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Rebecca Williams

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Rebecca Lynnne Williams
Aquarium Annex 107
rwilliams@gso.uri.edu
Degree Program: PhD

Educational Background

B.S.- Marine Biology
M.S.- Biological Oceanography
 Univeristy of North Carolina at Wilmington
Florida Institute of Technology
University of Rhode Island
 1999
2005

Areas of Specialization

Research

I am currently working under Dr. Karen Wishner. My research focuses on the distribution and trophic ecology of zooplankton in and around the Eastern Tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone. For my M.S. thesis, I examined the seasonal variation and trophic ecology of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Indian River Lagoon, FL.

Publications:

  Wishner, K. F., C. Gelfman, M. M. Gowing, D. M. Outram, M. Rapien, and R. L. Williams. 2008. Vertical zonation and distributions of calanoid copepods through the lower oxycline of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone. Progress in Oceanography 78: 163-191.

 

Presentations:

Williams, R.L., Wakeham, S.G., McKinney, R., and K.F. Wishner. 2010. Stable Isotopic Composition of Zooplankton Size Classes in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone. p. 69- 69. AGU Ocean Sciences

Williams, R. L., and K. B. Johnson. 2005. Seasonal variation, diet and prey selection of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in a subtropical estuary, p. 1098-1098. Integr Comp Biol.