
Peter Etnoyer
Marine Biologist - NOAA
Education
Ph.D., 2009, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
M.E.M., 2001, Duke University
B.A., 1988, Duke University
Research Interests
- Deep-sea corals
- Benthic ecology
- Climate change
- Habitat restoration
- Marine policy
Publications
- Etnoyer PJ, Messing CG, Stanley KA, LaVelle K, Shirley T. 2022. Diversity and time-series analyses of
Caribbean deep-sea coral and sponge assemblages on the tropical island slope of Isla de Roatán,
Honduras. Marine Biodiversity. Vol 52, No 8. Link - Frometa J, Etnoyer PJ, Quattrini AM, Herrera S.; Greig TW. 2021. Genetic Divergence and Polyphyly in the Octocoral Genus Swiftia [Cnidaria: Octocorallia], Including a Species Impacted by the DWH Oil Spill. Diversity 2021, 13, 172. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13040172
- Choy E, Watanabe K, Williams B, Stone R, Etnoyer P, Druffel E, et al. (2020) Understanding growth and age of red tree corals (Primnoa pacifica) in the North Pacific Ocean. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0241692.
- Hennige SJ., Wolfram U, Wickes L, Murray F, Roberts JM, … Etnoyer PJ. 2020. Crumbling Reefs and
Cold-Water Coral Habitat Loss in a Future Ocean: Evidence of “Coralporosis” as an Indicator of
Habitat Integrity. Frontiers in Mar. Sci. Vol 7, p 668.