgal populations, species and communities respond to environmental change, both natural and anthropogenic in nature, and influence tidal, seasonal and long-term trends in biogeochemical processes. He investigates these processes over spatial scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers using an interdisciplinary approach that includes molecular genetics, environmental monitoring and comparative physiology.
Kimberly Ritchie Associate Professor	Marine biology	I am a marine microbial ecologist. I have studied coral and coral reef invertebrate diseases since 1992. In 2004 I began studying beneficial host-microbe interactions in corals and have since broadened these investigations to include beneficial associations and antibiotic-producing bacteria associated with sharks and rays. I have also, by necessity, become well versed in the effects of excess CO2 (warming and ocean acidification) on the marine systems that I study.