Doug Rasher (Ph.D. student in Biology) is the first recipient of the Teasley Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Aquatic Chemical Ecology. This award is equivalent to Georgia Tech's Presidential Fellowship but is awarded for demonstrated research productivity rather than promise.

Doug's publications to date are listed below:

Rasher DB and ME Hay. 2010. Chemically rich seaweeds poison corals when not controlled by herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107: 9683-9688. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0912095107

Rasher DB and ME Hay. 2010. Seaweed allelopathy degrades the resilience and function of coral reefs. Communicative and Integrative Biology 3: 1-4

Hay ME and DB Rasher. 2010. Corals in crisis. The Scientist 24(8) 42-46

Hay ME and DB Rasher. 2010. Coral reefs in crisis: reversing the biotic death spiral. F1000 Biology Reports 2010, 2:71

Lasley RS, DB Rasher, ZH Marion, RB Taylor and ME Hay (provisionally accepted pending revision) Predation constrains host choice for a marine mesograzer. Marine Ecology Progress Series

Rasher DB, S Engel, EP Stout, J Kubanek and ME Hay (submitted) Macroalgae Poison Corals Using Surface-Associated Allelochemicals: Variable Effects Due to Species Identity. PLoS One