Erik V. Thuesen, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Ecological physiology of marine organisms: Some recent abstracts
• Chaetognath biology
• Gelatinous zooplankton
Click here to see a movie of Crossota alba.
• Deep-sea biology
• Mechanisms of toxicity in tetrodotoxic organisms
• Interactions of marine bacteria and invertebrates
• Population genetics of marine animals

Laboratory Information

Maps and location of my lab in southern Puget Sound

Photos of people in the lab

Student Research

• Photos of some students working on projects related to my National Science Foundation grant, "Ecophysiology of gelatinous zooplankton in hypoic estuaries". Read abstracts of their presentations at a recent meeting.
• Metabolic scaling of enzymatic activities in swimming muscle of medusae: Adaptations to the deep-sea oxygen minimum layer?

   (Click for abstract).

• Symbiotic relationships of Cancer gracilis (Brachyura) and Hyperia medusarum Amphipoda) with Phacellophora camtschatica (Scyphozoa) in Puget Sound (Click for abstract and nice photo).
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• Inventory of marine organisms on the Evergreen Campus (Geoduck Beach and tidelands as well as the pelagos of Eld Inlet) : I am looking for some students to work on local marine invertebrates for the Evergreen Biota Webpage. Interested students should email me: thuesene@evergreen.edu.
• Adaptations of Cancer gracilis to life in southern Puget Sound (Click for abstract).
• Bacteria in the Roughskin Newt, Taricha granulosa (Click for photos).
• I regularly sponsor student interns at Cascadia Research Collective to do research on marine mammals.
• Adaptations of molluscs to hypoxia in Puget Sound.
• I am looking for a student with a background in physics and biology that is interested in undertaking a project investigating the swimming behaviour of some marine molluscs.

Links

Erik V. Thuesen: Homepage

Publications of Erik V. Thuesen

Research at Evergreen

Bivalve

IZEbiota

Squalus