Valerie J. Paul | |
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Alma mater | University of California at San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Marine Ecology |
Institutions | Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Fort Pierce, FL University of Guam Marine Laboratory |
Valerie J. Paul is the Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, in Fort Pierce, FL[1] since 2002 and the Head Scientist of the Chemical Ecology Program. She is interested in marine chemical ecology, and specializes in researching the ecology and chemistry of Cyanobacteria, blue-green algae, blooms. She has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1996, and was the chairperson of the Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference in 2000.