Koty Sharp
Associate Professor, Biology, Marine Biology, & Environmental Science, Roger Williams University
Koty is an Associate Professor in Biology & Marine Biology at Roger Williams University, where she is the Interim Director of the RWU Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED). She received her B.A. in Biology at Mount Holyoke College and her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego in 2006. She was a Marine Science Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, FL in 2006-2008 and a Goelet Postdoctoral Fellow at Ocean Genome Legacy (New England Biolabs) in Ipswich, MA from 2008-2011. From 2011-2015, Koty was on the faculty at Eckerd College in Biology and Marine Science. At RWU, she leads research program focused on marine animal microbiomes and their responses to climate change and environmental disturbance. She works with the Northern Star Coral, an emerging model organism and the newly designated state coral of Rhode Island. Koty was born and raised in coastal Delaware, and she has lived in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Her research has taken her to The Republic of Palau, Panama, Bermuda, Belize, California, and the Florida Keys.
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