CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Anna R. Armitage, Ph.D. • Florida International University

Southeast Environmental Research Center - OE 148 • 11200 SW 8th Street • Miami, FL 33199

Tel (305) 348-7317 • Fax (305) 348-4096 • armitage@fiu.edu

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Trophic organization in coastal habitats; trophic and community-level effects of coastal eutrophication; physical and ecological effects of bioturbation; population and community structure of restored and disturbed habitats; ecology of coastal wetlands, seagrass habitats, invertebrates, and shorebirds

 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

2003                                        Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Florida International University, Miami

 

2003                                        Ph.D., Biology

University of California, Los Angeles

 

1998-2001                               Research Assistant

UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution

 

 

1997-2001                               Teaching Assistant

UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution

 

 

 

 

1995-1997                                                             Marine Instructor, Research Assistant

Vantuna Research Vessel, Occidental College, Los Angeles

 

 

1995                                                                                B. S., Biology

University of California, Los Angeles

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2003                                        Scherbaum Award for Outstanding Research

UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution

 

2001-2003                               UC Marine Council Coastal Quality Initiative Fellowship

                                                Fellowship for dissertation research, $50,000

 

 

 

 

2000-2001                               UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution

Fellowship for dissertation research, $7500

 

1999                                        Association for Women in Science Education Foundation

Predoctoral Citation of Merit

 

1998                                        UCLA Institute of the Environment

Award for continuing work in environmental research

 

PUBLICATIONS

Armitage, A.R. and P. Fong. In press. Gastropod colonization of a created coastal wetland: potential influences of habitat suitability and dispersal ability. Restoration Ecology.

Boyer, K.E., P. Fong, A.R. Armitage, and R.A. Cohen. In press. Elevated nutrient content of macroalgae increases rates of herbivory in coral, seagrass, and mangrove habitats. Coral Reefs.

Lebow, R. and B. Westphal. 1998. Investigations into the Marine Environment: A Guide to the Deep Sea Cruise Aboard the R/V Vantuna, 5th ed. (Revised by A. R. Armitage, 1998). (Paper Graphics, Ink., Los Angeles). 108 pp.

Armitage, A.R. and P. Fong. In review. Upward cascading effects of nutrients: shifts in a benthic microalgal community and a negative herbivore response. Oecologia.

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Armitage, A. R., T. A. Frankovich, and J. W. Fourqurean. September 2003. N vs. P limitation of benthic primary production in Florida Bay. 2003 LTER All Scientists Meeting.

Fong, P., K. E. Boyer, and A. R. Armitage. September 2003. The North versus the South: Are nutrient dynamics fundamentally different in California estuaries? Estuarine Research Federation 17th Biennial Conference.

Armitage, A. R. and P. Fong. August 2003. Trophic-level effects of habitat-modifying crabs in muddy and sandy tidal flats. Ecological Society of America 88th Annual Meeting.

Armitage, A. R. and P. Fong. April 2003. Successes and shortcomings in habitat restoration: a case study of Cerithidea californica (Gastropoda) colonization and fitness in a created tidal mudflat. California Estuarine Research Society Inaugural Meeting.

Armitage, A. R. and P. Fong. November 2002. Interactive effects of nutrient enrichment and predation on the gastropod Cerithidea californica differ in natural and restored coastal wetlands in southern California. Western Society of Naturalists 83rd Annual Meeting.

Boyer, K. E., P. Fong, A. R. Armitage, and R. A. Cohen. November 2002. Elevated nutrient content of tropical macroalgae increases rates of herbivory in coral, seagrass, and mangrove habitats. Western Society of Naturalists 83rd Annual Meeting.

Armitage, A. R. and J. E. Yoon. September 2002. Spatial scale variability in wintering shorebird use of coastal wetland restoration sites. Third North American Ornithological Conference.

Armitage, A. R., P. Fong, and R. R. Vance. November 2001. Top-down and bottom-up forces in restored and natural mudflats in a southern California estuary. Estuarine Research Federation 16th Biennial Conference.

Fong, P., K. E. Boyer, and A. R. Armitage. May 2001. Determining the relative importance of terrestrial and oceanic sources of nutrients to estuaries along the west coast of the US. Southern California Academy of Sciences.

Fong, P., K. E. Boyer, and A. R. Armitage. June 2000. Macroalgal N and P content reflects latitudinal gradients and water residence times in estuaries, bays, and rocky shores along the west coast of the US. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting.