Pete Countway
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Pete Countway
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Phone: (213) 821-2123
Email: countway@usc.edu
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| Education |
| 2005 |
University of Southern California,
Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography |
| 1999 |
Virginia Institute of Marine Science,
College of William and Mary, M.S. degree in Marine Science |
| 1990 |
University of New Hampshire, B.A.
degree in Zoology |
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| Science
Employment |
| 1999 - 2005 |
Graduate Fellow/TA/RA, University of
Southern California |
| 1996 - 1999 |
Graduate RA, Virginia Institute of
Marine Science |
| 1991 - 1996 |
Research Technician, Bermuda
Biological Station for Research |
| 1991 |
Work-Study Volunteer, Bermuda
Biological Station for Research |
| 1990 |
Student Volunteer, Larval Ecology
Research, UNH |
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| Awards
and Honors |
| 2003 |
NSF Microbial Observatory Travel
Award (to attend PI meeting) |
| 2002 |
Outstanding Student Poster Award,
AGU/ASLO 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting |
| 2002 |
University of Southern California
Teaching Assistant of the Year |
| 1999 |
USC Graduate Fellowship |
| 1998 |
Bermuda Biological Station for
Research Grant-in-Aid of Research |
| 1997 |
Bermuda Biological Station for
Research Grant-in-Aid of Research |
| 1989 |
UNH Harry G. Bickford Scholarship for
summer study |
| 1989 |
Alpha Zeta, Life Sciences Honor
Society Induction |
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| Research
Experience |
| 1999 - Present |
Graduate Fellow/TA/RA,
University of Southern California. (Dr. D.A. Caron, Thesis Advisor) |
| 1996 - 1999 |
Graduate RA, Virginia
Institute of Marine Science. (Dr. H.W. Ducklow, Thesis Advisor) |
1995 - 1996
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Research Technician (BBSR),
Project: Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station (BATS), Monthly cruises
to BATS and Hydrostation “S”, participation in all aspects of
water-column sampling, including; O2, CO2, salts,
DOC, DON, pigments, CHN, nutrients, plankton tows, 14C and 3H
productivity and post cruise nutrient (NO2, NO3,
PO4 & SiO4) analyses. Chief Scientist on BATS
bloom cruise #89a. (Drs. A.J. Knap and A.F. Michaels, PIs) |
1995
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Research Technician, Project:
JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study #2: Phytoplankton growth and mortality
in the Arabian Sea, (Dr. D.A. Caron, PI) |
1994
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Research Technician (BBSR),
Project: Sarcodine Distribution in the Sargasso Sea, Chief Scientist on
four "Sarcodine" cruises, R/V Weatherbird II. (Drs. D.A. Caron
and A.F. Michaels, PIs) |
1991 - 1994
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Research Technician (BBSR),
Project: Seasonal Study of Nitrogen Cycling in the Sargasso Sea at
B.A.T.S., (Dr. F. Lipschultz, PI) |
1991 - 1994
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Research Technician (BBSR),
Project: Deep Ocean Nitrite Profiling at Hydrostation "S" (Dr. F.
Lipschultz, PI) |
1991
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Work Study Volunteer (BBSR),
Projects: Ammonium enhancement of dark carbon fixation in the mangrove
anemone (Aiptasia pallida) and coral physiology experiments (Dr.
C.B. Cook, PI) |
| 1990 |
Student volunteer (UNH),
Project: Larval ecology of the Holothurian Psolus fabricii,
(Dr. R.R. Olson, PI) |
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| Publications |
Moorthi S.D., Countway P.D., Stauffer B.A., Caron
D.A. (2006) Use of quantitative real-time PCR to investigate the
dynamics of the red tide dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum.
Microbial Ecology 52(1): 136-150
Countway, P.D., and D.A. Caron. (2006). Abundance and Distribution
of Ostreococcus sp. in the San Pedro Channel, California, as Revealed
by Quantitative PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol 72(4):
2496-2506.
