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JOSEPH L. STATON CURRICULUM VITAE

University of South Carolina Office Phone: (843) 208-8105

1 University Boulevard E-mail: [email protected]

Bluffton, SC 29909

Website: http://www.uscb.edu/jstaton

Education:

Ph.D. Environmental and Evolutionary Biology— (1992) University of Louisiana (ULL),

Lafayette (DL Felder, chair). Dissertation title: Patterns of differentiation among

nearshore decapod crustacean complexes of the western Atlantic.

M.S. Zoology— (1986) University of Maryland, College Park (DB Bonar and SD Sulkin, co-

chairs). Thesis title: Impact of starvation on early and late development in larval marsh

crabs, Sesarma spp. (Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae).

B.S. Zoology— (1982) North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Professional experience:

Founding Dean, Science and Mathematics— University of South Carolina, Beaufort, July 2017-

present.

Chair, Natural Sciences— University of South Carolina, Beaufort, July 2016-June 2017.

Professor of Biology— University of South Carolina, Beaufort, August 2015-present.

Associate Professor of Biology— University of South Carolina, Beaufort, August 2007-2015.

Assistant Professor and Interim Chair of Biology Program— University of South Carolina,

Beaufort, August 2006-2007.

Assistant Professor of Biology— University of South Carolina, Beaufort, August 2003-2007.

Research Assistant Professor— Baruch Institute, Univ. South Carolina, Columbia, 1998-2003.

Postdoctoral Fellow— Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, 1997-

1998.

Postdoctoral Fellow— Dept. Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-1997.

Postdoctoral Fellow— Dept. Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1993-1995.

Postdoctoral Fellow— Smithsonian Marine Station at Link Port, Fort Pierce, FL, 1992-1993.

Research Fellow—NMFS/Southeastern Fisheries Center, Galveston Lab., Galveston, TX, 1992.

Teaching Assistant — Department of Biology, ULL, Lafayette, LA, 1986-92.

Sea Grant Fellow— Horn Point Environmental Lab., University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD

1985-86.

Teaching Assistant— Department of Zoology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 1984-1985.

Research Assistant— Department of Zoology, N. C. State University, Raleigh, NC 1983-1984.

Assistant Curator of Invertebrates— North Carolina State Museum, Raleigh, NC 1983.

Administrative Experience:

As founding Dean of the School of Science and Mathematics, I have spent a large portion of

my effort in developing many of the standard institutional practices of the position. Some of

these campus-wide initiatives started prior to the Dean position existing, some of these campus-

wide initiatives actually began prior to being Chair or as Faculty Senate Chair, with the focus on

development of collaborative undergraduate research and scholarship and to increase internships

in the school and university.

• Charged with plan to revitalize the Beaufort Campus in Historic Beaufort, South

Carolina. When the USCB Bluffton campus opened in 2004, it became the growth and

focus with the first student housing in the school’s history. As classroom utilization

peaked in Bluffton, we began a multiphase reinvigoration campaign to revitalized the

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campus in Beaufort, established in the USC system in 1959, but founded as Beaufort

College in 1795:

- Created block programming for STEM students to take freshman/sophomore level

courses in Beaufort to occupy under-utilized science lab facilities two days per week.

- Created and programmed a two-year residential Honors program at the Beaufort

campus for Biology and Nursing programs to attract and retain students with higher

entrance qualifications.

- Worked with local entrepreneurs to help develop new housing for the Beaufort

campus just outside the historic district (the town of Beaufort was founded in 1711).

- Developed a new program concentration in Marine Biology focused on the Beaufort

campus to start in fall 2020 providing four-year full curriculum.

- Worked with Computer Sciences and a local citizens group to create a pathway for a

new Cybersecurity program, starting with an application for the NSA’s Center of

Academic Excellence program to enter the first stages of development.

- Developed rotating schedule for science curriculum for both honors majors and

recruited first and now second cohorts of residential Honors students.

- Serve as the faculty advisor for all Biology honors students in the residential cohort.

- Taught in the honors college with other faculty (I maintain 50% teaching load 2/2).

