CURRICULUM
VITAE
Karen Erica Selph
Department of Oceanography 2436 Lamaku Place
University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96816
Honolulu, HI 96822
808 956-7941 (office) email: selph@hawaii.edu
808 956-9516 (fax)
facility website: www.soest.hawaii.edu/sfcf
Professional Preparation
San Francisco State University Biology, emphasis in Marine Biology B.S. 1985
University of Hawaii at Manoa Oceanography M.S. 1992, PhD. 1999
University of Hawaii at Manoa Oceanography Post-doctoral Appt. 1998-2002
Appointments
Associate Specialist, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 2007 to present.
Assistant Specialist, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, December 2002 to July 2007.
Director of SOEST Flow Cytometry Facility, University of Hawaii at Manoa, December 2002 to present.
Associate Graduate Faculty member, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, November 2004 to present.
Instructor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Fall 2000, 2003/2004 Academic Years to present. Co-teach biological oceanography graduate core courses (OCN 621 & 626), as well as oceanography methods course (OCN 633).
Technical Manager, SOEST Flow Cytometry Facility, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
July 1998 to December 2002.
Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 2001 to December 2002. M. R. Landry, P.I.
Research Assistant, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Sept. 1987 - March 1998. P.I.¹s: M.R. Landry and F.C. Dobbs.
Research Assistant, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Sept. 1986 Aug. 1987. M.R. Landry, P.I.
Publications
Measures, CI, MT Brown, KE Selph, A Apprill, M Zhou. 2008. The influence of shelf processes in delivering dissolved iron to the HNLC waters of the Drake Passage, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research I, in review.
Landry,
MR, SL Brown, Y Rii, KE Selph,
RR Bidigare, EJ Yang, MP Simmons.
2008. Depth-stratified
phytoplankton dynamics in Cyclone Opal, a subtropical mesoscale eddy. Deep-Sea Research II, in press.
Brown, SL, MR Landry, KE Selph, EJ Yang, YM Rii, RR Bidigare. 2008. Diatoms in the desert. Deep-Sea Research II, in press.
Benitez-Nelson, CR and 22 others (inc. KE Selph). 2007. Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean, Science 316(5827):1017-1021.
Hopkinson, BM, BG Mitchell, RA Reynolds, H Wang, KE Selph, CI Measures, CD Hewes, O Holm-Hansen, KA Barbeau. 2007. Iron limitation across chlorophyll gradients in the southern Drake Passage: phytoplankton responses to iron addition and photosynthetic indicators of iron stress. Limnol. Oceanogr., 52(6):2540-2554.
Selph, KE, J Shacat, and MR Landry. 2005. Microbial community composition and growth rates in the NW Pacific during spring 2002. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q12M05, doi:10.1029/2005GC000983.
Coale, KH and 48 others (including KE Selph). 2004. Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters. Science 304(5669):408-414.
Selph, KE, MR Landry, EA Laws. 2003. Heterotrophic nanoflagellate enhancement of bacterial growth through nutrient remineralization in chemostat culture. Aq. Microb. Ecol., 32, 23-37.
Landry, MR, KE Selph, SL Brown, MR Abbott, CI Measures, SM Vink, CB Allen, A Calbet, S Christensen, H Nolla. 2002. Seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton in the Antarctic Polar Front region at 170°W. Deep-Sea Res. II, 49, 1843-1865.
Selph, KE, MR Landry, CB Allen, A Calbet, S Christensen, RR Bidigare. 2001. Microbial community composition and growth dynamics in the Antarctic Polar Front and seasonal ice zone during late spring 1997. Deep-Sea Res. II, 48, 4059-4080.
Landry, MR, KE Selph, SL Brown, MR Abbott, RM Letelier, S Christensen, RR Bidigare, K Casciotti. 2001. Initiation of the spring phytoplankton increase in the Antarctic Polar Front Zone at 170°W. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 13903-13915.
Landry, MR, H Al-Mutairi, KE Selph, S Christensen, S Nunnery. 2001. Seasonal patterns of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass at Station ALOHA. Deep-Sea Res. II, 48, 2037-2061.
Selph, KE. 1999. Application of Two-Stage Chemostats and Flow Cytometry to Study Marine Nanoflagellate Grazing and Digestion. Dissertation Abstracts International Part B: Science and Engineering [Diss. Abst. Int. Pt. B - Sci. & Eng.]. Vol. 60, no. 5, p. 2019. Nov.
Dobbs, FC, KE Selph. 1997. Thermophilic bacterial activity in a deep-sea sediment from the Pacific Ocean. Aq. Microb. Ecol., 13, 209-212.
Selph, KE, DM Karl, MR Landry. 1993. Quantification of chemiluminescent DNA probes using the liquid scintillation counter. Anal. Biochem., 210, 394-401.
Landry, MR, BC Monger, KE Selph. 1993. Time-dependency of microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth in the subarctic Pacific. Prog. Oceanog., 32, 205-222.
Landry, MR, J Lehner-Fournier, J Sundstrom, V Fagerness, K Selph. 1991. Discrimination between living and heat-killed prey by a marine zooflagellate, Paraphysomonas vestita (Stokes). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 146, 139-151.
Abstracts/Talks
Selph, KE, MR Landry, RJ Miller, HA
Al-Mutairi. 1996. Temporal variability in the
mesozooplankton community at ocean Station ALOHA, p. OS85. AGU-ASLO Ocean
Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA, February.
