ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013  – pres. Director, Schiller Coastal Studies Center, Bowdoin College
2013 – pres. Associate Professor, Bowdoin College
2008 – 2013 Associate Professor of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2003- 08 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2003 Assistant Professor, Florida International University, Declined
2003 Adjunct Professor, Las Positas College, Livermore, CA
2001- 03 Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Davis
1999- 01 Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
1997- 99 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Davis
1996- 97 Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Riverside

EDUCATION

1995 Ph.D. Zoology, University of New Hampshire
1991 M.S. Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston
1987 B.A. Biology/BUMP Program, Boston University

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• 2015–2020   The Schiller Coastal Studies Center. A $13.5 million expansion of the former “Coastal Studies Center” at 240 Bayview Road, Harpwell, Maine. The project includes new residential housing, a 100-seat meeting space, and a 6000 gsf laboratory. I worked with Bowdoin’s development office to cultivate the donor, and have been involved with all phases of planning, including architect selection, design and development, and final drawings.
• 2015–2017  Experimental Seawater Laboratory at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center. A $214,361 expansion of the technical capacities of the existing seawater system. The project includes new infrastructure and equipment to manipulate seawater temperature and chemistry, and monitor carbonate parameters in nearby Harpswell Sound. I wrote the successful NSF FSML award, lead all phases of design and installation, and managed technical subcontracts.
• 2014  Marine Laboratory Renovation. A $500,000 upgrade of the Marine Laboratory seawater system at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center and addition of a 750 gsf dry laboratory space. I was involved in all phases of planning, including architect selection, design and development, and final drawings. Funded by the Cargill Foundation.

GRANTS

Current

• 2018–2020 Maine Sea Grant College. $147,264. Applying paleoceanography to policy: unlocking historical coastal pH baselines from long-lived shells and skeletons. PI: Michele LaVigne; Co-PIs: D. Carlon, A. Strong, A. A. Wanamaker, B. Williams.

Completed

• 2015-17 NSF, Division of Biological Infrastructure $214,361. DBI 15-22545: RUI: Experimental seawater laboratory at the Coastal Studies Center, Bowdoin College. PI: D. Carlon, Co-PI: Michelle LaVigne
• 2016-2017 Quahog Bay Conservancy. $5000. Quahog bay conservation research scholarship for undergraduate students
• 2016 Maine Sea Grant College. $3000 Development Grant to support the 45th Benthic Ecology Society Meeting. PI: D. Carlon, Co-PI: Steve Allen.
• 2009-10 NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant NA09NMF4630123 $46,000. How many have been lost? Using Ancient DNA to develop baselines for coral reef conservation and management. PI: R. Toonen, Co-PIs: D. Carlon and T. Hunt.
• 2006-10 NSF Division of Environmental Biology $570,319. DEB 05-43661: A multidisciplinary approach to species boundaries in tropical reef corals. PI: D. Carlon, Co-PI: A. F. Budd.
• 2006-07 NOAA-CSCOR Hawaiian Coral Reef Initiative Research Program $74,000. Of urchins and parrot fish: sources and sinks of keystone herbivores on Hawaiian reefs (PI: D. Carlon)
• 2005-06 NOAA-CSCOR Hawaiian Coral Reef Initiative Research Program $77,125. Sources and sinks of a keystone herbivore on Hawaiian coral reefs (PI: D. Carlon)
• 2005-06 Hawaii Sea Grant College $9,000. Developing microsatellite loci for a keystone herbivore on Hawaiian coral reefs: the parrotfish Scarus rubroviolaceus (PI: D. Carlon)
• 2003-04 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration $18,800. The ecology of speciation in a neotropical coral (PI: D. Carlon)
• 1999-00 University Research Expeditions Program, University of California $7000 Conservation of genetic diversity on coral reefs (PI: D. Carlon)
• 1994 PADI Foundation $4500. Spatial patterns in coral recruitment on Guana Island
• 1993 American Museum of Natural History, Lerner Grey Foundation. $2000.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

• 1999-01 Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies Postdoctoral fellowship $85,000. Mating system evolution in temperate anemones.
• 1997-99 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioscences Related to the Environment $80,000. The adaptive value of fusion in a Caribbean reef coral

INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

• 2019 Bowdoin College Porter Award for Sabbatical Leave. 75% salary support & $4000 for travel and relocation expenses.
• 2012 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present a paper at the 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Ontario $1,500
• 2011 University of Hawaii, College of Natural Science Grant to develop EST libraries for tropical parrotfish using next generation sequencing. $28,000
• 2011 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present a paper at the Colloquium: A new chapter for marine time series in tropical America, Bocas del Toro, Panama $1,800
• 2010 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present paper at the 39th Benthic Ecology Meeting, Wilmington, NC $2,000
• 2008 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present paper at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL $2,000.
• 2005 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Fairbanks, AK $3,000.
• 2004 University of Hawaii, University Research Council Faculty Travel Grant to present invited paper at 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan $3,000.
• 1994-95 University of New Hampshire, Dissertation Fellowship $12,000.

PAPERS

(undergraduate students underlined)

In review (* ms available upon request)

Coyle, A., Voss, E., Tepolt, C.K., and D. B. Carlon. Mitochondrial genotype determines the response to cold stress in the European green crab, Carcinus maenas.* Journal of Experimental Biology. MS ID#: JEXBIO/2019/203521

In preparation

Carlon, D. B., D. R. Robertson, R. Barron, J. H. Choat, D. J. Anderson, and C. A. Sanchez Introgression increases with evolutionary age in a massive parrotfish hybrid complex*. for BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Laruson, A. J., Carlon, D. B., Kingston, S. E., and H. Lessios. Breaking the pantropical ring: geography and species boundaries in the pan-tropical sea urchin Tripneustes. Writing in progress.

Carlon, D. B., J. Mitchell and A. Faucci. El Niño drives a larval bottleneck for coral reef fish. Writing in progress.

Published

Carlon, D. B., P. Warner, C. Starr, D. J. Anderson, Z. Bulmer, H. Cipparone, J. Dunn, C. Godfrey, C. Goffinet, M. Miller, and C. Nash, 2018. A first report of shell disease impacting Cancer borealis (Jonah Crab) in the Bay of Fundy. Northeastern Naturalist 25: 27-31.

Kingston, S. E., P. Martino, M. Melendy, F. A. Reed, and D. B. Carlon, 2017. Linking genotype to phenotype in a changing ocean: inferring the genomic architecture of a blue mussel stress response with genome‐wide association. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 346-361.

Longenecker, K., Y. L. Chan, R. J. Toonen, D. B. Carlon, T. L. Hunt, A. M. Friedlander, and E. E. Demartini. 2014. Archaeological evidence of validity of fish populations on unexploited Reefs as Proxy Targets for Modern Populations. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12287

Baums, I. B., L. Scott Godwin, E. C. Franklin, D. B. Carlon, and R. J. Toonen. 2014. Discordant population expansions in four species of coral-associated Pacific hermit crabs (Anomura: Diogenidae) linked to habitat availability resulting from sea-level change. Journal of Biogeography 41: 339-352.

Halbert, K. M., E. Goetze, and D. B. Carlon. 2013. High Cryptic Diversity across the Global Range of the Migratory Planktonic Copepods Pleuromamma piseki and P. gracilis. PLoS One 8: e77011.

Schwartz, S., Budd, A. F., and D. B. Carlon. 2012. Molecules and fossils reveal punctuated diversification in Caribbean “faviid” corals. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12:123 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-123 (Highly Accessed).

Carlon, D. B., Budd, A. F., Lippé, C., and R. L. Andrew. 2011. The quantitative genetics of incipient speciation: heritability and genetic correlations of skeletal traits in populations of diverging Favia fragum ecomorphs. Evolution 65: 3428-3447.

Tice K. and Carlon, D. B. 2011. Can AFLP genome scans detect small islands of differentiation? The case of shell sculpture variation in the periwinkle Echinolittorina hawaiiensis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1814-1825.