• Emphasized the importance of student engagement in research and active internships

across all programs

- Developed first regular Department of Biology seminar series on USCB campus in

2013, and currently still attracting high-caliber speakers locally, regionally and

nationally

- Built the biology program after becoming the sole tenure-track faculty member in

2006, which became the largest major in fall 2019—Growth of over 110% in majors

the past 5 years.

- Helped create on-line biology courses to complete support for a fully on-line General

Education component for USCB, as well as to serve the pre-Nursing, pre-professional

curricula at USCB.

- Working this summer to create an on-line training course to help faculty transition

from the current remote instruction delivery to crafted on-line delivery in the face of

not returning to in-class instruction in the fall of 2020

- Established the first administrative-supported start-up packages for STEM faculty

hires

- Negotiated research lab renovations for the Marine Biology Program in Beaufort to

foster the planned academic concentration.

- Started committee to create the first Student Research and Scholarship Day in 2009.

Last year, 3% of all undergraduates participated, campus-wide. Several students also

participate annually in the system-wide equivalent at USC-Columbia and have taken

first place in their research category https://researchday.uscb.edu

- Outfitted the new Science and Technology Building with teaching and research

equipment for fall 2005 opening, in its entirety for the life sciences.

• Advocated for pay parity for Faculty and raises adjunct professors to system-wide levels

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• Oversaw the creation of new programs and new departments:

- Development and approval of Secondary Education – Biology

- Development and pending approval by SC Commission of Higher Education of new

Marine Biology concentration

- Development of new Biochemistry concentration

- Separation of the Mathematics and Computer Science department into distinct entities

• Involved in accreditation of the following new programs through approval process:

- Newly approved degree in Mathematics

- Newly approved degree in Secondary Education in Mathematics

- Change of level status to award Masters degrees

- Newly approved Masters in Computational Science (first M.S. at USCB)

- Development of new degree in Informational Science and Technology

• Completed recent SACS-COC review (on-site visit fall 2018) with minimal issues for the

School and its departments

• Completed a SACS-COC review for change-of-level Masters in Computational Science

(onsite visit fall 2019)

- Moderate rework of structuring student learning outcomes for assessment

- Development of specific criteria for co-listed senior-/grad-level courses to distinguish

independent/different Student Learning expectation levels

• Course creative development:

o “Life and Death in the Salt Marsh:” Field course in salt marsh ecology during

Maymester. Intensive overview of physical and biological structure of salt

marshes, followed by student hypothesis, experimental design, implementation

and reporting of results in an end-of-course mini-symposium

o “Dirty Words and Pictures:” Plan for an interdisciplinary approach course to

Ecology of the Lowcountry of South Carolina for majors or non-majors. Three

faceted course emphasizing creative writing (Staff with MS in Screenwriting),

photography and photo-editing (art faculty with MFA in digital media), and

ecological/biological interpretation (myself) of the environment and biological

diversity of the region. Students create a portfolio of their work as the course

project to carry with them.

o “Milestones in the Development Scientific Thought:” Non-majors general science

or history credit to use the major shifts in scientific paradigms from the time of

the Renaissance to the present (with Timothy M. James).

• Worked closely with department chairs to develop better and more

comprehensive/sustainable assessment methods and testable Student Learning Outcomes

• Created the first board for the School of Science and Mathematics comprised of civic and

industry leaders in Science and the environment.

Teaching Experience:

Biological Principles I (BIOL B101) (majors), Biological Principles II (BIOL B102) (majors),

Fundamental Genetics (BIOL B303) (majors), Biology of Marine Organisms (BIOL B411)

(majors), Invertebrate Zoology (BIOL B410) (majors), Life and Death in the Salt Marsh

(BIOL B448) (majors), Biological Seminar (BIOL B295) (majors), Honors Seminar in

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Biology (BIOL B100H) (majors), Forensic Techniques and Data Analysis (BIOL B451)

(majors), Developmental Biology I (BIOL B405 & B405L) (majors), Cell & Molecular

Biology (BIOL B302 & 302L) (majors), Oceans and Society (MSCI B210) (non-majors)

USC—Columbia

Population Genetics (BIOL/MSCI 552) with Joe Quattro (majors).

Grants Authored (total funding received to-date $385K, $60K at USCB, last 10 years):

USCB Sea Islands Institute grant. “Developing microsatellite loci protocols for Palaemonetes

pugio.” $5,000. 2015-2017.

