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 Assistant Professor, Biology Department, 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
- 2008-09 Water Resources Research Institute (USGS). Assessing the distribution of synthetic organics and the degradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in the Anacostia river through microbial and stable isotope studies (co-PI with Prof. Bushaw-Newton). ($15,000)
- 2007-08 Cave Conservancy of Virginia: Metabolic Differences between Surface and Cave Amphipods: The Evolution of Life Style Differences. ($10,000)
- 2006-07 Water Resources Research Institute (USGS) Nutrient flow and biological dynamics in the Anacostia River (co-PI with Prof. Bushaw-Newton). ($15,000)
- 2004-05 Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Environmental Studies: Rice Visiting Scholar Grant. Marine primary production fueling freshwater ecosystems. ($1,500)
Publications
- MacAvoy SE, Carney RS, Morgan E, Macko SA. 2008. Stable isotope variation among the mussel Bathymodiolus childressi and associated heterotrophic fauna at four cold-seep communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1):147-151. [pdf]
- MacAvoy SE, Morgan E, Carney RS, Macko SA. 2008. Chemoautolithotrophic production as a fuel for heterotrophs in hydrocarbon seeps: an examination of mobile benthic fauna and seep residents. Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1):153-161. [pdf]
- Baker DM, MacAvoy SE, Kim K. 2007. Relationship between water quality, d15N, and aspergillosis of Caribbean sea fan corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:123-130. [pdf]
- Tarboush RA, MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Connaughton V. 2006. Contribution of catabolic tissue replacement to the turnover of stable isotopes in Danio rerio. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84(10):1453-1460. [pdf]
- 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. [pdf]
- 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. [pdf]
- 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. [pdf]
- Arneson LS and MacAvoy SE. 2005. Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur diet-tissue discrimination in mouse tissues. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:989-995. [pdf]
- 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. [pdf]
- 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. [pdf]
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, McIninch SP, Garman GC: 2000. Marine nutrient contributions to freshwater apex predators. Oecologia 122:568-573.
- MacAvoy SE, Macko SA, Garman GC: 1998. Tracing marine biomass into tidal freshwater ecosystems using stable sulfur isotopes. Naturwissenshaften 85:544-546.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.