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Advisory For Immediate Release
Oct. 23, 2007
1995 Collegiate grad receives 2007 Fulbright Alum grant
Elizabeth Potter Madin will further study
ocean ecosystems in Australia
LOUISVILLE, KY. LOUISVILLE, KY. – Louisville
Collegiate School 1995 alumna Elizabeth Potter Madin is one
of two inaugural recipients of the 2007 Fulbright Alumni Initiative
Grant issued by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission.
Madin, currently with the Marine Science Institute and Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), is headed to Australia
to work with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
on ocean ecosystems in the spring of 2008.
Madin was a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar
to Australia in 1999 and will return to Queensland to work
with AIMS on a project to understand how a variety of human
impacts on ocean ecosystems alter the way marine food webs
work.
“The coral reef system of the Great
Barrier Reef (GBR) provides an ideal ‘natural experiment’
by which to examine the community-wide consequences of predator
loss over such large spatial and temporal scales,” she
said. “For example, in the GBR, patterns of fishing
intensity for a number of ecologically-important predatory
fish species vary spatially, with greater intensity concentrated
in the southern-central regions of the GBR and with substantially
less effort in the northern regions.”
This project is a natural outgrowth of Madin’s
original Fulbright research at James Cook University, which
focused on the social, or human-based, dimension of marine
conservation.
Madin believes the project on her Fulbright
Alumni Initiative Grant will directly benefit AIMS and UCSB
in two primary ways: “Scientifically, this work will
draw together parallel lines of research currently being pursued
by individuals at these institutions in different biogeographic
regions. Secondly, and equally importantly, this research
will provide a formal institutional linkage between these
two world-class marine science institutes.”
She did her undergraduate work at Emory University
and graduated in 1999 with a joint degree in human and natural
ecology and psychology with a minor in French. Madin is the
daughter of Henry and Sharon Potter of Louisville.
Established in 1915, Louisville Collegiate
School is a co-ed college-preparatory independent school for
students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
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