Curriculum Vitae

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

 
 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
   
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
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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