Ruth Gates CV 08-10-13 - University of Hawaii

RUTH DEBORAH GATES 

Curriculum Vitae 

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology/SOEST 

P.O. Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744-‐1346. 

Office: 808 236 7420; Lab: 808 236 7493; Fax: 808 236 7443; rgates@hawaii.edu 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

My broad interests lie in biological mechanisms and traits that dictate environmental threshold of 

marine organisms. Specifically, I am focused on defining attributes in corals that underpin inter-‐ and 

intra-‐specific differences in their sensitivity to thermal stress, ocean acidification and pollutants. To 

accomplish this, my research group examines coral biology at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, 

and exploits analytical approaches from the fields of genomics, molecular ecology, developmental 

genetics, computational biology, cell biology, biochemistry, physiology and ecology. For additional 

details see: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rgates/Gates_Lab_Website/Gates_Lab.html 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

2011 -‐ Researcher (tenured), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, SOEST, University of Hawaii at 

Manoa. 

2010 Sabbatical Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of 

California Santa Barbara 

2007 -‐ 2011 Associate Researcher (tenured), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, SOEST, University of 

Hawaii at Manoa 

2003 -‐ 2007 Assistant Researcher (tenure track), Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, SOEST, 

University of Hawaii at Manoa 

2008 -‐ Graduate Faculty, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University 

of Hawaii at Manoa 

2003 -‐ Graduate Faculty, Departments of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa 

2003 -‐ Graduate Faculty, Departments of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa 

2002 -‐ 2003 Assistant Researcher, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, 

University of California. 

2002 -‐ 2004 Adjunct Research Scientist, California State University, Northridge 

EDUCATION 

1990 – 2002 Postdoctoral Training, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, 

University of California, Los Angeles. 

1998 -‐ 2003. Developmental genes in basal metazoans, mentored by Dr. Davis Jacobs 

1996 -‐ 1997. Physiological ecology of Sargassum muticum, mentored by Dr. Peggy Fong 

1995 -‐ 1996. Genetic engineering of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 

mentored by Dr. Jeanne Erickson 

1990 – 1995. Regulation and de-‐stabilization of coral dinoflagellate symbioses, 

mentored by Professor Leonard Muscatine 

1990 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, mentored by Professor 

Barbara E. Brown. Thesis: Seawater Temperature and Algal Cnidarian Symbiosis. 

1984 Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology (with Honors), University of Newcastle-‐upon Tyne, 

UK. 

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PUBLICATIONS 

81) Yost, D.M., Wang, L. H., Fan, T. Y., Chen, C. S., Lee, R. W., Sogin, E. and Gates, R. D. In press. Diversity 

in skeletal architecture influences biological heterogeneity and Symbiodinium habitat in corals. 

Zoology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2013.06.001 

80) Fabina, N. S., Putnam, H. M., Franklin, E. C., Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. In press. Symbiotic specificity, 

association patterns, and function determine community responses to global changes: Defining 

critical research areas for coral-‐Symbiodinium symbioses. Global Change Biology 

doi: 10.1111/gcb.12320 

79) Putnam, H. M., Mayfield, A. B., Fan, T. Y., Chen, C. S. and Gates, R. D. In press. The physiological and 

molecular responses of larvae from the reef-‐building coral Pocillopora damicornis exposed to 

near future increases in temperature and pCO 2 . Marine Biology doi: 10.1007/s00227-‐012-‐2129-‐ 

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78) Lesser, M. P., Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. 2013. The endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium sp.) 

of corals are parasites and mutualists. Coral Reefs 32: 603-‐611. 

77) Stat, M., Pochon, X., Franklin, E. C., Bruno, J. F., Casey, K. S., Selig, E. R. and Gates, R. D. 2013. The 

distribution of the thermally tolerant symbiont lineage (Symbiodinium clade D) in corals from 

Hawaii: correlations with host and history of ocean thermal stress. Ecology and Evolution 3(5): 

1317-‐1329. 

76) Farrar, C. E., Forsman, Z. H., Gates, R. D., Leong, J. A. C. and Toonen, R. J. 2013. Observing the Coral 

Symbiome Using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy. Science 339 (6119): 518. 

75) Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L., Bidigare, R. R., Barshis, D. J., Alamaru, A., Hedouin, L., Hernandez-‐Pech, X., 

Kandel, F., Leon Soon, S., Roth, M. S., Rodrigues, L. J., Grottoli, A. G., Portocarrero, C., 

Wagenhauser, S.A., Buttler, F. and Gates R. D. 2013. Are all eggs created equal? A case study 

from the Hawaiian reef-‐building coral Montipora capitata. Coral Reefs 32(1): 137-‐152. 

74) Hedouin, L. and Gates, R. D. 2013. Assessing fertilization success of the coral Montipora capitata 

under copper exposure: Does the night of spawning matter? Marine Pollution Bulletin 66: 221– 

224. 

73) Edmunds, P. J., Putnam, H. M. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Photophysiological consequences of vertical 

stratification of Symbiodinium in tissue of the coral Porites lutea. Biological Bulletin 223(2): 226-‐ 

35. 

72) Fabina, N. S., Putnam, H. M., Stat, M., Franklin, E. C. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Transmission mode 

predicts specificity and interaction patterns in coral-‐Symbiodinium communities. PLoS One 7(9): 

e44970. 

71) Putnam, H. M., Stat, M., Pochon, X. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Endosymbiotic flexibility associates with 

environmental sensitivity in scleractinian corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 279: 

4352-‐4361. 

70) Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L., Hanson, K. M., Stat, M. and Gates R. D. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity of the coral 

Porites rus: acclimatization responses to a turbid environment. Journal of Experimental Marine 

Biology and Ecology 434–435: 71–80. 

69) Stat, M., Baker, A., Bourne D., Correa, A., Forsman, Z., Huggett, M., Pochon, X., Skillings, D., Starger, 

C., Toonen, R., van Oppen, M. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Molecular delineation of species in the 

coral holobiont. Advances in Marine Biology 63: 1-‐65. 

68) Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L., Pochon, X., Bird, C., Concepcion, G. T. and Gates, R. D. 2012. From Parent to 

Gamete: Vertical Transmission of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) ITS2 Sequence Assemblages in 

the Reef Building Coral Montipora capitata. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38440. 

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67) Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Spawning dynamics in the Hawaiian reef building coral 

Montipora capitata. Marine Ecology Progress Series 449: 145-‐160. 

66) Franklin, E.C., Stat, M., Pochon, X., Putnam, H. M., and Gates R. D. 2012. GeoSymbio: A hybrid, 

cloud-‐based web application of global geospatial bioinformatics and ecoinformatics for 

Symbiodinium-‐host symbioses. Molecular Ecology Resources 12(2): 369-‐373. 

65) Takabayashi, M., Adams, L. M., Pochon, X. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Genetic Diversity of Free-‐Living 

Symbiodinium in Surface Water and Sediment of Hawai‘i and Florida. Coral Reefs 31(1): 157-‐167. 

