Jeannette E. Zamon
| 321 Steinhaus
Hall
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of California – Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2525 USA |
Work: (949)824-4747
FAX: (949)824-2181
E-mail: jzamon@uci.edu
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| Research interests | Education | Employment | Research funding |
| Academic honors | Invited lectures | Poster presentations | Specialized training |
| Technical skills | Professional societies | Publications |
| Research interests | Physical-biological coupling and its effect on predator-prey dynamics and energy flow in marine food webs | |
| Foraging ecology of marine birds, mammals, and fishes | ||
| Education | 1993-present | University of California – Irvine; Ph.D. candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
| 1993 | Cornell University; M.Sc., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 1990 | Cornell University; B.A., Biology | |
| Employment | 1997 | UC-Irvine, teaching assistant: Population and Community Ecology |
| 1996 | UC-Irvine, teaching assistant: Ecology, Introductory Genetics | |
| 1996 | UC-Irvine, research assistant: Dr. George L. Hunt, Jr. | |
| 1994-95 | UC-Irvine, teaching assistant: Diversity of Life, Ocean Ecology | |
| 1994 | UC-Irvine, research assistant: Dr. George L. Hunt, Jr. | |
| 1993 | Friday Harbor Laboratories, teaching assistant: Bioacoustical Workshop | |
| 1992-94 | UC-Irvine, teaching assistant: Introductory Biology Laboratory | |
| 1992 | Cornell University, teaching assistant: Marine Ecology, Introductory Oceanography | |
| 1990-91 | Cornell University, graduate research assistant : Dr. Charles H. Greene | |
| Research funding | 1996-present | EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship: "Tidal effects on trophic transfer and marine food webs" - $84,579 |
| 1995 | National Council of Paper Industry for Air & Stream Improvement: "Foraging ecology of marbled murrelets in Cattle Pass, WA" - $1,000 | |
| 1995 | Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund: "Indirect tidal forcing of prey availability to foraging seabirds in Cattle Pass" - $900 | |
| 1994 | Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund: "Behavioral roles of seabirds in mixed-species feeding aggregations" - $1,550 | |
| 1991 | National Undersea Research Program, Co-principal investigator with Charles H. Greene: "GLOBEC field studies in the northwest Atlantic: predatory impact of euphausiids on overwintering Calanus finmarchicus populations in the Gulf of Maine" - $26,313 | |
| Academic honors | 1996 | Edward A. Steinhaus Teaching Award: $200 |
| 1994 | William F. Holcomb Scholarship in Marine Science: $1,000 | |
| 1991-92 | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship: Honorable Mention | |
| 1989-90 | Cornell University Section of Ecology and Systematics: Faculty-nominated student representative, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee | |
| 1987-90 | Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, College Scholar | |
| 1987-90 | Cornell Tradition Fellowships, Academic Year Awards: $5,500 per year | |
| 1988-89 | Cornell Tradition Summer Fellowships: $1,500 per summer | |
| Invited lectures | 1999 | University of Washington, Department of Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine Geophysical Fluid Dynamics course: "Energy flow to forage fish & top predators in San Juan Channel: bottom-up control via tidal forcing of plankton distributions" |
| 1999 | University of Washington, Department of Oceanography, Physical Oceanography weekly seminar series: "Energy flow to forage fish & top predators in San Juan Channel: bottom-up control via tidal forcing of plankton distributions" | |
| 1998 | University of British Columbia, Earth and Ocean Sciences, weekly seminar series: "Energy flow to forage fish & top predators in San Juan Channel: bottom-up control via tidal forcing of plankton distributions" |
| 1996-98 | East-West Marine Program Guest Lectures, Friday Harbor : "Tidal currents and the control of energy flow through a marine food web" | |
| 1998 | Marine Science Associates Lecture Series, Friday Harbor : "Seals, seabirds, and salmon: the art & science of fishing" | |
| 1997 | Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories Summer Seminar Series: "Tidal currents, zooplankton abundance, and mechanisms which enhance the availability of juvenile fish to foraging seabirds" | |
| Poster presentations | 1998 | Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies: "Tidal currents and the control of energy flow in a marine food web", Saskatoon, SK |
| 1995 | Pacific Seabird Group Meeting: "Indirect physical forcing? Tidal currents, zooplankton, and the availability of juvenile herring and sandlance to foraging seabirds", Victoria, BC | |
| 1991 | Pacific Seabird Group Meeting: "Acoustic visualization of the prey field of foraging chinstrap penguins", Coos Bay, OR | |
| Specialized training | 1999 | Northwater Polynya research cruise (NOW): CCGS Pierre Radisson, Baffin Bay |
| 1998 | Stable Isotope Ecology Course: University of Utah | |
| 1994 | LTER research cruise and station assignment (Krill Working Group): R/V Polar Duke and Palmer Station, Antarctica | |
| 1994 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography Graduate Core Classes: Physical Oceanography, Biological Oceanography | |
| 1991 | Acoustic Training Course: BioSonics, Inc., Seattle, WA | |
| Technical skills | At-sea experience aboard
scientific research vessels
Small boat operations and handling Behavioral observation, analysis Hydroacoustic operations, data acquisition, analysis Plankton sampling, identification, analysis Conductivity-temperature-depth instrument operation, analysis Rudimentary MATLAB programming Classroom teaching experience Mentoring, training experience |
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| Professional societies | American
Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography American Ornithologists’ Union Association for Women in Science Cooper Ornithological Society Ecological Society of America |
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| Publications, manuscripts, and theses | 1999 | Zamon, J.E. Energy subsidies and the effects of tidal currents on copepod and diatom densities in the San Juan Channel, Puget Sound, WA. Manuscript in preparation. |
| 1999 | Zamon, J.E. Seal predation on salmon and forage fish schools as a function of tidal currents in the San Juan Islands, WA. Manuscript in review, Fisheries Oceanography. | |
| 1996 | Zamon, J.E., C.H. Greene, E. Meir, D.A. Demer, R.P. Hewitt, and S. Sexton. Acoustic characterization of the three-dimensional prey field of foraging chinstrap penguins. Marine Ecology Progress Series 131: 1-10. | |
| 1994 | Greene, C.H., P.H. Wiebe, and J.E. Zamon. Acoustic visualization of patch dynamics in oceanic ecosystems. Oceanography 7(1): 4-12. | |
| 1993 | Zamon, J.E. Acoustic visualization of the three-dimensional prey field of foraging chinstrap penguins. Master’s thesis, Cornell Univeristy. 60 pp. | |
| 1992 | Smith, S., R. Pieper, M. Moore, L. Rudstam, C. Greene, J. Zamon, C. Flagg, and C. Williamson. Acoustic techniques for the in situ observation of zooplankton. Archiv für Hydrobiologie-Ergbnisse der Limologie 36: 23-43. | |
| 1992 | Zamon, J.E. The literature glut: some general advice to ecologists [a response to Hairston]. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 73(1): 45-46. | |
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