Dr. Paul Sammarco

Professor Emeritus
[email protected]
985-851-2876

Note: Dr. Sammarco is listed as Professor Emeritus on the LUMCON faculty page and does not have a dedicated individual profile page on the current site. The summary below is drawn from LUMCON archival materials and his CV; verify against current records before publishing.

Research Interests

Dr. Sammarco’s research focuses on coral ecology and distribution on natural coral reefs (including the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys) and on artificial habitats offered by oil and gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico. His work has examined the depth distribution of ahermatypic corals, the invasive Indo-Pacific coral Tubastraea coccinea, larval dispersal and recruitment, and the application of molecular genetic techniques to determine the affinities of Gulf corals to natural reefs versus artificial habitats.