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David S. Wethey
Professor of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina,
Columbia SC 29208, USA
Office Tel: 803-777-3936
FAX: 03-777-4002
Email:[email protected]
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.A. cum laudeYale College, New Haven, Connecticut 1973
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1979
APPOINTMENTS
2003Professor, Univ. South Carolina, Columbia
1986-2003
Associate Professor , Univ. South Carolina, Columbia
1980-1986
Assistant Professor, Univ. South Carolina, Columbia
1979-1980
NSF Postdoc Univ. Coll. North Wales/Univ. Leeds, UK
CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS
2006-2009 ONR Research Grant (N00014-0310352) with SA Woodin
(Real-Time Measurements of Sediment Modification by Large Macrofauna)
$331,516
2007-2009 NASA Grant (NNX07AF20G) with Helmuth, Hilbish, Lakshmi
(Ecological forecasting: from MODIS to mussels)
$1,600,000
2004-2009 NOAA ECOFORE Grant (NA04NOS4780264) with Helmuth,
Hilbish, Woodin, Lakshmi (Climate Change and Intertidal Risk Analaysis)
$2,478,000
GRADUATE and POSTDOCTORAL ADVISEES:
Past (PhD only): K Aveni-Deforge, Univ Hawaii, 2007; S. V. Viscido, Winston-Salem
State Univ, 2000; C. M. Finelli, UNC Wilmington, 1997; E. Gomez-Cornejo,
1993; L. J. Walters, Univ Central Florida, 1992; S. Ortega, NSF, 1986;
Current PhD: S. J. Jones
Past Postdoctoral: N. Mieszkowska, Marine Biol. Assoc. UK, 2006
Current Postdoctoral: F. Lima, N. Volkenborn
3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (47 total):
1. Wethey, DS. 1984. Sun and shade mediate competition in the barnacles Chthamalus
and Semibalanus: a field experiment. Biological Bulletin 167: 176-185.
2. Denny, MW and DS Wethey. 2000. Physical processes that generate patterns in
marine communities. pp. 1-37 in MD Bertness, SD Gaines and ME Hay (editors).
Marine Community Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass.
3. Wethey, DS. 2002. Biogeography, competition, and microclimate: the barnacle
Chthamalus fragilis in New England. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 872880.
4. Finelli, CM and DS Wethey. 2003. Oyster larval behavior in flume flows. Marine
Biology 143: 703-711.
5. DS Wethey and SA Woodin. 2005. Infaunal hydraulics generate porewater pressure
signals. Biological Bulletin 209: 139-145.
6. Gilman, SE, DS Wethey, B Helmuth. 2006. Variation in the sensitivity of organismal
body temperature to climate change over local and geographic scales. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 103:9560-9565.
7. Richmond, CE, DS Wethey, SA Woodin. 2007. Climate change and increased
environmental variability: demographic responses in an estuarine copepod.
Ecological Modelling 209: 189-202.
8. Wethey, DS, and SA Woodin. 2008. Ecological hindcasting of biogeographic
responses to climate change in the European intertidal zone. Hydrobiologia. 606:
139-151.
9. Jenkins, S., MD Bertness, D Gabary, SJ Hawkins, A Ingolffson, P Moore, K Sebens,
P Snelgrove, DS Wethey, SA Woodin. Comparisons of the ecology of shores across
the North Atlantic: do different players matter for process. Ecology, in press.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Developed Mathematical Biology course for Graduate and Undergraduate students in
collaboration with USC Mathematics Department. Several students have gone on to
mathematical modeling postdocs or graduate programs after taking the course.
COLLABORATORS DURING LAST 48 MONTHS:
Brian Helmuth, Thomas Hilbish, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Fernando Lima,
Univ South Carolina
Roberta Marinelli, George Waldbusser, Univ Maryland
Nils Volkenborn, Karsten Reise, Alfred Wegener Institute, List, Germany
Lubos Polerecky, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Bernard Boudreau, Dalhousie University
Christopher Finelli, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Courtney Richmond, Rowan University
Kristian Fauchald, Sarah Berke, Smithsonian Institution
Kenneth Halanych, Auburn University
Stuart Jenkins, Stephen J. Hawkins, University of North Wales
Nova Mieszkowska, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
RESEARCH ADVISORS:
Donald Tinkle, University of Michigan (deceased)
Dennis J. Crisp, University College of North Wales (deceased)
John R. Lewis, University of Leeds (retired).