Margaret A. Carroll
B.A., Field Biology, Connecticut College

Ph.D., Botany, Duke University
 

 

     

     I have been at Framingham State College since 1992.  I teach  23.252 Biology of Non-vascular Plants, 23.457 Quantitative Plant Ecology, and 23.406 Biological Research Methods I.  I am also one of the coordinators for 23.407 Biological Research Methods II.  I participate in our introductory courses, Introduction to Organismal Biology  for majors and Biological Concepts for non-majors and I also teach a non-majors course in marine biology.  I am the advisor to Beta Beta Beta and the Life Science clubs.  My research interests focus on the population biology and ecology of  seaweeds.  Recently, I have worked with several students on the relationship between the epiphyte Polysiphonia lanosa and its obligate host Ascophyllum nodosum.  I currently have a student with whom I am studying the changes in the macroalgal flora of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.