Dong Yoon Lee (이 동윤)

Fish to Physics

A team of investigators collaborated to develop an education module in summer 2009. This module explains how fish larvae production is highest in the estuarine turibidity maximum region of Chesapeake Bay.

Bioluminescent Lagoons in Puerto Rico

(Undergraduate Research Experiences in Estuarine Processes, P.I.s: Drs. Moser, Harris, Pierson, Cornwell)

There are only a handful of bioluminescent lagoons (bays) in the world, and one of most famous ones is Laguna Grande located in Fajardo, Puerto Rico (picture above). Bioluminescent dinoflagellates Pyrodinium bahamense glow in dark due to the chemical reaction between luciferin and oxygen intermediated by enzyme luciferase.

A team of scientists from the Metropolitan University (Universidad Metropolitana (UMET), Puerto Rico) and the Univeristy of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (U.S.A.) conducted a series of studies in Laguna Grande in June 2013. One of our main goals for this collaboration was also to help UMET students to gain a systematic understanding of the ecological processes causing this unusual natural phenomenon.

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