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Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Ocean Sciences
Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg.
A-312 Office
A-316 Mailroom
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: (831) 459-4730
Fax: (831) 459-4882
Email: Ocean Sciences
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Mary
Wilcox
Silver
Professor
Emeritus of Ocean
Sciences
Ocean Sciences
Department
University
of California
Santa Cruz,
CA 95064
Tel: (831)
459-2908
Fax: (831)
459-4882
Email:
msilver@ucsc.edu
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Positions
Held
• Education,
Honors
& Professional
Societies
• Research Interest & Publications
• Extramural
Projects
& Professional
Activities
• Sponsored
Student Research
POSITIONS
HELD
| 2009-present |
Professor Emeritus of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1987-June 2009 |
Professor of Ocean
Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1997 |
Visiting Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences, Zanzibar, University of Dar es Saleem, Tanzania
(6 month sabbatical) |
| 1989-present |
Adjunct Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Pacific Grove, CA |
1992-1995
1986-1989
1982-1984
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Chair,
Ocean Sciences
Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz
(Department previously known as: Marine Sciences Department,
Marine Sciences Board,
and Marine Sciences Committee) |
| 1990-1995
(Summers) |
Instructor
in Oceanography,
Bermuda
Biological
Station
for Research,
St. George,
Bermuda |
| 1981-1987 |
Associate
Professor
of Marine
Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1985 |
Visiting
Scientist,
Woods Hole
Oceanographic
Institute
(Sabbatical) |
| 1972-1981 |
Assistant
Professor
of Marine
Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 1971-1972 |
Assistant
Professor
of Biology,
San Francisco
State University |
| 1970-1971 |
Lecturer,
California
State University,
Moss Landing
Marine
Laboratories |
EDUCATION
| 1971 |
Ph.D.
Oceanography,
Scripps
Institution
of Oceanography,
University
of California,
San Diego |
| 1963-64 |
University
of Tubingen,
Germany.
Studies
in Physiology |
| 1963 |
A.B.
Zoology,
University
of California,
Berkeley
(with honors) |
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HONORS
and AWARDS
(Selected - last 10 years)
| 2011 |
Okubo Distinguished Scholar of the Year (selected by NYU-Stonybrook graduate students in oceanography) |
| 2010 |
Fellow of the Oceanography Society |
| 2008 |
Honorary Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, Rachael Carson lecture, Pan American Meeting, Florida |
| 2007 |
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union |
| 2006 |
Synergy Lecture Series (Explorations in Science and Society, hosted by Science and Engineering Library). Invited Speaker, quarterly lecture series at UCSC, selected by Science Library: “Red Tides, Shellfish, and Culinary Traditions. |
| 2005 |
Annual Faculty Research Lecturer: (Selected by UCSC Academic Senate, 1 Professor is elected each year by the UCSC Academic Senate) "A Naturalist's View: Toxic Algae in the Coastal Ocean". |
| 2004-2005 |
Faculty Research Lecturer, Selected by the UC Academic Senate Committee on the Faculty Research Lecture (1 faculty from any division selected per year) |
| 2003-2004 |
Excellence through Diversity Award. (For role as “spokesperson, mentor,advisor, and role model for women in science careers”). Awarded by Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood at ceremony, May 9, 2004. |
| 2002 |
Mary Sears Woman Pioneer in Oceanography Award. Given by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. First Award Recipient in national search (Given to a woman for both research contributions and mentoring of young scientists) |
| 2001 |
Ricketts Memorial Award (“for exemplary work in the field of Marine Sciences”). (Award given by the central California research community to a California Scientist). |
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MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES
