{"385291":{"#nid":"385291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Danielle Dixson Awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiology faculty member Dr. Danielle Dixson is among 126 scientists in North America who have been awarded a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship, a two-year grant given to early career scholars to support their pursuit of scientific knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDixson, an assistant professor in the School of Biology, investigates the influence sensory cues have on the behavior of coral reef organisms. Her recent work, featured on the cover of the journal Science, found that coral larvae and juvenile fishes can smell the difference between a reef that is unhealthy and one that is a suitable home. She has also published recent work showing that acidic oceans make sharks less interested in their food.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDixson conducts research around the globe on coral reef ecology, and the Sloan Research Fellowship will allow her to continue conducting the fieldwork vital to her research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI am very honored and excited to have been selected as a Sloan Fellow,\u201d Dixson said. \u201cThese funds will allow my lab to conduct research in Belize investigating how larval fishes and corals use chemical cues in settlement site selection and predator evasion.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiology faculty member Dr. Danielle Dixson is among 126 scientists in North America who have been awarded a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship, a two-year grant given to early career scholars to support their pursuit of scientific knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biology faculty member Dr. Danielle Dixson is among 126 scientists in North America who have been awarded a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship."}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2015-03-06 13:53:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"251891":{"id":"251891","type":"image","title":"Danielle Dixson","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1475894931","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:51","alt":"Danielle Dixson","file":{"fid":"198126","name":"danielle.dixson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielle.dixson_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/danielle.dixson_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":251630,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/danielle.dixson_0.jpg?itok=ftrnOC13"}}},"media_ids":["251891"],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"79191","name":"Danielle Dixson"}],"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":""}}}