Dr Renee Gruber is a biogeochemist working in coastal marine and estuarine systems principally in the area of physical-biological interactions. Dr Gruber's previous research has included the influence of waves on seagrass ecology, sediment nutrient fluxes in estuaries, and tidal forcing of nutrient uptake on coral reefs.
My work includes leading the water quality component of the Marine Monitoring Program and conducting process-based research on productivity and nutrient transformation in the coastal ocean. Upcoming work (in development) includes:
- tidal forcing of productivity in macrotidal estuaries
- lability of dissolved organic and particulate nutrient pools
Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Estuarine Science, Seagrass Ecology Environment, Coral Reef, Biogeochemical Cycling, Coastal Oceanography, Fluid Dynamics
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Moustaka, M., Bassett, T.J., Beltran, L. et al. Suspended Particulate Organic Matter Supports Mesopredatory Fish Across a Tropical Seascape. Ecosystems (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-024-00929-6
Ryan M. Burrows, Alexandra Garzon-Garcia, Joanne Burton, Stephen E. Lewis, Renee K. Gruber, Jon E. Brodie, Michele A. Burford, Factors affecting broadscale variation in nearshore water-column organic carbon concentrations along the Great Barrier Reef, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 63 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.103032
Lloyd-Jones LR, Kuhnert PM, Lawrence E, Lewis SE, Waterhouse J, et al. (2022) Sampling re-design increases power to detect change in the Great Barrier Reef’s inshore water quality. PLOS ONE 17(7): e0271930. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271930
Gruber, R.K., Lowe, R.J. and Falter, J.L. (2018), Benthic uptake of phytoplankton and ocean-reef exchange of particulate nutrients on a tide-dominated reef. Limnol. Oceanogr., 63: 1545-1561. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10790
Gruber RK et al. (2017) Metabolism of a tide-dominated reef platform subject to extreme diel temperature and oxygen variations. Limnology and Oceanography 62(4): 1701-1717 https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10527
Ferguson AJP, Gruber R (2017) Oxygen and carbon metabolism of Zostera muelleri across a depth gradient–Implications for resilience and blue carbon. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 187: 216-230 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.01.005
Ferguson AJP, Gruber RK et al. (2016) Morphological plasticity in Zostera muelleri across light, sediment, and nutrient gradients in Australian temperate coastal lakes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 556: 91-104 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11830
Adams MP et al. (2016) Feedback between sediment and light for seagrass: Where is it important? Limnology and Oceanography 61(6): 1937-1955 https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10319
Lowe RJ et al. (2016) Rising sea levels will reduce extreme temperature variations in tide-dominated reef habitats. Science Advances 2(8): e1600825 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600825
Lowe RJ et al. (2015) The intertidal hydraulics of tide-dominated reef platforms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120(7): 4845-4868 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015jc010701
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