Faculty & Staff Profiles

Nicole D. Fogarty

Assistant Professor
nicole.fogarty@nova.edu

Education
Area(s) of research:

My lab focuses on ecological and evolutionary questions related to the fertilization success of broadcast spawners. We are particularly interested in how density dependent mechanisms of reproduction will influence invertebrate population recovery, as well as spawning synchrony, reproductive isolation, and speciation.  Previous research projects have been conducted in the following areas: coral hybridization, pre- and postzygotic isolating mechanisms in corals, polyspermy in sea urchin and corals, clonal structure of corals, the genetics and pheromones involved in corals spawning synchrony, threatened coral demographics, exogenous hormones and pollutants on sea urchin fertilization and larval viability, coral settlement under a variety salinity regimes, natural settlement in the Dry Tortugas, coral chimeras, and the use of fluorescence in coral recruit detection.

Dr. Fogarty has obtained funding from the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Science Network, the Smithsonian Institution Walcott Endowment, the American Academy of Underwater Science, the PADI Foundation Research Scholarship, PADI Aware, the Florida State University International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Florida State University Short Scholarship, the Florida State University Bennison Scholarship, the Florida State University Gramling Award in Marine Biology, and the Lerner-Gray Marine Research Scholarship.

Publications

Fogarty, N.D., M. Lowenberg, M.N. Ojima, and N. Knowlton, D.R. Levitan,. Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) (in press at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology)

Fogarty, N.D. Caribbean acroporid hybrids are viable across life history stages. 2012. Caribbean acroporid coral hybrids are viable across life history stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 446: 145-159.

Fogarty, N.D., S.V. Vollmer, D.R. Levitan. Weak prezygotic isolating mechanisms in threatened Caribbean Acropora species. PLoS ONE 7(2): e30486.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030486

Levitan, D.R., N.D. Fogarty, J. Jara, Kathleen Lotterhos, and N.Knolwton. 2011. Genetic, spatial and temporal components to precise spawning synchrony in reef building corals of the Montastraea annularis species complex. Evolution 65 (5): 1254-1270

Fogarty, N.D. 2010. Reproductive isolation and hybridization dynamics in threatened Caribbean acroporid corals. [dissertation] Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Arnold, M.L., N.D. Fogarty. 2009. Reticulate Evolution and Marine Organisms: The Final Frontier? 2009. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10(9): 3836-3860.

Ritson-Williams, R., S. Arnold, N.D. Fogarty, R. Steneck, M. Vermeij and V. Paul. 2009. New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Science, 38:437-457.

Levitan, D.R., C.P. terHorst, N.D. Fogarty. 2007. The risk of excess sperm in three congeneric sea urchins. Evolution. 61(8):2007-2014.

Vermeij, M.J.A., N.D. Fogarty, M.W. Miller. 2006. Pre- and post-settlement dynamics of Caribbean coral planulae in a variable planktonic environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:119-128.

Piniak, G.A, N.D. Fogarty, C.M. Addison. 2005. Fluorescence census techniques for coral recruits. Coral Reefs 24(3): 496-500.

Fogarty, N.D. and M. Enstrom. 2002. Sea Stewards a volunteer ecological monitoring program. Pages 27-30 in US Department of Commerce. Sanctuary Monitoring Report 2000. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Marathon, Florida USA.

Fogarty, N.D., B.D. Keller, and P.B. Dye. 2001. Effects of installing flow-through culverts on canal water quality and benthic communities at Jolly Roger Estates. Final Report. The Nature Conservancy, Key West, Florida.