Tarik Gouhier
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Contact
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 0 Marine Science Center
430 Nahant Road
Nahant, Massachusetts 01908
Office
- 781.581.7370
Research Focus
Theoretical Ecology
Education
- PhD, McGill University, 2010
Teaching Interests
Quantitative ecology
Research Overview
Theoretical Ecology
Selected Research Projects
- Coral-Microbial Interactions as Determinants of Disease Dynamics
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Integrating Broad-Scale Regional Variation in Environmental Forcing and Benthic-Pelagic Coupling
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Spatio-Temporal Extremes and Association: Marine Adaptation and Survivability Under Climate change and Rising Ocean Temperatures
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- The Effects of Fine-Scale Temperature and Desiccation Variability on the Distribution of Marine Species
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- P. Pillai, T.C. Gouhier, S.V. Vollmer, Ecological Rescue of Hose-Microbial Systems Under Environmental Change, Theoretical Ecology, 10, 2017, 51-63
- B. Spiecker, T.C. Gouhier, F. Guichard, Reciprocal Feedbacks Between Spatial Subsidies and Reserve Networks in Coral Reef Meta-Ecosystems, Ecological Applications, 26(1), 2016, 264-278
- D. Wang, T.C. Gouhier, B.A. Menge, A.R. Ganguly, Intensification and Spatial Homogenization of Coastal Upwelling Under Climate Change, Nature, 518, 2015, 390-394
- P. Pillai, T.C. Gouhier, S.V. Vollmer, The Cryptic Role of Biodiversity in the Emergence of Host-Microbial Mutualisms, Ecology Letters, 17(11), 2014, 1437-1446
- T.C. Gouhier, F. Guichard, B.A. Menge, Designing Effective Reserve Networks for Non-equilibrium Metacommunities, Ecological Applications, 23(6), 2013, 1488-1503
- T.C. Gouhier, F. Guichard, B.A. Menge, Ecological Processes Can Synchronize Marine Population Dynamics Over Continental Scales, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(18), 2010, 8281-8286
Feb 19, 2015
Climate Effect on Coast
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Tarik Gouhier’s article in Nature shows that climate change will result in major changes in coastal marine ecosystems.
Jul 22, 2014
Interdisciplinary NSF Grant
Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Affiliated Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier were awarded an $1.2M NSF Cyber SEES grant to study changes in marine organisms based on ocean temperature. The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in […]
Apr 04, 2013
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.