Groupe de spécialistes des étoiles marines de la CSE de l'UICN

Dr. Sophie George is Professor Emerita at Georgia Southern University, she spent 6 total years at the National Science Foundation as a program officer and was a visiting lecturer at Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, spring 2023. She has been a visiting researcher at Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington for the last 23 years.  Her main research interests revolve around environmental change and impacts on marine invertebrate larvae. Her main goal is to understand how echinoderm larvae will respond to the predicted increase in marine heat waves. She is specifically interested in the conservation of species belonging to this group.