CV

Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-8369
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: erincox@hawaii.edu

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
3190 Maile Way, Room 101
Honolulu, HI 96822

Affiliations
Botany, EECB

Research interests:

• Marine plant-animal interactions, herbivory
• Invasive algal issues
• Ecology and physiology of marine macroalgae
• Intertidal Ecology
  

Dissertation Title:
To be announced

Statement
Currently, I am working on developing a dissertation project that focuses on the ecology of marine algae on coral reefs. My study will include aspects of physiology-ecology of brown macroalgae. More specifically, I am interested in competitive interactions between native species of Sargassum and the invasive alga Gracilaria salicornia. Past research has focused on the feeding ecology of a herbivorous kelp forest snail. I am also interested in the intertidal zone and I have been involved in several projects which have monitored key abundances of organisms along temperate rocky shores. Through my NSF Fellowship, I am involved in a collaboration with other fellows to involve K-12 students in exploring and monitoring life along Hawaii’s tropical intertidal zone (OPIHI-Our Project in Hawaii’s Intertidal).

Awards

• NSF funded GK-12 Fellowship 2004
  
  
• Biological Science Service Award 2003, California State University, Fullerton
  
  
• Coppel Graduate Science Award 2002, California State University, Fullerton

Publications

• Cox, TE, Murray, SN. 2006. Feeding preferences and the relationships between food choice and assimilation efficiency in the herbivorous marine snail Lithopoma undosum (Turbinidae). Marine Biology, (in press).