64) Krueger, T. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Cultivating endosymbionts -‐ Host environmental mimics support 

the survival of Symbiodinium C15 ex hospite. Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology 413: 

169-‐176. 

63) Pochon, X., Putnam, H. M., Burki, F. and Gates, R. D. 2012. Identifying and characterizing alternative 

molecular markers for the symbiotic and free-‐living dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium. PLos 

One 7 (1): e29816. 

62) Franklin, E. C., Stat, M., Pochon, X., Putnam, H. M., and Gates, R. D. 2011. Rapid Development of a 

Hybrid Web (2011) Application for Synthesis Science of Symbiodinium with Google Apps. In: 

Jones, M. (ed.), Proc. Environ. Info. Manage. 2011 Conf. Santa Barbara, CA. 

61) Gates, R. D. and Ainsworth, T. D. 2011. The nature and taxonomic composition of coral symbiomes 

as drivers of performance limits in scleractinian corals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology 

and Ecology 408: 94–101. 

60) Hédouin, L., Metian, M. and Gates R. D. 2011. Contamination of a Hawaiian coral reef ecosystem 

(Honolua Bay, Maui) by metals and a metalloid: An ecotoxicological and ecological study. Marine 

Environmental Research 71: 149-‐161. 

59) Stat, M., Bird C. E, Pochon, X., Chasqui, L., Concepcion G. T., Jones, L., Logan, D, Takabayashi, M., 

Toonen, R. J. and Gates, R. D. 2011. Endosymbiont (Symbiodinium spp.) composition in 

individual host colonies contributes to symbiont partitioning across reef environments. PLoS 

One 6:e15854. 

58) Padilla-‐Gamiño J. L., Weatherby, T. M., Waller R. G. and Gates, R. D. 2011. Formation and structural 

organization of the egg-‐sperm bundle of the scleractinian coral Montipora capitata. Coral Reefs 

doi: 10.1007/s00338-‐010-‐0700-‐8. 

57) Wagner, D., Pochon, X., Irwin, L., Toonen, R. J. and Gates, R. D. 2011. Azooxanthellate? Most 

Hawaiian black corals contain Symbiodinium. Proceedings of the Royal Society London 278: 

1323-‐1328. 

56) Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. 2011. Clade D Symbiodinium in scleractinian corals: a “nugget” of hope, a 

selfish opportunist, an ominous sign, or all of the above? Journal of Marine Biology: Article ID 

730715, doi:10.1155/2011/730715. 

55) Salerno, J. L., Reineman, D. R., Gates, R. D. and Michael S. Rappé, M. S. 2011. The effect of a sub-lethal 

temperature elevation on the structure of bacterial communities associated with the coral 

Porites compressa. Journal of Marine Biology: Article ID 969173, doi:10.1155/2011/969173. 

54) Mayfield, A. B. Hsiao, Y. Y., Fan, T. Y., Chen, C. S. and Gates, R. D. 2010. Evaluating the temporal 

stability of stress-‐activated protein kinase and cytoskeleton gene expression in the Pacific reef 

corals Pocillopora damicornis and Seriatopora hystrix. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology 

and Ecology 395: 215-‐222. 

53) Hofmann, G. E., Barry, J. P., Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D., Hutchins, D. A., Klinger, T. and Sewell, M. A. 

2010. The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Polar, Tropical and Temperate Marine Calcifying 

Organisms: An Organism to Ecosystem Perspective. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and 

Systematics 41: 127–147. 

52) Lesser, M. P., Slattery, M, Stat, M., Ojimi M., Gates, R. D. and Grottoli, A. 2010. Photoacclimatization 

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y the Coral Montastraea cavernosa in the Mesophotic Zone: Light, Food, and Genetics. 

Ecology: 91(4): 990-‐1003. 

51) Ainsworth, T. D., Vega Thurber, R. and Gates, R. D. 2010. The Future of Coral Reefs -‐ A Microbial 

Perspective. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25(4): 233-‐240. 

50) Pochon X. P and Gates, R. D. 2010. A new Symbiodinium clade (Dinophyceae) from soritid 

foraminifera in Hawai’i. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 492-‐497. 

49) Barshis, D. J., Stillman, J. H., Gates, R. D., Toonen, R. J., Smith, L.W. and Birkeland, C. 2010. Coral 

resistance to environmental extremes: a case for host adaptation. Molecular Ecology 19(8): 

1705-‐1720. 

48) Palmer, C. V. and Gates, R. D. 2010. Skeletal Eroding Band in Hawaiian corals ten years after the first 

Indo-‐Pacific record. Coral Reefs 29(2): 469-‐469. 

47) Green, D. H., Edmunds, P. J., Pochon, X. and Gates, R. D. 2010. The effects of substratum type on the 

growth, mortality, and photophysiology of juvenile corals in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Journal 

of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 384(1-‐2): 18-‐29. 

46) Pochon, X., Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Logan, D., Chasqui, L., Jones, L. and Gates R. D. 2010. 

Comparison of endosymbiotic and free-‐living Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity in a 

Hawaiian reef environment. Journal of Phycology 46: 53-‐65. 

45) Yancey, P. H., Heppenstall, M., Ly, S., Raymond, M., Andrell, R. M, Gates R. D., Carter, V. L. and 

Hagedorn M. 2010. Betaines and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) as major osmolytes in 

Cnidaria with endosymbiotic dinoflagellates. Physiological and Biochemica Zoology 83: 167-‐173. 

44) Hédouin, L., Reichelt-‐Brushett, A. J. and Gates R. D. 2009. Assessment of Metals and a Metalloid in 

Sediments from Hawaiian Coral Reef Ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58: 1739-‐1765. 

43) Chan, Y. L., Pochon, X., Fisher, M., Wagner, D., Concepcion, G. T., Kahng, S., Toonen, R. J. and Gates, 

R. D. 2009. Host genotypes and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate diversity in the coral Leptoseris 

sampled between 60-‐100 meter depths. BMC Ecology 9:21. 

42) Stat, M., Pochon, X., Cowie, R.O. M. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Specificity in communities of 

Symbiodinium in corals from Johnston Atoll. Marine Ecology Progress Series 386: 83-‐96. 

41) Fitt, W. K., Gates, R. D. Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O., Bythell, J., Jatkar A., Grottoli , A. G., , Gomez, M. Fisher, 

P., LaJeunesse, T. Pantos, O. Iglesias-‐Prieto, Franklin, D. J., R., Rodrigues, L. J., Torregiani, J. M. 

van Woesik, R. and Lesser, M. P. 2009. Response of Two Species of Indo-‐Pacific Corals, Porites 

cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to Thermal Stress: The host does matter in determining the 

tolerance of corals to bleaching. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 373 (2): 

102-‐110. 

40) Olson, N. D., Ainsworth, T. D., Gates, R. D. and Takabayashi, M. 2009. Diversity, Abundance, and 

Distribution of Diazotrophic Symbionts in Hawaiian Montipora Corals. Journal of Experimental 

Marine Biology and Ecology 371(2): 140-‐146. 

