Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of South Carolina, Columbia SC

Ph.D., Clemson University


smithres@usca.edu

Coral health and disease. My laboratory studies interactions between marine microbiota and macrophytes. Most recently, we have focused on diseases of corals, gorgonians and reef associated organisms. This includes pathogen identification, pathogenic mechanisms, and the origins of pathogenic strains. In addition, we are determining the overall distribution of these diseases in the world’s oceans.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Gil-Aguedlo DL, L Ali-Hassan, K Kim, GW Smith. Characterization of coral surface microbiota using metabolic profiling. 10th Intern. Coral Reef Symp. (submitted).

K. M. Sullivan Saeley, V Paul , G W Smith AND S Slingsby. Stressors and disturbance regimes on back reef systems: scale and scope from landbased sources. Mar. Prog. Ser. (submitted).

Gil-Aguedlo DL, C Myers, GW Smith, K Kim. Changes in the microbial communities associated with Gorgonia ventalina during Aspergillosis infection. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. (submitted)

Ward, JR, KL Rypien, J Bruno, CD Harvell, E Jordan-Dahlgren, KM Mullen, RE Rodriguez-Martinez, J Sanchez, GW Smith. Coral diversity and disease in Mexico. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. (submitted)

Ein-Gil, N , M Iian, S Carmeli, GW Smith, O Yarden. Soaking up fungi like a sponge. Environ. Microbiol. (submitted)

Gil-Aguedlo DL, GW Smith E Weil. Fulfilling Koch’s postulates for white band disease type II. Rev. Biol. Tropical (submitted).

Wilson, C, R Brigmon, A Knox, J Seaman, GW Smith. Effects of microbial phosphate amendments on the bioavailability of lead (Pb) in shooting range soil. Environ. Toxicol. (submitted)

McCallum HI, A Kuris, CD Harvell, KD Lafferty, GW Smith, J Porter. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 585-591. 2004

Cervino, JM, RL Hayes, TJ Goreau, SW Polson, SC Polson, RJ Martinez, GW Smith. Vibrio spp. Infection and elevated temperatures as links to Yellow Blotch/Band disease in the Caribbean. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 40(11): 6855-6864. 2004

Nugues MM, GW Smith, R vanHooidonk, M Seabra and R Bak. Agal overgrowth as a trigger for coral disease.Ecology Letters: 7: 919-923. 2004

Harvell D, R Aronson, N Baron, J Connell, A Dobson, S Ellner, L Gerber, K Kim, A Kuris, H McCallum, K Lafferty, B McKay, J Porter, M Pascual, G Smith, K Sutherland, J Ward. The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities. Front Ecol Environ: 2: 375-382, 2004.

Cervino JM, Hayes R, Goreau T, Smith GW. Zooxanthellae regulation in Yellow Blotch/Band and other coral diseases contrasted with temperature related bleaching: in-situ destruction vs expulsion. Symbiosis: 37:63-86, 2004.

Weir, J.R., V. Garrison, G.W. Smith and E.A. Shinn. The relationship between gorgonian coral (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea) disease and African dust storms. Aerobiologia 20:119-126. 2004

Garrison, V.H., E.A. Shinn, R. S. Carr, P. Chavez, W. Foreman, D. Griffin, C. Holmes, C. Kellogg, M. Majewski, L. Richardson, K. Ritchie, G.W. Smith, R. Young. Globally transported African and Asian dust and the health of downstream ecosystems. BioScience 53: 469-480. 2003.

Denner, EBM, GW Smith, HJ Busse, P Schumann, W Lubitz and LL Richardson. Characterisation of the bacterial pathogen, WP1, the causative agent of plague type II on Caribbean scleractinian corals : description of Aurantimonas coralicida gen. Nov., sp. nov. Internat. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53:1115-1122, 2003

McGrath, AT and GW Smith. Comparisons of the 1995 and 1998 coral bleaching events on the patch reefs of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Rev. Biol Trop 51:67-76, 2003

Patterson, K.L., J.W. Porter, K.B. Ritchie, S.W. Polson, E. Mueller, E.C. Peters, D.L. Santavy and G.W. Smith. The etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 99:8725-8730. 2002.

