Esprit Heestand

Ph.D. Student
Graduate Program in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Biology - UL Lafayette

Office: Billeaud Hall 216
Phone: (337) 482-6494
enh9024 -at -louisiana -dot -edu


I will be working on molecular systematics of deep-water bamboo corals.

Education

B.A. in Zoology, Ohio State University
M.S. in Biological Sciences, Ohio State University


  • Publications from graduate work

E. Pante, E. Heestand-Saucier and S.C. France. 2013. Molecular and morphological data support reclassification of the octocoral genus Isidoides. Invertebrate Systematics 27:365-378

 

 

A crinoid feather star perches on a bamboo coral colony at 1600 meters depth in Little Abaco Canyon, Bahamas.