39) Palmer C. V., Roth, M. S. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Red fluorescent protein responsible for 

pigmentation in trematode infected Porites compressa tissues. Biological Bulletin 216: 68-‐74. 

38) Mayfield, A. B., Hirst, M. B. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Real-‐time PCR-‐based gene expression analysis in 

the anthozoan-‐dinoflagellate endosymbiosis. Molecular Ecology Resources 9(2): 462-‐ 470. 

37) van Oppen, M. J. H., Leong, J. C. and Gates, R. D. 2009. Coral-‐virus interactions: a double-‐edged 

sword? Symbiosis 47: 1-‐8. 

36) Stat, M., Morris, E. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Functional diversity in coral-‐dinoflagellate symbiosis. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105(27): 9256-‐9261. 

35) Manning, M. M. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Diversity in populations of free-‐living Symbiodinium from a 

Caribbean and Pacific reef. Limnology and Oceanography 53(5): 1853-‐1861. 

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34) Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Acclimatization in tropical reefs corals. Marine Ecological 

Progress Series 361: 307-‐310. 

33) Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. 2008. Vectored introductions of marine endosymbiotic dinoflagellates into 

Hawaii. Biological Invasions 10(4): 579-‐583. 

32) Leggat, W., Ainsworth, T. A., Bythell, J. C., Dove, S., Gates, R. D., Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O., Iglesias-‐Prieto, 

R., Yellowlees, D. 2007. Communication arising from Rosenberg et al (2007). Nature Reviews 

Microbiology DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1635C1. 

31) Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O., Muller-‐Parker, G., Cook, C. B., Gates, R. D., Gladfelter, E., Trench, R. K and Weis, 

V. 2007. Len Muscatine (1932-‐2007) and his contributions to the understanding of algal-invertebrate 

endosymbiosis. Coral Reefs 26(4): 731-‐739. 

30) Lesser, M. P., Bythell, J. C., Gates, R. D., Johnstone, R. W., Hoegh Guldberg, O. 2007. Are infectious 

diseases really killing corals? Alternative Interpretations of the Experimental and Ecological 

Data. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 346: 36–44. 

29) Apprill, A. M., Bidigare, R. R. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Visibly healthy corals exhibit variable pigment 

concentrations and symbiont phenotypes. Coral Reefs 26: 387-‐397. 

28) Mayfield, A. B. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Osmoregulation and osmotic stress in coral dinoflagellate 

symbiosis: Role in coral bleaching. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 147 (1): 1-‐10. 

27) Biel, K. Y., Gates R. D. and Muscatine L. 2007. Effects of free amino acids on the photosynthetic 

carbon metabolism of symbiotic dinoflagellates. Russian Journal Of Plant Physiology 54 (2): 171-‐ 

183. 

26) Apprill, A. M. and Gates, R. D. 2007. Recognizing diversity in coral symbiotic dinoflagellate 

communities. Molecular Ecology (16): 1127-‐1134. 

25) van Oppen, M. J. H. and Gates R. D. 2006. Understanding the resilience of reef corals: the roles of 

molecular biology and genetics. Invited Review. Molecular Ecology 15 (13): 3863-‐3883. 

24) Ridgway, T. and Gates, R. D. 2006. Why are there so few genetic markers available for coral 

population analyses? Symbiosis 41: 1-‐7. 

23) Gleason, D. F., Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2006. Ultraviolet radiation effects on the behavior 

and recruitment of larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides. Marine Biology 148: 503–512. 

22) Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D., Leggat, W. and Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O. 2005. The effect of temperature on 

the size and population density of dinoflagellates in larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides. 

Invertebrate Biology 124 (3): 185-‐193. 

21) Bebenek, I. G., Gates R. D., Morris, J., Hartenstein, V., Jacobs, D. K. 2004. sine oculis in the Basal 

Metazoa. Development, Genes and Evolution 214 (7): 342-‐351. 

20) Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2004. Size-‐dependent differences in the photophysiology of the reef 

coral Porites astreoides. Biological Bulletin 206: 61-‐64. 

19) Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Has coral bleaching delayed our understanding of 

fundamental aspects of coral-‐dinoflagellate symbioses? BioScience 53(10): 976-‐980. 

18) Jacobs, D. J. and Gates, R. D. 2003. Developmental Genes and the Reconstruction of Metazoan 

Evolution – Implications of Evolutionary Loss, Limits on Inference of Ancestry and Type 2 Errors. 

Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 11-‐18. 

17) Lee, S. E., Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2003. Gene fishing: the use of a simple protocol to isolate 

multiple homeodomain classes from diverse invertebrate taxa. Journal of Molecular Evolution 

56: 509-‐516. 

16) Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2003. Tissue composition of Montastraea franksi 

during and eleven months after a natural bleaching event. Coral Reefs 22: 54-‐62. 

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15) Gates, R. D., Hadrys, T., Arenas-‐Mena, C. and Jacobs, D. K. 2002. Determining spatial and temporal 

patterns of developmental gene expression in vertebrates and invertebrates using in situ 

hybridization techniques. In: Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine: Techniques in 

Molecular Evolution and Systematics (Eds. DeSalle, R., Giribet, G. and Wheeler, W.). Birkhauser 

Pp. 365-‐399. 

14) Edmunds, P. J. and Gates, R. D. 2002. Normalizing physiological data for scleractinian corals. Coral 

Reefs 21 (2): 193-‐197. 

13) Nallur, R. B., Gates, R. D., Ladurner, P., Jacobs, D. K. and Hartenstein, V. 2002. Neurogenesis in the 

primitive bilaterian Neochildea I. Normal development and isolation of genes controlling neural 

fate. Development, Genes and Evolution 212 (2): 55-‐69. 

12) Lee, S. E., Gates, R. D. and Jacobs, D. K. 2001. The isolation of a Distal-‐less gene fragment from two 

molluscs. Development, Genes and Evolution 211: 506-‐508. 

11) Edmunds, P. J., Gates, R. D. and Gleason, D. F. 2001. The biology of planulae freshly released from 

the reef coral Porites astreoides and their response to temperature disturbances. Marine 

Biology 139: 981-‐989. 

10) Jacobs, D. K., Wray, C. G., Wedeen, C. J., Kostriken, R., DeSalle, R., Staton, J. L., Gates, R. D. and 

Lindberg, D. L. 2000. Molluscan engrailed expression, serial organization, and shell evolution. 

Evolution and Development 2(6): 340-‐347. 

9) Gates, R. D. and Edmunds, P. J. 1999. The physiological mechanisms of acclimatization in tropical 

reef corals. American Zoologist 39(1): 30-‐43. 

8) Gates, R. D., Bil, K. Y. and Muscatine L. 1999. The influence of an anthozoan "host factor" on the 

physiology of a symbiotic dinoflagellate. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 

232(2): 241-‐259. 

