Karen Wishner
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Educational Background
Ph.D., Oceanography
B.A., Biology
University of California, San Diego AIO
University of Chicago
1979
1972
Areas of Specialization
Research
Karen Wishner's current research interests include marine zooplankton ecology, deep-sea biology, and the biology of low oxygen environments. She has worked in oceans around the world, including Georges Bank (GLOBEC project) and the Arabian Sea (JGOFS project). Most recently, she has been involved in exploring hydrothermal vents on a submarine volcano in the Caribbean.Teaching
Karen Wishner currently teaches graduate level courses on zooplankton and marine zooplankton ecology and an undergraduate course entitled Deep-Sea Biology. She has instructed numerous graduates and undergraduates at sea.Outreach
Karen Wishner is a PI in the NSF-funded ADVANCE project at URI, which seeks to increase the number of women tenure-track faculty in science fields through recruitment, retention, and institutional change. She has also helped organize other special events related to women-in-science issues.Publications:
Wishner, K. F., J. R. Graff, J. W. Martin, S. Carey, H. Sigurdsson, and B. A. Seibel. 2005. Are midwater shrimp trapped in the craters of submarine volcanoes by hydrothermal venting? Deep-Sea Research I 52: 1528-1535.
Wishner, K.F., D. J. Gifford, B. K. Sullivan, J.J. Bisagni, D. M. Outram, and D. D. Van Keuren. 2003. Biological signature of Scotian Shelf Water crossovers on Georges Bank during spring 1997. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C11) 8014, doi: 10.1029/2001JC001266, 2003.
Wishner, K. F., M. M. Gowing, and C. Gelfman. 2000. Living in suboxia: ecology of an Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone copepod. Limnology and Oceanography 45: 1576-1593.
Wishner, K. F., C. J. Ashjian, C. Gelfman, M. M. Gowing, L. Kann, Wishner, K. F., J. R. Schoenherr, R. C. Beardsley, and C. Chen. 1995. Abundance, distribution, and population structure of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in a springtime right whale feeding area in the southwestern Gulf of Maine. Continental Shelf Research 15:475-507.
Wishner, K. F., C. J. Ashjian, C. Gelfman, M. M. Gowing, L. Kann, L.A. Levin, L. S. Mullineaux, and J. Saltzman. 1995. Pelagic and benthic ecology of the lower interface of the eastern tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zone. Deep-Sea Research 42:93-115.Presentations:
Wishner, K. F., H. Sigurdsson, S. Carey, D. C. Smith, A. Staroscik, J. B. Shepherd, W. D. Wilson, and S. Lundin. Biology of hydrothermal vents on Kick'em Jenny Volcano in the Caribbean. 10th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Coos Bay, Oregon, 25-29 Aug. 2003.
Wishner, K. M. Gowing, M. Rapien, and C. Gelfman,. Zooplankton in the oxygen minimum zone: potential biogeochemical relationships in a widespread suboxic habitat. 3rd International Zooplankton Production Symposium, Gijon, Spain, 20-23 May 2003.
Wishner, K., B. Sullivan, D. Outram, C. Gelfman, and D. Van Keuren. Zooplankton in tidal fronts: Biological-physical coupling on Georges Bank. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 12-16 Feb. 2001.
Wishner, K. F., M. M. Gowing, and C. Gelfman. Pelagic ecology of the lower interface of the oxygen minimum zone. 9th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Galway, Ireland, 26-30 June 2000.
Wishner, K., M. Gowing, and C. Gelfman. The lower interface of the oxygen minimum zone. 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 24-28 January 2000.
