Williams taking sediment measurements in a seagrass bed in IndonesiaUC DAVIS
Susan Williams, a marine biologist at the University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory, was killed in a six-vehicle car crash on Tuesday (April 24). She was 66.
“This is a tremendous loss for students and her colleagues at both the Bodega Marine Laboratory and on the Davis campus,” Mark Winey, dean of UC Davis’s College of Biological Sciences, says in a statement. “Her scientific excellence, outstanding teaching and caring mentoring will be missed.”
Williams’s research focused on ocean conservation, and her work revealed, among other things, that seagrass seaweed could help restore damaged ocean habitats in various ways, such as through storing carbon dioxide.
As director of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory from 2000 to 2010, Williams championed community engagement and science communication ...