7) Muscatine, L.; Ferrier-‐Pages, C.; Blackburn, A.; Gates, R. D.; Baghdasarian, G. and Allemand, D. 1998. 

Cell-‐specific density of symbiotic dinoflagellates in tropical anthozoans. Coral Reefs 17(4): 329-‐ 

337. 

6) Gates, R. D., Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O., McFall Ngai, M., Bil, K. Y. and Muscatine, L. 1995. Free amino 

exhibit anthozoan “host factor” activity: They induce the release of photosynthate from 

symbiotic dinoflagellates in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92 (16): 

7430-‐7434. 

5) Muscatine, L., Gates, R. D. and LaFontaine, I. 1994. Do symbiotic dinoflagellates secrete lipid 

droplets? Limnology and Oceanography 39 (4): 925-‐929. 

4) Gates, R. D., Baghdasarian, G. and Muscatine, L. 1992. Temperature stress causes host cell 

detachment in symbiotic cnidarians: implications for coral bleaching. Biological Bulletin 182: 

324-‐332. 

3) Gates, R. D. and Muscatine, L. 1992. Three methods for isolating viable anthozoan endoderm cells 

with their intracellular symbiotic dinoflagellates. Coral Reefs 11: 143-‐145. 

2) Bean, B., Fogle, T. and Gates, R. D. 1991. Rapid Hoechst staining for the sperm penetration assay. 

Fertility and Sterility 55 (1): 214-‐216. 

1) Gates, R. D. 1990. Seawater temperature and sublethal coral bleaching in Jamaica. Coral Reefs 8: 

193-‐197. 

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW OR IN POST REVIEW REVISION 

11) Putnam, H. M. and Gates, R.D. In review. Trans-‐generational acclimatization: Reevaluating climate 

change outcomes for corals. Nature Climate Change. 

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10) Maina J., Franklin, E. C., Venus, V., McClanahan, T., Baker, A., Stat, M, Putnam, H.M., Pochon, X., 

Gates, R. D., Beaumont, L., Madin, J. In post revision review. Environmental controls and global 

distribution patterns of hard coral endosymbionts. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 

9) Edmunds, P. J., Burgess, S., Putnam, H. M., Baskett, M. L., Bramanti, L., Fabina, N. S., Han, X., Lesser, 

M. P., Wall, C. B., Yost, D. M. and Gates RD. In review. Evaluating the causal basis of ecological 

success within the Scleractinia. Oecologia. 

8) Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L., Hédouin, L., Waller, R. G., Smith, D., Truong, W. and Gates, R. D. In review. 

Sedimentation and the reproductive biology of the Hawaiian reef building coral Montipora 

capitata. Biological Bulletin. 

7) Pochon X, Putnam HM, Gates RD. In post review revision. Rarity, symbiosis, and evolution of 

Symbiodinium dinoflagellates. Protist. 

6) Fabina, N. S., Franklin, E. C., Putnam, H. M. Stat, M. and Gates, R. D. In review. Subdominant 

symbiont diversity drives community patterns associated with coral function and dynamics. 

Ecology. 

5) Edmunds PJ, Adjeroud M, Baskett M, Baums IB, Budd A, Carpenter RC, Fabina N, Fan T-‐., Franklin EC, 

Gross K, Han X, Jacobson L, Klaus J, McClanahan T, O’Leary JK, van Oppen M, Pochon X, Putnam 

HM, Smith T, Stat M, Sweatman H, van Woesik R. and Gates RD. In post review revision. 

Persistence of reef corals through past and present climate change. PLos One. 

4) Padilla-‐Gamiño JL, Bidigare RR, Barshis DJ, Alamaru A, Hédouin L, Hernández-‐Pech X, Kandel F, Leon 

Soon S, Roth MS, Rodrigues LJ, Grottoli AA, Portocarrero C, Wagenhauser SA, Buttler F and RD 

Gates. In post revision review Are all eggs created equal? A case study from the Hawaiian reef 

building coral Montipora capitata. Coral Reefs. 

3) Barshis DJ, Birkeland C, Toonen RJ, Gates RD and JH Stillman. In post review revision. Local 

adaptation in coral resilience to climate change. 

2) Briggs, R. A., Padilla-‐Gamiño, J. L., Bidigare, R. Gates, R.D. and Ruttenberg, K. C. In post revision 

review. Impact of Montipora capitata coral spawning events on Hawaiian coastal 

biogeochemistry. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 

1) Putnam HM and Gates RD. In post review revision. Examining the synergistic impacts of ocean 

acidification and thermal stress on coastal reef organisms: experimental infrastructure and 

ecological context. 

CURRENT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 

2013 -‐ 2014 National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography. Collaborative Project: EarthCube 

Domain End-‐User Workshop: Developing a Community Vision of Cyberinfrastructure 

Needs for Coral Reef Systems Science $34,323. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2013 -‐ 2015 NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. Mapping Coral Thermal Toughness Across 

American Samoa -‐ Building SCLERA: the Samoan Coral Local Environmental Resistance 

Atlas $ 56,743.71. PI: Gates R. D. 

2013 -‐ 2014 National Science Foundation, EPSCoR Hawaii. A multi-‐scale analysis of function in 

Hawaiian corals contextualized by climate change, phase 2: Genetic, epigenetic and 

metabolic contributions to stress response in corals $130, 000 PI. Gates, R. D. 

2013 National Science Foundation, EPSCoR Hawaii. A multi-‐scale analysis of function in 

Hawaiian corals contextualized by climate change $75, 000. P: Gates, R. D. 

2011 -‐ 2013 National Park Service. Developing the capacity to better predict the composition of reef 

communities in a future of intensifying climate change based on the analysis of 

Symbiodinium communities. $32,000. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2010 -‐ 2013 NCEAS Working Group. Tropical coral reefs of the future: modeling ecological outcomes 

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from the analyses of current and historical trends. $78,900. PIs: Gates R. D. and 

Edmunds 

2010 -‐ 2013 National Science Foundation. LTER: MCR II -‐ Long-‐Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef 

Ecosystem. Administered through UCSB and CSUN. $75,000 to Gates. PIs: Schmitt, R., 

Holbrook, S., Carpenter, R. and Edmunds P. J., plus 14 collaborating scientists including 

self. 

2009 -‐ 2014 National Science Foundation LTREB. Long Term Coral Reef Community Dynamics in St 

John, USVI: 1987 – 2019. PI: Edmunds, P. J. $82,957 sub-‐contract to Gates. 

2009 -‐ 2013 Pauley Foundation. 2009 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology: Twenty-‐ 

Five Years of Edwin W. Pauley Summer Programs in Marine Biology: A Synthesis of 

Scientific Contributions and Human Resource Development. $75,000 PIs: Gates R. D., 

Lemus, J. D. and Franklin E. C. 

2012 -‐ 2014 NOAA. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Coral Health Assessment 

Program. $75,000 to Gates. PIs: Leong, J. C. and R. Toonen 

2012 -‐ 2013 Omidyar Global Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation. Funds to support a Coral 

Reef Symposium titled “What science is most relevant to the preservation, conservation 

and management of coral reefs?” $25,000. PI: R. D. Gates, administered by UCSB. 

