Curriculum Vitae

                                                         

NANCY J. COPLEY

                                                                                                                            

 

Office Address:                                            

          Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.                           

          Biology Dept., MS#33                                           

          Woods Hole, Mass.  02543                          

          (508) 289-3204                               

                                                                                                                  

Education:

1978  University of Massachusetts, Amherst:  B.S. Zoology (cum laude)

          1974  Canton High School (honors), Canton, Massachusetts

 

Publications:

                  

Bucklin, A., P.H. Wiebe, S.B. Smolenack, N.J. Copley, J.G. Beaudet, and J.J. Pierson (in preparation)  Comparative molecular and morphological assessment of 35 species and eight genera of euphausiids (Euphausiacea, Crustacea).

 

2005  Keigwin, L., M. Bice, N. Copley.  Seasonality and stable isotopes in planktonic foraminifera off Cape Cod, Massachusets.  Paleoceanography, in press.

 

2005  K.M. Bonner, T. Patarnello, C. Papetti, P.W. Wiebe, G. Lawson, N.J. Copley, and A. Bucklin.  Time/space patterns of microsatellite DNA variation in relation to patch structure of Southern Ocean krill, Euphausia superba. IMBC meetings June 2005 (Poster)

 

2004  Ashjian, C.J., G. A. Rosenwaks, P. H. Wiebe, C. S. Davis, S. M. Gallager, N. J. Copley, G. L. Lawson, P. Alatalo.  Distribution of zooplankton on the continental shelf of Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, during austral fall and winter, Deep-Sea Research II 51: 2073-2098

 

2004     A. Bucklin, E. Ünal, P.H. Wiebe, and N.J. Copley.   Poster: Interannual variation of population genetic diversity of Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Gulf of Maine, Northwest Atlantic.  ICES CM 2004 / Session P, Physical-biological Interactions, Poster Number P:36.

 

2004  Wiebe, P., C. Ashjian, S. Gallager, C. Davis, G. Lawson & N. Copley.  The use of a high powered strobe light to increase the catch of Antarctic krill by a 1-m2 MOCNESS.  Marine Biology. 144 (3):  493 - 502.

 

2003  Benfield,M.C., A.C. Lavery, P.H. Wiebe, C.H. Greene, T.K. Stanton, and N.J. Copley. 2003. Distributions of physonect siphonulae in the Gulf of Maine and their potential as important sources of acoustic scattering. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 60(7):759-772.

 

2003  Chu, D., P. H. Wiebe, N. J. Copley, G. L. Lawson and V. Puvanendran.  Material properties of North Atlantic cod eggs and early-stage larvae and their influence on acoustic scattering.  (ICES Symposium on "Acoustics in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology" : Montpellier, France, 10-14 June 2002). ICES Journal of Marine Science 60(3): 508 - 515.

 

2003  Bucklin, A., B. W. Frost, J. Bradford-Grieve, L. D. Allen and N. J. Copley.  Molecular systematic and phylogenetic assessment of 34 calanoid copepod species of the Calanoidae and Clausocalanidae.  Marine Biology 142(2): 333-343.

                  

2002  Bucklin, A., Wiebe, P. H., Smolenack, S. B., Copley, N. J. & Clarke, M. E.  Integrated biochemical, molecular genetic, and bioacoustical analysis of mesoscale variabiltiy of the euphausiid Nematoscelis difficilis in the California Current. Deep-Sea Research I, 49(3), 437-462.

 

2002  Chu, D., P. H. Wiebe, N. J. Copley, G. A. Lawson, V. Puvanendran.  Material properties of North Atlantic cod eggs and early stage larvae and their influence on the acoustic scattering (ICES 2002) (abstract)

 

2001  Pershing, A. J.  P.H. Wiebe, J.P. Manning, and N.J. Copley. Evidence for vertical circulation cells in the well-mixed area of Georges Bank and their biological implications.  DSR II 48: 283-310  (special volume on coupled biological and physical studies of plankton populations  in the Georges Bank region and related North Atlantic GLOBEC study sites.)

 

2000  Chu, D.,  P. Wiebe, N. Copley.  Inference of material properties of zooplankton from acoustic and resistivity measurements.  ICES J. Mar. Res. 57: 1128-1142.

 

2000  Chu, D., P. Wiebe, T. Stanton, T. Hammer, K. Doherty, J. Zhang, B. Reeder, M. Benfield, and N. Copley, "Influences of temperature and pressure on the material and acoustic scattering properties of zooplankton," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107: 2921 (abstract). Presented at  139th ASA meeting, 30 May-3 June 2000, Atlanta.

 

2000  Chu, D., P.H. Wiebe, T.K. Stanton, T.R. Hammar, K.W. Doherty, N.J. Copley, J. Zhang, D.B. Reeder, and M.C. Benfield, 2000 "Measurements of the material properties of live marine organisms," Proc. of the OCEANS 2000 MTS/IEEE International Symposium, Providence, RI, September 11-14, 2000.  Vol. 3:1963-1967.

