Dr. Williams first worked at Mote back in 2012 as a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates intern, but officially joined the Mote team as a Postdoctoral Researcher in October 2020. She completed her Ph.D. at Northeastern University in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology in September 2020. For her dissertation research, Dr. Williams used network science and modeling combined with fieldwork and physiological experiments to attack problems facing coral reefs from multiple angles. She studies the connections among polyps in a coral colony, the associations of coral species and their symbiotic algae and bacteria, and the spread of coral diseases – all under the lens of global climate change. At Mote, Dr. Williams uses innovative modeling and statistical analyses to study coral health and disease dynamics while advancing our understanding of coral reef resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12146,"template":"","department":[24],"class_list":["post-1625","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-coral-health-disease-research-program"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n