2012 -‐ 2103 Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite. Funds to support a Coral Reef Symposium titled “What 

science is most relevant to the preservation, conservation and management of coral 

reefs?” $25,000. PI: R. D. Gates, administered by UCSB. 

FUNDING PENDING 

2013 -‐ 2015 National Science Foundation, IOS Symbiosis, Defense and Self-‐Recognition. EAGER: 

Symbiodinium as drivers of architectural complexity and morphological plasticity in 

scleractinian corals. $286,711. PI: Gates R. D. (recommended for funding) 

2013 -‐ 2016 National Science Foundation, BIO OCE. Coral Microbiome Resilience to Macroalgal 

Exudates and Thermal Stressors. $614,000. PIs Gates, R. D., Oliver, T. and Nelson, C. 

FUNDING HISTORY 

2012 – 2013 National Science Foundation, EPSCoR Hawaii. Coral Health around Hawaii Island: Cross-‐ 

Cutting Meta-‐analysis of Environmental, Ecological, and Genomic Data. $40,000. PIs: 

Takabayashi, M. and Gates, R. D. 

2010 -‐ 2013 National Science Foundation EAGER: Building networks and study systems to advance 

research on the biology of Pacific corals. Administered through Oregon State. $121,283 

subcontract o Gates and Lemus. PI: Virginia Weis, Co-‐PIs: Chappell P., Gates, R. D., 

Lemus, J. D. and Schwarz, J. Invited. 

2008 -‐ 2012 National Science Foundation BIO OCE. A comprehensive survey of endosymbiotic and 

free-‐living Symbiodinium diversity in the corals and reef environments of Hawaii 

$511,889. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2009– 2011 USGS GC. Do Global Stressors (C0 2 and/or Temperature) Increase The Sensitivity of Early 

Life Stage Tropical Corals to Metal Toxicity? $36,306. PIs: May T., Wolf, R. E., Gates, R. 

D., Hedouin, L. 

2009 -‐ 2011 Hawaii Undersea Research Lab (NOAA). The effect of thermal stress anomalies on the 

diversity of Symbiodinium communities in Oahu, Hawaii. $92,867. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2005 -‐ 2010 NOAA. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Coral Health Assessment 

Program PIs: Leong, J. C. and R. Toonen. $500,000 to Gates. 

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2010 -‐ 2011 NCEAS Sabbatical Fellowship. Synthesizing molecular and ecological datasets to evaluate 

how diversity in coral endosymbiont communities (Symbiodinium) maps onto 

environmental sensitivity in corals. $62,056. PI: Gates, R.D. 

2004 -‐ 2009 World Bank / Global Environmental Fund. Global Coral Reef Targeted Research and 

Capacity Building Project. $11 million administered through University of Queensland, 

Australia; $170,000 sub-‐contract to Gates. PIs: Multi-‐national team including self. 

2005 -‐ 2010 National Science Foundation. LTER: Long-‐Term Dynamics of a Coral Reef Ecosystem. $4.6 

million administered through UCSB and CSUN, $130,000 to Gates. PIs: Schmitt, R., 

Holbrook, S., Carpenter, R. and Edmunds P. J., plus 14 collaborating scientists including 

self. 

2008 -‐ 2009 Hawaii Sea Grant Project Development. Impact of Coral Spawning Events on Hawaii 

Coastal Biogeochemistry. $9,990. PIs: Ruttenberg, K. and Gates R. D. 

2008 -‐ 2009 NSF-‐EPSCoR REAP. Molecular pathology of coral skeletal growth anomaly. $25,000. PIs: 

Takabayashi, M., Gates, R. D., Phillips, M. and Poisson, G. 

2007 -‐ 2009 Hawaii Sea Grant. Identifying Indicators of Land Based Pollution Stress in the Biology of 

Corals. $111,516. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2007 -‐ 2008 Pauley Foundation. 2007 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology: The 

Biology Of Corals: Developing A Fundamental Understanding Of The Coral Stress 

Response. $75,000. PI: Gates R. D. 

2007 -‐ 2009 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Developing Tools for assessing Coral Health. 


2006 -‐ 2008 NOAA / Coral Reef Land Based Pollution Local Action Strategy. Developing Tools for 

Assessing Land Based Pollution Impacts in Corals. $119,998. PI: Gates, R. D. 

2004 -‐ 2007 US Geological Survey. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting the resilience of corals to 

climate change and their use in designing marine reserves. $540,000; $109,996 to Gates, 

Toonen and Stillman). PIs: Birkeland, C., Baker, A. C., Garrison, V. H., Gates, R. D., 

Kellogg, C., Piniak, G., Rappé, M.; Toonen R. J. and Stillman, J. 

2005 -‐ 2007 Hawaii Sea Grant. Developing Non-‐Invasive Biotechnological Tools to Monitor Coral 

Health. $87,422. PIs: Gates, R. D. and Rappe, M. S. 

2006 -‐ 2007 DLNR/DAR Hawaii Invasive Species Council. Are invasive species of dinoflagellates that 

cause harmful algal blooms entering Hawaii in the ballast water of commercial ships? 


2006 -‐ 2007 Hawaii NSF EPSCoR Research Enhancement Activities Program. Collaborative Research 

to Advance laboratory Skills of Students (CORALSS): Phase One -‐ Development of 

Scientific Research $24,931. PIs: M. Takabayashi, R. D. Gates, S. Zeigler Chong, D. Kapp, 

D. Brown, and F. Stanton. 

2003 -‐ 2005 Hawaii Sea Grant, Project Development. Osmoregulation and Coral Bleaching, $9,989). 

PI: Gates, R. D. 

2002 -‐ 2004 NOAA/NURP/NURC. Global climate change and coral recruitment: The interactive 

effects of temperature and ontogeny on the biology of Porites astreoides. $54,843 plus 

$250,000 for Aquarius Mission). PIs: Edmunds, P. J. Gates, R. D., Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O. 

2002 -‐ 2005 Australian Research Council. Tracing the origins of stress in the symbionts of reef-building 

corals AUS$800,000. PIs: Hoegh-‐Guldberg, O., Yellowlees, D., Gates, R. D., Fitt, 

W. K., LaJeunesse, T. C. 

1996 -‐ 1999 NOAA/NURC. The Effects Of Small Scale Temporal And Spatial Variation In The 

Environmental Factors Causing Coral Bleaching $60,000 plus $250,000 for an Aquarius 

Mission. PIs: Edmunds, P. J. Gates, R. D. Gleason, D. F. and Leichter, J. 

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1993 -‐ 1995 Office of Naval Research. Cnidarian Host Factor: Mechanism of Action. $180,000. PIs: 

Muscatine, L., Gates, R. D. 