USC EPSCoR-- SCIENTIFIC ADVOCATE NETWORK Track 3 Proposal. “Development of robust

protocols for the amplification of microsatellite loci in marine invertebrates.” $10,000. 2013-

2014

Research Initiative for Summer Engagement (RISE): “SIMMER Phase I: Developing an

Electronic Genetics Recitation.” PI with BA Canada (Computational Science). $5,000.

2013. Hired Computational Science interns to create on-line tutorial support, with a general

structure that could be applied to any problem-driven STEM education course.

Sea Islands Institute: “Developing Genetic Tools to Track Marine Larvae in the Estuary.” PI,

$5,000. 2012.

WCU NOAA Internal Proposal: “Monitoring of coastal wetland plant community change

under a regime of sea level rise: Implications for marsh migration and carbon sequestration.”

With BR Tanner, Subcontract $5,000 for USCB student intern salaries 2011-2012.

2009-2010 Sea Island Ecotourism and Sustainability, Beaufort County Workforce Investment

Act Incumbent Worker Training Program, $10,205, co-PI with J Salazar and R. Landrum.

Other Grants (unfunded, last 10 years):

NSF: RCN - UBE: “A Multi-campus Collaborative Network for the Development and

Implementation of Early Undergraduate Field and Laboratory Experiences.” 2018. With SA

Borgianini and K Madden. $49,838.

Advanced Support Program for Innovative Research Excellence-III (ASPIRE-III) 2016

“Upgrading underperforming GC/MS instrumentation and data handling and analysis

capabilities to support research efforts at USC Beaufort” with SA Borgianini (PI), EW

Montie, EL D’Antonio, and GD Sproul. $86,361.00.

Beaufort County Community Services 2015 Grant “Tree Canopy Cover and its Effects on the

Urban Heat Island Phenomenon on Hilton Head Island” with SA Borgianini $18,000

Advanced Support Program for Innovative Research Excellence-I (ASPIRE-I) Track IV Funds

for Senior Faculty “Development of microsatellite loci for investigating mating systems and

biogeographic variation in Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis, 1949.” $15,000. (Submitted 2014)

USCB Sea Islands Institute grant: “Accessing the rate of erosional processes on our barrier

islands.” PI with Co-PI BR Tanner, WCU (Geology)— $5000. (submitted 2012)

NSF-OCS: “RUI: Modeling larval transport in tidally influenced rivers along the South

Atlantic Bight.” PI, Co-PI SA Borgianini (Natural Sciences)— $ 674,408. (submitted

2012)

NEH- Enduring Questions Program “How Do We Know?” CoPI with TM James (History)—

$25,000. Program proposal to start an interdisciplinary course on the major turning points in

the shaping of modern science. (submitted 2012)

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium “Monitoring Spawning Behavior of Sciaenids and Environment

Variables Using Passive Acoustics - A Citizen Science Action Program” (co-PI w/ EM

Montie)— $111,000. (submitted 2011)

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Resubmitted to NSF-OCS: “Coupling Estimates of Larval Dispersal with Tidal Model

Predictions in the Estuarine Crab Uca minax.” PI with SA Borgianini, DM Allen (Baruch

Marine Lab-USC)— $615,720. (submitted 2010)

NSF: “STEMS to AWNES: Addressing Workforce Needs in the Environmental Sciences.”

Senior personnel — $600,000 (submitted 2010)

EPA “The Lowcountry Ecotourism and Sustainability Certificate Program.” Co-PI with J

Salazar (Hospitality) and R Landrum (History) 2009. $47,029.

Research Articles:

Staton JL, Canada BA, Borgianini SA, Barkel KL. 2020. “Colonization of coastal and

estuarine environments,” in G. Poole & M. Thiel, eds., The Natural History of Crustacea,

New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. July 2020.

Staton JL. 2015. Understanding phylogenies: Constructing and interpreting phylogenetic trees.

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science 13(1): 23-28.

