EDUCATION

2000

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

1996

M.S. Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

1992

B.S. Biology, Fairfield University


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001-2002

Assistant Professor of Biology, American University

2000

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia
1997 Faculty, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
1996 Environmental Consulting, The Environmental Company Inc. Charlottesville, VA


GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2003 Mellon Grant
2002 Mellon Grant

2000

Trout Unlimited Award

1998

Moore Research Award
 


PUBLICATIONS

17 Tarboush RA, MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Connaughton V. accepted. Canadian Journal of Zoology.  Catabolic replacement of tissue contributes to the turnover of stable isotopes in a fast-growing tropical fish.
16 MacAvoy SE, LS Arneson, Bassett E.  2006. Oecologia.  Correlation of tissue turnover rate with metabolic rate in mouse and rat using stable isotope analysis. Oecologia 150(2):190-201.
15

Arneson LS, MacAvoy SE and Bassett E.  2006. Metabolic protein replacement drives tissue turnover in adult mice.Canadian Journal of Zoology  84(7):983-993.

14 Weston NB, Porubsky W, Smarkin V, Erickson M, MacAvoy SE, Joy SB. 2006. Porewater stoichiometery of terminal metabolic  products, sulfate and dissolved  organic carbon and nitrogen in estuarine intertidal creek-bank sediments. Biogeochemistry 77:375-408.
13 Arneson LS and MacAvoy SE. 2005. Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur diet-tissue discrimination in mouse tissues. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:989-995.
12 MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Arneson LS. 2005. Growth versus metabolic tissue replacement in mouse tissues determined by stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:631-641.
11 MacAvoy SE, Fisher CR, Carney RS, Macko SA. 2005. Nutritional associations among fauna at hydrocarbon seep communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 292:51-60.
10 MacAvoy SE and Bulger AJ. 2004. Sensitivity of blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) to moderate acidification events in Shenandoah National Park, USA. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 153 (1-4): 125-134
9 MacAvoy SE , Macko SA, Carney RS. 2003. Links between chemosynthetic production and mobile predators on the Louisiana continental slope: Stable carbon isotopes of specific fatty acids. Chemical Geology : 201: 229-237. Selected paper for inclusion in Elsevier's Journal of Geobiology 2003.

8

MacAvoy SE , Macko SA, Joye SB: 2002. Fatty acid carbon isotope signatures in chemosynthetic mussels and tube worms from Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep communities. Chemical Geology 185:1-8.

7

MacAvoy SE, Carney RS, Macko SA, Fisher C: 2002. The use of chemosynthetically derived nutrients by large, mobile, benthic predators in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 225:65-78.

6

MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Garman GC: 2001. Isotopic turnover in aquatic predators: quantifying the exploitation of migratory prey. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58(5):923-932.

5

MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, McIninch SP, Garman GC: 2000. Marine nutrient contributions to freshwater apex predators. Oecologia 122:568-573.

4

MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Garman GC: 1998. Tracing marine biomass into tidal freshwater ecosystems using stable sulfur isotopes. Naturwissenshaften 85:544-546.

3

MacAvoy SE and Zaepfel RC: 1997. Effects of MS-222 on hematocrit: First field measurements of hematocrit in blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126(3):500-503.
2 MacAvoy SE and Bulger AJ: 1995. Survival of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) embryos and fry in streams of different acid sensitivity in Shenandoah National Park, USA. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 85:445-450.

1

Dennis TE, MacAvoy SE, Steg MB and Bulger AJ: 1995. The association of water chemistry variables and fish condition in streams of Shenandoah National Park (USA). Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 85:365-370.
 

PUBLICATIONS - IN PREPARATION

MacAvoy SE, Fisher C, Carney R, Macko SA: Trophic relationships among hydrocarbon seep tube worm communities

MacAvoy SE, Fisher C, Carney R, Macko SA: Spatial variability in hydrocarbon seep mussel communities

MacAvoy SE, Garman GC, Macko SA, McIninch SP: Trophic interactions between marine and freshwater fishes in tidal freshwater: isotopic compositions of bulk tissue and specific fatty acids


Last Updated: 25-Feb-2005