1985 -‐ 1987 The Leverhulme Trust Scholarship for study abroad: Seawater Temperature And Coral 

Bleaching. $25,000. PI: Gates, R. D. 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (last six years) 

2013 Oxford University Biodiversity Institute “Microbial biodiversity and resilience to 

environmental change” 

2013 Haunama Bay, Hawaii – Public lecture “The Future of Coral Reefs: A Microbial 

Perspective” 

2013 Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site, mid term Review “Linking 

Patterns in Symbiodinium Diversity to Environmental Performance in Corals 

2012 Okazaki Biology Conference "Marine Biology II", National Institute for Basic Biology and 

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. “Symbiodinium diversity, the good, 

the bad and the ugly” 

2012 Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, PA. Specificity, Flexibility and 

Diversity in Cnidarian Dinoflagellate Symbiosis -‐ What Does it All Mean? 

2012 National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. Performance of Symbiodinium 

coral unions: importance of fidelity and past environmental history. 

2012 Coral Biology Workshop: Building U.S.-‐Japan collaborations in coral reef research. 

Tropical Biosphere Research Center Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan. The importance of 

fidelity and environmental history in driving performance of coral-‐Symbiodinium unions. 

2011 Moorea Coral Reef LTER, All Scientists Meeting, University of California Santa Barbara. 

The importance of fidelity and past environmental history in determining the 

performance of Symbiodinium coral unions. 

2011 ARC Coral Reef Center of Excellence, James Cook University, Australia. Specificity, 

Flexibility and Diversity in Cnidarian Dinoflagellate Symbiosis -‐ What Does it All Mean? 

2011 Coral Reproduction and Resilience Workshop. National Museum of Marine Biology and 

Aquarium. Symbiodinium diversity and variability in the environmental thresholds of 

corals. 

2011 Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Center Talk. What drives the variability in environmental 

thresholds of corals? 

2011 Celebration to unveil the confocal microscope at HIMB, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 

Confocal Microscopy at HIMB: Research and Education Goals. 

2010 Eco-‐lunch Seminar, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Environmental 

thresholds in reef building corals: implications of diversity and flexibility in coral-dinoflagellate 

endosymbioses. 

2010 University of California Davis, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series. Environmental 

thresholds in reef building corals: implications of diversity, specificity and flexibility in 

coral/dinoflagellate endosymbioses. 

2010 University of New Mexico, Biology Fall Seminar Series. Specificity, Flexibility and 

Diversity in Cnidarian Dinoflagellates Symbiosis -‐ What Does it All Mean? 

2010 Romburg Tiburon Center, Fall Seminar Series. Coral dinoflagellate endosymbiosis -‐ the 

good, the bad, the ugly. 

2010 Coral Reef Ecosystem Workshop, Sanya Tropical Marine Biological Research Station, 

Hainan, China. Corals in a Changing World: Resistance and Resilience Mechanisms 

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2010 PACON conference, Hilo Hawaii. An experimental test of the adaptive bleaching 

hypothesis. 

2009 The Omics in Ocean II – International Symposium for Marine Biotechnology, National 

Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (NMMBA) in Taiwan. Keynote Address. Series 

Specificity, Flexibility and Diversity in Cnidarian Dinoflagellates Symbiosis -‐ What Does it 

All Mean? 

2009 Moorea Coral Reef LTER, All Scientists Meeting, University of California Santa Barbara. 

Symbiodinium diversity – what does it all mean and why should we care? 

2009 EPSCoR National Conference, Honolulu Hawaii. Research initiatives at the Hawaii 

Institute of Marine Biology. 

2008 The Omics in Ocean – International Symposium for Marine Biotechnology, National 

Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (NMMBA) in Taiwan. Keynote Address. Do 

corals possess the biological flexibility to survive global climate change? 

2008 Joint Symposium (with University of Hawaii) on Ocean and Coastal Sciences, University 

of Tokyo. Developing tools for monitoring coral health. 

2008 Long Term Ecological Research, Joint Taiwan US Symposium, Taiwan Coral Research 

Center. How flexible is the biology of corals? 

2007 Global Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building Project – Amsterdam. The 

Edwin W. Pauley 2007 Summer Program “The Biology of Corals: Developing a 

fundamental understanding of the coral stress response. 

2007 All Scientists Meeting Moorea Coral Reef LTER, University of California Santa Barbara. 

Unveiling Taxonomic and Functional diversity In Symbiodinium Coral Associations. 

2007 Departmental Seminar Series. Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. How flexible is the 

biology of corals? 

2007 New Frontiers in Cellular Interactions in Cnidarian/Dinoflagellate Symbioses 

International Workshop, Heron Island, Australia. Coral Stress Responses. 

2007 Marine Science Seminar Series, CSU Fresno. Corals and their environment. 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 

American Association for the Advancement of Science 

American Association of University Women 

The International Society for Reef Studies 

Western Society of Naturalists 

INSTRUCTIONAL AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES 

A) FORMAL INSTRUCTION 

2003 – 2013 Guest Lecturer for Zoology 410, Corals and Coral Reefs 

2003 – 2013 Guest Lecturer for Zoology 691C, Introduction to Graduate Studies in Zoology 

2004 – 2013 Lead faculty for graduate seminar in Zoology (1 credit, 691B) 

2011 Guest lecturer for the NASA Astrobiology Winter School, University of Hawaii. Symbiosis 

in Ecology and Evolution 

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2009 Co-‐organizer of the 2009 Edwin Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology. Twenty-‐Five 

Years of Edwin W. Pauley Summer Programs in Marine Biology: A Synthesis of Scientific 

Contributions and Human Resource Development 

(http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Education/pauley2009.html) 

2006 – 2009 Guest lecturer and participant in the UH IGERT Integrative Training in Ecology, 

Conservation & Pathogen Biology (http://www2.jabsom.hawaii.edu/igert/) 

2000 – 2009 Faculty for the Three Seas: East West Marine Biology Program for Northeastern 

University taught in Jamaica and Moorea, French Polynesia. I co-‐taught the Coral Biology 

class with Peter Edmunds. 

2007 Lead instructor for the 2007 Edwin Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology. The 

Biology Of Corals: Developing A Fundamental Understanding Of The Coral Stress 

Response (http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Education/pauley2007.html) 

2005 – 2007 Guest Lecturer for OCN 621 Biological Oceanography 

2003 – 2006 Instructional faculty for intensive Molecular Biology of Corals Techniques Workshop 

2002 Invited Faculty for the 2002 Edwin Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology, 

Molecular Biology of Corals (http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/Education/pauley2002.html) 

B) POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS MENTORED 

2012 -‐ Dr. Hollie M. Putnam 

2011 -‐ Dr. Tom Oliver 

2010 -‐ Dr. Denise Yost 

2008 -‐ 2012 Dr. Michelle Phillips, currently Research Coordinator for the Papahanaumokuakea 

Marine National Monument with Division of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii. 

2007 -‐ 2011 Dr. Xavier Pochon, currently a permanent Researcher in the Aquaculture and 

Biotechnology Group at the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand. 