Carlon, D. B. and C. Lippé. 2011. Estimation of the mating systems of the Tall and Short ecomorph of the coral Favia fragum. Molecular Ecology 20: 812-848

Fitzpatrick, J., Carlon, D. B., Lippé, C., and D. R. Robertson. 2011. The West Pacific diversity hotspot as a source or sink for new species? Population genetic insights from the Indo-Pacific parrotfish Scarus rubroviolaceus. Molecular Ecology 20: 219-234.

VanderWerf, E. A, Young, L. C., Yeung, N. W., and D. B. Carlon. 2009. Stepping stone speciation in Hawaii’s flycatchers: Molecular divergence supports new island endemics within the ‘elepaio. Conservation Genetics 11: 1283-1298

Yeung, N. W., Carlon, D. B., and S. Conant. 2009. Testing subspecies hypothesis with molecular markers and morphometrics in the Pacific white tern complex. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 586–595.

Carlon, D. B. and C. Lippé. 2008. Fifteen new microsatellite markers for the reef coral Favia fragum and a new Symbiodinium microsatellite. Molecular Ecology Notes 8: 870-873.

Carlon, D. B. and C. Lippé. 2007. Eleven new microsatellite markers for the tropical sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla and cross-amplification in Tripneustes ventricosa. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 1002-1004.

Carlon, D. B. and C. Lippé. 2007. Isolation and characterization of 17 new microsatellite markers for the Ember parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus), and cross-amplification in four other parrotfish species. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 613-616.

Crohn, D. M., Ruud, N. C, Decruyenaere, J. G., and D. B. Carlon. 2005. Goodness-of-fit test for modeling tracer breakthrough curves in wetlands. Journal of Environmental Engineering 131: 242-251.

Edmunds, P. J., Bruno, J. F., and D. B. Carlon. 2004. Effects of depth and microhabitat on growth and survivorship of juvenile corals in the Florida Keys. Marine Ecology Progress Series 278: 115-124.

Carlon, D. B. and A. F. Budd. 2002. Incipient speciation across a depth gradient in a scleractinian coral? Evolution 56: 2227–2242.

Carlon, D. B. 2002. Production and supply of larvae as determinants of zonation in a brooding tropical coral. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 268: 33-46.

Carlon, D. B. 2001. Depth-related patterns of coral recruitment and cryptic suspension-feeding invertebrates on Guana Island, British Virgin Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science 68: 525-541.

Carlon, D. B. 1999. The evolution of mating systems in tropical reef corals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14: 491-495.

Carlon, D. B. 1996. Calcification rates in corals. Science 274: 117.

Carlon, D.B. and J.P. Ebersole. 1995. Life history variation among three temperate hermit crabs: the importance of size in reproductive strategies. Biological Bulletin 188: 329-337.

Carlon, D.B. and R.R. Olson. 1993. Short distance dispersal as an explanation of spatial pattern in two Caribbean reef corals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 173: 247-263.

Olson, R. and D. Carlon. 1993. Dispersal of Caribbean coral larvae. National Geographic Research and Exploration 9: 379-380.

MARINE LABS and FIELD EXPERIENCE

1987  Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole

1989-91  University of Massachusetts Field Station, Nantucket Island

1991  NOAA NURP Laboratory, Key Largo, Florida

1992-95  Guana Island Wildlife Sanctuary, British Virgin Islands

1992  Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory, Jamaica

1992  Newfoundland, research diving

1992-95  Gulf of Maine, research diving

1995  Aquarius Mission off Key Largo, Florida, Co-PI and Aquanaut

1992-95  St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands, research diving

1997-98  San Blas Field Station, Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

1999-pres. Bocas del Toro Field Station, Panama, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

1999 Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas

1999-01 Wrigley Institute for Environmental Sciences, Santa Catalina Island

2002  Great Barrier Reef, Australia

2004-pres. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Coconut Island

2004-pres. Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Honolulu

2008 Florida Keys, research diving

2010 Coral Bay Research Station, Murdoch University, Western Australia

2010 Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, research diving

2010 Rottnest Island, Western Australia, research diving

2010-11  Friday Harbor Laboratories, Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center Scholar

2013–2017  Baja California Sur, Gulf of California, research diving

2015  Pixbae, Panama, research diving

TEACHING

At Bowdoin College

I designed and teach in the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester, tu

BIOL 2232 Benthic Ecology – A course module in the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester, offered every Fall. An introduction to the ecological processes that control the abundance and distribution of benthic organisms in temperate and tropical enviroments. Field work is based in the Gulf of Maine, the Gulf of California, and the Big Island of Hawaii.

