EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1986 - 1992 Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

• Speciation processes in marine invertebrates, with particular interest in dispersal and gene flow in the deep-sea benthos
• Molecular genetics in marine ecology
• Molecular systematics of the Anthozoa (Cnidaria)
• Taxonomy of amphipods (Arthropoda, Crustacea)
• Marine Biodiversity

2009 - present Associate Professor of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

2004 - 2009 Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

1999 - 2003 Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Charleston

1997 - 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Charleston

1996 - 1997 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Selective breeding of SPF marine shrimp, with Dr. Stephen R. Palumbi, Harvard University

1996 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, Bowdoin College, Maine: Evolutionary Biology instructor

1993 - 1995 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Marine Biotechnology: Genetic population structure and gene flow in deep-sea invertebrates, with Dr. Thomas D. Kocher, University of New Hampshire

1992 - 1993 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship: Dispersal and population genetics of seamount benthos,with Dr. Lauren S. Mullineaux

1991 N.S.F. Oceanography Short Course, University of San Diego: Taught portion of enhancement course for college instructors of marine sciences

1990 - 1992 NSF Systematics Grant research assistant, San Diego Natural History Museum: Alpha taxonomy and monographs of marine isopod crustaceans,P.I. - Dr. Richard C. Brusca

1987 - 1988 Research assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Hydrothermal vent ecology studies, with Dr. Robert R. Hessler

1986 Summer research fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Photographic analysis of deep-sea hard-substrate communitieswith Dr. J. Frederick Grassle

1985-86 Teaching assistant, Invertebrate Zoology, Concordia University: Responsible for preparing and instructing laboratory portion of undergraduate course

1985-86 Honours Thesis and summer research fellow, Concordia University: Freshwater Calanoid Copepod Ecology, with Dr. Edward Maly

1984 University of Ottawa Summer Research Fellow: Zonation of Shoreline Macrophytes, with Dr. Paul Keddy

RESEARCH CRUISE EXPERIENCE

2009 Chief Scientist, R/V F.G. Walton Smith/ ROV Global Explorer ; Bahamas Deep-Sea Corals; sampling of deep-sea corals; Bahamas

2005 Co-PI, R/V Atlantis / DSV ALVIN ; CanyBal expedition; direct sampling of deep-sea corals; Georges Bank canyons and New England Seamount Chain (1 dive)

2005 Co-PI, R/V Ronald H. Brown / ROV Hercules ; Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones; sampling of deep-sea corals; New England Seamounts

2004 Participating scientist, R/V Roger Revelle / ROV Jason II ; sampling of deep-sea corals; Aleutian Ridge

2003 Co-PI, R/V Atlantis / DSV ALVIN; Mountains in the Sea; direct sampling of deep-sea corals; New England Seamounts (2 dives)

2002 Participating scientist, R/V Connecticut / ROV Kraken; sampling of deep-water corals; Gulf of Maine canyons

2001 Participating scientist, R/V Atlantis / DSV ALVIN; Deep East Leg I; direct sampling of deep-sea corals; Georges Bank canyons (1 dive)

1996 Chief Scientist, R/V Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa / DSV PISCES V; direct sampling of deep-sea corals; Hawaiian Island slopes (6 dives)

1993 Chief Scientist, R/V Kila / DSV PISCES V; direct sampling of seamount benthos; Cross, Bishop, and Pensacola Seamounts (4 dives)

1990 Participating scientist, R/V New Horizon; RUM (Remote Underwater Manipulator) test cruise; San Diego Trough

1990 Participating scientist, R/V Robert Gordon Sproul; free-vehicle trapping of bathyal amphipods and epibenthic sled trawling; California Borderland Basins

1990 Participating scientist, R/V Coral Reef II; free-vehicle trapping of bathyal amphipods and midwater trawling; Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas

1989 Chief Scientist, R/V Robert Gordon Sproul; free-vehicle trapping of bathyal amphipods, otter trawling, box-coring, and camera sled trawling; California Borderland Basins

1988 Participating scientist, R/V Atlantis II / DSV ALVIN; free-vehicle trapping and direct sampling, using submersible, of bathyal amphipods; Galapagos Rift Hydrothermal Vents (2 dives)

1988 Participating scientist, R/V Atlantis II; free-vehicle trapping of bathyal amphipods; Santa Catalina Basin

1987 Participating scientist, R/V Robert Gordon Sproul; free-vehicle trapping of bathyal amphipods; California Borderland Basins