Bagwell, J.R. LaRocque, G.W. Smith, S.W. Polson, M.J. Friez, J.W. Longshore and C.R. Lovell. Molecular diversity of diazotrophs in oligotrophic tropical seagrass bed communities. FEMS Micro. Ecol. 39:113-119. 2002.

Alker, A.P., G.W. Smith and K. Kim. Characterization of Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea fan corals. Hydrobiologia 460: 105-111, 2001

Ritchie, K.B., S.W. Polson and G.W. Smith. Microbial disease causation in marine invertebrates: Problems, practices and future prospects. Hydrobiologia 460:131-139, 2001.

Richardson, L.L. G.W. Smith, K.B. Ritchie and R.G. Carlton. Intrgrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular and physiological techniques in the study of coral disease etiology. Hydrobiologia 460: 71-89, 2001.

Harvell, C.D., K. Kim, C. Quirolo, J. Weir and G.W. Smith. Coral bleaching and disease: contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Gorgonacea). Hydrobiologia 460: 97-104, 2001.

Cervino, J., T. J. Goreau, I. Nagelkerken, G.W. Smith and R. Hayes. Yellow band and dark spot syndromes in Caribbean corals: Distribution, rate of spread, cytology and effects on abundance and division rate of zooxanthellae. Hydrobiologia 460: 53-63, 2001.

Kim, K., C.D. Harvell, P.D. Kim, G.W. Smith and S.M. Merkel. Role of secondary chemistry in fungal disease resistance of sea fans (Gorgonia spp.). Marine Biology 136: 259-267. 2000.

Goreau, T. J., R. L. Hayes, A. E. Strong, M. Goreau, Marshall Hayes, Ernest Williams, Garriet Smith, and J. Cervino. Global Coral Reef Bleaching and Sea Surface Temperature Trends from Satellite-derived HotSpot Analysis. Science, 2000.

Shinn, EA, GW Smith, JM Prospero, P. Betzer, ML Hayes, V. Garrison, RT Barber. African dust and the demise of Caribbean coral reefs. Geophysical Research Letters: 27: 3029-3032 Oct. 2000; reprinted in Earth in Space 13: 7-9, 2000.

Ritchie, K.B., I. Nagelkerken, S. James and G.W. Smith. A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen. Nature 404:354. 2000.

Book Chapters:
Kim K, and GW Smith, Gorgonia-Aspergillus Pathosystem: Review of a fungal disease affecting Caribbean sea fan corals. Mich. State Univ. Press: (in press). 2005

Garrison VH, LL Richardson and GW Smith. Disease on Coral Reefs-2003 State of the Knowledge. Mich. State Univ. Press: (in press) 2005.

K.B. Ritchie and G.W. Smith, Microbial Communities of Coral Surface Mucopolysaccharide Layers. In Coral Health and Disease. E. Rosenburg and Y. Loya (eds). Springer-Verlag, 2004 pp. 259-263.

D. L. Gil-Agudelo, G.W. Smith, J. Garzon-Ferreira, E. Weil and D. Petersen. Dark Spots and Yellow Band Disease, Two Poorly Known Coral Diseases with High Incidence in Caribbean Reefs. In Coral Health and Disease. E. Rosenburg and Y. Loya (eds). Springer-Verlag, 2004 pp. 337-348.

G.W. Smith and E. Weil. Aspergillosis of Gorgonians. In Coral Health and Disease. E. Rosenburg and Y. Loya (eds). Springer-Verlag, 2004 pp. 279-286.

Five Chapters in The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases:Developments in Hydrobiology. J.W. Porter (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001

Carolyn Clark-Simpson and Garriet Smith (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas. Published by the Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, 2001.