Steven R. Dudgeon


Curriculum Vitae


Education
Year
 Degree Institution Advisor
1992 Ph.D. - Biological Sciences University of Maine Robert L. Vadas
1985 B.A. - Biological Sciences

Academic Positions
Year
 Position Institution Department
    July 2004 - Present Associate Professor California State University, Northridge, CA Biology
    Jan. 1999 - June 2004 Assistant Professor California State University, Northridge, CA Biology
    Dec. 1996 - Dec. 1998 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Biology - Peter Petraitis
    June 1996 - Nov. 1996 Visiting Research Scientist University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, U.K. Biology - John Raven
    Oct. 1992 - May 1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate Yale University, New Haven, CT Biology (EEB) - Leo Buss

Special Academic Projects

      CORONA Coordinating Research on the North Atlantic.
            Meetings/workshops to develop international collaborative research
             on the ecology and phyllogeography of the North Atlantic biota.
             Administered through Dr. C. W. Cunningham, Dept. of Biology, Duke University, Durham, N. C. August 2002 - present.

       European Institute in Statistical Genetics, U. Algarve, Faro, Portugal (July 2004)

       NCEAS - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA.
            Workshop in modeling growth and form of sessile marine clonal organisms (August 1999 - August 2000).

       Participation in NSF-Sponsored K-12 teacher enhancement program via participation in research.
            Administered through California State University, Northridge

       SUNDOOR - Firewalking Initiation Training, Twain Harte, CA (November 2004)

Research Grants

Pending
       2005: National Institute of Health GMS-MBRS-SCORE program.
            Regulation of Vascular Development in Hydrozoa. $539,206
       2006: National Science Foundation Biological Oceanography Program
            Factors maintaining a latitudinal gradient of sexuality in a Pacific coast seaweed.
            Co-PI with Dr. J. E. Kubler, California State University, Northridge, CA. $674,237.

Supported
       2001-2004: National Institute of Health GMS-MBRS-SCORE program.
            Hydrodynamic regulation of vascular growth in Hydrozoa. $182,721.

Awards

       2002: Who's Who Among America's Teachers
       1991: Runner-up Harold C. Bold Award, Phycological Society of America. IVth International Phycological Congress, Durham,
                  No. Car., USA.
       1990: Dow-Griffee award for graduate research, University of Maine
       1989: Runner-up best student paper competition, XIIIth International Seaweed Symposium, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
       1988: Best student paper, Northeast Algal Symposium, Woods Hole, MA, USA
       1986: Honorable mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Research Program

Teaching Experience

       Only CSU Northridge courses listed:
      Marine Biology BIOL 421, 421L, 492B
      Evolutionary Biology BIOL 322
      Introductory Biology BIOL 106
      Biometry BIOL 502
      Design &Analysis of Experiments BIOL 330, 330L
      Life in the Sea BIOL 325
      Seminar in Spatial Ecology BIOL 615C
      Seminar in Evolution BIOL 615C
      Seminar in Life Cycle Evolution BIOL 615C
      Population Biology & Evolution of Clonal Organisms BIOL 595D

      Independent Research*
            *- in conjunction with the Catalina Semester Program at the Wrigley Institute of Marine Sciences, Catalina Island