Selph, KE, MR Landry. 1999. Enhanced
bacterial growth in the presence of marine nanoflagellates grown in continuous
culture. AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Landry, MR, SR Brown, KE Selph, CB Allen, A Calbet, HA Nolla, S
Nunnery. 1999. Phytoplankton growth and
microzooplankton grazing in the Antarctic Polar Front Zone during Austral
summer 1997-98. AGU-ASLO Ocean
Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bidigare, RR, ME Ondrusek, MR Landry, KE
Selph, DM Karl and R
Letelier. 2000. Seasonal and interannual variations in
phytoplankton community structure at Station ALOHA. JGOFS Open Sciences
Conference on Ocean Biogeochemistry: A New Paradigm, Bergen, Norway, April
2000.
Berger, CJ, JP Cowen, KE Selph.
2004. Enumeration of hydrothermal
vent microorganisms by flow cytometry.
AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Landry, MR, EJ Yang, KE Selph, M Hodges, RR Bidigare. 2005. Depth-resolved microplankton dynamics in the equatorial
Pacific. ASLO Meeting, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain.
Selph, KE, A Apprill, CI Measures, MT Brown. 2005. Phytoplankton distributions in the Shackleton Fracture
Zone/Elephant Island Region of the Drake Passage in February-March 2004. ASLO Meeting, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain.
Stukel, M, MR Landry, KE Selph.
2006. Consumption of
fluorescently labeled bacteria by mixotrophs in the Equatorial Pacific. AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Honolulu, HI.
Landry, MR, SL Brown, E Yang, RR
Bidigare, KE Selph, S
Rii, MP Simmons. 2006. Microbial community dynamics during the
decline phase of a diatom bloom in a subtropical cyclonic eddy. AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Honolulu HI.
Barbeau, K, BM Hopkinson, R Reynolds, H
Wang, KE Selph, CI
Measures, C Hewes, F Malfatti, M Manganelli, F Azam, O Holm-Hansen, BG
Mitchell. 2006. Phytoplankton iron stress across
chlorophyll and dissolved iron gradients in the southern Drake Passage. AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Honolulu, HI.
Selph, KE,
MR Landry, MR Stukel, AG Taylor, EJ Yang, RR Bidigare, S Christensen. 2006. Microbial community growth and grazing dynamics in the
Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Depth-resolved rates and patterns from December
2004 and September 2005. AGU-ASLO
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Brown, SL, EJ Yang, MR
Landry, KE Selph. 2006. Diatoms in the desert.
AGU-ASLO Ocean
Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Falkner, KE, K Azetsu-Scott, E Carmack, EP Jones, R
Macdonald, F McLaughlin, C Measures, H Melling, A Muenchow, KE Selph.
2006. Insights from tracer
hydrography in passages of the Canadian Archipelago, Baffin Bay and Hudson
Strait. AGU-ASLO Ocean Sciences
Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Selph, KE,
CI Measures, M Brown, A Apprill. 2006.
The influence of shelf-derived iron on phytoplankton growth dynamics in
the Drake Passage, Antarctica. AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 11 15.
Selph, KE, MR
Landry, RR Bidigare, S Christensen, CI Measures. 2007.
Phytoplankton distributions at 140°W in the equatorial Pacific: Patterns
governed by Fe-limited growth and microzooplankton grazing. IUGG Meeting, Perugia, Italy, June
2007.
Selph, KE,
CI Measures, A Apprill, MT Brown, WT Hiscock, M Hatta, JJ Yang. 2008. Winter and summer comparisons of phytoplankton and trace
metal distributions around the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL,
March 2 7.
Hatta, M, WT Hiscock, KE Selph, JJ Yang, M Zhou, CI Measures. 2008. Iron fluxes from the shelf regions near Elephant Island in
the Drake Passage during Austral-Winter 2006. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando,
FL, March 2 7.
Taylor, A, M Landry, KE Selph.
2008. Contrasting coastal
and offshore phytoplankton communities within the California Current Ecosystem.
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2 7.
Brown, SL, KE Selph, S Christensen, RR Bidigare. 2008. Picoplankton
community dynamics across the Wester Pacific Warm Pool. Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Orlando, FL, March 2 7.
Noh, JH, DH Choi, CM Lee, KE Selph.
2008. Autotrophic
picoplankton distribution in the Western Pacific from Chuuk Lagoon to East
China Sea. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2 7.
Major Program Participation
SUPER (SUb-arctic Pacific Ecosystem Research), 2 x 30 day cruises,
May and Aug. 1988.
US JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) Programs:
EQPAC (Equatorial Pacific), Benthic leg, 43 day cruise
HOT (Hawaii Ocean Time-series), >18 week-long cruises
during the years 1995 to present
AESOPS (Antarctic Environment-Southern Ocean Process Study), 2 40
day cruises, Nov. Dec. 1997, Feb. March 1998.
JOIS (Joint Ocean-Ice Studies), Arctic Ocean, 16 day cruise, Aug. 1997
SOFeX (Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment), Southern Ocean, 45 day
cruise, Jan. Feb. 2002
IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission), Osaka, Japan to Honolulu,
Hawaii, 35 day cruise, May 2002.
Drake Passage, Punta Arenas, Chile to Palmer Station, Antarctica, ~40 days, Feb-March 2004 and ~44 days July-August 2006.
EB04 & EB05 (Biocomplexity, Eastern Equatorial Pacific), December 2004, 30 day cruise & September 2005, 30 day cruise, studying Fe and Si dynamics in equatorial phytoplankton populations.
Western Pacific Warm Pool (WP2), January February
2007, 40 day cruise, studying Prochlorococcus growth, genetics, and population control by grazing.