 

1998  Greene, C.H., P.H. Wiebe, A. J. Pershing, G. Gal, J.M. Popp, N. J. Copley, T. C. Austin, A. M. Bradley, R. G. Goldsborough, J. Dawson, R. Hendershott, and S. Kaartvedt. Assessing the distribution and abundance of zooplankton: a comparison of acoustic and net-sampling methods with D-BAD MOCNESS.  Deep-Sea Research II 45(7): 1219-1237.

 

1997  Pershing, A.J., P.H. Wiebe, and N.J. Copley. Evidence for vertical circulation cells in the well-mixed area of Georges Bank obtained using high-frequency acoustics.  ICES ASC Handbook (ICES CM 1997/T:14). pg 155. (abstract)

 

 

1996  Wiebe  P., D. Mountain, T. Stanton, C. Greene, G. Lough, S. Kaartvedt, J. Manning, J. Dawson, L. Martin and N. Copley.  Acoustical study of the spatial distribution of plankton on Georges Bank and the relationship between volume backscattering strength and the taxonomic composition of the plankton. Deep-Sea Research special volume 43: Physical-Biological Interactions on Georges Bank and its Environs.  pp. 1971-2001. 

 

1996  M. Benfield, C. Davis, P. Wiebe, S. Gallager, G. Lough and N. Copley. Video Plankton Recorder estimates of copepod, pteropod and larvacean distributions from a stratified  region of Georges Bank with comparative measurements from a MOCNESS sampler.  Deep-Sea Research special volume 43: Physical-Biological Interactions on Georges Bank and its Environs. pp. 1925-1945.

 

1992  Wiebe, P. H., N. J. Copley, and  S. H. Boyd. Coarse-scale horizontal patchiness and vertical migration of zooplankton in newly formed gulf stream warm-core ring 82-H. Deep-Sea Res. 39(1a):S247-S278.

 

1991  Miller, C. B., T. J. Cowles, P. H. Wiebe, N. J. Copley and H. Grigg.  Phenology in Calanus finmarchicus; hypotheses about control mechanisms.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 72:79-91.

 

1988  Wiebe, P. H., N. J. Copley, C. Van Dover, A. Tamse, and F. Manrique.  Deep-water zooplankton of the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent field. Deep-Sea Res. 35(6): 985-1013.

 

1987  Cowles, T. J., M. R. Roman, A. L. Gauzens, N. J. Copley.  Short-term changes in the biology of a warm-core ring: Zooplankton biomass and grazing.  L&O 32(3): 653-664.

 

1986  Cowles, T. J. and N. J. Copley.  The gulf stream as a leaky barrier to zooplankton population exchange in the North Atlantic.  EOS 67(44) (abstract)

 

1985  Grassle, J. F., J. P. Grassle, L. S. Brown-Leger, R. Petrecca, N. J. Copley.  Subtidal macrobenthos of Narragansett Bay.  Field and mesocosm studies of the effects of eutrophication and organic input on benthic populations. In: Proceedings of the 18th European Biology Symposium, J. S. Gray and M.E. Christianson (eds.), John Wiley and Sons, NY    

 

1984  Cowles, T. J. and N. J. Copley. Copepod population patterns in warm-core ring 82-B and in the surrounding Slope Water.  EOS 65(45) (abstract)

 

1978  Copley, N. J. The effect of heavy metals on growth rate, mortality and behavior on the fiddler crab, Uca pugnax.  Biological Bull. 155:432 (abstract)

 

Technical Reports:

 

2003  Little, W. S. and N. J. Copley.  WHOI Silhouette DIGITIZER version1.0 User’s Guide. 

  

1990           Copley, N. J. and P. H. Wiebe.  Drawings and descriptions of some deep-sea copepods living above the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent field.  WHOI Technical Report WHOI-90-15.  61 pp.

 

  1989         Copley, N. J., P. H. Wiebe, and T. J. Cowles. Copepods of warm-core ring 82-H.  Technical Report WHOI-89-24.  140 pp.

 

  1980         Grassle, J. F., J. P. Grassle, L. S. Brown-Leger, N. J. Copley, and R. F. Petrecca.  Quantitative Studies of Macrofauna in Three Benthic Communities in Experimental Ecosystems.  Fourth Annual Report of the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL) to EPA. 12pp,8 figs.

 

  1979         Grassle, J. P., J. F. Grassle, L. S. Brown-Leger, N. J. Copley, J. G. S. Derby. Quantitative studies on Benthic Communities in Experimental Ecosystems. Third Annual Report of the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL) to EPA. 12pp, 18 figs.

 

  1978         Grassle, J. F., J. P. Grassle, L. S. Brown-Leger, C. H. Lanyon-Duncan, N. J. Copley.  Benthic Communities in Experimental Ecosystems and the Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons. Second Annual Report of the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL) to EPA. 10 pp., 21 figs.