| 2007-present |
Fellow, American Geophysical Union |
| 1997-present |
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences |
| 1996 |
Member, Corporation of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (elected by Board of Trustees |
| 1972-present |
American
Society
of Limnology & Oceanography
(1989-1992
elected
Member
at Large) |
| 1972-present |
American
Association
for the
Advancement
of Science |
| 1973-present |
Phycological
Society
of America |
| 1982-present |
American Geophysical Union |
RESEARCH INTEREST
Toxic phytoplankton and food webs; pelagic detrital communities; particle dynamics; plankton ecology
PUBLICATIONS
Silver, M.W. and others. 2011. Toxic diatoms and domoic acid in natural and iron enriched water of the oceanic Pacific. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 107::20762-20767
Mazzillo F.F.M. and others (including M.W. Silver). 2010. Angler exposure to domoic acid via consumption of contaminated fishes. Aquatic Biol 9:1-12
Bargu, S, J., M.W. Silver and others. 2010. Complexity of domoic acid-related sea lion strandings in Monterey Bay, California: foraging patterns, climate events, and toxic blooms: Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 418:213
Jester, R. and others (including M.W. Silver). 2009. A shift in the dominant toxin-producing algal species in central California alters phycotoxins in food webs Harmful Algae 8:291-298
Kvitek, R.G. et. al. (including M.W. Silver). 2008. Domoic acid contamination within eight representative species from the benthic food web of Monterey Bay, Ca, USA. Mar Ecol-Prog Ser 367:35-47
Curtiss C.C. and others (including M.W. Silver). 2008. The emergence of Cochlodinium along the California Coast (USA). Harmful Algae 7:337-346
T. Goldstein, J. A. K. Mazet, T. S. Zabka, G. Langlois, K. M. Colegrove, M. Silver, S. Bargu, F. Van Dolah, T. Leighfield, P. A. Conrad, J. Barakos, D. C. Williams, S. Dennison, M. Haulena and F. M. D. Gulland. 2008 Novel symptomatology and changing epidemiology of domoic acid toxicosis in California sea lions: an increasing risk to marine mammal health." Proc. Royal Soc. B. (UK) 275:267-276.
Curtiss, C. C., G. W. Langlois, L. B. Busse, F. Mazzillo, and M. W. Silver. 2008. The emergence of Cochlodinium along the California Coast USA).Harmful Algae 7:337-346
Bargu, S., C. L. Powell, Z. Wang, G. J. Doucette, and M.W. Silver. 2008. Note on the occurrence of Pseudo-nitzschia australis and domoic acid in squid from Montrey Bay, CA (USA). Harmful Algae 7:45-51.
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Vigilant, V. L. and M. W. Silver. 2007. Domoic acid in benthic flatfish on the continental shelf of Monterey Bay, California, USA. Mar. Biol. 151(6):2053-2062
Osborn, D. A., M. W. Silver, C. G. Castro, S. M. Bros., and F. P. Chavez. 2007. The habitat of mesopelagic scyphomedusae in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Deep Sea Res.I 54(8):1241-1255.
Buesseler, K. O., and other authors including M. W. Silver. 2007. Revisiting Carbon Flux through the Ocean’s Twilight Zone. Science 316:567- 570. (Silver microphotography image is on the cover of this issue)
Silver, M. W. 2006. Protecting ourselves from Shellfish Poisoning. American Scientist 94(4):316-322
Busse, L. B. Venrick, E. L., Antrobus, R. , P. E. Miller, V. Vigilant, M. W. Silver, C. Mengelt, L. Mydlarz, and B. B. Prezelin. Domoic acid in phytoplankton and fish in San Diego, CA, USA. 2006. Harmful Algae 5(1):91-101.
Bargu, S., Lefebvre, K., and M. W. Silver, M. W. 2006. Effect of dissolved domoic acid on the grazing rate of krill, Euphausia pacific. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 312:169-175.
O’Halloran, C. M. W. Silver, T. R. Holman, and C. A. Scholin. 2005. Heterosigma akashiwo in central California waters. (Harmful Algae).
Fire, S., and M. W. Silver. 2005. Domoic acid in the Santa Cruz wharf fishery. California Fish and Game.
Busse, L. B., E. L. Venrick, R. Antrobus, P. E. Miller, V. Vigilant, M. W. Silver, C. Mengelt, L. Mydlarz, and B. B. Prezselin. 2005. Documentation of domoic acid in phytoplankton and fish in San Diego, California. (Harmful Algae.)
