Danielle Claar

Danielle Claar is a marine scientist whose research has covered the effect of the 2015/2016 El Niño event on coral symbionts and parasites.

Danielle Claar
Alma mater	University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Victoria in Canada
Scientific career
Fields	Marine Science
Thesis	Coral Symbioses Under Stress: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Coral-Symbiodinium Interactions  (2018)
Website	https://danielleclaar.weebly.com/

Life

She studied for an undergraduate degree at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, before completing a PhD at the University of Victoria in Canada. After her PhD Claar joined the Wood Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.

Claar studied an undergraduate degree in Marine Science at the University of Hawaii in Hilo.^[1] In 2011, during her undergraduate studies, Claar undertook a NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship at Kasitsna Bay Laboratory in Alaska.^[2] She then went on to complete PhD studies from 2013-2018 at University of Victoria in Canada concerned coral symbiosis during the 2015/2016 El Niño event.^[3][4][1] Her thesis "Coral Symbioses Under Stress: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Coral-Symbiodinium Interactions" earned her the Canadian Governor General's gold medal for academic excellence.^[5][6][7] During her doctoral study Claar made use of her training as a scientific diver to complete field work on the island of Kiritimati in the Pacific Ocean.^[1]

Work

After her PhD, Claar took up a NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Fellowship to study "Large-scale climatic drivers of parasitism in coral reef fishes" at the University of Washington, Seattle.^[8][9]

See also

• 2014–16 El Niño event
• Coral in Climate Research
• Effect of Climate Change on coral
• Coral bleaching

References

1. "A conversation with Danielle Claar: NOAA Postdoc, marine scientist, diver | NOAA Climate.gov". www.climate.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
2. "NOAA Hollings Scholarship Alumni Class of 2010-2012" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-12-15.
3. "Diving into coral research - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
4. "Team". The Baum Lab @ UVic. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
5. "The Governor General's Academic Medal Directives". Archived from the original on 2018-10-31.
6. "Spring 2019 Convocation - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
7. "Award for NOAA C&GC Fellow | CPAESS - Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science". cpaess.ucar.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
8. "C&GC Class 28 | CPAESS - Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science". cpaess.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
9. "People". Wood Lab. 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2020-04-20.