Mercer Brugler, PhD

Mercer R. Brugler, PhD

Chair, Department of Natural Sciences
Professor, Marine Biology
Department of Natural Sciences

1100 Boundary Street

Beaufort, SC 29902

Office: 843-521-4166

https://tidalmarshtaskforce.wixsite.com/uscb

@BlackCoralLab

Brugler Google Scholar Profile

mbrugler@uscb.edu

CV_Brugler.pdf

My academic mission is to recruit, inspire and retain underrepresented minorities in the Marine Biology Program at the University of South Carolina Beaufort by leveraging priceless support and generous funding from USCB, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Undergraduates from “Team Black Coral” have participated in NOAA-funded research cruises, continued onto Masters Programs at Cornell University, Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Brooklyn College, and are employed by Cold Spring Harbor’s DNA Learning Center.

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology at the University of Miami, Florida (1997-2001), a Master of Science in Marine Biology at the College of Charleston’s Grice Marine Laboratory (South Carolina, 2001-2004), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2004-2011). I was a Gerstner Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics (2011-2014). I am currently a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC). Prior to joining USCB in Fall 2020, I was an Associate Professor at NYC College of Technology (CUNY), an adjunct at NYU's School of Professional Studies (Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies), and a Lecturer for Columbia University's Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Program.