1987 Participating scientist, R/V Atlantis II / DSV ALVIN biological sampling and photographic analysis; Marianas Back-Arc Basin Hydrothermal Vents (1 dive)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2008-10 NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration: "Deep-Water Connections: Probing the Southern Limits of Distribution of North Atlantic Deep-Sea Coral Communities" (coPIs: L. Watling (U. Hawaii), P. Auster (U. Conn), T. Shank (WHOI), I. Babb (U. Conn), K. Sulak (USGS))

2007-08 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service contract: "Development and Screening of Microsatellite Loci in Alaskan Fjord Primnoa"

2006-08 NSF Biological Oceanography: "Collaborative research: Stepping Stones Across the Atlantic: Co-evolution and dispersal of deep-water corals and their associates on NW Atlantic Seamounts"

2005-10 Harvey Mudd College subcontract on NSF grant: "Assembling the Tree of Life: An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny"

2005-06 University of Maine subcontract on NOAA National Undersea Research Center grant: "Corals of NW Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts"

2005-06 University of Connecticut subcontract on NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration grant: "Mountains in the Sea III: The Corner Rise Seamounts"

2005 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service contract: "Genetic Analysis of Aleutian Island Octocorals "

2004-05 Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources subcontract on NOAA Hawaii Undersea Research Lab grant: "An Investigation of the Current Status of the Hawaiian Black Coral Fishery using Historical and New Perspectives"

2004 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service contract: "Genetic Analysis of Aleutian Island Octocorals "

2003-2005 University of Connecticut subcontract on NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration grant: "Mountains in the Sea: Exploring the New England Seamount Chain"

2001-2004 NIH South Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network

2001-2003 University of Maine subcontract on NOAA National Undersea Research Program grant: "Genetic Analysis of Deep Water Octocorals off the NE coast of the U.S."

1994-1995 Research grant, NOAA National Undersea Research Program at the University of Hawaii: "Dispersal and population genetics of seamount benthos," with Dr. Lauren Mullineaux

1993 - 1995 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Marine Biotechnology

1992 - 1993 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship

1990 Sigma-Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research: Application of allozyme electrophoresis to deep-sea amphipods

1986 - 1990 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1967 Postgraduate Scholarship

1986 - 1988 Fonds Pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'aide a la Recherche, Quebec, Canada, Postgraduate Scholarship

1986 Virginia Walker Smith Summer Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1986 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Summer Research Scholarship

1986 Francois Chabot Memorial Award for Ecology, Concordia University

1985 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Summer Research Scholarship

1984 University of Ottawa Summer Research Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2008 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2008. Oral Presentation, "On the Origin of Deep-Sea Octocorals: Patterns Revealed From Molecular Phylogenies" (co-authored by E. Pante & J. van der Ham)

2008 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2008. Poster Presentation, "The first molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of the Chrysogorgiidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) questions its monophyly" (co-author with E. Pante)

2008 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2008. Poster Presentation, "Mitochondrial genome studies of the black coral family Leiopathidae Haeckel, 1896" (co-author with M. Brugler & D. Opresko)

2008 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2008. Poster Presentation, "Deep-sea corals show no evidence of endemism on northwestern Atlantic seamounts" (co-author with J. Thoma, E. Pante & M. Brugler)

2006 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Southampton, U.K., July 2006. Oral presentation, "Observations of Deep-water Coral Communities on the New England and Corner Rise Seamount Chains (Western North Atlantic)" (co-authored by Watling, L. E., Auster, P. J., Babb, I. G., Moore, J. A., Mullineaux, L. S., Adkins, J. F., Shank, T. M., and Waller, R. G)

2006 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Southampton, U.K., July 2006. Poster presentation, "Not all deep-sea whips are created equal: Genetic analysis of bamboo corals (Octocorallia, Isididae)."

2006 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Southampton, U.K., July 2006. Poster presentation, "Distribution and abundance of black corals (Antipatharia) in relation to depth and topography on the New England Seamounts (Northwest Atlantic)." (co-authored by M.R. Brugler)

2006 Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting, Stony Brook, New York, June 2006. Poster presentation, "Deep-sea bamboo corals break rank: Mitochondrial gene order is not conserved among octocorals   (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Isididae)." (co-authored with M.R. Brugler)

2006 Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting, Stony Brook, New York, June 2006. Oral presentation, "Ecological niche requirements trump major oceanographic processes in shaping phylogeographic structure of direct developing intertidal invertebrates." (co-authored and presented by M.E. Jones)

2005 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, November 2005. Oral Presentation, "Genetic Analysis of Bamboo Corals: does lack of branching distinguish Lepidisis from Keratoisis ?"