BIOL 1090 Understanding Climate Change – A non-majors course (INS) designed to improve comprehension of the scientific, political, and social issues surrounding global warming. Offered in the Spring.

University of Hawaii

ZOOL 487/719 Molecular Ecology. Introduction to the concepts and techniques of applying DNA sequence variation to understand ecological problems. Discussion and Lab. Taught at the senior undergraduate/graduate student level. I designed the complete course.

BIOL 404 Advanced Topics in Marine Biology. Senior capstone course for marine biology majors stressing critical thinking, writing, and oral communication.

BIOL 301/301L Marine Ecology and Evolution. Complimentary lecture and lab course for marine biology majors. I designed the complete course.

Occasional courses at the University of Hawaii:

BIOL 375 Concepts of genetics. Team taught. I lecture on statistics, population, quantitative, and evolutionary genetics. Fall semester, 2010 & 2012

ZOOL 719 The Evolutionary Ecology of Adaptive Radiation. Graduate seminar featuring Dolph Schluter’s text of the same name, and Jerry Coyne and Allen Orr’s “Speciation.” Spring semester, 2005

ZOOL 619 Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology

Community college

ZOOL 1 & 1L Introductory Zoology. Lecture and lab course at Las Positas Community College. Spring, 2005

Field courses

Conservation Biology of Coral Reefs. Field course offered through H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, Tortola, and taught among the British Virgin Islands. Summer, 1994

200N Coastal Ecology. Field course offered through the University of Massachusetts and taught on Nantucket Island, MA. Summer,1990-91

Teaching Assistant

University of New Hampshire: Biological Oceanography, Ecology, Animal Behavior, Anatomy and Physiology. University of Massachusetts: Introductory Biology, Biology for Non-majors.

AWARDS

1994 Outstanding Contributions and Achievements Award, University of New Hampshire, Department of Zoology.

1993 Outstanding Teaching Award, University of New Hampshire, Department of Zoology.

1991 Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Massachusetts, Department of Biology.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, last five years

Coral mating systems in the Anthropocene. Mote Working Group on Mating Systems in the Sea, Florida State University, July 31, 2017

Hybridization among the parrotfishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: species breakdown or hybrid speciation? Plymouth State University, December 2, 2016.

Two marine hybrid zones and their evolutionary applications. Center for Population Biology Seminar Series, University of California, Davis, March 29, 2016.

Finding climate change genes in a blue mussel hybrid zone. Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA, March 28, 2016.

Marine speciation on a small planet revisited. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Earl Tupper Seminar Series, May 26, 2015

Climate change meets quantitative genetics – using genomic technology to map the targets of natural selection. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Naos Marine Laboratory Seminar Series, May 27, 2015

Is gene flow the destroyer or creator of new species? Examples from tropical marine systems. University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Biology Department Seminar Series, Feb. 26, 2014.

MEETING PRESENTATIONS, last five years

*presenter, students underlined, oral presentation unless noted.

Carlon, D.B, Fauci, A., and J. Mitchell. El Niño drives a larval bottleneck for coral reef fish. 47^th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 30, 2018. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Cipparone, H. and D. B. Carlon. Wild crabs of the North: Optimal prey selection varies between genetic lineages of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas). 47^th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 28, 2018. Corpus Christi, Texas

Walkes, S. and D. B. Carlon. The effects of mitochondrial genotype on the behavioral response to temperature stress in European green crabs Carcinus maenus. 47^th Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 28, 2018. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Van Deusen, V, Carlon, D. B., and S. E. Kingston. A next generation approach to understanding diet of the European green crab Carcinus maenas in the Gulf of Maine. 47^th Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 28, 2018. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Coyle, A. and D. B. Carlon. Some like it cold? links between genotype and freezing tolerance in a green crab hybrid zone. 46^th Benthic Ecology Meeting, April 14, 2017, Myrtle Beach, SC. Winner of the best undergraduate student paper award.

