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Contact Information
Phone: (808) 956-6695
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: lurie@hawaii.edu

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
3190 Maile Way, Room 101
Honolulu, HI 96822

Affiliations
Botany

Dissertation Title:
To be announced

Statement
I am broadly interested community ecology of coastal wetlands and near shore marine habitats. My previous research has focused on analyzing abiotic and biotic factors limiting plant and animal species distributions in temperate mangrove and salt marsh habitats in California and Australia. Here in Hawaii I am interested in studying ecology of invasive 'Red mangrove', Rhizophora mangle. More specifically, I am interested in how the mangroves are affecting surrounding near shore communities and exploring the ecological impact of their displacement of native Hawaiian wetlands. I will be primarily focusing on issues such as biodiversity, productivity, trophic structure, and ecosystem services along with factors affecting distribution of these habitats. I ultimately hope that my work will contribute to management decisions in these areas.

Awards

• Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Biology, Biology 172 Laboratory, UH Manoa, Spring 2007



• Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Biology, Biology 101 Laboratory, UH Manoa, Fall 2006



• Lasiewski Award for Undergraduate Research in Organismic Biology, UCLA Spring 2006

Publications

• Boyer, J.S, Hass, L.L., Lurie, M.H., & Blumstein, D.T. (2006) The effect of visibility on time allocation and escape decisions in Crimson Rosellas. Australian Journal of Zoology, 54: 363-367.



• Lurie, M.H., Lombardo, S., Mackey, E.A., Camelio, K.W., Hass, L.L., Chung, C., Kane, T., & Fong, P. (In Prep) Abiotic vs. Biotic factors conditions causing plant distribution in a temperate mangrove/salt marsh habitat transition zone in Jervis Bay, Australia. Ecology.