Experts Guide

Tabatabaian is an expert in allergy, immunology and infectious disease and can discuss asthma and other heat-related allergies as well as respiratory responses from algal blooms such as red tide.

Ivey studies red tide, harmful algal blooms, water quality and microplastics and the use of a model to estimate the underwater light field through remote sensing of ocean color.

Breitbart is a biological oceanographer whose research interests include genomics, marine microbiology, wastewater microbiology, virology and molecular biology. She led groundbreaking research that identified the cause of the 2022 mass die-off long-spined sea urchins in the Caribbean and along Florida’s East coast.