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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

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

Thurber, A.R., K. Kroger, C. Neira, H. Wiklund, L.A. Levin, In Press. Stable isotope signatures and methane use by New Zealand cold seep benthos. Marine Geology. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.001

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.