Voss, E. and D. B. Carlon. Conflicting speeds of introgression among mitochondrial and nuclear genes suggest adaptive processes in a green crab hybrid zone. 46^th Benthic Ecology Meeting, April 14, 2017, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Kingston S.E., Martino P., Melendy M., Reed, F., and D. B Carlon. Linking genotype to phenotype in a changing ocean: estimating standing genetic variation in a blue mussel stress response with genome wide association. Maine Sustainability and Water Conference, March 30, 2017, Augusta, ME.

Voss, E, and D. B. Carlon (Poster). When genomes collide – dynamics of hybridization after a green crab double invasion. Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 17, 2016, Portland, Maine.

Carlon, D. B., Budd, A., and R. Thomson. Is the tropical Atlantic an evolutionary hotspot for coral evolution? timing and diversification of the coral subfamilies Mussinae and Faviinae, Geological Society of America, Nov. 1-4, 2015, Baltimore, Maryland.

Short, A., Masland, D., and D. B. Carlon (Poster). A molecular analysis of green crab diets in Casco Bay, Maine. Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 4-7, 2015, Quebec City.

Kingston, S., Watling, J, Eisenberg, B, and D. B. Carlon. Genotype and phenotype in a changing ocean: can standing genetic variation in stress responses rescue mussel populations from climate change? Benthic Ecology Meeting, March 4-7, 2015, Quebec City.

Carlon, D. B, Choat, J. H., Clements, K., and D. R. Robertson. Shaking the parrotfish tree: hybridization in a peripheral environment produces phenotypic novelty. Evolution 2014, June 20-24, Duke University, North Carolina.

STUDENTS

Graduate (6 total: 1 PhD. Student, 2 PhD. Committees, 3 M.S. Students)

Aki Laruson, PhD Committee. 2018. Morphological and genomic divergence with the tropical sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla. University of Hawaii

Raphael Ritson-Williams. PhD. Committee. 2017. The role of variability in the ecology and evolution of corals. University of Hawaii

Kristin Halbert, M.S. 2013. High cryptic diversity across the global range of the migratory planktonic copepods Pleuromamma piseki and P. gracilis. Co-advised with E. Goetz, University of Hawaii

Sonja Schwartz, PhD. 2012. Species boundaries and speciation on coral reefs. Co-advised with G. Roderick, UC Berkeley.

Kimberly Tice, M.S. 2009. Against the grain? Morphometric and genomic investigation of the causes of shell variation in the Hawaiian periwinkle Echinolittorina hawaiiensis. Advisor, University of Hawaii.

John Fitzpatrick, M.S. 2008. Phylogeography predicts biogeography: a multi-locus test of vicariance and dispersal in a widespread Indo-Pacific parrotfish. Advisor, University of Hawaii.

Undergraduates (26 total)

Bowdoin College

Alicia Edwards, independent research. 2018. Effects of habitat on the molting cycle of the European Green Crab (Carcinus maenus)

Hugh Cipperone, independent research. 2018. Wild Crabs of the North: Optimal prey selection and distinct populations of the European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

Jesse Dunn, independent research, 2018. Benthic surveys of demersal fishes in the the northern reaches of Casco Bay.

Vanessa Van Deusen, Honors thesis, 2018. Barnard College. A next generation approach to understanding diet of the European green crab Carcinus maenas in the Gulf of Maine.

Sam Walkes*, Honors thesis. 2018. The effects of mitochondrial genotype on the behavioral response to temperature stress in European green crabs Carcinus maenus.

Robert Barron, Honors thesis. 2017. The dynamics in a parrotfish hybrid swarm in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Aidan Coyle, Honors thesis. 2017. Some like it cold? – links between genotype and freezing tolerance in a green crab hybrid zone;

Erin Voss, Honors thesis. 2016. Conflicting geography of mitochondrial and nuclear markers in a green crab hybrid zone in the Gulf of Maine.

Aidan Short, independent research. 2015/16. Diet analysis of green crabs using next generation sequencing.

