Check out our research expeditions to the New England Seamounts to explore deep-sea coral communities on NOAA's Ocean Explorer web site:

Mountains in the Sea 2003 • Mountains in the Sea 2004 • Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones 2005

Scott C. France

Research Interests:

Evolution of marine invertebrates
Deep-sea biology
Genetic structure of deep-sea populations
Molecular systematics of the Anthozoa (Cnidaria)
Taxonomy of amphipods (Arthropoda, Crustacea)
Marine Biodiversity

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 42451
Lafayette, LA 70504

Office: Billeaud Hall 213
Phone: (337) 482-6320
Lab: (337) 482-6494
FAX: (337) 482-5834

  france@louisiana.edu

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1992
B.Sc., Biology, Concordia University, 1986

 

 
 
 
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Research Interests
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
In my spare time...

Courses Taught

Biol 319/519: Invertebrate Zoology
Biol 360: Principles of Ecology
Biol 551: Graduate Seminar on Deep-Sea Biology
Biol 580: Marine Ecology
Deep-sea corals at 814 meters depth in Oceanographer Canyon (southern edge of Georges Bank, NE Atlantic Ocean).

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