Lisa-ann Gershwin

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School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture
James Cook University

Townsville, Queensland, 4810 Australia

Office: 07 4781 6446; Mobile: 0438 105 358

E-mail: lisa.gershwin@jcu.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.medusozoa.com

EDUCATION
Los Angeles Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA AA Lib. Arts 1993 3.80 GPA
California State University, Northridge, CA BS Biology 1997 3.76 GPA -- Magna cum Laude
University of California, Berkeley, CA PhD Biology incomplete 8/97 - 12/02
Geometric Morphometric Workshop, U.C. Berkeley, June 5-12, 2002

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, Joint Genome Institute, 9/01-present
Collection Improvement Grant, Smithsonian Institution, Summer 2001
A.B.R.S. Grant: Biodiversity of Australian jellyfishes and ctenophores, 1/00- present
Irukandji Antivenom Project, Cairns, 11/99 - 3/00
Fulbright Fellowship, Australia, 7/98 - 6/99
Research Associate, U.C. Museum of Paleontology, 8/97- present
Graduate Student Instructor, Biology 1B, UC Berkeley 8/97-12/97
Research Coordinator, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium/PADI Foundation, Summer 1996
Guest Lecturer, Occidental College, Summers 1995-2001
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1995 and 1996
Midwater Lecturer, Research Vessel Vantuna, 10/94-8/97
Guest Lecturer, Los Angeles Pierce College, 10/94-6/97
Volunteer Research Intern, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 1/93-8/97

MUSEUM AND OTHER COLLECTIONS STUDIED
National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC numerous, 2001
Museum of Natural History, Paris Feb 01
The Natural History Museum, London Feb 01
Naturalis, Leiden Feb 01
Zoological Museum of the University, Copenhagen Jan 01
South African Museum, Cape Town Jan 01
South Australian Museum, Adelaide numerous, 1998-2002
Australian Museum, Sydney numerous, 1998-2000
Queensland Museum, Brisbane numerous, 1999-2000
Western Australian Museum, Perth numerous, 1999-2000
Tasmanian Museum and Art Galleries, Hobart numerous, 1998-2002
Northern Territory Museum, Darwin numerous, 1998-2000
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla Oct 1999
Portebello Marine Lab, Dunedin, New Zealand Nov 1998
University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology (Ediacaran fossils) Jul-Oct 1998
Gump Marine Station, Mo'orea, French Polynesia June 1998
Paleontological Institute, Moscow (Ediacaran fossils) Mar 1998
Friday Harbor Labs, Univ. Washington, San Juan Island, Washington numerous, 1995-1997
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco numerous, 1994-2001

FIELD SITES STUDIED
Nuyts Archipelago, Great Australian Bight 2002
Chincoteague Island, VA 2001
Man-O'-War Bay, Tobago 2001
San Sebastiano, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2001
Cape Town, South Africa 2001
Approximately 95% of coastal Australia numerous, 1998-2002
South Island, New Zealand 1998
Mo'orea, French Polynesia 1998
Eastern North Pacific - San Diego, CA to Vancouver, BC numerous, 1995-1997
Midwater trawls, San Pedro Channel, Los Angeles ~100x, 1993-2002
Sea of Cortez (western shore) numerous, 1993-1998
Netherlands scheduled late 2002
Cape Town, South Africa scheduled early 2003
Philippines scheduled early 2003
Singapore scheduled early 2003
Western Australia + Northern Territory scheduled early 2003
Antarctica hoping for 2003 :-)

PUBLICATIONS
Gershwin, L. and A.G. Collins. 2002. A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb. nov. J. Nat. Hist., 36: 127-148. Supplemental data archived at: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archdata/Gershwin_Collins/

Schaadt, M., L. Yasukochi, L. Gershwin, and D. Wrobel. 2001. Husbandry of the black jelly (Chrysaora achlyos), a newly discovered scyphozoan in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco Special 20(fasc. 1): 289-296.

Gershwin, L. 2001. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Biol. Bull. 201: 104-119.

Rees, J. and L. Gershwin. 2000. Non-indigenous hydromedusae in California's upper San Francisco Estuary: life cycles, distribution, and potential environmental impacts. Scientia Marina. 64 (Supl. 1): 73-86.

Radwan, F., L. Gershwin, and J. Burnett. 2000. Toxinological studies on the nematocyst venom of Chrysaora achlyos. Toxicon. 38: 1581-1591.

Gershwin, L. 2000. South Atlantic Zooplankton, book review. Quarterly Review of Biology 75(4): 464.

Gershwin, L. and A.G. Collins. 2000. Introduction to the Ctenophora. U.C. Museum of Paleontology, http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/ctenophora.html.

Gershwin, L. 1999. Clonal and population variation in jellyfish symmetry. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 79: 993-1000.

Kouchinsky, A., S. Bengtson, and L. Gershwin. 1999. Cnidarian-like embryos associated with the first shelly fossils in Siberia. Geology. 27(7): 609-612.

Gershwin, L. 1998. The Cambrian Explosion and the Fossil Record, book review. Paleontologia Electronica, http://www.omnh.ou.edu/paleo/1999_1/books/cheng.htm.

