{"320811":{"#nid":"320811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"George Mercer Award for Best Recent Paper in Ecology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT Biology 2012 PhD graduate Douglas Rasher won the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America this year. This prestigious award recognizes the best paper published in Ecology over the past 2 years by an ecologist younger than 40 years old. Rasher, now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maine, provides rich new insights for the management and conservation of coral reefs in his 2013 \u201cConsumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function,\u201d in Ecology. The study, which he conducted as a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, shows that interactions between algal defenses and herbivore tolerances create an essential role for consumer diversity in the functioning and resilience of coral reefs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT Biology 2012 PhD graduate Douglas Rasher won the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America this year. This prestigious award recognizes the best paper published in Ecology over the past 2 years by an ecologist younger than 40 years old\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Biology 2012 PhD graduate Douglas Rasher won the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America this year."}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2014-09-03 09:38:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:59","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"100381":{"id":"100381","type":"image","title":"Doug Rasher","body":null,"created":"1449178159","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:19","changed":"1475894717","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:17"}},"media_ids":["100381"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"20351","name":"Doug Rasher"},{"id":"101551","name":"George Mercer Award"},{"id":"13884","name":"Mark Hay"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}