Staton JL, Borgianini SA, Gibson IB*, Brodie RJ, Greig TW. 2014. Limited gene flow in

Uca minax (LeConte 1855) along a tidally influenced river system. Central European

Journal of Biology. 9(1): 28-36. DOI: 10.2478/s11535-013-0200-7

Staton JL, Wickliffe LC*, Garlitska L, Villanueva SM**, Coull BC. 2005. Genetic isolation

discovered among previously described sympatric morphs of a meiobenthic copepod.

Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(4): 551-557.

Brodie RJ, Behum ME**, Monroe E*, Glenn N, Staton JL. 2005. Recruitment to adult habitats

following marine planktonic development in the in the fiddler crabs, Uca pugilator, Uca

pugnax and Uca minax. Marine Biology 147(1): 105-111.

Behum ME**, Brodie RJ, Staton JL. 2005. Distribution of juvenile Uca pugnax and Uca

pugilator across habitats in a South Carolina estuary, assessed by molecular techniques.

Marine Ecology Progress Series 288: 211–220.

Staton JL, Taylor BE, Schizas NV**, Wetzer R**, Glenn TC, Coull BC. 2003. Mitochondrial

gene diversity of Skistodiaptomus mississippiensis in impoundments of the Upper Coastal

Plain near Aiken, South Carolina, USA. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 158(2): 215-231.

Staton JL. 2003. Phylogenetic inference based on a 654-bp portion of the mitochondrial

cytochrome oxidase c subunit I gene from 13 sipunculan genera. Invertebrate Biology

122(3): 252-264.

Glenn TC, Staton JL, Vu A*, Davis LM**, Alvarado-Bremer J, Rhodes W, Elsey RM, Brisbin

IL, Sawyer RH. 2002. Low mitochondrial DNA variation among American alligators and a

novel non-coding region in crocodilians. Journal of Experimental Zoology [Molecular and

Developmental Evolution]. 294: 312-324.

Staton JL, Schizas NV**, Klosterhaus SL**, Griffitt RJ**, Chandler GT, Coull BC. 2002.

Effect of salinity variation and pesticide exposure on an estuarine harpacticoid copepod,

Microarthridion littorale (Poppe 1881), in the southeastern US. Journal of Experimental

Marine Biology and Ecology 278(2): 99-108.

Boore JL, Staton JL. 2002. The mitochondrial genome of the sipunculid Phascolopsis gouldii

supports its association with Annelida rather than Mollusca. Molecular Biology and

Evolution 19(2): 127-137.

Dawson MN**, Staton JL, Jacobs DK. 2001. Phylogeography of the endangered tidewater

goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi (Teleostei, Gobiidae), in coastal California. Evolution 55(6):

1167-1179.

Staton JL, Schizas NV**, Chandler GT, Coull BC, Quattro JM. 2001. Ecotoxicology and

population genetics: the emergence of “phylogeographic and evolutionary ecotoxicology.”

Ecotoxicology 10(4): 217-222.

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Jacobs DK, Wray CG, Wedeen CJ, Kostriken R, DeSalle R, Staton JL, Gates RD, Lindberg

DR. 2000. Molluscan engrailed expression, serial organization and shell evolution.

Evolution & Development 2(6): 340-347.

Staton JL, Foltz DW, Felder DL. 2000. Genetic variation and systematic diversity in the ghost

shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea). Journal of

Crustacean Biology 20(special issue 2): 157-169.

Felder DL, Staton JL. 2000. Lepidophthalmus manningi, a new ghost shrimp from the

southwestern Gulf of Mexico (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae). Journal of

Crustacean Biology 20(special issue 2): 170-181.

Staton JL, Rice ME. 1999. Genetic differentiation despite teleplanic larval dispersal: allozyme

variation in sipunculans of the Apionsoma misakianum species-complex. Bulletin of Marine

Science 65(2): 467-480.

Staton JL, Daehler LL, Brown WM. 1997. Mitochondrial gene arrangement of the horseshoe

crab Limulus polyphemus L.: Conservation of major features among arthropod classes.

Molecular Biology and Evolution 14(8): 867-874.

Turbeville JM, Staton JL, Brown WM. 1997. Amplification of the complete mitochondrial

genome of two protostome worms: a useful technique for comparative studies of metazoan

mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Marine Biology & Biotechnology 6(2): 141-143.

