Jenifer E. Dugan

Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: j_dugan@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Projects: Joint UCSB-MMS Pacific OCS Student Internship and Trainee Program
Advancing Marine Biotechnology: Use of OCS Oil Platforms as Sustainable Sources of Marine Natural
Products
Habitat Value of Shell Mounds to Ecologically and Commercially Important Benthic
Species
Utilization of Sandy Beaches by Shorebirds: Relationships to Population Characteristics of Macrofauna Prey
Species and Beach Morphodynamics


Education: A.A. Liberal Arts, De Anza Junior College, Cupertino, CA 1977
B.A. Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara 1980
Ph.D. Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara 1990

Positions: 2003-Present Associate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
2002-Present Science and Outreach Coordinator, Santa Barbara Coastal LTER, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
2000-Present Deputy Director, Coastal Marine Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1995-2003 Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1996 Consulting Biologist, Unocal oil spill at Guadalupe, Econometrics, Encinitas, CA
1990-95 Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa
1992 National Marine Sanctuary, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
1988-93 Marine Biologist, Cooperative Park Science Unit, University of California, Davis, Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA

Distinctions: 2002 Travel Fellowship, Junta de Galicia, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2001 Concurso Especial de Incentivo a la Cooperacion International, FONDECYT, Research Travel award to Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
1999 Concurso Especial de Incentivo a la Cooperacion International, FONDECYT, Research Travel award to Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
1994 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Postdoctoral Fellowship
1993 Foundation for Research Development, Republic of South Africa, Postdoctoral Fellowship

Selected Publications:

Bram, J.B., Page, H. M. and J. E. Dugan. Spatial and temporal variability in early successional patterns of an invertebrate assemblage at an offshore oil platform. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol (submitted).

Bomkamp, R. Page, H. M. and J. E. Dugan. Role of food subsidies and habitat structure in influencing benthic communities of shell mounds at sites of existing and former offshore oil platforms. Mar. Biol (in press).

Page, H. M., J. E. Dugan. 2004. Spatial and temporal variability in early successional patterns of an invertebrate assemblage at an offshore oil platform. Draft Final Report to Minerals Management Service and the UC Coastal Marine Institute.

Page, H. M., J. E. Dugan and J. Childress. 2004. Role of food subsidies and habitat structure in influencing benthic communities of shell mounds at sites of existing anf former offshore oil platforms.

Dugan, J. E., Ichikawa, G., Stephenson, M., Crane, D. B., McCall, J. and K. Regalado. 2004. Monitoring of coastal contaminants using sand crabs. Draft Final Report to Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Dugan, J. E. and D. M. Hubbard. 2004. Effects of beach grooming on coastal strand and dune habitats at San Buenaventura State Beach. Draft Final Report to California Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation, Channel Coast District.

J. E. Dugan, D. M. Hubbard, E. Jaramillo, H. Contreras, and C. Duarte. 2004. Competitive interactions in macroinfaunal animals of exposed sandy beaches. Oecologia, 139: 630-640

Dugan, J.E. and D. Hubbard. Southern New Zealand Beaches. 2004. In: Natural History of Southern New Zealand. Darby, J. and W. Harrex (eds.) University of Otago Press and the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand 400 pp.

Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard and A. Wenner. 2003. Factors affecting sandy beach use by shorebirds in the Santa Maria Basin and vicinity. Draft Final report to Minerals Management Service.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., McCrary, M., and M. Pierson. 2003. The response of macrofauna communities and shorebirds to macrophyte wrack subsidies on exposed sandy beaches of southern California. Estuar. Coastl. Shelf Sci. 58S: 133-148.

Hubbard, D.M., and J.E. Dugan. 2003. Shorebird use of an exposed sandy beach in southern California. Estuar. Coastl. Shelf Sci. 58S: 169-182.

C. Roberts, S. Andelman, G. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. Carlos-Castilla, J. Dugan, B. Halpern, H. Leslie, K. Lafferty, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. Possingham, M. Ruckleshaus, and R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves Ecol. Appl. 13(1): S199-S214

C. Roberts, G. Branch, R. Bustamante, J. Carlos-Castilla, J. Dugan, B. Halpern, H. Leslie, K. Lafferty, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, M. Ruckleshaus, and R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecol. Appl. 13(1): S215-S228

S. Airame, J. E. Dugan, , K. D. Lafferty, H. M. Leslie, D. McArdle, and R. R. Warner. 2003. Applying ecological criteria to the design of marine reserves: a case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecol. Appl. 13(1): S170-S184.

Lastra, M., Dugan, J.E., and D.M. Hubbard. 2002. Burrowing and swash behavior of the Pacific mole crab, Hippa pacifica (Anomura, Hippidae) on tropical sandy beaches. J. Crust. Biol. 22: 53-58.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and M. Lastra. 2000. Burrowing abilities and swash behavior of three crabs, Emerita analoga Stimpson, Blepharipoda occidentalis Randall and Lepidopa californica Efford (Anomura, Hippoidea), of exposed sandy beaches. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 255(2): 229-245.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., Engle, J.M., Martin, D.L., Richards, D.M., Davis, G.E., Lafferty, K.D., and R.F. Ambrose. 2000. Macrofauna communities of exposed sandy beaches on the Southern California mainland and Channel Islands. Fifth California Islands Symposium, OCS Study, MMS 99-0038: 339-346.