2005 -‐ 2011 Dr. Michael Stat, currently a Research Assistant Professor with the Centre for 

Microscopy, Characterization and Analysis at the University of Western Australia/AIMS. 

2006 -‐ 2009 Dr. Laetitia Hedouin, currently a permanent Researcher with CNRS based in Moorea, 

French Polynesia and Perpignan, France 

C) GRADUATE STUDENTS CURRENTLY ADVISED (start date noted, UH Manoa unless stated) 

2013 Chris Wall Ph.D. candidate, Marine Biology 

2011 John Burns, Ph.D. candidate, Zoology 

2010 Nicole Ferguson, Ph.D. candidate, Zoology 

2009 Emilia Sogin, Ph.D. candidate, Zoology 

2007 Rebecca Prescott, Ph.D. candidate, Zoology 

D) GRADUATE STUDENTS GRADUATED (8: UH Manoa unless stated) 

2012 Hollie Putnam (Ph.D. Zoology) currently a postdoctoral in my lab 

2011 Jackie Padilla Gamino, (Ph.D. Oceanography), currently a postdoctoral scholar at the 

University of California Santa Barbara (with Prof G. E. Hofmann) 

2010 Derek Smith, (M.S. Zoology), currently a PhD student, Department of Biology, University 

of Washington (with Prof. Ken Sebens) 

2010 Thomas Krueger (M.S. Biology) University of Bremen, currently a PhD student, School of 

Biological Sciences, U Wellington NZ (with Prof. Simon Davy) 

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2009 Anderson Mayfield (Ph.D. Zoology), currently a National Science Foundation 

International Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Museum of Marine Biology (with 

Prof C. S. Chen) 

2008 Dan Reineman (M.S. Zoology), currently a PhD student in Stanford’s Emmett 

Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources 

2008 Marissa Hirst (M.S.), currently a PhD student, Department of Microbiology, UC Davis 

2006 Mackenzie Manning (M.S. Zoology), currently a permanent Lecturer at Kapiolani 

Community College, University of Hawaii 

2006 Emily Morris (M.S. Biology) Humboldt State University (co-‐advised with Sean Craig) 

E) OTHER GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES – CURRENT (7: UH Manoa unless stated) 

Nicholas Fabina (Biological Sciences, UC Davis); Erik Franklin (Ph.D. candidate, Zoology); Jennifer Salerno 

(Ph.D. candidate, Zoology); Nyssa Silbiger (Ph.D. candidate, Zoology); Kristen Taylor (Ph.D. candidate, 

Zoology); Chris Wall (M.S. candidate, California State University Northridge). 

F) OTHER GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES – GRADUATED (20: UH Manoa unless stated) 

Jessica Jarrett (Ph.D. 2012, Microbiology, University of New Hampshire); Cawa Tran (Ph.D. 2012, 

Zoology); Aude Pacini (Ph.D. 2011, Zoology); Lisa Adams (M.S. 2009, Marine Science, UH Hilo); Amy 

Apprill (M.S. 2004 and Ph. D. 2009, Oceanography); Dan Barshis (Ph.D. 2009, Zoology); Brian Boeing 

(M.S. 2007, Oceanography); John Bruno (M.S. 1995, Biology, California State University Northridge); 

John Burns (M.S. 2010, Marine Sciences, UH Hilo); Marco Calavetta (M.S. 1998, Biology, California State 

University Northridge); Jeanette Feiss (M.S. 2005, Zoology); Diana Gardella (M.S. 1998, Biology, 

California State University Northridge); Rebecca Habbeeb (M.S. 2001, Biology, California State University 

Northridge); Stuart Ibsen (Ph.D. 2006, Zoology); Mahealani Kaneshiro (M.S. 2007, Zoology); Heather 

Marlow (Ph.D. 2010, Zoology); Nancy Muehllehner (M.S. 2008, Biology, California State University 

Northridge); Lauren Pagarigan (M.S. 2008, Marine Science, UH Hilo); Laurie Requa (MS 2005, Biology, 

California State University Northridge); Mark Speck (Ph.D. 2009 Microbiology). 

G) GRADUATE INTERNS HOSTED IN THE LAB AND MENTORED 

2012 Kelley Anderson American Samoa Community College 

2011 Nicholas Fabina University of California, Davies (8 weeks) 

2010 Maggie Johnson California State University Northridge (8 weeks) 

2009 Leslie Irwin University of Delaware (8 weeks) 

2009 Julia Leung Laboratoire d’Ecologie Marine, l’Université de la 

Réunion, île de la Réunion, France (8 weeks) 

2008 Hollie Putnam California State University Northridge (8 weeks) 

2005 Stephanie Porter University of California, Davies (6 weeks) 

2004 Craig Starger Columbia University (6 weeks) 

2004 Kerstin Brzezek Anhalt University, Germany (9 months) 

2004 Susan Uhlman Anhalt University, Germany (9 months) 

H) UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED 

2012 Daniel Jennings-‐Kam Kapiolani Community College (summer, 12 weeks) 

2012 -‐ Andy Thompson UH Manoa (current) 

2011 -‐ Kirsten Fujitani UH Manoa (current) 

2011 -‐ 2012 Keisha D. Rodriguez UH Manoa 

2011 -‐ 2012 Madison M. Kosma UH Manoa 

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2011 -‐ 2012 William Truong UH Manoa 

2009 -‐ 2011 Kelsey Finn Hawaii Pacific University 

2009 -‐ 2012 Dean Vik UH Manoa 

2009 -‐ 2010 Carlisle Richer UH Manoa 

2009 Janie D’Ambrosia Harvard University (summer, 12 weeks) 

2009 Thomas Upton University of Newcastle upon Tyne (summer intern 

8 weeks) 

2009 Ryan Macleod Oceanography 

2008 -‐ 2009 Daniel Burns UH Manoa (12 months) 

2007 -‐ 2009 Claudia Portocarrero UH Manoa (20 months) 

2005 -‐ 2009 Stephanie Wagenhauser UH Manoa (36 months) 

2008 Azusa Makino UH Manoa (9 months) 

2008 Talisa DeCarlo University of Pennsylvania (summer intern, 8 weeks) 

2008 Bonnie Lee Yale University (summer intern, 12 weeks) 

2008 Melissa Sales Honolulu Community College (3 months) 

2007 -‐ 2008 Jonathon “Alika” Cozo Honolulu Community College 

2007 -‐ 2008 Roxie Gabriel Honolulu Community College 

2004 Reina Acacio UH Manoa (6 months) 

2003 -‐ 2004 Paul Choi UH Manoa (2003 – 2004) 

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 

2013 Member, search committee for new HIMB Director 

2013 Member, search committee for new biogeochemistry faculty position, HIMB 

2012 -‐ Chair, HIMB Capital Improvements Committee 

2012 -‐ Chair, HIMB Housing Committee 

2012 -‐ Member, HIMB Information Technology Committee 

2011 -‐ Director, HIMB Confocal Microscopy Facility 

2004 Director, HIMB Evolutionary Genetics Core Facility 

2004 -‐ Chair, HIMB Visitor Committee 

2004 -‐ 2009 Chair, HIMB Diving Safety Committee 

2005 -‐ 2008 Member, search committees for 4 HIMB faculty hires 

2003 -‐ 2010 Member, search committees for 6 APT hires 

2008 -‐ 2009 Participant, The President’s Emerging Leaders Program: currently working with the Vice 

President’s Office for Policy and Planning regarding STEM teacher recruitment and 

training, and international programs 

2008 Reviewer, School of Natural Sciences, Council on Program Reviews for UH Manoa 

2005 -‐ 2007 Member, Vice Chancellor’s Committee on Sequencing Core Facilities 

2005 -‐ 2008 Member, annual search committee for the SOEST Young Investigator 

2007 Examiner, Diagnostic Exam in Organismic Biology, Zoology Department of 

2003 -‐ Member, graduate faculty, Zoology and Oceanography Departments 

2009 -‐ Member, graduate faculty, Molecular Biology and Bioengineering Department 

2007 -‐ Affiliate graduate faculty, UH IGERT 

2003 -‐ Contributor, Hawaii EPSCoR 

2007 -‐ Affiliate graduate faculty, M.S. in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental 

Science, UH Hilo 

2003 -‐ Participant HIMB Community Outreach and Education Program. Informal presentations 

given to lay community groups 4-‐8 times a year 

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2003 -‐ Guest Lecturer for local High Schools. Talks given to groups from Kamehameha Schools, 

Punahou, St Andrew’s Priory School, and Sacred Hearts Academy about coral reefs and 

climate change 

2007 -‐ Guest Lecturer Windward Community College Continuing Education Course: Moku O Lo'e 

-‐ The Best Kept Secret in Kaneohe Bay. 

2004 Host to VIPs visiting HIMB. Facilities and research conducted at HIMB show cased in 

informal presentations 3-‐12 times a year. Visitors include congressional, senatorial and 

federal agency staffers and major UH donors, like the Omidyars and Stephen and 

Marylyn Pauley. 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

A) INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL ADVISORY ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHOPS 

2009 -‐ Council Member. International Society for Reef Studies 

2009 -‐ Invited member, Executive Committee for the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological 

Research Site 

2010 -‐ 2012 Invited member, Scientific Advisory board for the 12 th International Coral Reef 

Symposium 

2012 Invited Participant, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Panel 

Symposium: Trends in Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 

2012 Invited participant, Climate Change and Species Interactions: Ways Forward,” the Cary 

Institute, Maryland 

2011 Invited participant, workshop for strategic planning about the future of field stations 

and marine laboratories (FSMLs) co-‐hosted by The National Association of Marine 

Laboratories (NAML) and the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) in Colorado 

Springs 

2010 Invited delegate (one of six) for an NSF funded visit to main land China, with the goal of 

developing collaborative interactions between the US Long Term Ecological Research 

Network (LTER) and scientists in China 

2003 -‐ 2009 Invited member, Bleaching Group, Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building 

for Management. Developed the proposal for the project with UNESCO, GEF and World 

Bank. Participated in funded project 

2005 -‐ 2009 Steering committee member, Hawaii's Climate Change and Marine Disease Local Action 

Strategy. 

2008 -‐ 2010 Steering committee member, Hawaii’s Coral Reef Land Based Pollution Local Action 

Strategy. 

2004 -‐ 2006 Technical Advisory Committee, SPLASH ED (Hump Back Whale Sanctuary) and Oregon 

State/ Hawaii Sea Grant Marine Biotechnology Outreach and Curriculum Development 

Project (2004 – 2006) 

2004 -‐ 2006 Technical Advisory Committee, UH/Oregon Sea Grant Marine Biotechnology Curriculum 

Development Program 

2006 Invited participant, focus group titled “Hawaiian Archipelago Ecosystem Research Plan, 

ecosystem sustainability, resilience and recovery to develop the Hawaiian Archipelago 

Ecosystem Research Plan 

2004 Invited participant, workshop sponsored by the US National Committee of the Census of 

Marine Life (CoML) to design a global program on coral reefs 

2004 Invited participant, NOAA/EPA sponsored workshop Assessing Pollution Stress on Coral 

Reef Ecosystems 

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B) EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES 

2007 -‐ Coral Reefs Biological Editor (~50 submission a year) 

2012 -‐ Ocean Acidification Editorial Advisory Board 

2006 – 2007 Coral Reefs Editorial Board Member 

C) FUNDING PANELS 

2012 NSF BIO Symbiosis, Defense and Self-‐Recognition (April and October) 

2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Jan, declined) 

2010 NSF Ocean Acidification Panel (June, declined) 

2009 NSF BIO Symbiosis, Defense and Self-‐Recognition (Oct) 

2007 NSF Environmental Genomics Panel (May) 

2005 NOAA Ocean Exploration Panel (November) 

2000 NSF Biological Oceanography Panel (November, declined May 2005, 2006 and 2008) 

D) INTERNATIONAL DISSERTATION EXAMINER 

2010 Thomas Krueger, M. Sc. Biology, University of Bremen, Germany 

2010 Victor Ramirez-‐Beltran, Ph. D. Biology, James Cook University, Australia 

2008 Jeffry Dekenback, Ph. D. Marine Science, University of Queensland, Australia 

2008 Ruth Reef, Ph. D. Marine Science, University of Queensland, Australia 

2007 Karin Ulstrup, Ph. D. Biology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 

2005 Michael Stat Ph. D. Marine Science, University of Sydney, Australia 

2003 Anka Kleuter, Ph. D. Dept of Marine Science, University of Queensland, Australia 

1997 Narongsak Puanglarp Ph.D. Biology, James Cook University, Australia 

E) PROPOSAL REVIEWS (~ 12-‐20 PROPOSALS A YEAR) 

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German research Foundation); NSF BIO -‐ Integrative Animal Biology 

and Environmental Genomics; NSF GEO -‐ Biological Oceanography; NSF SDS – Self Defense and Self 

Recognition; NOAA – Ocean Exploration (OE), NOAA – National Undersea Research Program (NURP); 

U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF); National Institute of Environmental Health 

Sciences (NIEHS); National Geographic; Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Israel Science Foundation (ISF); French 

Research Agency (ANR). 

F) JOURNAL REVIEWS (~20 PAPERS A YEAR) 

Biochemical Genetics; Biological Bulletin; BMC Genomics; Bulletin of Marine Science; Comparative 

Biochemistry and Physiology; Coral Reefs; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Environmental Microbiology; Global 

Change Biology; Journal of Experimental Biology; Journal of Geophysical Research; Limnology and 

Oceanography (formal recognition as outstanding reviewer 2006); Marine Biology; Marine 

Biotechnology; Marine Ecological Progress Series; Marine Pollution Bulletin; Molecular Ecology; Nature 

Climate Change; PLoS One; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Science; and Symbiosis. 

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