Bargu, S., and M. W. Silver. 2003. First field evidence of krill grazing on the toxic diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia in Monterey Bay, Calif. Bull. Mar. Sci. 72:629-638.
Bargu, B. Marinovic, S. Mansergh, and M. W. Silver. 2003. Feeding responses of krill to the toxin-producing diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 284:87-104.
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M. E. Ferdin, M. E., R. G. Kvitek, C. K. Bretz, C. L. Powell, G. J. Doucette, K. A. Lefebvre, S. Coale and M. W. Silver. 2002. Emerita analoga (Stimpson) possible new indicator species for the phycotoxin domoic acid in California coastal waters. Toxicon 40:1259-1265.
Bargu, S., C. Powell, S. Coale, G. Doucette and M. Silver. 2002. Domoic acid detection in krill: a potential vector in marine food webs. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 237:209-216.
Lefebvre, K. A., S. Bargu, T. Kieckhefer, M. W. Silver. 2002. From sanddabs to blue whales: the pervasiveness of domoic acid. Toxicon 40:971-977.
Lefebvre, K. A.; Silver, M. W.; Coale, S. L.; Tjeerdema, R. S. Domoic acid in planktivorous fish in relation to toxic Pseudo-nitzschia cell densities. 2002 Marine Biology 140(3):625-631.
Lefebvre, Kathi A.; Dovel, Shonna L.; Silver, Mary W. 2001. Tissue distribution and neurotoxic effects of domoic acid in a prominent vector species, the northern anchovy Engraulis mordax. Marine Biology 138(4):693-700.
Scholin, C. A. and others (including M. Silver), 2000. Mortality of sea lions along the central California coast linked to a toxic diatom bloom. Nature 403:80-84.
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EXTRAMURAL
PROJECTS (Major extramural funding) (selected last 10 years)
| 2010-2013 |
EID: roles of a marine host cycle and particle aggregation in transmission of zoonotic pathogens in a coastal ecosystem. P. Conrad Univ. Ca. Davis main PI, M.W. Silver Co-Pi). NSF |
| 2007-2008 |
Domoic Acid Toxins in the Oceanic Pacific in Iron Enrichment Studies NSF (SGER: small grant for exploratory study). With S. Bargu. |
| 2006-2007 |
Exposure of Santa Cruz Wharf Anglers to Domoic Acid Toxins (with C. Pomeroy and R. Prado), Silver is lead PI. NOAA/Sea Grant |
| 2005-2006 |
Phytoplankton toxins in critical prey species in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA, Monterey Bay Sanctuary funds (SiMON award) |
| 2004-2009 |
California Program for Regional Enhanced Monitoring of Phyco-Toxins (Cal-PReEMPT) (With P.E. Miller, R. Kudela) |
| 2004-2007 |
Sub-lethal effects of domoic acid on marine mammals: sentinels of human health. (With the Marine Mammal Center/Tiburon California) NOAA |
| 2003-2008 |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Collaborative projects, mostly with Dr. John Ryan |
| 2003-2006 |
Toxic Phytoplankton along the California Coast: a 500 mile Perspective. Collaborative 3-campus award with Scripps Institution (Venrick) and UCSB (Prezelin), Univ. Calif., Office of the President (UCOP). Silver head PI. |
| 2002-2006 |
Center for Integrative Marine Technology. Collaborative proposal with Gary Griggs as lead PI. NOAA |
| 2002-2006 |
Vertical Transport in the Global Ocean (VERTIGO). Collaborative proposal with Ken Buessler (Woods Hole Oceanographic). NSF |
| 2002-2004 |
Phycotoxin role in mortality of gray whales in Central California, especially San Francisco Bay. (with David Casper DVM [UCSC]). NOAA |
| 2002-2003 |
Center for Integrative Marine Technology. Collaborative proposal with Gary Griggs as lead PI, M. NOAA |
| 2002-2005 |
Vertical Transport in the Global Ocean (VERTIGO). Collaborative proposal with Ken Buessler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Proposal) as lead PI, M. NSF |
| 2001-2003 |
University of California, Office of the President, UC Marine Council. Phytoplankton toxins in the California coastal zone. |
| 2002 |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Title: Demonstrating New Applications of MBARI’s Probe Technology. |
| 2000–2002 |