Staton JL, Felder DL. 1995. Genetic variation in populations of the ghost shrimp genus

Callichirus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea) in the western Atlantic and Gulf of

Mexico. Bulletin Marine Science 56(2): 523-536.

Felder DL, Staton JL. 1994. Genetic differentiation in trans-Floridian species complexes of

Sesarma and Uca (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Crustacean Biology 14(2):

191-209.

Staton JL, Felder DL. 1992. Osmoregulatory capacities in disjunct western Atlantic

populations of the Sesarma reticulatum complex (Crustacea, Decapoda, Grapsidae). Journal

of Crustacean Biology 12: 335-341.

Staton JL, Sulkin SD. 1991. Nutritional requirements and resistance to starvation in larvae of

the brachyuran crabs Sesarma cinereum (Bosc) and S. reticulatum (Say). Journal of

Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 152: 271-284.

*denotes undergraduate author **denotes graduate student author

Citation metrics for publications:

Total publications – 33; Total citations – 1040 (H-index – 17 i10-index – 19 [calculated by

Google Scholar – 7 October 2020])

Book chapters and published abstracts, (7 total):

Griffith A, Young RS, Staton J, Morgan, D. 2012. Examining the physical and economic

impacts of sea-level rise at the community level: Hilton Head Island, SC. Geological Society

of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 44, No. 4, p. 75. Southeastern Section - 61st

Annual Meeting (1–2 April 2012).

Griffith AD, Young RS, Staton J, Morgan D. (2011) Potential impacts of sea level rise on

Hilton Head, SC. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, p.

619. National meeting, Minneapolis, MN (9-12 October).

Staton JL. 2011 (December). Homology in Character Evolution. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons,

Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001776.pub2.

Pereira G, De Stefano H, Staton J, Farrell B. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships in some species

of the genus Macrobrachium based on nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial gene

cytochrome oxidase I. Pp. 319-322. In: Escobar-Briones E, Alvarez F (eds) Modern

Approaches to the Study of Crustacea. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Staton JL. 2000. Homology in character evolution. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences,

McMillan, London.

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Staton JL. 2000. (contributor) Early development of the echiuran Urechis caupo. In: Atlas of

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development. 2nd ed., Conn DB, Ed. John Wiley & Sons,

New York.

Jacobs DK, Lee SE**, Dawson MN**, Staton JL, Raskoff KA**. 1998. The history of

development through the evolution of molecules: Gene trees, hearts, eyes, and dorsoventral

inversion. Pp. 323-355 In: Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution, DeSalle R,

Schierwater B (eds) Birkhauser Verlag, Basel.

Popular publications, and book reviews (7 total):

Staton JL. 2013. It’s Natural. Sea Islands Institute Blog:

http://uscbseaislandsinstitute.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/its-natural/

Staton JL. 2013. The World on a Doorstep. Sea Islands Institute Blog:

http://uscbseaislandsinstitute.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/worm-blog/

Staton, J.L. 2005. Review of “Marine Biology, 5th edition. By Castro, P. and M. E. Huber.

McGraw Hill Higher Education” Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 103–104.

Staton J. 2002. Meiofauna -An estuarine “canary?” Baruch Briefs. Spring issue.

Staton J. 1998. Tastes like chicken? Annals of Improbable Research 4(4): 5-9.

Staton JL. 1996. Review of “The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution.—

Edward B. Cutler. 1994.” Systematic Biology 45(2): 254-255.

McKinnon JS, Staton JL. 1996. Review of “The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine

Stickleback.” Bell MA, Foster SA (eds.). Copeia 1996(2): 502-504.

Research in progress:

Staton JL, Canada BA. SIMMER: Genetics. An electronic recitation software platform.

Seminars (last 10):

2018 “Species richness and endemism worldwide: how endemic is endemic?” Marine Science

Program, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Florida. 15 November.

2017 "Evolution on LARGE and SMALL scales." Marine Science Program, Jacksonville

University, Jacksonville Florida. October.

2016 “The Biology of the Jelly Animals.” w/ Kim Ritchie. USCB OLLI Program. 31 October.

2016 "Endemism, species ranges and dispersal." Marine Science Program, Jacksonville

University, Jacksonville Florida. October.

