Jeannette E

JEANNETTE E. ZAMON

321 Steinhaus Hall

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

University of California - Irvine

Irvine, CA 92697-2525 USA

jzamon@uci.edu

This work is "the bomb!": deploying a conductivity, temperature, and depth probe from the R/V Chaika, August 1995.

My research focuses on how interactions between physical and biological oceanographic processes influence biological production and the availability of food to marine predators. I am particulary interested in the interactions between tidal currents and small-scale (< 10 km) coastal topography. Understanding these interactions is important because they affect

community-level interactions (energy flow, biological production)
population-level interactions (predator-prey dynamics)
individual behavior (foraging)

The ability to predict how changes at one level will affect other levels in the food web depends on a knowledge of how physical-biological coupling works.

I am currently a doctoral student working with Professor George Hunt in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. My thesis research focuses how interactions between tidal currents, complex topography, and zooplankton distibutions create predictable feeding opportunities for fish, seabirds, and seals. As a doctoral student, I work in the San Juan Islands of Washington State (Ph.D. coming April 2000!, University of California-Irvine, fieldwork at the Friday Harbor Laboratories). As a master's student, I worked with penguin-krill interactions in the Antarctic (M.Sc., Cornell University with Professor Charles Greene). My undergraduate background is in ecology and systematics (B.A., Cornell University).