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Susanne Menden-Deuer

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Susanne Menden-Deuer
Alma materUniversity of Washington
University of Bonn
Occupation(s)Oceanographer and marine scientist
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Rhode Island
ThesisLinking individual foraging strategies with ecological dynamics : quantifying zooplankton movements in heterogeneous resource distributions (2004)

Susanne Menden-Deuer is an oceanographer and marine scientist known for her work on marine food webs, including their structure and function. As of 2022, she is president-elect of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

Education and career

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Menden-Deuer received her Diplom in 1996 from the University of Bonn. She went on to receive an M.Sc. (1998) and a Ph.D. (2004) from the University of Washington.[1] Following her Ph.D. Menden-Deuer worked at Princeton University and Western Washington University. She moved to the University of Rhode Island in 2008, and was promoted to professor in 2017.[1]

In 2022, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography announced Menden-Deuer as president-elect for the society.[2]

Research

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Menden-Deuer is known for her work on grazing in marine ecosystems.

Menden-Deuer is known for her work on the motility of plankton and their production. Her early work presented carbon-to-volume relationships for small marine organisms,[3] a paper with Evelyn Lessard that was recognized in 2016 as one of the most highly cited papers in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.[4] Subsequent work looked at foraging behavior by plankton organisms,[5][6] and expanding methods used to quantify grazing activity in marine systems.[7][8] Menden-Deuer and her student Elizabeth Harvey, determined that the phytoplankton Heterosigma akashiwo moves away from predators,[9] a behavior not previously observed in phytoplankton.[10][11]

As part of her work in the classroom, Menden-Deuer works with her students to edit Wikipedia.[12]

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

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In 2015, Menden-Deuer was named a fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, and in 2020 was named a sustaining fellow.[13] She received the Hutner Award, named after Seymour Hutner, from the International Society of Protistologists in 2015.[14][15]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Susanne Menden-Deuer". Graduate School of Oceanography. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  2. ^ "2022 ASLO Election Results". ASLO. 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  3. ^ Menden-Deuer, Susanne; Lessard, Evelyn J. (2000). "Carbon to volume relationships for dinoflagellates, diatoms, and other protist plankton". Limnology and Oceanography. 45 (3): 569–579. Bibcode:2000LimOc..45..569M. doi:10.4319/lo.2000.45.3.0569. S2CID 86062906.
  4. ^ "L&O 60th Anniversary Special Collection". Wiley. 2016. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1939-5590. S2CID 10093382. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  5. ^ Deuer, Susanne Menden; Grünbaum, Daniel (2006). "Individual foraging behaviors and population distributions of a planktonic predator aggregating to phytoplankton thin layers". Limnology and Oceanography. 51 (1): 109–116. Bibcode:2006LimOc..51..109D. doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0109. S2CID 16232161.
  6. ^ Menden-Deuer, S; Fredrickson, K (2010-12-16). "Structure-dependent, protistan grazing and its implication for the formation, maintenance and decline of plankton patches". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 420: 57–71. Bibcode:2010MEPS..420...57M. doi:10.3354/meps08855. ISSN 0171-8630.
  7. ^ Anderson, Sean R.; Menden‐Deuer, Susanne (2017). "Growth, Grazing, and Starvation Survival in Three Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Species". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 64 (2): 213–225. doi:10.1111/jeu.12353. ISSN 1066-5234. PMID 27509231. S2CID 206054751.
  8. ^ Morison, Françoise; Menden‐Deuer, Susanne (2017). "Doing more with less? Balancing sampling resolution and effort in measurements of protistan growth and grazing‐rates". Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 15 (9): 794–809. doi:10.1002/lom3.10200. ISSN 1541-5856. S2CID 9691184.
  9. ^ Harvey, Elizabeth L.; Menden-Deuer, Susanne (2012-09-28). "Predator-Induced Fleeing Behaviors in Phytoplankton: A New Mechanism for Harmful Algal Bloom Formation?". PLOS ONE. 7 (9): e46438. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...746438H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046438. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3460921. PMID 23029518.
  10. ^ McKerracher, Chris (25 October 2012). "Plants That Move". The Pipestone Flyer; Millet, Alta. [Millet, Alta]. pp. A.15 – via ProQuest.
  11. ^ Frazer, Jennifer. "Solar-Powered Plankton Take Monty Python Advice: Run Away". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  12. ^ "Students target Wikipedia entries". Athol Daily News. 2010-12-13. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  13. ^ "ASLO Fellows". ASLO. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  14. ^ "Hutner awardees". International Society of Protistologists. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  15. ^ "Notable Honors and Awards for Six Women Scholars". Women in Academia Report; Bartonsville. March 3, 2016.
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