2015 “Worms in and around the reef.” Georgia Southern University, October 12.

2014 “Biogeography and ecology of sessile worm species, is the larva the thing?” Armstrong

State University, October.

2014. “Biogeographic distribution of Phragmatopoma lapidosa, a amphitropical species?”

Marine Science Program, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Florida. October.

2013. “Biogeography and ecology of sessile worm species, is the larva the thing?” Marine

Science Program, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Florida.

2013. “Biogeography and ecology of sessile worm species, is the larva the thing?” USC-

Beaufort, Natural Sciences Seminar Series. Fall semester.

2012. “Biogeography, larval ecology, and genetics of marine species.” Marine Science

Program, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Florida.

Invited Talks:

2014. “Examining the physical and economic impacts of sea-level rise at the community level:

Hilton Head Island, SC.” Charles E. Fraser Sustainable Resort Development Conference,

Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head Island, 6 & 7 May, 2014.

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2002. “Using molecular methods to identify cryptic invertebrate species.” “Life Histories of

Marine Invertebrates" A Symposium in Honor of Mary E. Rice, Smithsonian Marine

Station at Fort Pierce, Florida. November 14 & 15, 2002.

1999. “Preliminary report of the isolation of the GABA-receptor locus of the harpacticoid

copepod, Microarthridion littorale Poppe 1881.” The Crustacean Society summer

meetings, Lafayette, LA.

1997. “A graphical approach to gene-flow analysis: linear regression of genetic distance across

geographic range in five decapod species from the Gulf of Mexico.” The Crustacean

Society Summer Meetings, Dauphin Island, AL.

1989. “Genetic differentiation in coastal callianassid populations of the Gulf of Mexico and the

Carolinian Atlantic.” Crustacean Society and ASZ, Boston, MA.

Presentations (since 2007):

2017 “Potential Impact of Sea-level Rise on a Beach Community: Hilton Head Island, SC”

USCB/Indivisible Environmental Symposium. 28 October at USCB

2014. “Amphitrite ornata erythrocruorin functions with substantial dehaloperoxidase activity.”

With VR Hearn*, LA Presnar*, SA Borgianini, and EL D’Antonio. The 66th

Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society 16-19 October,

Nashville, TN

2014. “Osmotic partitioning in the pickleweed, Salicornia virginica” with RA Player, SA

Borgianini. Southeastern Estuarine Research Society meetings, 13-15 February,

Savannah, GA

2013. “A genetic comparison of populations of the sabellariid polychaete Phragmatopoma

lapidosa in the western Atlantic.” with T Massey*, J Shira*, D McCarthy. Benthic

Ecology Meetings. 20-23 March, Savannah, GA.

2013. “Haplotype distribution in a tidally influenced freshwater river system.” with SA

Borgianini, RJ Brodie. Benthic Ecology Meetings. 20-23 March, Savannah, GA.

2012. “Limited gene flow in Uca minax (LeConte 1855) along a linear estuary.” with SA

Borgianini, IB Gibson*, RJ Brodie. Southeastern Estuarine Research Society meetings,

19-21 October. University of North Florida, Jacksonville.

2012 “Limited gene flow in Uca minax (LeConte 1855) along a linear estuary.” with SA

Borgianini, IB Gibson*, RJ Brodie, TW Greig. The Crustacean Society Summer joint

meeting with Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Athens, Greece, 3-7 June

2012.

2007. “Phylogeography of a cosmopolitan harpacticoid copepod: a preliminary report.” with J.

Baguley, B. Coggins*, and B.C. Coull. 13

meeting of the International Association of

Meiobenthologists. Recife, Brazil, 28 July–3 Aug. (invited session chair)

2007. “Genetic diversity along a tidally influenced river in South Carolina.” with S. Borgianini

and R. Brodie. SouthEastern Population Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, 33

meeting. Great Smoky Mountains Institute, TN 21-23 Sep.

2007. “Haplotype distribution in a tidally influenced freshwater river system.” with S.

Borgianini and R. Brodie. Benthic Ecology Meetings. GA Tech, Atlanta. March 21-24

2007. “Are there costs of living differences on a single river?” with J. Mraz*, S. Borgianini, R.

