| Institution: | Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) |
| Department: | Biological Sciences |
| Expertise: | Coastal/Estuarine Sampling and Monitoring, Communications, Ecology, Oysters, Water Quality, Ecological physiology, estuarine and marine invertebrates |
| Chesapeake Management Areas: | Sustainable Fisheries, Vital Habitats, Water Quality, Climate Resiliency |
| Research interests: | consequences of global and local stressors for the physiology of marine invertebrates in coastal ecosystems; interdisciplinary approach to testing hypothesis by employing complementary techniques from other disciplines (oceanographic sensor technology, environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, coastal ecology); mechanisms of stress tolerance over short time scales (acclimatization) and longer time scales (local adaptation); focus on human-caused stressors such as ocean acidification, ocean warming, and hypoxia, as well as natural environmental variability; study systems include oysters and other bivalves in the Chesapeake Bay, tropical reef corals, and mussels in the temperature rocky intertidal. |
| Email: | ebrivest@vims.edu |
| Web Address: | www.vims.edu/research/departments/bio/people/faculty/rivest_borrowed.php |
