CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:   Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories, Room 515
               26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone:   617-495-5600
Fax:        617-496-4079
Email:    ggoodbody@oeb.harvard.edu

CURRENT TEACHING FELLOW POSITIONS
Fall Term:   Science B-53 Marine Biology
Spring Term:   OEB 234 Topics in Marine Biology
Summer Term (2007):   Coral Reef Ecology at BIOS, Bermuda

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Coral reef reproducive ecology and genetic diversity. I am particularly interested in the evolution of scleractinian corals and go about answering questions related to this through ecology experiments dealing with life history traits such as reproductive timing, competency periods, settlement and growth. I also use a molecular approach, and am currently working on a large scale phylogeography study of the corals Favia fragum and Montastraea cavernosa across the Caribbean, including remote sites such as Bermuda. Coupling life history strategies with genetic diversity, I hope to gain insight to processes effecting species distribution and evolution, particularly in more isolated ecosystems.