Martin, J.W., L. Gershwin, J. Burnett, D. Cargo, and D. Bloom. 1997. Chrysaora achlyos, a remarkable new species of scyphozoan found in southern California. Biol. Bull.193: 8-13.

Gershwin-Nelson, L. and M. Schaadt. 1995. Strobilation induction in a cold-water form of Aurelia aurita. Drum and Croaker 26: 4-8.

Gershwin, L. and P. Alderslade. In press for late 2002. A new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from the Northern Territory. The Beagle.

Winkel, K. et al.. In Press. Progress in developing an antivenom to the Irukandji of northern Australia. Medical Journal of Australia.

Gershwin, L. In Press. Scyphozoa and Cubozoa. In: Gordon, D. (ed.), Fauna of New Zealand.

Gershwin, L. In Review. A new and potentially medically significant species of cubozoan from Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. Revision of the cnidarian Class Cubozoa. PhD Thesis. Ca. 450pp + 83 plates.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. Twenty one new species of medusae from the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of Biological Society of Washington.

Gershwin, L. and S. D. Cairns. In Preparation. Type catalog of medusae and ctenophores in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.

Gershwin, L. and W. Zeidler. In Preparation for Dec 2002 submission. Medusae of the Nuyts Archipelago. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. A review of the medusae of Australia, with descriptions of 129 new species. Records of the Australian Museum.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. Revision of the family Aequoreidae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Invertebrate Taxonomy.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. A new species of cubomedusa (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from Cuba. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. Medusan biodiversity of Palm Cove, Far North Queensland, during the summer 1999-2000. Records of the Queensland Museum.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. The impact of jellyfishes in commercial fisheries: Australian case studies. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.

Gershwin, L. In Preparation. Scyphomedusae and Cubomedusae of New Zealand. NIWA Biodiversity Series.

Gershwin, L. and J. Lipps. In Preparation. Parsimony in the Vendian. Paleobiology.

Gershwin, L. and W. Zeidler. In Preparation. Report of a mass occurrence of the jellyfish Crambione mastigophora (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) along 1200 km of Australia's western coastline.

Gershwin, L. and W. Zeidler. In Preparation. Some new and previously unreported species of jellyfishes from the western half of Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum.

Gershwin, L. and W. Zeidler. In Preparation. A new species of hydromedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) associated with hyper-saline thrombolites in South Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum.

Gershwin, L., J.H. Lipps, R. Dott, and D. Damrow. In Preparation. A spectacular new genus and species of hydromedusa from the Late Cambrian of Central Wisconsin. Nature.

Gershwin, L., J.H. Lipps, and M. Fedonkin. In Preparation. Ediacara was no garden! Nature.

RESEARCH GRANTS
2000 - Biodiversity of Australia's jellyfishes and ctenophores, A.B.R.S. (W. Zeidler, co-PI)
1999 - Irukandji Antivenom Project, multi-agency (Uni Melbourne, Rotary, JCU, CRC) (co-PI)
1998 - Polynesian Jellyfish Study, Gump Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia
1997 - Symmetry Variation among Jellyfish Clonemates, Dept. Integrative Biol., UC Berkeley
1996 - Molecular Analysis of the Pelagiidae, Student Projects Committee, CSU Northridge

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
I have given 19 posters and oral presentations on various aspects of my work, to such groups as the Western Society of Naturalists, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, American Zoos and Aquariums, Southern California Academy of Sciences, Australian Marine Sciences Assoc., South Australian Research and Development Institute, Royal Society of South Australia, University of Tasmania Seminar Series, University of Otago Seminar Series, California Paleontological Association, North American Paleontological Congress, and Sigma Xi.

CONSULTING WORK
2000 - 2001 - The Exploratorium, San Francisco
2000 - Underwater World, Melbourne
1999 - Underwater World, San Francisco
1998 - present - Underwater World, Sunshine Coast, Australia
1997 - Los Angeles County Science Discovery Center
1997 - U.C.L.A. Ocean Discovery Center, Los Angeles
1996 - present - The Mirage and The Bellagio Casinos, Las Vegas
1996 - Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
1996 - Cal. State Univ., San Jose
1995 - 2000 - Stephen Birch Aquarium at Scripps

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
1998-1999 - Fulbright Fellowship
1997-1998 - Christiane Rinkes Memorial Scholarship
1997 - Magna cum Laude/B.S. with Honors, CSU Northridge
1996 - Volunteer of the Year, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
1996 - 2nd Place, Sigma Xi Student Research Competition
1996 - Official Commendation for Research, County of Los Angeles
1996 - Letter of Appreciation for working with children, U.S. Senate
1995 - Outstanding Junior, Golden Key National Honor Society
1994 - Best Student Paper, Southern California Academy of Sciences
1993 - Distinguished Scholar Award, Los Angeles Pierce College

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
Fulbright Association; Sigma Xi; Australian Marine Sciences Association; Southern California Academy of Sciences; Bay Area Systematists; Western Society of Naturalists; Phi Theta Kappa - Life Member; Alpha Gamma Sigma - Life Member; Golden Key National Honor Society.

 

 

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