Bier* and R. Brodie. Benthic Ecology Meetings. GA Tech, Atlanta. March 21-24

Service:

Professional service:

Reviewer for:

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (since 2014)

Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology (since 2013)

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Bulletin of Marine Science (since 1997)

Copeia (since 2004)

Herpetologia (since 1988)

Journal of Crustacean Biology (since 1993)

Journal of Heredity (since 2000)

Journal of Molecular Evolution (since 2003)

Journal of Shellfish Research (since 2005)

Marine and Freshwater Research (since 2001)

Marine Ecology Progress Series (since 2008).

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (since 1999)

NSF Division of Environmental Biology Grants Program (since 1994)

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (since 1997)

Southeastern Naturalist (since 2002)

Planner and host for Spring 2016 Southeastern Estuarine Society meeting with over 100

attendees. First scientific conference held at USCB Hilton Head Gateway Campus.

Advanced Placement Biology Exam reader for Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

(compensated) – Served as a reader (grader) of the ETS AP examinations for 6 years (2008-2014

[excluding 2013]). Grade national exams for the ETS yearly exam (~150K+ exams annually)

Committee work and University Service:

• Faculty Senate Chair (2015-2017)

• Faculty Senate Chair Elect (2013-2015)

• Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeals Board (Chair, 2009 to present).

• Third year review Committee 2013-2014

• Faculty Welfare Committee (Chair-2009).

• Library Committee (2009).

• Faculty Development Committee (Co-Chair 2010, Chair, 2011, member to 2015)—

performed third-year reviews with Dr. John Salazar in 2010

o Organized a series of meetings on Overcoming Barriers to Scholarship to advance

research and scholarship of the USCB faculty (2011).

o Organized and scheduled University-wide Brown-Bag Seminar series 2010-2012.

• Student Research and Scholarship Day— http://researchday.uscb.edu

o 2009-2010 (first annual) – Judge and member of the Planning Committee.

o 2010-2011 – Judge and member of the Planning Committee

o 2011-2012 – Co-Chair with Susan Williams [Nursing], developer of the program,

and hosted guest speaker Dr. John Palmour, Vice President of CREE, Inc. Helped

develop a new electronic submission portal with Dr. Xuwei Liang to be used for

SRSD registration and abstract submission

(http://researchday.uscb.edu/manage_print_abstract_page.php).

o 2012-2013 – Chair (co-Chair Dr. Rob Kilgore [English]) and implemented the

development of the first electronic version of the SRSD program with Dr. Brian

Canada: http://researchday.uscb.edu/app/#home

o 2013-2016 Chair

o 2016-present – planning committee member

• Faculty Manual Committee (Chair 2011, member 2010-2012)

• Member of the QEP Committee (2009-present)

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• Served on the English tenure-track search for an 18

century Prose professor—hire of

Molly Barnes, PhD.

• Served on the search for new EVCAA—hire of Eric Skipper, PhD.

Departmental service:

Biology Search Committees Chaired 5 department of Biology searches and served on one

additional search since 2007:

Structural Biologist—hired Eric Montie, PhD

Greater Community:

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI): “Tasty Edible Invertebrates” with Charles

Keith (3 classes, 2008-2010)

OLLI: coordinated program with the Center for Humans and Nature at USC-Columbia

entitled “Choices for Sustainable Living: Providing a Future for Your Grandchildren”

with presentations by Bruce C. Coull (Dean Emeritus, School of the Environment,

USC-Columbia); Trish Jerman (Manager, Policies and Programs, SC State Energy

Office); and Dean Moss (General Manager, Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer

Authority).

OLLI “Coastal Ecology Walk” with Steve Borgianini, two-hour nature walk explaining

coastal geology and ecology of barrier island beaches. (Spring 2010, 2012, 2013,

2014, 2015)

OLLI: “Something’s Brewing @ USCB” (three-session course, Spring 2011)

OLLI: “Genetics 101 to Present” (two-hour presentation, Spring 2013)

OLLI: “People and Coastal Development” with Mr. Andy Coburn (PSDS, WCU), Mr.

Adam Griffith (PSDS, WCU), and Dr. Stephen Borgianini. 24-25 June 2013.

OLLI: “The Jelly Animals” October 2016 with Kimberly Ritchie.