Jack Mitchell, independent research. 2014/15. DNA barcoding the ichthyoplankton of Hawaii.

University of Hawaii

Emile Richards 2012/13. A multi-locus re-examination of the Scarus rubrioviolaceus parrotfish complex.

Christy Hammack 2008/09. Barcoding and identification of tropical fish larvae.

Jon Coloma 2007/08. Field studies, SCUBA support of field experiments, animal care, molecular lab work.

Narissa Bax 2007/08 Independent research project: Divergent larval behavior between ecomorphs of the Caribbean coral Favia fragum.

Darlenis Vargas Cedeño 2006/07 Field studies, animal care, laboratory assistant.

Scott Walls 2006/07 Field studies, animal care, SCUBA support, field experiments

Sean Macduff* 2006/07 Independent research project: Estimates of fishing and fishing effort on herbivorous reef fishes in the Central Pacific.

Li-Chien Chen* 2005/06 Independent research project: Population structure and phylogeography of three common hermit crabs in the Hawaiian Islands.

John Fitzpatrick 2005/06 Independent research project: The role of predation in structuring two ecomorphs of the coral Favia fragum.

Michael Dunford 2003/04 Independent research project: A new tool for morphometric measurements in faviid scleractinian corals.

Alexis Jinbo-Doran 2004 Senior Thesis Research, Whitman College: Lunar periodicity in larval release in two morphotypes of Pocillopora damicornis.

Saipologa Toala 2004 URM UMEB independent research project: Where do zooxanthellae come from when the coral Pocillopora damicornis is recovering from bleaching?

Houston Lomae 2004 URM UMEB independent research project: Settlement plates for larvae of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis on four artificial substrates in a tank.

University of Southern California

Julie Diemler 2000 Animal care and assistance with molecular genotyping.

John Jiminez 2000 Animal care.

Stephanie Coe 1999 Animal care and assistance with molecular genotyping.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

• President – Northeastern Association of Marine & Great Lakes Laboratories 2/5/17 – 2/5/19.
• President – Benthic Ecology Meeting Society 3/16/16 to 4/13/17. Organized and hosted the 45^th Benthic Ecology Meeting in Portland Maine, March 15 -19, 2016
• Board Member – Northeastern Coastal Stations Alliance 1/1/16 – present. A consortium of marine laboratories, field stations, and non-profit organizations operating on the Gulf of Maine participating in a bottom up longitudinal environmental network.
• Organizer, Albert Tester Symposium 2008-09 Three-day graduate symposium at the University of Hawaii focusing on the biological and earth sciences. Featured guest speakers (Tyrone Hayes, ’08; Daniel Pauly, ’09).
• I have designed and taught several inquiry-based courses in molecular ecology for graduate and undergraduate students. At the University of Hawaii, I have trained graduate students from the college of Natural Sciences, the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, and the College of Tropical Agriculture.

SERVICE

Journals

I regularly review manuscripts for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and occasionally for the journals: Biological Bulletin, Bulletin of Marine Science, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Hydrobiologia, J. Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Marine Biological Association UK, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Panelist and ad hoc reviews

• NSF Panelist – Biological Oceanography 2018, Field Stations and Marine Laboratories 2017, Division of Environmental Biology Dissertation Improvement Grants 2005.
• Adhoc reviewer – National Science Foundation Programs (DEB, OCE, and IOSE), N.O.A.A. Ocean Exploration Program, California Sea Grant College.

University of Hawaii committee work

2010: Evolutionary Biologist Search Committee (Chair); 2010: Population geneticist search committee; 2007-08: Albert Tester Memorial Symposium (Convener and Chair); 2008: Evolutionary Developmental Biologist Search Committee; 2005-06: EECB Student Grants Committee, 2006- Present: Molecular Biology Laboratory Development Committee (Chair); 2003-Present: Marine Biology Steering Committee, 2003- Present; 2006- Present: Curriculum Committee; 2005: Physiologist Search Committee; 2005 Zoology Seminar Series.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Northeastern Association of Marine & Great Lakes Laboratories
• National Association of Marine Laboratories
• Benthic Ecology Meeting Society
• Society for the Study of Evolution