Countway, P.D., Gast R.J., Savai P., Caron
D.A. (2005). Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNA from
seawater incubations in the western North Atlantic. Journal of
Eukaryotic Microbiology 52(2): 95-106
Caron, D.A., Countway, P.D., Brown, M.V. (2004). The Growing
Contributions of Molecular Biology and Immunology to Protistan Ecology:
Molecular Signatures as Ecological Tools, J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 51:
38-48.
Caron, D.A., Countway, P.D., Lambert, S.E., Rose, J.M.,
Schaffner, R.A. (2001). Protozoa in marine and estuarine waters, Encyclopedia
of the Environment, pp. 2613 -2626
Knap, A.J., Michaels, A.F., Steinberg, D., Bahr, F., Bates, N., Bell,
S., Countway, P., Close, A.R., Doyle, A.P., Dow, R.L., Howse,
F.A., Gundersen, K., Johnson, R.J., Kelly, R., Little, R., Orcutt, K.,
Parsons, R., Rathburn, C., Sanderson, M., Stone, S. (1997). U.S.
JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study Method Manual, Version 4. |
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| Presentations |
Countway, P.D., Caron, D.A.
(2003) Protistan Community Diversity at the USC
Microbial Observatory, Oral presentation at the 2nd Annual NSF
Microbial Observatory Principal Investigators’ Workshop (Sept. 15-16,
2003), Arlington, VA
Fuhrman, J.A., Caron, D.A., Brown, M.V., Countway, P.D.,
Hernandez, X.A., Hewson, I., Liang, X., Patel, A., Savai, P.,
Schaffner, R., Schnetzer, A., Schwalbach, M.S.,
Steele, J.A., Travao, M. (2003) The USC Microbial Observatory,
Poster presentation at the 2nd Annual NSF Microbial Observatory
Principal Investigators’ Workshop (Sept.15-16, 2003), Arlington, VA
Countway, P.D., Caron, D.A., Schnetzer, A.,
Travao, M., Gast R.J., Dennett, M.R. (2003) Community Fingerprints
of Eukaryotic Marine Microbes at a Coastal Time-Series Station,
Poster presentation at the 2003 ASLO Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
Fuhrman, J., Caron, D., Brown, M., Countway, P., Hewson, I.,
Hernandez, X., Liang,
X., Patterson, D. J., Schwalbach, M., Schnetzer, A., Schaffner, R.,
Travao, M. (2002) The USC Microbial Observatory, Poster at the
1st Annual NSF Microbial Observatory Principal Investigators’ Workshop
(Sept. 22-24, 2002), Arlington, VA
Countway, P.D., Caron, D.A., Gast, R.J.,
Dennett, M.R., Moran, D.M. (2002) Molecular Analyses of Protistan
Assemblages from the Sargasso Sea Suggest Radical Community Shifts in
Nutrient-Amended Bottle Incubations, Oral presentation
at the European Union Pico-Div Workshop, Station Biologique, Roscoff,
FR
Countway, P.D., Caron, D.A., Gast, R.J.,
Dennett, M.R., Moran, D.M. (2002) Molecular
Analyses of Protistan Assemblages from the Sargasso Sea Suggest Radical
Community Shifts in Nutrient-Amended Bottle Incubations and Throughout
the
Water Column, Poster presentation at the 2002 AGU/ASLO Ocean
Sciences
Meeting, Honolulu, HI
Countway, P.D., Caron, D.A., Gast, R.J,
Dennett, M.R. (2001) Terminal Restriction Fragment Length
Polymorphism (T-RFLP) Analysis of Protistan Assemblages of the North
Atlantic, Oral presentation at the 2001 ASLO Meeting, Albuquerque,
NM
Countway, P.D., Ducklow, H.W., Carlson, C.A.
(2000) Carbon Production and Growth Physiology of Heterotrophic
Bacteria in a Subtropical Coral Reef Ecosystem, Oral presentation
at the 2000 AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
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