Kendra Daly | |
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| Alma mater | University of Tennessee |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of South Florida |
| Thesis | The influence of zooplankton on biogeochemical fluxes and stoichiometry in an Arctic marine system (1995) |
Kendra Lee Daly is an oceanographer known for her work on zooplankton, particularly in low oxygen regions of the ocean. She is a professor at the University of South Florida, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Daly has a B.S. (1973) [1] and a M.S. (1990) [2] from the University of Washington. In 1995 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee with a dissertation on zooplankton in the Arctic. [3] Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was a program director at the National Science Foundation. In 2001 she moved to the University of South Florida where she was promoted to professor in 2014. [1]
Daly's early research was conducted in the Weddell Sea where she examined the abundance, [4] growth, and feeding of krill. [5] Subsequently she examined year-to-year changes in the development of krill in Antarctica, [6] and the role of zooplankton in organic sulfur cycling in the Southern Ocean. [7] She has examined how plankton production is impacted by physics and biology, [8] such as her work looking at carbon and nitrogen cycling in polar regions. [9] [10] Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Daly considered how the spill may have altered plankton production in the region, [11] worked with a team tracking oil droplets in the water using automated image analysis, [12] and assessed potential toxic effects of the oil on the biological community in the Gulf of Mexico. [13] [14]
In 2015 Daly was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [15]