Deadly Amphibian Disease Being Researched at Oakland University

OU Ecologist’s NSF Grant Supports Research into Deadly Amphibian Disease Dr. Thomas Raffel, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Oakland University (OU), has been awarded a five-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on the effects of temperature variation on chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease that has been linked to mass amphibian die-offs and extinctions throughout the world. “There has been a major decline in … [Read more...]