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Susanne Menden-Deuer

Asst. Professor of Oceanography

322 Watkins

smenden@gso.uri.edu

401 874-6608

http://www.gso.uri.edu/smdlab/

Educational Background

Ph.D. M.Sc. Diplom Biologie (=M.Sc.)

University of Washington University of Washington University of Bonn, Germany

2004 1998 1996

Areas of Specialization

Research

Plankton behavior and ecology • Predation • Harmful & toxic algae • Organism movement and dispersal

Teaching

Lecture and laboratory courses in: Oceanography, Ecology, Data Analysis & Communication

Outreach

Poster Judge at scientific conferences: ASLO, ERF, NEAS Science Judge at National Ocean Science Bowl since 2000

Students

William Day Elizabeth Harvey Caitlyn Lawrence Henry Wladkowski Accepting new graduate students

M.Sc. candidate Ph.D. candidate M.Sc. candidate Ph.D. candidate

2007 2008 2009 2009

Publications:

Menden-Deuer S. 2008. Spatial and temporal characteristics of plankton-rich layers in a shallow, temperate fjord. Marine Ecology Progress Series 355: 21-30

Menden-Deuer S. 2006. An integrated model simulation and empirical laboratory on biological encounter rates. Oceanography 19(4): 185-189

Menden-Deuer S & D Grünbaum. 2006. Individual foraging behaviors and population distributions of planktonic predators aggregating to phytoplankton layers. Limnology & Oceanography 51: 109-116

Menden-Deuer S, EJ Lessard, J Satterberg* & D Grünbaum. 2005. Growth and starvation survival capacity of three species of the pallium feeding thecate dinoflagellate genus Protoperidinium (Peridiniacea, Dinophyceae) distributions. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 41: 145-152

Saldarriaga JF, FJR Taylor, T Cavalier-Smith, S Menden-Deuer & PJ Keeling. 2004. Molecular data and the evolutionary history of dinoflagellates. European Journal of Protistology 40: 85-111

Skovgaard A & S Menden-Deuer. 2003. Long-term exposure of dinoflagellates to 14C: Effects on growth rate and measurements of carbon content. Journal of Plankton Research 25: 1005-1009

Smetacek V, C Klaas, S Menden-Deuer & TA Rynearson. 2002. Mesoscale distribution of dominant diatom species relative to the hydrographical field along the Antarctic Polar Front. Deep-Sea Research II 49: 3835-3848

Menden-Deuer S, EJ Lessard & J Satterberg*. 2001. Effect of preservation on dinoflagellate and diatom cell volume, and consequences for carbon biomass predictions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 222: 41-50

Menden-Deuer S & EJ Lessard. 2000. Carbon to volume relationships for dinoflagellates, diatoms, and other protist plankton. Limnology & Oceanography 45: 569-579

* undergraduate collaborators

Presentations:

Strom SL & S Menden-Deuer. 2009. Heterosigma akashiwo from the northern Puget Sound: physiological and ecological investigations of a fish-killing alga. Oceans and Human Health Seminar, University of Washington (invited)

Harvey EL & S Menden-Deuer. 2009. Distribution and swimming behaviors of heterotrophic protist predators in response to the toxic raphidophyte alga Heterosigma akashiwo. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France

Menden-Deuer S Fredrickson KA & Strom SL. 2008. Physical and biological drivers of HAB formation: Rates of formation, persistence and decline of a Heterosigma akashiwo event in East Sound, Washington, USA, 13th International Conference on Harmful Algae, Hong Kong

Menden-Deuer S. 2008. Plankton on the move: biological drivers of plankton predation and productivity. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens (invited)

Menden-Deuer S. 2008. Plankton on the move: biological drivers of plankton predation and productivity. School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (invited)

Day WS & Menden-Deuer S. 2008. APTITUDE: Algorithms for Plankton Tracking and Identification of Trajectories for Underwater Device Ensembles. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida

Menden-Deuer S & Fredrickson KA. 2008. Biological drivers of plankton layer formation in East Sound, Orcas Island, Washington. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida

Menden-Deuer S & Levin SA. 2007. Linking water column structure, phytoplankton distributions and planktonic productivity: predator behaviors are a key ingredient. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Helsinki, Finland (invited)

Menden-Deuer S. 2007. One but not the same: behavioral heterogeneity is the key to predicting forager distributions when resources are patchy. Imperial College, London, UK (invited)

Menden-Deuer S. 2007. Patchy prey & stealthy predators: empirical and theoretical analysis of zooplankton behaviors. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (invited)

Menden-Deuer S. 2006. Linking zooplankton behaviors to the ecological dynamics of marine microbial food webs. Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy (invited)