FAU Lands EPA Grant to Use Genetics in Florida Bay Sponge Restoration

Andia Chaves-Fonnegra , Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at  Florida Atlantic University  ’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute  and Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College has been awarded a five-year, $720,446 grant from the United States EPA to support a pioneering project aimed at restoring sponge populations in Florida Bay through a genetics-based approach.  Read more .