Kathryn is a visiting student from Austin, Texas. Her research with the GCEco lab currently focuses on Red Sea coral settlement, crustose coralline algae (CCA),and marine calcification rates She is excited to be at KAUST and will help anybody and everybody with their field work😄

Meet Francesca! She’s a visiting student from Italy, where she’s working on her PhD all about CCA taxonomy. Her research dives into using both morpho- and molecular taxonomy to explore and understand CCA dominated environments in places like the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

Eloise is a visiting student from Oxford University in the UK. She is joining the GCEco Lab to help research algae diversity and calcification rates on Red Sea coral reefs. She is really excited by the opportunity to be studying this unique and relatively understudied reef system