Howard R. Lasker

Appointent: Professor of Geology and Director, Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

Office: 637 Hochstetter Hall

Phone: (716) 6452363 ext.184

Fax:(716) 645-3999

Email: hlasker at buffalo edu

Home Page:http://www.geology.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/lasker.shtml

Research Interests: population ecology of coral reef organisms, evolution and systematics of corals, reproduction and recruitment of octocorals on Caribbean reefs

Recent Publications:

• Gutiérrez-Rodriguez, C., Barbeitos, M. S., Sanchez, J. A., Lasker, H. R. (2008). "Phylogeography and morphological variation of the branching octocoral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae," Molecular Phylogentics and Evolution, in press
• Lasker, H. R. (2006). "High fertilization success in a surface brooding gorgonian,"  Biological Bulletin, 210:10-17.
• Goffredo, S., Lasker, H. R. (2006). "Modular growth of a gorgonian coral can generate predictable patterns of colony growth," Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 336(2):221-229.

ERIE related courses:

• GLY 512 Tropical and Marine Ecology

last updated: 12/08