1996-2002 Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate Level Course Work: 47 credit hours
1994-1995 University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Department of Marine Science, Graduate Level Course Work: 8 credit hours
1985-1989 The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Bachelor of Science in Physics, Order of Gownsmen Academic Honor Society
1981-1985 The Canterbury School of Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida. High School Diploma, National Merit Scholar Finalist, National Honor Society
2001-2002 Florida International University, Southeast Environmental Research Center. Position: Project manager, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary seagrass ecosystem monitoring program
1998-2000
University of North Carolina at Wilmington,
Center for Marine Science Research. Position:
Field and lab technician, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary seagrass
ecosystem monitoring program
1996-1997
Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Marine Research Institute.
Position: Field and lab technician,
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary seagrass ecosystem monitoring program
1992-1995
Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Marine Research Institute.
Position: Field and lab technician,
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary coral reef ecosystem monitoring program
1989-1991 The Canterbury School of Florida, Knowlton Campus. Position: Secondary School Instructor, physical sciences and mathematics
Diving
Certified PADI scuba, IANTD Nitrox, AAUS
scientific diver. Trained and
experienced in dry suit, surface supplied, and saturation diving.
Over 2,000 logged scientific dives.
Currently certified in Red Cross CPR, AED, First Aid, and DAN Oxygen
Provider.
Field Work
Proficient in in situ identification of
benthic marine macrophytes and macrofauna, underwater video and photography,
quadrat and transect sampling methods, underwater surveying and mapping, benthic
coring of seagrasses and sediments, underwater hydraulic and pneumatic coring of
corals and substrate, and navigation and operation of research vessels.
Data Processing Proficient in data entry and spreadsheet programming (Quattro and Excel), manuscript preparation (WordPerfect and Word), database development (Access), and presentation design (PowerPoint and Front Page). Trained and experienced in ArcView (including Spatial Analyst and Image Analysis). Familiar with SAS.
J.W. Fourqurean and L.M. Rutten. In
Review. The impact of Hurricane Georges on soft-bottom, backreef
communities: site- and species-specific effects in south Florida seagrass beds.
Bulletin of Marine Science.
J.W. Fourqurean and L.M. Rutten. In
Review. Competing goals of
spatial and temporal resolution: monitoring seagrass communities on the regional
scale. Ecological Monitoring of Ecosystem Initiatives: Interdisciplinary
approaches for determining status and trends of ecosystems, edited by D.E.
Busch and J.C. Trexler. Island Press.
B.J. Peterson, C.D. Rose, L.M Rutten, and
J.W. Fourqurean. 2002.
Disturbance and recovery following catastrophic grazing: studies of a
successional chronosequence in a seagrass bed. Oikos 97: 361-370.
J.W. Fourqurean, A. Willsie, C.D. Rose and L.M.
Rutten. 2001. Spatial and temporal pattern in seagrass community composition
and productivity in south Florida. Marine
Biology; v.138, 2: 341-354.
Ryan, J.D., L.J. Miller, Y. Zapata, O. Downs, and R. Chan. 1998. Great Corn Island, Nicaragua. CARICOMP: Caribbean coral reef, seagrass and mangrove sites, edited by B. Kjerfve. Coastal Region and Small Island Papers no. 3, Catalog no. 118130. UNESCO, Paris. 95-105.
2002 Aquarius Saturation Mission 02-17A: A Study of Population Dynamics of Scleractinians on Conch Reef
1999-2002 Assessment of Nearshore Benthic Communities of the Florida Keys
1995-2002 Seagrass Ecosystem Monitoring for the Water Quality Protection Program in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
1995-1996 Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring for the Water Quality Protection Program in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
1994-1998
Monitoring at the CARICOMP Coral Reef Ecosystems
Stations, Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
1994 Development of Video Sampling Methods for Coral Reef Monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
1994 Groundtruthing for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Benthic Mapping Project, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
1994 Aquarius Saturation Mission 94-05: Initiation of Long Term Monitoring of Deep Reef Ecosystems at Conch Reef, Florida
1993-1994
Assessment of Changes in Distribution and Abundance
of Acropora Palmata in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
1992-1995
Long Term Monitoring of Coral Population Dynamics
at Fixed Stations in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas National Park
1992-1994
Identification of Attached Biota on Coral Reef
Recruitment Tiles, Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
1992-1994 Monitoring of Transplanted Biota at the Mavro Vetranic Vessel Grounding Site, Pulaski Shoal, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida