Title: Biological response to catastrophic events in the Aleutian Islands
When: 7 July 2004
Who: Tony Rathburn (Indiana State University)

Tony is a professor at Indiana State University in the Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology.
Tonyâs interests include: Paleoceanography, Paleoecology, Micropaleontology, Geobiology and Biogeochemistry of methane seeps.
In his talk, Tony discussed the foraminiferal recovery of disturbed areas such as those on the seafloor off Unimak Island, Alaska. He used the ROV JASON to survey and collect samples on transects across this disturbed area.Ê The purpose of his study is to characterize the catastrophic disturbance recovery rates of various seafloor organisms.