2005 3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, November 2005. Poster Presentation, "Distribution and Abundance of Black Corals (Antipatharia) in Relation to Depth and Topography on the New England Seamounts (Northwest Atlantic)" (co-authored by M.R. Brugler)

2003 10th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Coos Bay, Oregon, August 2003. Oral Presentation, "Patterns of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in deep-sea octocorals."

2003 10th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Coos Bay, Oregon, August 2003. Poster Presentation, "Do antipatharians belong in the subclass Ceriantipatharia?: Inferring phylogeny from mitochondrial gene order of a deep-sea black coral." (co-author with M.R. Brugler)

2002 Annual SEEPAGE (Southeast Ecology and Population Genetics Group) meeting, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC, September 2002. Oral Presentation, "Analyses of mitochondrial genes of deep-sea corals: Low mutation rates and conserved ORF provide evidence for a functional DNA mismatch repair gene." (co-authored by A.B. LePard, M.C. Barkes, L.L. Hoover & M.R. Brugler)

2002 Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2002. Poster Presentation (co-author with A.B. LePard), "Analysis of genetic variation in mtMSH in the genus Leptogorgia (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) and implications for studying population structure."

2002 Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2002. Poster Presentation (co-author with M.E. Jones), "The effects of maternal care on dispersal and genetic population structure of western north Atlantic haustoriid amphipods."

2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Tennessee, June 2001. Poster Presentation, "Analysis of sequence variation in a DNA mismatch repair gene (mtMSH) apparently unique among metazoan mitochondrial genomes to the octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)." (co-authored by Loretta L. Hoover)

2000 First International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 2000. Oral Presentation, "Genetic Diversity in Deep-Seamount Octocorals." (co-authored by Loretta L. Hoover)

2000 9th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, June 2000. Oral Presentation, "Speciation at hydrothermal vents: using genes to trace the origin and spread of Eastern Pacific vent-endemic amphipods."

2000 Deep-Sea Biodiversity; Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Conservation Strategies, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, California, January, 2000.  Participant in  a working group on deep-sea biodiversity

1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Wisconsin, June 1999. Oral Presentation, "Speciation in the deep sea: tracing the origin and spread of hydrothermal vent-endemic amphipods."

1997 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Colorado, June 1997. Oral Presentation, "Using introns to measure intraspecific genetic structure: distinguishing loci, alleles, and polymerase errors"

1996 The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting, University of San Diego, July 1996. Oral Presentation, "DNA sequence analysis of formalin-fixed, deep-sea amphipods"

1995 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, McGill University, July 1995. Oral Presentation, "Mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence divergence among deep-sea amphipod populations: Geographic and bathymetric patterns of populations structure"

1995 Fourth Scientific Meeting of The Oceanography Society, Newport, Rhode Island, April 1995. Poster presentation, "Genetic divergence and speciation in the deep sea: Horizontal versus vertical gene flow"

1994 Seventh Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, IMBC, Crete, Greece, September, 1994. Oral Presentation, "Mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence variation in populations of the scavenging deep-sea amphipod Eurythenes gryllus (Crustacea, Lysianassoidea) from the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans"

1994 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Georgia, June 1994. Poster Presentation, "Mitochondrial 16S rRNA of deep-sea corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) exhibits length variation among species but little sequence variation within species"

1994 NSF RIDGE Workshop, Dispersal, gene flow and larval biology at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Fallen Leaf Lake, California, May 1994

1991 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1991. Poster Presentation, "Geographic Variation Among Isolated Populations of the Deep-Sea Amphipod Hirondellea gigas"

1991 Sixth Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, July, 1991. Oral Presentation, "Genetic Distance Between Populations of the Hydrothermal Vent Endemic Amphipod Ventiella sulfuris"

1988 Fifth Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Brest, France, June, 1988. Oral Presentation, "Deep-Sea Hard Substrate Megafauna Along the East Pacific Rise"

1987 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, California, December, 1987. Oral Presentation, "Hydrothermal Vent Communities of the Marianas Back-Arc Basin"

1986 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meetings, Kingston, Rhode Island, June, 1986. Oral Presentation, "Survival of, and reproduction in, diaptomid copepods transferred to alien lake environments"

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