The ecology of marine diseases (Extended)

• Drew Harvell

Abstract
I am requesting funding for one more meeting of the Marine Disease Working Group. The 3 main objectives of our working group are: (1) detect evidence of increasing impacts of disease in the ocean, (2) assess application of terrestrial pathogen models to marine outbreaks (and in the process, compare whats known of characteristics of terrestrial and marine disease), (3) develop statistical and modelling approaches for marine diseases.