{"id":13,"date":"2015-04-07T10:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:25:07","slug":"alyssa-novak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/alyssa-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"\/novak\/files\/2022\/11\/MJ-NovakFam2022-60-e1669663443336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"198\" height=\"210\" class=\"wp-image-1023  alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/novak\/files\/2022\/11\/MJ-NovakFam2022-60-e1669663443336.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a coastal ecologist who uses a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches to understand \u00a0how coastal ecosystems respond to stressors.\u00a0 The ultimate goal of my research is to provide information that facilitates initiatives to increase the health and resiliency of coastal systems to human stressors including climate change. \u00a0I have worked extensively in seagrass systems developing models and conducting health assessments to identify eelgrass restoration sites; assessing the role of donor populations in promoting the establishment and resilience of eelgrass at restoration sites; and investigating the adaptive significance of leaf-reddening as a stress response in seagrasses.\u00a0 I also work in salt marsh systems studying the processes that govern their formation and stability, as well as their response to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D.\u00a0 Natural Resources and Earth Sciences- Oceanography,\u00a0University of New Hampshire<br \/>\nM.S.\u00a0\u00a0 Environmental Science- GIS and Satellite Remote Sensing, University of Rhode Island<br \/>\nB.A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Biology,\u00a0 University of Virginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Assistant Professor I am a coastal ecologist who uses a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches to understand \u00a0how coastal ecosystems respond to stressors.\u00a0 The ultimate goal of my research is to provide information that facilitates initiatives to increase the health and resiliency of coastal systems to human stressors including climate change. \u00a0I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10271,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/novak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}