Jaramillo, E., Dugan, J., and H. Contreras. 2000. Abundance, tidal movement, population structure and burrowing rate of Emerita analoga (Anomura, Hippidae) at a dissipative and a reflective sandy beach in south central Chile. Mar Ecol-P S Z N I 21(2): 113-127 AUG 2000

Barron, M.G., Podrabsky, T., Ogle, R.S., Dugan, J.E., et al. 1999. Sensitivity of the sand crab Emerita analoga to a weathered oil. Bull. Environmental Contamination & Toxicology 62: 469-475.

Dugan, J.E. and A. McLachlan. 1999. An assessment of longshore movement in Donax serra: R�ding (Bivalvia: Donacidae) on an exposed sandy beach. J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 234: 111-124.

Page, H.M., Dugan, J.E., Dugan, D.S., and J. Richards. 1999. Effects of an offshore oil platform on the distribution and abundance of commercially important crab species. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 185: 47-57.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and A.M. Wenner. 1998. A catalog of the sandy beaches of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. Report prepared for Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and A.M. Wenner. 1998. A physical characterization of the sandy beaches of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. Prepared for Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

McLachlan, A., Dugan, J., Defeo, O., Ansell, A., Hubbard, D., Jaramillo, E., and P. Penchaszadeh. 1997. Beach clam fisheries. Ocean. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 34: 163-232.

Dugan, J.E. and D.M. Hubbard. 1996. Local variation in populations of the sand crab. Emerita analoga (Stimpson) on sandy beaches in southern California. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69: 579-588.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and H.M. Page. 1995. Scaling population density to body size: tests in two soft sediment intertidal communities. J. Coast. Res. 11: 849-857.

Jamarillo, E., McLachlan, A., and J. Dugan. 1995. Total sample area and estimate of species richness in exposed sandy beaches. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 119: 311-314.

McLachlan, A., Jamarillo, E., Defeo, O., Dugan, J.E., DeRuyck, A., and P. Coetzee. 1995. Adaptations of bivalves to different beach types. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 187: 147-160. .

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and A.M. Wenner. 1994. Geographic variation in life history in populations of the sand crab, Emerita analoga (Stimpson), on the California coast: relationships to environmental variables. J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 181: 255-278.

Dugan, J.E. and G.E. Davis. 1993. Applications of fishery refugia to coastal fishery management. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 2029-2042.

Dugan, J.E. and G.E. Davis. 1993. Introduction to the international symposium on fishery refugia. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 1991-1992.

Wenner, A.M., Dugan, J.E., and D.M. Hubbard. 1993. Sand crab population biology on the California Islands and mainland. Pp. 335-348 in: Third California Islands Symposium, Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands, F.G. Hochberg, ed. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, CA.

Page, H.M., Dugan, J.E., and D.M. Hubbard. 1992. Comparative effects of two infaunal bivalves on an epibenthic microalgal community. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 157: 247-262.

Davis, E.G., Jameson, S., and J.E. Dugan. 1991. Potential benefits of harvest refugia in Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Pp. 2962-2972 in: Coastal Zone �91: Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management, O. Magoon, H. Converse, V. Tippie, L. Tobin and D. Clark, eds. Long Beach, CA.

Dugan, J.E., Wenner, A.M., and D.M. Hubbard. 1991. Geographic variation in the reproductive biology of the sand crab, Emerita analoga (Stimpson), on the California coast. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 150: 63-81.

Wenner, A.M., Dugan, J.E., and H. Wells. 1991. Estimating egg production in multibrooding populations. In: Egg Production. Crustacean Issues Vol. 7, A. Wenner and A. Kuris, ed. Balkema, Netherlands.

Dugan, J.E. 1990. Geographic and temporal variation in the life history, growth, and reproductive biology of the sand crab, Emerita analoga (Stimpson). Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Santa Barbara. 329p.

Hubbard, D.M. and J.E. Dugan. 1989. Northern occurrences of two estuarine crabs, the fiddler crab, Uca crenulata and the burrowing crab, Malacoplax californiensis. Calif. Fish and Game 75: 55-57.

Wenner, A.M., Richard, Y.O., and J.E. Dugan. 1987. Hippid crab population structure and food availability on Pacific shorelines. Bull. Mar. Sci. 41: 221-233.

Published Abstracts:

Dugan, J.E. and D.M. Hubbard. 2001. Investigating the role of higher trophic levels on exposed sandy beaches: relationships among shorebirds, invertebrate macrofauna and morphodynamics in California. Abstract submitted to: International Workshop, Beaches - What Future? An Integrated Approach to the Ecology and Evolution of Beaches and Sand Dunes. Florence, Italy Oct. 2001.

Dugan, J.E., Hubbard, D.M., and H.M. Page. 2001. Ecological effects of grooming on exposed sandy beaches in southern California. Abstract submitted to: International Workshop, Beaches - What Future? An Integrated Approach to the Ecology and Evolution of Beaches and Sand Dunes. Florence, Italy Oct. 2001.

Gonzalez-Guzman, L, Gaines, S., and J. Dugan. 2001. Environmental suitability across the geographic distribution of marine intertidal invertebrates. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 82.

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