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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Marine Invasions Research

Principal Investigator

Gregory Ruiz

Chief Scientist

ruizg@si.edu

Specialty

Biogeography, Invasion Biology, Marine Ecology

Amy Freestone

Managing Director

FreestoneA@si.edu

443-482-2262

Specialty

Community Ecology, Macroecology, Invasion Ecology

Publications

Zabin, Chela J. ; Zardus, J. ; Pitombo, F. B. ; Fread, V. ; Hadfield, M. G. (2007). Tale of three seas: consistency of natural history traits in a Caribbean-Atlantic barnacle introduced to Hawaii . Biological Invasions, 9 , 523-544.
Bullard, S. G. ; Lambert, G. ; Carman, M. R. ; Byrnes, J. ; Whitlatch, Robert B. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Miller, R. J. ; Harris, L. ; Valentine, P. C. ; Collie, J. S. ; Pederson, J. ; McNaught, D. C. ; Cohen, A. N. ; Asch, R. G. ; Dijkstra, Jennifer A. ; Heinonen, K. (2006). Colonial ascidian Didemnum sp A: Current distribution, basic biology and potential threat to marine communities of the northeast and west coasts of North America. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 342 , 99-108.
Herwig, R. P. ; Cordell, J. R. ; Perrins, J. C. ; Dinnel, P. A. ; Gensemer, R. W. ; Stubblefield, W. A. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Kopp, J. A. ; House, M. L. ; Cooper, W. J. (2006). Ozone treatment of ballast water on the oil tanker S/T Tonsina: chemistry, biologiy and toxicity . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 324 , 37-55.
McGee, Steven ; Piorkowski, R. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2006). Analysis of recent vessel arrivals and ballast water discharge in Alaska: Toward assessing ship-mediated invasion risk. Marine pollution bulletin, 52 , 1634-1645.
Murphy, I. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Dunsmuir, W. T. M. ; Waite, T. D. (2006). Optimized parameters for fluorescence-based verification of ballast water exchange by ships. Environmental Science & Technology, 40 (7) , 2357-2362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es0519381
(2005). Broad-scale nonindigenous species monitoring along the west coast in National Marine Sanctuaries and National Estuarine Research Reserves . National Fish and Wildlife Foundation .
(2005). Biological study of container ships arriving to the Port of Oakland. Final Report. Port of Oakland .
Carlton, James T. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Vector science and integrated vector management in bioinvasion cology: conceptual frameworks. Invasive alien species (36-58) Island Press .
Carlton, James T. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine ecosystems: implications for conservation biology. Marine conservation biology: the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity (123-148) Island Press .
Choi, Keun Hyung ; Kimmerer, Wim ; Smith, George ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Lion, Kelly. (2005). Post-exchange zooplankton in ballast water of ships entering the San Francisco Estuary . Journal of Plankton Research, 27 , 707-714.
deRivera, C. E. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Jivoff, Paul R. (2005). Biotic resistance to invasion: native crab predation limits the abundance and geographic distribution of an introduced crab . Ecology, 86 , 3364-3376.
Jewett, E. B. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Epifaunal disturbance by periodic low levels of dissolved oxygen: native vs. invasive species response . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 304 , 31-44.
Minton, Mark S. ; Verling, E. ; Miller, A. Whitman ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Reducing propagule supply by ships to limit coastal invasions: effects of emerging strategies . Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6 , 304-308.
Ross, D. J. ; Johnson, C. R. ; Hewitt, C. L. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Interaction and impacts of two introduced species on a soft-sediment marine assemblage in SE Tasmania . Marine Biology, 144 , 747-756.
Verling, E. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Smith, L. David ; Galil, B. ; Murphy, Kris. (2005). Supply-side invasion ecology: characterizing propagule pressure in coastal ecosystems . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272 (1569) , 1249-1256.

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