NOAA/NURP. Suboxic/Anoxic Biogeochemistry of Nepheloid Layers in Monterey Bay. With Frank Sansone [Univ. Hawaii]. |
| 2001 |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Technology Transfer: demonstrating MBARI’s probe technology using a volunteer corps. |
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE (selected)
| 2006-2007 |
National HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Committee). Panel member |
| 2003-2006 |
NSF, GEOSCIENCES DIVISION Advisory Committee |
| 2003, 2006 |
COSEE Lecturer (at COSEE-West, located at UCLA, NSF-sponsored educational program for high school science teachers. Lectured and was on-line instructor for 1 of about 8 teaching units |
| 2002 |
Annually give 1-3 lectures at various universities around the country |
| 2001 |
Ricketts Memorial Lecture, Monterey, CA. Lecture title: A local story: harmful algae in Monterey Bay? |
| 2001 |
Life Long Learners Lecture, UCSC. Lecture: Toxic algae in Monterey Bay? |
| 2001 |
External Review Committee, University of Georgia, Athens. Reviewer of the marine sciences academic program |
| 2000 |
Oakland Museum, MARE (adult education) Leadership Institute. Lecture and demonstration on marine plankton. |
| 2000 |
Search Committee for Director of the California Sea Grant
College Program. Met at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UCSD |
Activity
Participant (Selected)
| 2011 |
Session Co-Chair. Amer. Soc. Limnol. Oceanogr. February 2011, Puerto Rico |
2004-2005
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Panelist and report writer for document "HARNESS: A National Plan for Algal Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms, which responded to the mandate of the 'Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 2004', an act of Congress ". |
2004
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External Review Panel Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute/MIT joint PhD program in Oceanography. (Served as the Biological Oceanographer Reviewer). |
2003
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Life Sciences Workshop, California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education, speaker and participant at San Jose State University. |
2001
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Gordon Research Conference, Williams College. Conference on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins. Presentation title: Widespread Environmental Impacts of Domoic Acid on the California Coast. |
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SPONSORED
STUDENT RESEARCH
Present Graduate Students
| 2006- |
Fernanda Mazzillo - Ph.D. |
| 2005- |
Deborah Fauquier- Ph.D. |
Ph.D. Theses Supervised
| 2009 |
Rozalind Jester (Antrobus); "An investigation into the prevalence of Alexandrium derived toxins in marine food webs" |
| 2008 |
Veronica Vigilant; "The occurrence of the harmful algal bloom toxin, domoic acid, in nearshore and offshore benthic communities of Monterey Bay, California" |
| 2007 |
Spencer Fire; "Effects of Karenia Brevis Blooms on wild coastal Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, Florida" |
| 2001 |
Sibel Bargu; "Krill: Victim or Vector? Examining the Place and Role of Krill in Domoic Acid Poisoning Events in Monterey Bay, CA" |
| 2001 |
Kathi Lefebvre; "Trophic transfer, tissue distribution and neurotoxic consequences of the phycotoxin domoic acid in northern anchovies" |
| 1998 |
Mike Murrell; "Microbial processes and food web dynamics in a turbid estuary: northern San Francisco Bay, California, USA" |
| 1999 |
Peter Miller; "Discriminating Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) Species using Fluorescently Labeled LSU rRNA-Targeted DNA Probes, and Searching for Bacteria or Plasmids Associated with Pseudo-nitzschia australis" |
| 1996 |
R.A. Olivieri (Biology); "Plankton dynamics and the fate of primary production in the coastal upwelling ecosystems of the Monterey Bay, California" |
| 1994 |
Monty
Graham
(co-advisor
with D.C.
