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

Project:                 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

 

Education:         B.S.                     University of Southern California                                                                     1973

                            M.A.                   University of California, Santa Barbara                                                            1977

                            Ph.D.                  University of California, Santa Barbara                                                            1984

 

Positions:          1998-Present     California Coastal  Commission SONGS mitigation scientist (wetlands)

                            1985-Present     Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

                            1984-Present     Summer Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

                            1994-1997           Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Santa Barbara City College

                            1983-1985           Postgraduate Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Research Interests:

Benthic ecology, artificial reefs, wetland and estuarine biology, nutrient cycling.

Selected Publications:

Bomkamp, R.E., H. M. Page, and J.E. Dugan.  2004.  Role of food subsidies and habitat structure in influencing benthic communities of shell mounds at sites of existing and former offshore oil platforms.  Marine Biology, in press.  Online 6/25/04

Page, H. M. and M. Lastra.  2003.  Diet of intertidal bivalves in the Ria de Arosa (Galicia, NW Spain):  evidence from stable C and N isotope ratio analysis.  Marine Biology 143: 519-532.

Page, H. M., S. Schroeter, D. Reed, R. F. Ambrose, J. Callaway, and J. Dixon.  2003.  An inexpensive method to identify the elevation of tidally inundated habitat in coastal wetlands.  Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 102: 130-142.

Galindo-Bect, M.S., Glenn, E.P., Page, H.M., Galindo-Bect, L.A., Hernandez-Ayon, J.M., Petty, R.L., and J. Garcia-Hernandez. 2000. Analysis of peneid shrimp landings in the northern Gulf of California in relation to Colorado River discharge. Fishery Bulletin - NOAA 98(1): 222-225.

Page, H.M., Dugan, J.E., Dugan, D., and J. Richards. 1999. Effects of an offshore oil platform on the distribution and abundance of commercially important crab species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 185: 47-57.

Page, H.M. 1997. Importance of vascular plant and algal production to macroinvertebrate consumers in a southern California salt marsh. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 45: 823-834.

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

Page, H.M. 1995. Variation in the natural abundance of ¹⁵N in the halophyte, Salicornia virginica,  associated with ground water subsidies of nitrogen in a southern California salt marsh. Oecologia 104: 181-188.

Page, H.M., Petty, R.L., and D.E. Meade. 1995. Influence of watershed run-off on nutrient dynamics in a southern California salt marsh. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 41: 163-180.

Page, H.M., Dugan, J.E., and D.M. Hubbard. 1992. Comparative effects of infaunal bivalves on an epibenthic microalgal community. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 157: 247-262.

Page, H.M., Fiala-Medioni, A., Fisher, C.R., and J.J. Childress. 1990. Experimental evidence for filter-feeding by the hydrothermal vent mussel, Bathymodiolus thermophilus. Deep-Sea Research 38: 1455-1461.

Page, H.M., Fisher, C.R., and J.J. Childress. 1990. The role of filter-feeding in the nutritional biology of a deep sea mussel with methanotrophic symbionts. Marine Biology 104: 251-257.

Page, H.M. and D.M. Hubbard. 1987. Temporal and spatial patterns of growth in mussels, Mytilus edulis, on an offshore platform:  relationships to water temperature and food availability. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 111: 159-179.

Page, H.M. 1986. Differences in population structure and growth rate of the stalked barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus between a rocky headland and an offshore oil platform. Marine Ecology Progress Series 29: 157-164.

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