Curriculum Vitae NANCY J. COPLEY Education: 1978 Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst: B.S. Zoology (cum laude) 1974 Canton High School (honors), Canton, Massachusetts Special Skills: Taxonomy: Copepod taxonomy of North Atlantic, Slope Water, Sargasso Sea, Gulf Stream, coastal species, Guaymas Basin (hot vents, Pacific). Euphausiid taxonomy of North Atlantic, Southern Ocean Benthic macrofauna of Narragansett Bay, Atlantic, deep sea, Galapagos hot vent area. Silhouette photographic analysis of plankton samples for biomass estimations. Includes displacement volume measurement, splitting, photography, identifying and digitizing animals, data workup. Detailed drawings of microscopic animals Data analysis (using Quattro Pro, Excel, Matlab) and some computer programming (Basic, Fortran on IBM, VAX, Apple, Sigma 7). Preparation of technical reports and manuscripts for publication. Measurement of zooplankton density using density gradient centrifugation technique Rearing and maintenance of cod larvae and rotifers. Rearing and maintenance of copepods for egg production analysis. Copepod feeding and behavioral studies including use of Coulter counter. Collection and identification of live copepods and video/computer digital analysis of their swimming paths. Cruise preparation, assembly and maintenance of MOCNESS Evaluation of ovarian development of calanoid copepods. Scanning electron micrographs of deep sea bivalves and shape analysis of their forms. Operation of dissolved organic carbon micro-analyzer, maintaining and repairing as necessary. Maintaining polychaete cultures and data collection for genetic and life-history studies. Maintaining blowfly and tobacco horn worm cultures for neurosensory studies. Job Experience: 6/03 – present Research Associate II Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. 8/93 – 6/03 Senior Research Assistant I Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. 1/82 - 8/93 Research Asst. III, experimental Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. 5/81 - 1/82 Research Asst. II, experimental Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. 8/78 - 5/81 Research Asst. II, descriptive Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. 1976 - 6/78 Laboratory Asst. 1 February 16, 2016 Univ. of Massachusetts Cruise Experience: 1982 KNORR 95 & 97 - Two cruises for the Warm Core Ring program to study macrozooplanktonic distribution, feeding and egg production characteristics. Collected samples and data using MOCNESS tow, meter net, Niskin bottles, XBT, Coulter counter. 1982 OCEANUS 112 & 116 - Two cruises to the Slope Water to collect plankton for same type of study as above. 1980 ALVIN/LULU dives 1079 & 1085 - St. Croix Basin, to 4000 m depth to deploy and retrieve benthic sampling gear, photograph experiments, record events, and process samples. 1979 KNORR 81 - Assisted in respirometry of benthic invertebrates and sediments, spectrophotometric chlorophyll analysis of seawater, benthic sampling with box core. 1979 OCEANUS 88- Bottom sampling with Van Veen grab. Honors and Awards: 2002 Awarded the Linda Morse-Porteous award for dedication to discovery and excellence and serving as a role model to other women. 1995 Dr. Taisoo Park named a Galapagos hot vent copepod after me: Paraeuchaeta copleyae. Publications: 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, 2001. (Submitted, Deep-Sea Research II Special Volume I) 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. 2002 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 2 February 16, 2016 Clausocalanidae. Marine Biology DOI 10.1007/s00227-002-0943-1. 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 wellmixed 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. 3 February 16, 2016 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. 4 February 16, 2016