Potts,
Biology); "The
physical
oceanography
and ecology
of upwelling
shadows" |
| 1993 |
Deborah
Steinberg; "The
use of
mesopelagic
detritus
by zooplankton
in Monterey
Bay, California" |
| 1991 |
Marilyn
Boysen
(Biology); "Differential
export
from a
two-layered
euphotic
zone" |
| 1988 |
Anthony
Michaels
(Biology); "Acantharia
in the
Carbon
and Nitrogen
Cycles
of the
Pacific
Ocean" |
| 1984 |
Peter
Davoll
(Biology); "Microcosms
in the
Pelagic
Zone: A
Study of
the Microbial
Community
on Larvacean
House Aggregates
From Monterey
Bay" |
| 1981 |
Marcia
Gowing
(Biology); "The
Ecology
of the
Archiannelid
Protodriloides
Chaetifer
and Associated
Meiofauna
on a California
Sand Beach" |
| 1980 |
David
Garrison
(Biology); "Studies
of Coastal
Phytoplankton
Populations
in Monterey
Bay, California" |
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Masters
Theses Supervised
| 2007 |
Christy Southerland; "Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins linked to local Dinophysis Populations in the California Coastal Waters of Monterey Bay" |
| 2007 |
Itchung S. Cheung; "Domoic Acid Toxicity in Rock Crabs, Cancer Antennaruis and Cancer Productus, in Monteray Bay, California, USA and Potential Human Toxin Exposure in Crab Hepatopancreas" |
| 2004 |
Kit Clark (Co-Sponsor w/Marinovic); "Euphausiid larval ecology, development variability, and recruitment success during the 1997-98 El Niño & 1999 La Niña in the Montere Bay upwelling system" |
| 2003 |
Chris O'Halloran; "Heterosigma Akashiwo in Central California Waters" |
| 2000 |
Spencer Fire; "Effects of Karenia Brevis Blooms on wild coastal Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, Florida" |
| 2000 |
Robert Jay (Robin) Weber; "The Detection of Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins In Monterey Bay, California" |
| 1999 |
Sibel Bargu; "Cadmium and Zinc Complexation With Coastal Diatom Cell Surface Sites in Seawater" |
| 1999 |
Alicia (Cricket) Grice; "Marine Snow Patchiness Studies Using Quantitative Video" |
| 1999 |
Dawn Osborn (Murray); "Studies In Mesopelagic Cnidarians In Monterey Bay, California" |
| 1998 |
Roman Marin; "Evaluation of a Semi-automated rRNA Probe-based Assay as a Means to Rapidly Identify and Enumerate Several Species of Pseudo-Nitzchia (Bacillariophyceae) in Cultured and Natural Samples" |
| 1995 |
Peter
Walz (Marine
Sciences); "Pseudo-nitzschia
species
and domoic
acid in
Monterey
Bay, California:
October
1991 -
December
1993" |
| 1995 |
Graeme
Haywood
(Marine
Sciences); "Domoic
acid analyses
of zooplankton,
fish and
rhodophyta
in Monterey
Bay." |
| 1991 |
Pat
Smith (Marine
Sciences); "Effects
of the
1982-83
El Niño
on phytoplankton
populations
in Monterey
Bay, California" |
| 1990 |
Dana
Bland (Marine
Sciences); "The
relationship
of organic
and inorganic
components
of eggshells
to DDE
content
in eggs
of California
brown pelicans
and bald
eagles" |
| 1989 |
Ann
Close (Marine
Sciences); "The
chemical
composition
of Antarctic
pack ice
communities
in early
austral
winter." |
| 1988 |
Lisa
Borok (Marine
Sciences); "The
Morphology
of Two
Feeding
Appendages
of Calanoid
Copepods
from the
Benthic
Boundary
Layer" |
| 1989 |
Robin
Pinto (Marine
Sciences); "A Variety
of Symbiotic
Associations
Between
Marine
Ciliates
and Algae
from the
North Pacific
Ocean" |
| 1983 |
Lee
Anne Martinez
(Biology); "Nitrogen
Fixation
by Floating
Diatom
Mats: A
Source
of New
Nitrogen
to Oligotrophic
Oceanic
Waters" |
| 1982 |
Jim
Mitchell
(Marine
Sciences); "The
Distribution
and Associations
of Modern
and Fossil
Archaeomonads" |
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