Paul H. Yancey, Ph.D.

Researcher

Paul H. Yancey, Ph. D. is a Professor of Biology at Whitman College and has been on many deep-sea expeditions (including a voyage in the famous tiny submersible Alvin). He has given talks on marine and medical research across the United States as well as in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, Botswana and Brazil. Dr. Yancey is currently investigating the physiology and biochemistry of animal adaptation from humans to deep-sea animals, particularly related to water and osmoregulation. In 2006 and 2007, Paul and his students worked with our team on the osmoregulation of coral.