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Thurber, Andrew

Graduate Student

Degrees:

• M.S., Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• B.S., Hawaii Pacific University

Research Interests:

• Benthic Ecology
• Deep-Sea Biology
• Microbial - Metazoan Interactions
• Food Web Dynamics
• Stable Isotope Application to Marine Systems
• Lipid Biomarkers
• Invertebrate taxonomy

Honors and Awards:

• 2008 ChEss Training Awards for New Investigators - TAWNI
• 2009-2010 Sydney E. Frank Foundation Fellow
• 2008-2009 UC Marine Council – Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative Fellow
• 2006 Michael M. Mullin Fellow
• 2004 John H. Martin Memorial Fellow
• 2005 Marine Science Student of the Year- CSU Stanislaus
• 2005-2006 UC Regents Fellow

Kim, S., Hammerstom, K.K., Conlan, K.E., Thurber, A.R., 2010. Polar ecosystem dynamics: Recovery of communities from organic enrichment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icq058

Conlan, K.E., S.K. Kim, A.R. Thurber, E. Hendrycks, 2010. Benthic changes at McMurdo Station, Antarctica following local sewage treatment and regional iceberg-mediated productivity decline. Marine Pollution Bulletin 60: 419-432.

Levin L.A., G. Mendoza, J. Gonzalez, P. McMillan, A. Thurber, E.E. Cordes, 2010. Diversity of bathyal macrobenthos on the northeastern Pacific margin: the influence of methane seeps and oxygen minimum zones. Marine Ecology 31: 94-110

Thurber, A.R., K. Kroger, C. Neira, H. Wiklund, L.A. Levin, 2010. Stable isotope signatures and methane use by New Zealand cold seep benthos. Marine Geology. 272:260-269.

Glover A.G., C.R. Smith, S.L. Minks, P.Y. Sumida, and A. Thurber, 2008. Temporal and spatial variability in macrofaunal abundance and community structure on the West Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf. Deep-Sea Research II 55:2491-2501.

Thurber A.R., 2007. Diets of Antarctic sponges: links between the pelagic microbial loop and benthic metazoan food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 351:77-89.

Kim S.L., A. Thurber, K. Hammerstrom and K. Conlan, 2007. Seastar response to organic enrichment in an oligotrophic polar habitat. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 346:66-75.

Kim S.L. and A. Thurber, 2007. Comparison of seastar (Asteroidea) fauna across island groups of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology.30:415-425.

Detrich H.W., C.D. Jones, S. Kim, A.W. North, A. Thurber, and M.Vacchi, 2005. Nesting behavior of the icefish Chaenocephalus aceratus at Bouvetoya Island, Southern Ocean. Polar Biology 28:828-832.